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Notes for a consensual fiction [Apuntes para una ficción consentida]
Lea Grand is a Swiss actress who lives in Madrid, rejecting roles that cast her as a foreigner and accepting precarious jobs. On the point of opening a play with texts by Saint Teresa of Avila in a cabaret setting, she receives an interesting commission from the Basel Stadt theater. This return to her home city force her to confront her identity.
The Little Pawn [El petit peó] [El pequeño peón]
The story of Arturo Pomar, a child chess prodigy exploited by the Franco regime as a symbol of prestige during the Spanish postwar period. His international fame served the interests of the dictatorship, but, as he grew up, he fell into oblivion.
The Inherited Silence [O silencio heredado]
Lucía approaches her grandmother Edilia looking for answers, but she only finds silence. Edilia's silence is long, deep-rooted, dark and painful. When Lucía understands that Edilia will never give her the answers she seeks, she decides to look at that silence, listen to it closely, trying to understand it. Together, they explore the limits of words and images in that silence that unites them.
Sunu Gaal (Our cayuco) [Sunu Gaal (Nuestro cayuco)]
Why do so many young Africans dream of migrating to Europe? Sunu Gaal follows Mariatou, Árfa, and Aliou—three Senegalese youths determined to leave, each with a different strategy. The film offers a fresh perspective on migration, revealing a generation aware of the risks, the racism they may face, the neocolonial exploitation of their land, and the rise of feminism among young women.
This Body of Mine [Este cuerpo mío]
This Body of Mine tells the story of the friendship between Rafael and Carolina. Rafael, a trans man in the process of acceptance and reconciliation with his own body, and Carolina, his unconditional companion, undertake together the search for their square meter of peace in the world.
The film addresses the fascination Dalí always felt for Millet's painting L'Angelus, which motivated him to write a treatise entitled "The Tragic Myth of the Angelus". This was published in France by the publisher Jean-Jacques Pauvert in 1963.
Who is Who? [¿Quién es quién?]
The Fuentes family is dysfunctional, with feuding twins and a neglected youngest daughter. On her ninth birthday, the youngest makes a wish, and the next day, the family wakes up with their bodies swapped, sparking a series of chaotic events.
Summer songs [Natsu no uta] [Canciones de verano]
Summer has arrived at Ubuyama-mura. The cuckoo’s cry can be heard reverberating across the landscape of this mountain village. Masae travels from house to house gathering summer songs. She seems to be looking for something.
Joseba sculpts pieces for an art market exclusive to a few. Simeón barely maintains the Petrus museum, a tiny cultural project in the middle of nowhere, where the mayoress, Elsa, makes the survival of the valley her vital crusade. The paths of Joseba, Simeon and Elsa intersect, paths in which, each in their own way, make of everyday life a form of resistance.
A young filmmaker finds a notebook with his great-grandfather's memories during the Civil War in Soria. He discovers that he was persecuted and taken prisoner for years and tries to reconstruct the story by going in search of these places to film them.
The Remnants of You [Lo que queda de ti]
Sara, 25, is about to record a jazz album in New York, but her father's death brings her back to her hometown in the Pyrenees. She and her sister inherit a sheep farm, and out of guilt, Sara refuses to sell it. Determined to honor her father’s legacy, she decides to stay, even if it means giving up the musical career she fought so hard for.
Rains Over Babel [Llueve sobre Babel]
A group of misfits converges at Babel, a legendary dive bar that doubles as Purgatory, where La Flaca presides. Souls gamble years of their lives with her, daring to outwit Death herself. Steeping us in the intoxicating brew of a tropical Colombian steampunk fever dream, director Gala del Sol creates a mesmerizing, fantastical world where life and death collide and fates turn on the roll of dice.
The Good Luck [La buena suerte]
Running away from himself, a mysterious man in his 50s suddenly gets off a train in a rundown town and decides to settle there. Tormented by the past and his complicated relationship with his son, his present is unsettling, and his prospects are non-existent. Everything changes when he meets a woman whose innate optimism brings him back the will to live. But family ties are hard to break…
Northern Spain, 1870s. As the country bleeds from the wars between liberals and Carlists, the bodies of several women are found near Vitoria. The sister of one victims suspects the serial killer is an illiterate farmer, Juan Díaz de Garayo. Meanwhile, the head of the local constables races against time and the indifference of the authorities to identify the murderer.
The Writer: Almudena Grandes [Almudena]
Through a selection of excerpts from the countless interviews, conversations, and conferences she participated in throughout her professional career, alongside the testimonies and recollections of her husband, the also-writer Luis García Montero, her children, her sister, and her aunt, the life, work, and legacy of the writer Almudena Grandes are reconstructed.
The Stepmother's Bond [Tras el verano]
For years, Paula has raised a six-year-old as if he were her own son. However, the relationship with her partner is unstable, putting this bond at risk. Facing the pain of a possible goodbye, Paula struggles to maintain her place in the life of the child she loves deeply. This moving story explores the fragility of relationships in reconstituted families and the of bonds that transcend genetics.
Klaus, an Argentine tourist, settles into a lounge chair at the beach bar on the island of Fuerteventura, opposite Lobos Island, where Manu works as a waiter. When closing time arrives, Klaus refuses to leave despite Manu’s insistence. What follows is a tense game of cat and mouse, escalating slowly into a tense interaction, until Klaus makes an outrageous and unsettling proposition to Manu.
