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Paco and Regina are engaged, but they don't know that this will unleash a fight between their mothers to organise the wedding. Carmen, Paco's mother, is an expert in sentimental blackmail. While Catalina, Regina's mother, is an expert in pressuring and extorting people. Their struggle unleashes a battle of epic proportions, where nothing will be left standing.
The Virgin of the Quarry Lake [La virgen de la tosquera]
2001, Argentina. Natalia, having just finished high school, falls madly in love with Diego, a lifelong friend. But when Silvia appears on the scene, older and more experienced, she soon captures Diego’s attention. With the help of her grandma, Natalia calls on dark incantations and curses to jinx Diego and Silvia’s blossoming relationship.
The Deanie Experiment [Experimento Deanie]
Three teenage girls with no acting training are commissioned to play the character of Deanie Loomis in a dramatic scene from "Splendor in the Grass" by Elia Kazan, but as their debut in the context of their own High Schools class, and without announce to their classmates what is happening is a staging. In order to reach this goal, they will carry out a complex process of legitimizing vulnerability.
The chants of Ekai [Los cantos de Ekai]
EKAI hides an unspeakable secret as a result of which he has lost his voice. He lives isolated in an institution alongside other beings with crippled bodies and minds considered abnormal. His cravings for beauty and love enable him to recover his memory, in which there is no clear distinction between reality and dreams.
Restless waters, shivering lights [Faro]
Lidia and her father, Pablo, return to the family lighthouse after her mother’s death. Pablo, aware of Lidia's fragile emotional balance, worries for a possible relapse after her suicide attempt. Lidia, annoyed by her father's lack of trust, will discover that something’s not right at the Lighthouse, and that danger awaits for them if they do not find out the truth.
Rehearsal for Revolt [Ensayo para una revuelta]
In a small village of Córdoba, a group of women perform an unknown popular uprising led by other women in the past: the “Bread Riot of Cordoba” of May 1652. Theirs gestures and words awaken the resonances of their own experiences of struggle and resistance: hard works, being women in rural Córdoba, their own memory war, dictatorship, and hunger, and the memory of their grandmothers.
When Noa, a 48-year-old transgender gypsy woman, is released from prison after an eight-year sentence, she struggles to recover custody of her twin children, who are under state care, and to create the home she never had.
Norberto and Maria live a normal life in their working-class neighbourhood. They’ve been married forever, but they’re hiding a secret. At night, as a way to bulk out their pensions, Norberto dresses as a woman and carries out small-scale robberies, while Maria waits in the getaway car. But the disguise that Norberto uses to hide is, in fact, the means by which he is able to express his true self.
Alex is sexually assaulted during a party at a friend’s house. She doesn’t get to see her aggressor and that shakes her inside. Over the next year she will face guilt, disgust and shame. Alex tries to channel all that pain through theater, as she takes on the role of Medea. Meanwhile, her brother, faces anger for not having known how to protect his sister and the impulse to get carried away.
Aurora and Area, close women from totally different worlds and with a great age difference between them, establish a strong relationship of intimacy, trust and deep conversations linked to death, family, war and women role.
A Deep Breath [Arnasa betean. A pulmón]
An immersion in cinema made by women. Three female divers guide us through the stories of their films, their vision, their dreams, their efforts to plough ahead and, above all, their contribution to cinema as a whole. Focused on Basque filmmakers but with a universal vision of the subject, the film reveals an unknown world to us.
Southern brides [Las novias del sur]
Mature women speak about their marriage, their first time, their intimate relationship with sexuality. In the repetition of these ancestral rituals, the director questions her own absence of marriage, of children, and thereby, a chain of mother-daughter relationships that is extinguishing.
A young police officer accepts the dangerous mission of trying to infiltrate the terrorist group ETA, an assignment that will lead her to live with two ETA members who will not hesitate to assassinate her if they find out her identity.
A Bathroom of One’s Own [Un Bany Propi]
Antonia, an exemplary sixty-five-year-old housewife, has a strange secret: she is obsessed with bathrooms, the only place where she can say "busy" and people leave her alone. It is there that she gives free rein to her true vocation, that of a writer, and escapes from her monotonous life, forming strange friendships that make her friendly appearance dissolve like shit in the toilet.
MILA (11) faces the last days of life before the end of the world. While she struggles to understand the complexity of death, she also tries to keep her family together by holding a party that takes place on the very last day of life on earth.
A commonplace [Un lugar común]
Pilar is an ordinary woman who has never questioned her routine. However, after her unexpected dismissal, she will live an identity crisis which will bring her to cling to the little she has left: her role as a mother of two teens who no longer need her. A Commonplace is the coming of age of a 50-year-old woman who, after a lifetime caring for others, asks herself: After all, who takes care of me?
