- Home
- Social
Social
A Colombian maid works tirelessly at a luxurious mansion in the Spanish Costa Brava, where a wealthy family of art dealers spend their summer holidays. Under false promises of decent conditions after the summer, she will strive to remain obedient and quiet.
The Invasion of the Barbarians [La invasió dels bàrbars]
1939. A young curator at the Museo del Prado is questioned about the disappearance of a painting that a colonel wants to keep. Eighty years later, her granddaughter searches for her remains.
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.
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.
DANIEL, is a hobo that lives on the streets. AINA, a young woman, works for an NGO, is interested on him. She tries to help him, without success. Insistent, she will lead him to discover who he was, a big-shot executive who got fired and decided to vanish, leaving his wife and two children. Thanks to her, DANIEL will be able to face to his old life, discovering that life is worth living.
May your will be done [Hágase tu voluntad]
Ricardo has always been a fancy-free. Hedonistic, daydreamer and somewhat sarcastic, he sees his life fall apart when he suddenly loses his partner and suffers two strokes that leave him half paralyzed. Alone, nearly blind and deeply depressed, he sees death as his only escape. But before departing he wants to fulfill a dream: to see his two sons again.
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 childhood tale [Cuento para la infancia]
A neighborhood faces one of the great problems of today's Europe, the coexistence of people from different origins. The impulse to move forward, mixed with an increasingly harsh daily life, will determine the possibility of a joint future or not.
A walk along the Borne [Un paseo por el Borne]
The students taking an insignificant film course, in a small city, have the dream of one day making movies. Their teacher, somebody who once sailed and wrecked that same objective years before, doesn ́t want to get involved in their dreams and illusions so that they don ́t end up like him today: a failure.
Argumosa 11, Living in Emptiness [Argumosa 11, Habitando el Vacío]
Argumosa 11 is a Madrid building in resistance whose inhabitants are evicted by a fund investment. Reverberations of ex-neighbors survive as memories as the tense calm of those who wait is withering the building. With no other weapon to defend themselves than their own voices, the families that stay prepare to fight for their homes.
"Bullying" is the exposure that a child suffers to physical and psychological harm intentionally and repeatedly by another child, or a group of them, when they go to school. Bullying is a new project in podcast format, more accessible to young people where three victims of bullying talk about their experiences.
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.
The human being is a perfect symbiosis of body, mind and soul FREE is a journey into the interior of man in which we have obtained permission to enter and talk to people who rarely utter a word and places that remain closed to the world: THE MONASTERIES.
After arriving in Spain several years ago from his native Guinea Conakry, Ibrahim settled in Madrid, where he lives with Mariama and works as a builder. One day, the police arrest Ibrahim and, not having legal residence status, he is deported back to his home country. From this moment onwards, his only goal is to make it back to Spain.
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.
Ramona’s life in a Galician fishing village is a constant hustle. She juggles multiple jobs to stay afloat and provide a better future for her 18 year-old daughter. But as the girl is ready to stand on her own feet, Ramona realizes that, for the first time, she can do something for herself.
“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.
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.
In 2018 my grandfather was arrested for child abuse and attempted kidnapping. Now, he has been sentenced to twelve years and he’s waiting to enter prison. I meet him again after several years and I confront his looks, his answers and my own feelings. Meanwhile, my family gathers at the country house and deals with the emotional consequences of growing up under this father figure. It is there where the abuse of minors is the subject of conversation, and where my own father realizes that the relationship he has had with us is not that different from the one he had with my grandfather.
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.
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 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 last shepherds [Los últimos pastores]
Fernando Mier (71) and Manolo Mier (70) are the last shepherds of the Picos de Europa. Their wisdom and happiness are a valuable legacy in danger of disappearing.
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.
Alvin has just come out of prison. He lives in a project with his grandmother in Staten Island. He keeps a low profile, avoiding reconnecting with the crowd who ended up with him in prison. His mother, who he has not seen for many years, unexpectedly calls asking for help.
To Our Friends [A nuestras amigas]
Sara, a young woman from a working class neighbourhood, begins to change her social circle, constructing her identity as she starts school and becomes an adult. She makes her own way while confronting the consequences of her decisions.
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.
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.
All they want is to escape from their way of life, and for that they need money, a lot of money. Whatever happens must happen fast. Fast money. Fast pleasure. Fast love. They are Pablo, “Meca”, Sebas and Angela. For ninety minutes you will see them live. Sometimes, slowly. Almost always, fast, fast.
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.
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?.
Every You Every Me [Alle die Du bist]
What if the person you love the most suddenly becomes a stranger in your eyes? Nadine, a dedicated factory worker, tries to revive her relationship by reconnecting with her deepest emotions. But who did she once see in him that she can no longer find? EVERY YOU EVERY ME, a romantic social drama about the painful process of falling out of love and the initial magic of falling in love.
Tú me abrasas is an adaptation of “Sea Foam”, a chapter of Cesare Pavese’s Dialoghi con Leucò, in which the Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomart talk of suicide, death and desire. The film not only adapts this dialogue but it also imagines its potential footnotes and detours.