Juliette and Camille is a hybrid, lyrical, and political film that intertwines the stories of two racialized women in search of identity through music and memory. From Peru to Galicia, their voices and silences merge into a shared work that explores motherhood, colonial violence, spirituality, and the transformative power of art.
Actress Agustina Muñoz arrives in the Azores to work on Shakespeare's play 'The Tempest'. But upon arriving on the island she discovers a very disconcerting place, which will make her doubt the reality of this world.
Bleda i Rosa. Un lloc, una imatge [Bleda y Rosa. Un lugar, una imagen]
Observing the work process of artists photographers Bleda and Rosa confronts us with the mystery of image creation, prompting us to question their relationship with time, memory, place and territory.
Broken Glass in The Pool [Vidres a la piscina]
A lonely teenager and a group of young people with no apparent connection form an unhealthy relationship after a case of catfishing. Their fears and hidden desires turn them into victims and executioners of each other.
In search of a better life, Lucila travels with her brother Diego from Mexico to reunite with their mother in Madrid, who has been working illegally for the past seven years to support them. Upon arrival, the life that awaits them turns out to be harsher than they had imagined.
A family retreats to their cottage for winter break, only to discover signs of an intruder. While the parents focus on rallying the community to replace the gatekeeper, the children wander around unsupervised, making reckless choices. When tragedy unfolds, security becomes the least of their problems, and the family is forced to bury a dark secret of the horrors committed by their 12-year-old son.
Rafa, a sharp-tongued Canary Islander, solves problems, debts, and legal issues. He has the gift of the gab, but he’s going through an existencial crisis. He longs to give up his tumultuous life and return to Las Palmas in search of redemption. Angela, a lawyer of dubious means, hires Rafa and Tony, his friend and partner in crime, to find the stolen of car of Juan, a desperate businessman.
La Chusa, matriarch of the shanty town of Son Condret (Mallorca), manages the drug market with the support of neighbours, traffickers and police. But her power is shaken after a substantial robbery from someone she least expects.
Where is my water? [¿Dónde está mi acequia?]
As new insights into the origins of the city of Murcia 1,200 years ago are uncovered, Conchi Meseguer, the film's production director, transforms a conventional documentary into a plea and a tribute to the Huerta culture in a definitive attempt to save its dead.
FLORES PARA ANTONIO is an emotive journey through memory and music to rediscover Antonio Flores, an essential figure of Spanish culture.Led by his daughter, the actress Alba Flores, this intimate searching is nourished by the memories of his mother Ana Villa, his aunts Lolita and Rosario Flores, and other key figures in his life and his path.
Drylands is a documentary exploring desertification and the key role agriculture can play in reversing it. While crops are often blamed, experts argue that sustainable farming and livestock practices can help restore soil. Featuring voices from Spain, Argentina, New York, Cyprus, and UN scientist Barron Joseph Orr.
The Collector: You’re Next [La Coleccionista: Ha llegado tu hora]
A group of young people arrive to a mysterious little town to shoot a horror video at a house where a couple has also taken shelter. But the house will not be the only thing that unites them... Fatima, The Collector, gives Joana and Margarida a tuning fork and a flashlight, objects that push them towards a terrifying fate, unleashing paranormal events that will set their past mistakes right.
The Collector: Mirrored Nightmares [La Coleccionista: Mundos paralelos]
Gabri, a shabby hippie, and Manuela, a mother unable to move on after the death of her young son, are the latest visitors to the small town.Fatima, the Collector, offers them two mysterious gifts that will change the course of their lives: a mirror and a diary. What seems like a kind gesture will trigger a series of unexpected events.
Better Class [Altas capacidades]
Alicia and Gonzalo, a middle-class couple, have the chance to enroll their son Fer in an elite school. For the parents, it means getting a foot in the door of the upper class with countless advantages. They tell themselves they’re doing it for their son, but the couple’s aspirations will challenge everything they once believed to be unquestionable, causing a roller coaster of contradiction.
Gabi, an exchange student from France, arrives in a small village in the north of Spain. She is staying at the house of Nico Mortimer and his parents, who run the local funeral home. The Mortimer family’s peculiar profession causes Nico to be bullied at school. The only place the other kids leave them alone is the cemetery, and so that’s where they end up spending most of their time.
1943. Franco has blocked the path of the Jews fleeing Nazi oppression over the Pyrenees mountains. At the border crossing in a small village, Manel Grau, a civil servant with a Republican past, decides to go against the orders of his superiors and aid the refugees across the border, with the help of Juliana, a fellow inhabitant of the village, and Jerôme, a French smuggler.
Jasmine is 8 years old and a musical virtuoso. After the death of her parents, she experiences a rollercoaster of emotions. She tries to navigate her sadness, rage and fear, she also starts to notice that something strange is happening to music. As she stares at a mysterious sheet music in wonder, Jasmine is sucked up by a tuba and transported to Soundland, a secret, musical paradise.
Craven, a streamer with thousands of followers on a live streaming platform, has prepared a very special stream for Halloween.
A family retreats to their cottage for winter break, only to discover signs of an intruder. While the parents focus on rallying the community to replace the gatekeeper, the children wander around unsupervised, making reckless choices. When tragedy unfolds, security becomes the least of their problems, and the family is forced to bury a dark secret of the horrors committed by their 12-year-old son.