Aamelat. Day Laborers of War [Aamelat. Jornaleras de la guerra]
“Aamelat. Day Laborers of War” exposes the survival situation experienced by these Syrian women and girls who are refugees in informal settlements on the outskirts of Bar Elias and puts de media spotlight on it to unveil their reality. An author documentary that narrates their life conditions and their power of resilience.
Henry, creator, teacher and owner of one of the most important seduction schools in Italy, finds himself in a difficult situation when two of the teachers that work for him and former students, open their own school competing against him.
In a remote Galician village, a group of teenagers are celebrating carnival. During the party, a video with sexual content of Paula, one of the girls, is broadcast. Overwhelmed by the situation, she leaves the party and disappears without a trace in the middle of a heavy snowfall. While the whole town searches for her, her friends have to take their share of responsibility.
Bad hair day [Un mal día lo tiene cualquiera]
Sonia is a responsible and organised woman. Someone who always respects the rules. However, in just one night, this textbook control freak will find herself forced to do all the things she has never dared to do in her 36 years on the planet.
“Bald Women” delves into the life of women with alopecia who fight for the normalization and visibility of their bodies. Living in a society in which women are slaves of their own image, their viewpoint is found as a unique cry of self-development, revindication and freedom. After being hidden and forbidden during history, their existence will be an example for every woman.
In a small regional public hospital, a delivery room led by midwives supports childbirth with a humanized approach: placing women at the center and respecting their rights. We provide a realistic portrait of childbirth, while constructing a collective narrative about obstetric violence and its terrible consequences, told by its victims, the UN, and the WHO.
Ana is a filmmaker who gets hooked on cryptocurrency trading during the pandemic. When her husband and her family trick her into going to addiction therapy, she decides to win back everybody’s trust by filming a documentary about Bitcoin fever… in order to keep trading.
After moving in with her boyfriend to their new home in the Costa Brava, Mila begins to realize her loss of sexual desire lies deep inside her. She undergoes a self-exploration journey in which she revisits experiences of her childhood and adolescence in hopes to reconcile with her own body.
Eyes of the Soul - Cristina García Rodero [Cristina García Rodero – La mirada oculta]
The documentary follows one of the greatest Spanish photographers in the world, one of the few women part of the Magnum Agency. Cristina García Rodero revolutionized this world through her explorations of cultural rites. She captures how we celebrate, suffer and operate. Tirelessly, she continues to work at 73 and this everlasting passion is what brought her to the Burning Man festival in Nevada where she made the filmmaker.
The Good Daughter [La buena hija]
Carmela is forced to see her father at a Family Meeting Point due to a sentence of gender-based violence against her mother. Being twelve years old, she will be dragged into a circle of violence from which she will try to escape.
Filming Flying Birds [Filmei paxaros voando]
Zeltia returns to Galicia to make her first film about the memories of her uncle Antonio. In this journey, her mother Socorro's health worses and they both manage to regenerate a bond that they thought was broken.
Marisol is the national rhythmic gymnastics’ coach. She is methodical, controlling, demanding, and authoritarian. The World Championship is approaching, and she is pinning all her hopes for the gold medal on Angelica, the most promising newcomer on the team. Two weeks before the final, Marisol discovers that her husband is having an affair with a much younger woman with whom he is expecting a child. Marisol does not contemplate failure, so she begins a desperate race to win him back, disregarding his motives and feelings.
Isabel is confronted with resentments she thought she had overcome when she’s forced to accompany Ramón, her ex-husband who is sick, at the request of the daughter they have in common.
Goat girl [La niña de la cabra]
Madrid, 1988. Elena (8) faces the recent loss of her grandmother as she is getting ready for her First Communion. Her new friendship with Serezade (8), a Romani girl who never leaves her goat, leads her to question if the world is really as she has been told it is.
I’M NEVENKA tells the true story of Nevenka Fernández, a 23-year-old girl who in 2000 faced her entire city when she decided that she was no longer going to put up with the sexual harassment to which her boss, the mayor, had subjected her.
Idol Affair [Buscando a Coque]
César and Teresa are a happy couple until she has an affair with Coque Malla, César’s idol since he was a teenager.
Itoiz Summer Sessions [Itoiz Udako Sesioak]
The discovery of some unpublished recordings leads Juan Carlos Pérez, leader of the iconic group ITOIZ, to ponder the dissolution of the band at the height of their success. Juan Carlos begins a cathartic journey to the essence of the band, reliving their beginnings in the 70s as a progressive rock group in Mutriku, in an attempt to reconcile with the past.