GOD SEES IT explores the creative world of Oscar Tusquets Blanca, where architecture, design, painting, and writing merge freely. A provocative genius, he blends art, irony, and rebellion. Through collaborations with Salvador Dalí and moments with Miquel Barceló, Antonio López, Albert Serra, Milena Busquets, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Julia de Castro, the film reveals his bold, irreverent spirit.
Ana performs emergency surgery on Nala, an undocumented Senegalese woman who has just suffered a miscarriage. Ana is unable to save the baby's life, but from this moment on, she becomes involved in resolving the injustice Nala has experienced on her own. Ana will have to face a multitude of unexpected obstacles.
This Too Shall Pass [También esto pasará]
Blanca has just turned 40 when her mother, Elena, dies. Seeking refuge from her grief, she turns to sex: with lovers, with ex-husbands and any other casual bond that might help her forget, even for a while, her profound sense of loss.
The Devil Within [Caminando con el Diablo]
Spain, 1980s. Philippe is a ten-year-old French boy traveling with his very pregnant mother, Marie, and his father, Tomas, whose plan is to take them home to the village where he grew up and introduce the boy to his Spanish roots. But an unfortunate breakdown leads the family to a scrapyard on the outskirts of a deserted inland town, where they come upon its owners, Alicia and Miguel.
After a difficult divorce, Alicia moves into an old house with her daughter Carla, unaware that it hides a past of recurrent tragedy. As Carla senses perturbing presences, Alicia begins to doubt her own sanity. A blue dress connects Carla to the ghost of a girl from the past, triggering terrifying events. They will try to escape the house, but the house won’t let them get away so easily.
Set on April 15th, 1939, just two weeks after the war’s end, Franco invites his top generals for a night of triumph. But in the hotel’s kitchen, a group of defeated Republican chefs are secretly preparing the meal—while also cooking up their last chance to escape the country.
Always Winter [Siempre es invierno]
Miguel (40) is a young landscape architect who travels to Liege to take part in a competition. When his girlfriend dumps him, Miguel meets Olga (60), an older woman who will make him rethink his personal and professional life. The encounter will cause a “blitz” of understanding that will transform his way of seeing the world and his future.
The Footballest The pirate’s treasure mystery [Los futbolísimos y el misterio del tesoro pirata]
The Soto Alto football team, formed by Pakete and his friends, is at risk of being kicked out of the league. Thanks to a scam by a property development company, they’ve lost their pitch and now Los Justos, the team from a local reform school, looks set to take their place. Pakete and his gang will renew their “Footballest pact” and set about solving the mysteries that threaten them.
The Basque mountains, in 17th century Spain. At a time when witch-hunts are rife, Kattalin leaves her farmhouse in the middle of the night, fleeing from her husband. Lost in the deep, dark forest, she feels a presence pursuing her. On her way, she comes across three, affable women, who are telling scary stories and recounting the village hearsay as they wash their clothes.
The Sorceress Echo [Per Bruixa i Metzinera]
Cebriana is sure she saw a fire at night on the mountain. There are no traces of embers or witnesses to corroborate her vision. Her grandmother, an old herbmistress, will try to make her see beyond the flames..
What if one day you discovered that you had been exorcized as a child?This is what happens to Abel, a man who searches for the truth about the theoretical possession he suffered when he was 4 years old, plunging into a spiral of paranoia and madness.
Pol is 21 and lives with his grandmother. He dreams of living in Miami and generating 10k€ a month. He attends personal development events, follows online coaches and invests in cryptocurrencies. Pol doesn't know when he'll achieve his goal of becoming the best version of himself. The only thing he knows is that one day, he'll get there.
Sleepless City [Ciudad sin sueño]
Toni, a 15-year-old Roma boy, lives in Europe's largest illegal settlement, on Madrid’s out skirts. Proud to belong to his family of scrap dealers, he follows his grandfather everywhere. But demolitions edge closer to their plot, and his grandfather refuses to leave, no matter the sacrifice. Toni must choose: face an uncertain future or hold onto a vanishing world.
Magellan is a Portuguese navigator rebelling against the power of the King, who doesn’t support his dream of discovering the world. The voyage is exhausting beyond expectations, with hunger and mutiny pushing the crew to their limits. Upon reaching the islands of the Malayan Archipelago, his mind has changed. He becomes obsessed with conquest and conversion.
After a painful breakup, neurotic illustrator Enric moves into a lonely flat in Poblenou, a trendy neighborhood in Barcelona where he doesn’t fit. Unable to assemble the furniture he bought to feel more at home, he turns to secondhand pieces already built. But when these marked pieces start moving and attacking him at night, his grasp on reality begins to crumble while he investigates they origin.
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo [La misteriosa mirada del flamenco]
1980s, Chilean desert: Lidia, 11, seeks revenge after blaming her family for a strange illness linked to love between men.
Marina, 18, orphaned at a young age, must travel to Spain’s Atlantic coast to meet her paternal family for the first time. Stirring long-buried emotions, reviving tenderness, and uncovering unspoken wounds tied to the past, Marina pieces together the fragmented and often contradictory memories of the parents she barely remembers.
A man and his son arrive at a remote rave in the southern Moroccan mountains, searching for Mar, their missing daughter and sister. Amid electronic music and unfamiliar freedom, they share her photo. They join a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert, hoping to find her there.