Jorge. A Way Through Coque Malla [Jorge. Una travesía de Coque Malla]
Coque Malla's is the story of an epic comeback. From teenage star with Los Ronaldos to having to reinvent himself as a singer-songwriter touring the most unsuspected clubs. Dani Martín, Iván Ferreiro, Leonor Watling, Leiva or Ray Loriga help to tell a story of faith, tenacity and curiosity that kept the author of "No puedo vivir sin tí".
Just one small favor [El favor]
The Gallardos are a rich family, who spend their summers in a country house, which is taken care of by Amparito. Dearly loved by the family’s three children, Amparito has been like a second mother. When they receive the news of her death, the siblings travel to the village to say their last goodbyes. What they weren’t expecting is that Amparito’s dying wish was to be buried in the family cemetery.
Little Loves [Los pequeños amores]
A mother and her daughter are compelled to spend a summer together because the latter had an accident. Although they love each other, they cannot stand one another, so both will have to learn to accept each other, a situation which will lead them to embark on a journey marked by acceptance and understanding.
Anabel and her mother Delia grieve for Julián, Anabel's father. An eviction notice forces them from their Barcelona home and back to the olive groves of Jaén. Together, they look for a way to rebuild their future by going back to their roots.
When her daughter emigrates, a religious grandmother learns how to use the internet. An accidental encounter with pornography, poses a dilemma for her: does she uphold the beliefs with lay down how to be a decent woman or does she surrender to the tempting search of a delicious and shameless orgasm?
Lola lives very happily with Bruno. An unexpected pregnancy revolutionizes their plans. The couple is very clear that they do not want to have children, but during the three days they have to wait for their appointment at the clinic, doubts arise.
The Catalan architect Enric Miralles (1955-2000) is an essential figure in contemporary Spanish and international architecture. He is also a complex character, powerful for his artistic and intellectual side, a hypnotic, polyhedral man with many contradictions. A personality that, over the course of time, has become impenetrable.
Constantina and Irene have become the last guardians of a centuries-old oral tradition doomed to disappear. A musician tries to find them and undertakes a journey where life moves forward and shows the fragility of everything that surrounds us.
My Sextortion Diary [Diario de Mi Sextorsión]
Pati, a young film producer, is fighting to carve a professional career in the industry. In May 2019 her laptop is stolen in a business trip. Two months after, an anonymous Hacker accesses the data in the device and finds 3 very private photos of Pati. He threatens to massmail them if he doesn’t receive $2,400. The legal forces' inefficacy leads Pati on her own investigation to regain her privacy.
Nature of the extraordinary [Naturaleza de lo extraordinario] [La naturalesa d´allò extraordinari]
The School of Free Thought is a Philosophy project for intellectual disability, in an agora where everyone, regardless of ability, iswelcome. The extraordinary is poetically embedded in the ordinary, appropriating what is natural to it, materializing the possible utopia.
The enigmatic Nina decides to return to the coastal town where she grew up, anxious to take revenge on the man the town now pays homage to. This reencounter with her place of origin, her past memories and Blas, a childhood friend, will lead her to question whether revenge is the only way.
“No, no quiero” (No, I don’t’) brings us closer to the reality of forced marriages through the experience of four women. They all share having been victims of forced marriages. They were all capable of rebelling against their families, leaving everything and starting a new life alone.
Milagros stretches a carefree youth in her last years of fertility while Jonathan seeks solace in Grindr to overcome abandonment issues. A delirious road movie, full of music, where a mysterious mermaid will set the course of the journey.
Peter Perez (known as Pepi), a Viennese Sephardic Jew, associates flamenco singing with the worst moments of his childhood, when he was interned in the Rivesaltes concentration camp where Roma children sang to communicate with their parents on the other side of the barbed wire. Pepi, now a man in his 80s, undertakes a quixotic journey across Europe seeking to express himself through a fandango.
Reflections in a room [Reflejos en una habitación]
Berta, a mature woman from the upper class, has been hiring the services of Alberto, a professional escort, for some time. One day, Alberto can't make it, so he sends another escort, Hugo. Berta and Hugo embark on an emotional journey where, despite their differences, mistrust, and prejudices, they discover they have more in common than they thought.
Seville, summer of 1984. Rita and Lolo are brother and sister, 7 and 5 years old, who live at the heart of a humble, working-class family. Rita dreams of going to the beach, but at home, what her father says goes… always. For the first time, Rita starts to question why this is. She’s also starting to realise that her home is becoming less and less safe, especially for her mother.
Summer In Red [Verano en rojo]
Police Inspector María Ruíz delves into the unsettling link between a murdered teenager in Madrid and a missing young person in Pamplona. With the discovery of the latter’s body, María uncovers links to a school enmeshed in child abuse accusations. Both adolescents participated in a summer camp arranged by the establishment. Partnering with journalist Luna, they unearth a pivotal clue, unveiling the enigmatic assassin’s identity.
Sultana´s Dream [El sueño de la sultana]
Taking her inspiration from a feminist sci-fi short story written in Bengal in 1905, Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.
Longing for wilder adventures, Santa Claus’ wish comes true when he accidentally bumps his head and starts believing he’s Superklaus: the famous super heroic Christmas Crusader. With the help of Billie a tech-savvy 11-year-old, and Leo his «Elf-xecutive» assistant, “SuperKlaus” will take on a megalomaniacal toy-obsessed businessman to save Christmas.
Teresa patiently awaits the arrival of the Inquisitor to be judged. Her future will depend on his visit and his words: Freedom, imprisonment or to be burnt at the stake.
Emma wants to learn how to communicate with the spirit of a little girl who has spent centuries trapped inside a chapel and so she tries to convince Carol, a skeptical and fake medium, to help her. Contacting the spirit will help her to remain close to her sick mother once she dies. What Carol doesn’t suspect is that Emma really does have “the gift” and, if she keeps on trying to use it without her help, she will be putting her young life at risk.
Eight months pregnant, Yuri, her son Santi, and her partner Mike flee Honduras with the first migrant caravan. Determined to give birth in the United States, they escape the poverty and violence that proliferates South America along with 7,000 others. Full of hope, they face a dangerous journey of 5,000km to reach one of the most defended borders on Earth.
The Girls Are Alright [Las chicas están bien]
A group of young women gathers at a country house for a week to rehearse a play. “The girls are alright” is a summer story about princesses, horses, toads, a fire, a party, a river, lots of letters, and even a confused prince.
The Imminent Age [L’edat imminent]
Bruno’s (18) life is increasingly limited by the growing dependence of his grandmother Natividad (86), the only family he has ever known. When the opportunity to take her to a nursing home arises, he will have to deal with a decision he had not allowed himself to make before.
The Girls at the Station [Las chicas de la estación]
Inspired by real events, the film tells the story of three teenage girls in a juvenile detention centre who fall into a prostitution ring.
The light of Aisha [La luz de Aisha]
AISHA (14) is living in a kingdom of Al-Andalus where, during the 11th century, fireworks displays are the most popular spectacle of their time. Aisha's dream is to create a legendary rocket that mimics a peacock's tail unfurling in the sky. She aspires to be a pyrotechnic artist, but her father, AHMAD (50), opposes Aisha's dream and wants her to follow the family profession: calligraphy.
The Permanent Picture [La imatge permanent]
In rural southern Spain, Antonia, a teenage mother, disappears in the middle of the night. Fifty years later and much further north, Carmen, an introverted casting director, is looking for people to share their memories when arriving in a new city. In her search, she meets Antonia, whose impulsiveness intrudes into Carmen’s solitude. Who said time heals all wounds?
The Queen of the Abbey [La reina del convento]
Juanita lost her parents when she was little and has been living ever since with "La Justi" her wicked stepmother. One day she decides to leave everything and go to a convent. There will meet a diverse group of nuns and discover the mystery of a priest murdered in surreal circumstances, he will live different adventures cleaning the convent of ghosts and find the meaning of love for a family.
The Revolution of the Muses [La Revolución de las Musas]
“The Revolution of the Muses” is a film that aims to rescue the memory of women ignored by the History of Art, highlighting their role as muses of the great European artists and their invisibility as co-creators. This production, which blends documentary and fiction, vindicates the role that these women have had in the history of artistic creation and seeks to give them the place they deserve.
1971. María assists women in childbirth. After a terrible event Maria is forced to fee from the island, becoming a fugitive. In search of her freedom, she decides to cross the border via one of the smuggling routes between Galicia and Portugal.
The sleeping woman [La mujer dormida]
After Ana, a nursing assistant, enters into a relationship with Agustín, the husband of a woman in a vegetative state he is caring for, she begins to be tormented by strange paranormal phenomena. Is the “sleeping woman” trying to drive her away from her husband’s arms?