The memory of butterflies [La memòria de les papallones] [La memoria de las mariposas]
The art of the illiterate [El arte de los analfabetos] [L'art dels analfabets]
Senegal, a round trip dream [Senegal, un sueño de ida y vuelta] [Sénégal, un reve d’aller et retour]
Sal & Dean. In the footsteps of Kerouac [Sal & Dean. Tras los pasos de Kerouac]
The Great Gypsy Round-up story of a genocide [Gran Redada Gitana: historia de un genocidio]
Daniela has just moved into an old apartment and is ready to make it her new home. As the months go by, Daniela notices that something strange is happening: her clothes have cuts and holes in particular shapes.
Carmen’s life has always been a Quixotesque comedy. Living through a civil war, being a nun, building a new life, divorcing in a conservative society, having several lovers and most of all, never following orders. Now, after 86 years of adventures, Carmen is planning her suicide.
The football World Cup is kicking off today and the people of Beirut are excited about the long-awaited event. While life moves on normally, the signal of the first game seems to be disrupted by strange audio waves. The frustration in the air builds up, giving way to a bigger live event. | TSHWEESH
Manuel wants to get in his car but three bullies are preventing him. "What have you done inside that nightclub?"
A clandestine ship sinks off the coast of a small port town on the Andalusian coast without disturbing the routine. The civil guards sort out the shipwrecked passengers as they do every day, the tourists take advantage of the fine weather to go sailing and visit the funfair, and the night lorries head north. The unnerved shipwrecked discover the concrete ground of a Europe that does not see them.
El Ascenso y Caída de Zara Zilverstein
Zara, an apathetic employee at an electronics store, unexpectedly becomes a celebrity after an unfortunate event with a famous actor. Fame and money turn into a curse for her. What rises fast, falls fast.
Maria is 30 years old, has an intellectual disability and a desire deep inside: she wants to be a mother. The lack of understanding towards her desire will lead her to a fight for her rights, to an uncomfortable rebellion to recover the decision-making power over her own body.
30/01/2025
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29th Of February [29 De Febrero]
Tomás wants to celebrate his ninetieth birthday but he has no one to invite.... except his staunchest enemy. A sad comedy, a hopeful drama about the situation of many of our elders.
30/01/2025
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A girl wanders through an abandoned train station. She walks the corridors of her school, disconnected from the place, while trying to write an impossible speech. A memory flies over the station frozen in time.
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Lorea's reference points are her mother and her grandmother. Through these two generations she observes the bond that women have experienced around motherhood. Now it is up to her to decide whether or not to become a mother herself and to look for answers to pending questions.
Elionor discovers the intricacies of adulthood in 1940's Mallorca. She lives in a remote farmhouse, from which the inhabitants have never ventured out. Everything will change with the arrival of a movie.
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Broken Nights [Las Noches Rotas]
Javi is preparing for the most important audition of his life. His mate and friend, Héctor, is auditioning too. Both of them are up for a spot in a prestigious technical perfecting program in Viena. Héctor's talent is overwhelming, and this only feeds into the insecurities of Javi, who despite all of his efforts, can't seem to believe in himself, spiraling down very quickly.
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Burn When I Die [Queimar Cando Morra]
“Burn when I die, recite Our Father and throw it to the fire”. That’s what a package I found in my grandma’s wardrobe said when she passed away. Before burning it, the objects we discovered made me think about my family, about shared memories. About what was life like for women and how it has changed.
Is it possible to forgive ourselves for our mistakes? One afternoon in the park, Elena and Ángela will have to confront their inner demons as they try to heal the wounds of the past, with one sole purpose: Carmen's well-being.
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Reality blends with imagination in a journey back to the director's childhood where she returns to the last place she shared with her father, the house in Campolivar
After the Spanish Civil War starts, Carmela joins the militias and goes to the front as many other women. Their fight was twofold, fighting against facism and avoiding the loss of the rights they had achieved. During combat, a homemade grenade blows out Carmela’s right hand.
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Carmen And The Wooden Spoon [Carmen Y La Cuchara De Palo]
Carmen's a 7 year old girl raised by her italian Nonna. Her greatest gift to Carmen is a magic spoon which, thanks to a centuries-old spell, when savoring new dishes she can travel back to her memories and relive the anecdotes and adventures of her grandmother's life and above all, learn vital lessons that will help her in her own life.
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Estela and Ramón have gone through a separation and the suicide of their only son, Hugo, who was only 13 years old, after suffering from bullying. When Estela obtains a video recorded by her son’s tormentors, she believes it’s time to have a conversation with Ramón.
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The story of the short takes us to World War II and tells the moving story of Angela, whose world falls apart when her husband is called to fight and never returns. The story is an emotional exploration of love, loss and the power of memory.
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Fatimetu Bucharaya is a Sahrawi woman who in 2019 founded SMAWT, a voluntary women's association dedicated to the detection of anti-personnel mines in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria).
30/01/2025
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"Es la vida" are stories of overcoming, effort and hope, of how the relationship between man and horse exists, is possible and heals.Overcoming trauma, alleviating pain, recovering mobility, the power of horses is incredible and the bonds created are unbreakable. What if it were a horse that also needed the help of a human being?
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Elisa likes Martin, but Martin doesn't seem to realise it. All the advice Elisa receives to make Martin fall in love with her is to change not only her appearance, but also who she really is. Will she give up being herself to get it? Will that be a good thing?
David spends his first night on duty at the clinic of a small town. He is young and he doesn't yet know that among healthcare workers there's a legend that says at three in the morning, the worst in people emerges from the shadows and becomes visible.
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"Homework" is a 3D animated short film that follows the imaginative adventures of a pencil and its friends, using their unique abilities to help each other in unexpected situations, inside of the school where all of them live.
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I Stole Your Ashes [He Robado Tus Cenizas]
Isabel has become a widow at 65. After stealing the urn of ashes, Isabel takes refuge in a park to say goodbye to the love of her life, her wife, while remembering their story and reflecting on love and loss. Based on the presumption of heterosexuality, this story is a mirror. What prevents us from empathizing with those who love differently?
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A young migrant is looking forward to returning to Morocco to visit his family, whom he has not seen for years. To do so, he will have to struggle against the isolation and loneliness in which he lives because of his deafness.
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Rose Kim is a trans teenager. Although they long for it, they've never expressed their gender identity and navigate life in their assigned female body. Maybe because they're alone in a country migrated to illegally. But mainly because they fear losing the only emotional connection that ties them to the world: Camila, a baby girl they care for daily
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A captain wanders the sea in search of the place of his dreams, a beautiful orange lighthouse. One day the light of the lighthouse bursts into the gloom of his cabin. The sailor will have to decide whether to move on or remain anchored to the life he has always lived.
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Grandma's House [La Casa De La Abuela]
During the celebration of her 18th birthday, Mer, a young girl with Down's Syndrome, makes an important decision: she wants to get her driving licence. However, hardly anyone at the table seems to support her, which unleashes in Mer a mixture of frustration and envy towards her older sister, Paloma, who is becoming more and more independent.
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Maitemina is about a trumpeter who, in the midst of the festivities of San Fermín, feels ignored by the thousands of people around him. No one seems to listen to him except another boy who, quickly, gets lost among the tide of people flooding the city. Finding him is then an almost impossible job, and will only match him in his dreams.
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Ana spends the day playing alongside her mother, Elena, with the intention of getting closer to her, as they have been distant lately. A series of phone calls to Elena's mobile will make Ana suspect that her mother is hiding something more than just her feelings.
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The reunion 20 years later of Mounir Jadivi, an irregular immigrant who arrived in Spain at the age of 8, with the film director Xabier Rúa, his former tutor in a centre for minors, gave rise to an exercise in four-handed docufiction in which the hard day-to-day life of an ‘undocumented immigrant’ in Spain is recounted.
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Nika, The Pilot Whale [Nika, El Calderon Tropical]
Felipe Ravina, a documentary filmmaker, scientific and graduate in Marine Sciences, forges a connection with a pilot whale called Nika, in the island of Tenerife. That unusual connection to the animal makes him increasingly concerned about the current state of the island and its biodiversity.
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Only The Lonely [Yo, Mi, Me, Conmigo]
The search for solitude as an alternative, of life in silence, of calm as a life option in the face of the usual chaos in our way of life.
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Paradise Buffet [Buffet Paraíso]
In a buffet restaurant, a diverse group of characters access a wide variety of exquisite delicacies without being aware of the serious sin that gluttony represents.
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Una mujer vuelve a casa para recordar(se) y reconocerse. Coge una cámara y filma por primera vez. El retrato de su madre y de su abuela es también su propio retrato. Gracias a ellas, se reconcilia con el lugar y los recuerdos.
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After spending the morning at the beach, a mishap leaves Guillem and Nico locked out of their car, without keys, phone, or clothes. What seems like a minor setback takes a dark turn when, upon asking a stranger for help, a single question sparks an unexpected and brutal encounter: "Are you faggots?"
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Year 2000. Maya, a young Londoner, travels to the small village of her Spanish girlfriend, Ruth, who has passed away in an accident. She wants to bid her farewell, but the harsh blow, along with the anxiety of presenting herself as the «foreign girlfriend» in front of unknown family and friends who speak another language, turns into confusion.
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Montse, a woman who takes care of a hyper-realistic doll as her own son, is avoiding meeting her newborn niece because she doesn't know how to deal with her past.
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Amparo, an extravagant and passionate former starlet, faces losing her house at the hands of Dan, a clumsy architect who owns a multinational company. Dan will seek to redesign a historic neighbourhood in which Amparo's premises will rise as the resistance. Will it be Amparo's last show?
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At her best friend's burial, Marta bumps into an old classmate she used to bully, unaware that she's changed radically over the last ten years.
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The Fishing Boats Of Kayar [Los Cayucos De Kayar]
After 15 years in Spain, Thimbo returns to his Senegalese fishing village, where he is overwhelmed by sensations of nostalgia and uprooting, yearning and resentment. He also grapples with the influence he exerts on the local youth, who see him as a role model and seek to emulate him through a perilous journey to Europe by boat.
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Arturo has just watched "Star Wars" with his class, and they are discussing the difference between good and evil. What starts as a debate about a movie will end up revealing the students' personalities and their own stories, while Arturo tries to impart a valuable lesson.
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The Generation Of Regeneration [La Generación De La Regeneración]
In a journey from the south to the north of the vast province of Burgos, THE GENERATION OF REGENERATION paints a fresco of the Castilian rural world and the main problems that threaten its inhabitants through various productive and social projects that have as their axis sustainable development and respect for the environment.