The Teacher Who Promised the Sea [El maestro que prometió el mar]
In 1935, Antoni Benaiges is hired as a teacher in a small, isolated village in Burgos, Spain. There, he establishes an intense relationship with his students, a group of young boys and girls between the ages of six and twelve, to whom he makes a promise: to take them to see the sea for the first time in their lives. 75 years later, the granddaughter of one of those students discovers the wonderful story hidden behind a promise that was never fulfilled.
Escaping her overwhelming life in the city, thirty-year old Natalia finds refuge in the small village. In a rustic derelict house, flanked by a wild and clumsy dog at her side, the young woman aims to rebuild anew. When confronted with the hostility of her landlord and the distrust of the local villagers, Nat finds herself giving in to an unsettling sexual proposal from her neighbuor Andreas.
Ullate. The Dance of Life [Ullate. La danza de la vida]
"The dance of life" is a documentary about the history and passion of dance, expressed through emblematic figures of this Art in Spain, such as: Joaquín de Luz, Carmen Roche, Mónica Cruz, Víctor Ullate Roche, José Manuel Garrido, Eduardo Lao, Josué Ullate, Lola de Ávila or Nacho Duato and, specially, Victor Ullate.
Uncensored Women [Mujeres sin censura]
“Mujeres sin censura” (Uncensored Women) is a portrait of the life of a group of actresses who decided to appear nude on the big screen as an act of freedom during the Transition to Democracy, one of the most tense moments in the recent history of Spain. They became a kind of mirror held up to a completely closed society.
Upon Open Sky [A Cielo Abierto]
Two teenage brothers take a road trip to the border between Mexico and the US to track down the man responsible for the car accident that caused their father’s death. Joined by their beautiful newly-met step-sister, the three siblings embark on a tense revenge journey to adulthood which, ultimately, will have them come to terms with their father’s death.
We treat women too well [Tratamos demasiado bien a las mujeres]
In the cold autumn of 1945, the survivors from a batallion of resistance fighters flee to the Pyrenees, trying to escape the Francoist army. Our protagonists are an unlikely group of romantics, dim-wits and idealists. Their lack of any tactical ability and a cruel twist of fate lead them to take a post office by force in a forgotten village: Black Eagles.
What is the point of love songs [Para qué sirven las canciones de amor]
"What is the point of love songs" is a documentary that invites us to reflect on how time goes on, emotions, and without a doubt, the role of love in songs. A real journey based on interviews, fiction scenes and the recording of an album from its creation in the privacy of the author to its final production in the studio.
While you're still you [Mientras seas tú]
After 50 years in theatre, film and television, Carme Elias is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Together with Claudia Pinto, a director and friend, they decide to record her last conscious voyage. The characters played by Carme accompany this difficult period, while the borders between fiction and reality disappear.
With you, with you and without me [Contigo, contigo y sin mí]
Amaya delves into the love stories she had between the ages of 18 and 38 and confronts how her illusions and failures collided explosively. Seemingly personal, her turn and evolution can also be read from a political or anthropological point of view, reflecting the changing role of women in relationships. A poignant and intimate statement, masterfully crafted with a diversity of techniques using animation and personal videos.
The Nanacatepec rock is traversed by a network that extends without a defined shape. It communicates both below and above the earth with living and dead beings. Its fruits, in the form of rhizomes and branching networks of fungi, are creators and transformers of everything in the world. Using multiple projections of films and objects in a 16mm film performance, the two artists create an irresistible visual eddy of nature shots and shadow plays.
Starting from the disappearance of Erin, a child who wakes up prematurely from hibernation, Clara, her older sister, will take us on a journey of searching for answers and confronting the narratives pre-established by the society in which she lives. One that hibernates during the coldest months of the year. A reflection on the human being, contradiction and the animal condition.
The Undergrowth [La hojarasca]
The distribution of an inheritance acquired through a supernatural encounter, mires three sisters in a long standing conflict. Their arguments resonate through the land and seem to awaken the island's long dormant volcano.
Surrounded by social and political chaos in Lima during the summer of 1992, Lucia, Aurora, and their mother, Elena, plan to leave and seek opportunities in the United States. Their farewell involves reconnecting with their estranged father, Carlos, adding turbulence to the regrets, hopes, and fears of their emotional departure.
The Major Tones [Los tonos mayores]
It’s winter holidays and fourteen-year-old Ana discovers that the metal plate she has in her arm from an accident she suffered as a child is now receiving a strange message in Morse code.
Memories of a burning body [Memorias de un cuerpo que arde]
A lyrical portrait that intertwines and recreates the lives of Ana (73), Patricia (69) and Mayela (71) to discover how they understand themselves as women and how they enjoy their sexuality when the rest of the world thinks it no longer exists. Does desire still exist? Does pleasure diminish? What changes?.