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The Guiding Light [La luz que nos guia]
Through this film, the last female lighthouse keepers pay an intimate and reflexive tribute to the profession that’s defined their lives. It’s not just a profession that’s disappearing… This is a collective requiem for a way of life that’s becoming extinct.
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The Howl Of The She Wolf [Quejío De Loba]
Thanks to the education she chooses to give her children, Ana, a mother from Jerez, discovers the gender-based violence she has endured from the men in her family.
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The Most Brutal Side Of Life [El Lado Más Bestia De La Vida]
Belén and Paco are retired. Unexpectedly, one of his children suffers an accident that completely changes the family situation. Old age has become more difficult for them. Life can change in an instant.
28/01/2025
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The Opacity Of Water [La Opacidad Del Agua]
Lucas, a six-year-old boy, enjoys a summer day with his family and the visit of his Aunt Inés and her partner until they all decide to go for a walk.
28/01/2025
Short Films
A man at home alone. He tries to talk to his son. He calls his friend and he is not there. He leaves a message. He tells him he's fine and that he's not going out that night. He hangs up and goes out... and comes back. He comes back or “the other guy” comes back. His friend still doesn't answer the phone. He drinks, takes drugs, feels restless, spied on, persecuted in his own house and runs awa.
28/01/2025
Short Films
The Story Of A Wave [Olatu Baten Istorioa]
Science can predict the trail of a wave from its origin to its end. However, the complex relationships that humans have established with nature escape its understanding. When a surfer and a wave meet, whatever can usually be explained becomes inexplicable, and science can no longer decode that passion.
28/01/2025
Short Films
In a small town, Filo, a retiree, owns a house for rent. For the past year, Tito has been living alone in Filo's house after the passing of his mother. Tito, who suffers from severe mental health issues, hasn't paid the rent, leading Filo to take desperate measures. A chance encounter at Jere's bar will set the stage for a showdown between them.
28/01/2025
Short Films
Trapped in her routine, Mari Pili spends her days bored in the park feeding the birds. One day, a group of crows starts returning the favour by bringing her little presents. Surprised, Mari Pili decides to give them better food, making the crows improve their gifts too.
28/01/2025
Short Films
We witness the first pig vigil of a teenage girl, whose aim is to say goodbye to the animals before they enter the slaughterhouse. In a country where it is a tradition to eat ham and where 53 million pigs are slaughtered every year, this situation will completely change the perspective of our protagonist.
28/01/2025
Short Films
After a frantic chase, a prehistoric hominid (Moha) confronts an old man (Wan) and his hyena-dog (Khana) with an unexpected result where nothing is as it seems. Wan is a free interpretation of a very present problem in today's society transferred to crude prehistory.
28/01/2025
Short Films
Whenever The Flood Arrives [Cuando Llegue La Inundación]
In a world where artists are tiny beings born from animals, a mockumentary explores the lives of four sisters hatched from bird eggs, who live completely isolated from civilization in what seems like an idyllic environment.
28/01/2025
Short Films
You Can Do It Alone [Puedes Tú Solito]
Pablo faces his first time peeing in a public men's restroom while being harassed by monsters he will have to confront if he wants to return to his family.
28/01/2025
Short Films
Lena, 22 year-older, is on a scholarship in Paris to study the third year of her degree. Her dream had always been to live in that city, but as the weeks go by her utopia fades away and she discovers a much more hostile place than expected. At the same time, her long-distance relationship with her partner gradually fades.
The deceptively straightforward narrative follows jockeys Remo (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) and his partner Abril (a superb Úrsula Corberó, known for the series Money Heist). Remo is a former star struggling with relentless addictions and a dangerously stubborn drive to remain relevant. Abril, though technically ready to take over from Remo and pursue greater success in racing, debates continuing her pregnancy. (In one memorable scene, the couple regale us with an unmissable dance sequence.)
Self-assured, mysterious, and captivating Linda (China Suárez) agrees to work at an affluent home in Buenos Aires, covering for her cousin who’s recovering from an accident. Her charm sparks strong sexual attraction among all four members of the family, exposing how fragile their externally happy veneer really is.
The year is 1976. Tom (Coogan) lands in Buenos Aires to take up a teaching position at a prestigious English boarding school. The city is in the midst of political violence, but the headmaster (Oscar nominee Jonathan Pryce) insists his school simply keep calm and carry on. That suits Tom just fine. When a coup d’état shuts down the school, he hops next door to Uruguay to party. A romantic foray leads to a walk along the beach, which leads to the sight of a penguin drenched in oil from a spill. Against his better judgment, Tom rescues the bird, which unlocks its undying loyalty. He's forced to
We meet Nick (Henry Golding) in Madrid, adrift in a deep-seated malaise over the sudden death of his lover Daniela (Beatrice Grannò). A concerned friend enrolls him in a clinical trial for a drug that imbues its participants with totally lucid dreams — in an effort to sublimate his woe — and the experiment goes awry when Nick fails to adhere to the prescription. With his newfound ability to control his dreams, he sets out to rebuild his relationship with Daniela in an idealized fantasy of his own design.
The Party´s Over [Fin de fiesta]
Things soon turn upside down with the arrival of young, smart, and sensitive Bilal. The immigrant from Senegal takes shelter in Carmina´s toolshed and quickly becomes a (mostly unwilling) personal companion. Carmina’s charming, capricious ways entrap not only Bilal but also her housekeeper, Lupe. A stern, salt of the earth local woman, Lupe at first distrusts the newcomer, but ends up finding solidarity with Bilal as they try to help each other escape from the manipulative gilded cage Carmina offers.
They will be Dust [Polvo serán]
The couple are so consumed by the prospect they’re facing that they somewhat forget about everyone else. Their loving daughter Violeta, who becomes the involuntary mediator between them and everything they leave behind, struggles to find her place in their story. And the rest of the adult siblings scramble to make space for the new realities when they arrive from afar startled and confused to join in the hasty wedding their elders wish to throw for themselves.
Hypersensitive to the slightest possible offence and ever ready to fly off the handle, Pansy (Jean-Baptiste) does not ingratiate. She criticizes her husband Curtley (David Webber) and their adult son Moses (Tuwaine Barrett) so relentlessly that neither bother to argue with her. She picks fights with strangers and sales clerks and enumerates the world’s countless flaws to anyone who will listen, most especially her cheerful sister Chantal (Michele Austin), who might be the only person still capable of sympathizing with her. As the film peels back Pansy’s pain and the daily fallout left in its w
The Room Next Door [La habitación de al lado]
ngrid (Oscar winner Julianne Moore) is a bestselling author so famously afraid of death she has written a book about it. When she learns that Martha (Oscar winner Tilda Swinton, also at this year’s Festival in The End) — a former war correspondent — is ill, she visits her, reigniting a friendship from years past, when both were journalists.
Teresa Pla, an intersex child assigned female at birth, struggles to be recognized as a man within the archaic Spanish society of the beginning and middle of the 20th century while he is persecuted by guerrillas, bandits and the Guardia Civil (Civil Guard).
Júlia fled to Glasgow to start anew, but years later, she's stuck. By day, she pursues photography; by night, she washes dishes. One afternoon, while photographing pedestrians, her eyes begin to fail. As illness spreads, Júlia delves into her past and that of the city, recalling a mysterious group that retrieved objects from the river, and Shubham, an Indian boy who, like her, came here for a new beginning.
1972: The Ecclesiastical Court of Santiago de Compostela convicted Sagrario Fra, a shellfish harvester in Ferrol, for committing adultery. At the time, many women were being imprisoned or locked up in a mental hospital for what is considered a female-specific criminal act. But Sagrario Fra experiences love as insubordination. Like the birds, flying between heaven and earth, Antigone is latent in Sagrario.
Mares takes the audience on an intimate and emotionally charged journey with director Ari (32), and her partner Anna (41), who want to have a child together. Anna is the first to begin assisted reproduction, whilst Ariadna captures every step with her camera.
Dream of Another Summer tells the story of the encounter between a woman collapsing and a city in ruins in order to explore how the spaces we inhabit relate to us, and to reflect on the mortality and survival of a city.
Distressed by the troubles and difficulties of life and death, ghosts and humans of the small town of La Mancha will do the impossible to put an end to their problems and will not hesitate to carry out extreme and desperate plans to achieve it.
Maria, a promising young writer and new mother, stumbles upon a chilling headline: a French woman has drowned her 10-month-old twins in the bathtub. The gruesome act seizes Maria's imagination, becoming an obsession. Why did she do it? From that moment onwards, the specter of infanticide looms over Maria's life as a haunting possibility.
Set in 1886 America, two Irish siblings, 9-year-old Mary and 12-year-old Tom, arrive on an ocean liner to the hustle and bustle of New York City. They are there to meet their Uncle Niall and secure their inheritance. But when Uncle Niall fails to meet them, they decide to stow away on the Transcontinental Railroad in the hopes of making it to California to find him.
When It Comes (It Will Have Your Eyes) [Está por venir y tendrá tus ojos]
A small community enters a state of collapse due to an environmental crisis and is adapting as best it can to the new reality. The privileged residents live a hedonistic life based on carpe diem, while the others struggle to survive with no alternative.
Caramel's Words [Palabras de caramelo]
All about the friendship between Kori, a deaf child, and Caramelo, a camel, in a Saharan refugee camp. Kori begins to lip-read the camel and transcribe it all into beautiful poems, until Caramelo must be sacrificed.
My Dad the Truck [Mi papá el camión]
After losing everything, Bonifacio, a clumsy countryman, travels to the city with his daughter Hilda, to chase his dream: to become a truck driver.
Through Robert Wyatt’s music, this animated musical plunges you into Bob and Alif’s passionate love story. They are two young artists immersed in the creative whirlwind of early 70s hippie culture.
Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake [Olivia y el terremoto invisible]
A 12-year-old girl's life falls apart around her when her family is evicted from their home. After being evicted, Olivia moves to an empty apartment squat in a neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city with her little brother Tim and her mother, Ingrid.
Who Wants to Marry an Astronaut? [¿Quién quiere casarse con un astronauta?]
David plans his wedding in Las Vegas. When he has everything, his partner turns him down, and he has only 10 days to find someone to marry.
Valley of Shadows [Valle de sombras]
Himalayan Mountains, 1999. Quique, Clara and little Lucas enjoy their first holiday together in Northern India. One night, while sleeping under the stars, they are brutally attacked by assailants. Hours later, Quique is saved by a native and taken to a remote isolated village in the mountains. But if he is to find his way back home, first he must overcome his fears.
Valencia, Spain, the 90s. Three young journalists try to find their place in Spain, a country marked by progress and the Olympics. Despite their enthusiasm to be part of this new modernity, they will be enticed by different levels of corruption, putting their integrity, dignity, and ethics to test.
Three couples undergoing therapy are summoned by their female psychologist to a meeting. The psychologist won’t be attending the reunion but she will give to them instructions about what they must do. the six protagonists will gradually air their dirty laundry concerning their relationships and bring up issues until it all leads to a most unexpected and equally shocking end.
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.
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.
Carmen (55), a well-known screenwriter, retired a year ago to a farm in a depopulated village in Spain. She strives to increase the olive harvest, with a few good friends who admire and support her, and Damián, a handyman who is attracted to her. Her life there intertwines with the novel she starts to write, in which an old love arrives in the village to tell her he has never forgotten her.
The last romantics [Los últimos románticos] [Azken erromantikoak]
When a lump is detected in her breast, Irune plunges into an abyss that forces her to reconsider her entire existence.
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 Gentleman [Ya no quedan junglas a donde regresar]
Theo is an old American, ex-military man, whose lonely and miserable existence is spent between memories of a better past with his late wife. Thursdays are the days when he sees Olga, a Ukrainian prostitute. One day Olga is brutally murdered. Four lawyers are the suspects and the Gentleman embarks on a violent quest for revenge.
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.
Eleven stories reflect that we are all more similar than we think. No matter where we come from, who we are, or where we were born, we all feel love, fear, happiness, hope... and these feelings unite us.
STAY HOMAS. The Band That Shouldn't Exist [Stay Homas. La banda que no hauria d'existir]
In the pandemic, three friends –Rai, Guillem and Klaus– are under lockdown in Barcelona and create daily songs on Instagram. They collaborate with several artists like Rubén Blades or Michael Bublé and become a viral phenomenon. A three-year intimate journey that will reveal if Stay Homas is established as a band or just a one-hit wonder.
The world of Robotia is inhabited by machines that live, dream, learn and play. All the inhabitants of Robotia are interconnected because they have been made from recycled parts of same objects that have been reassembled. Ever since she was little, Bibi’s parents have taken care of everything, laying out her whole future. But Bibi dreams of something different.
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.
PABLO is in a full-blown mid-life crisis; his wife has left him and he is incapable of writing his second novel. One morning while at a loose end (like so many others), the telephone rings and ANA, the first girl he ever fell in love with fifteen years ago, presents herself before his eyes. Over the course of the day, life will show it can still surprise PABLO and offer him a second chance...
Eva has just turned 50. She’s been married for over 20 years and has two children. On a business trip to Rome, she meets Alex. The instant attraction she feels for him reminds her what it feels like to fall in love. She returns home with a clear mission: to fall in love again. She looks for an apartment and confesses that she’s leaving her husband for someone else, someone she hasn’t even met yet.
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.
Through the story of the construction of the new Munch Museum in Oslo, carried out for over twelve years by a small Spanish architecture studio, Estudio Herreros, we discover the astonishing transformation of the Norwegian capital.
Two climbers explore the magical massif of Montserrat with the aim of tracing a line that joins all the peaks of this mountain range. Climbing, abseiling, nights in the open, and a lot of terrain study are what they need to achieve this milestone never before achieved. After more than a year of preparation, they set out on the adventure of climbing the 107 peaks of Montserrat in a week.
Candela goes from being the cream of the crop to the cream of mediocrity. She gets offered the opportunity to return to her old high Pepe is a good guy. Everyone loves Pepe. So, when he finds out he has a terminal illness, Pepe recruits his friend Juanjo to coach him into acting like a bad person so his loved ones won’t miss him when he dies.
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.
May I speak with the enemy? [¿Es el enemigo?]
During one of Spain’s most tumultuous times, iconic comedian Miguel Gila will grow from a teenager into a man and survive scarcity, war and imprisonment by using his best weapon: humor.
After the death of their father, three siblings return to the family home where they grew up. They intend to sell it and follow their very different paths. But as memories surface in every corner, a fear of getting rid of the past and an impulse to reunite grows in them. As a last tribute to their father, there may still be time to make up for lost time and the house may witness new stories.
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.
Father There Is Only One 4 [Padre no hay más que uno 4]
The eldest of the family, Sara, comes of age and brings chaos to the family by announcing her intention to marry Ocho. Javier and Marisa will try to avoid it at all costs. At the same time Dani has an existential crisis, Paulita feels jealous of Cris, Carlota announces that she has found a boyfriend from a high society family and Rocio has finally managed to be cast in her first film.
The Treasure of Barracuda [El tesoro de Barracuda]
Captain Barracuda is obsessed with finding the treasure of Phineas Crane, the most valuable and highly prized of all the pirates in the Caribbean. To achieve his goal, he will need the help of Spark, a little girl who is pretending to be a boy in order to fit in with Barracuda’s savage pirate crew. The discovery of a book of memories belonging to Phineas Crane will be key to finding the much sought-after treasure, as well as Spark’ salvation, because she is the only one on the whole ship who knows how to read and so the only one who can decipher the “map of letters” that is the manuscript.
In the late ’80s, on the working-class outskirts of Bilbao, a girls' gymnastics team has the chance to participate in a championship in Berlin. As the mothers can't travel with their daughters, the fathers will be in charge, but they don't seem to be interested in the trip, in the sport or even in their own children.
An author suffering from writer's block travels to a magical island. There he meets Bubba. An animated character that will help you overcome your fears.
Cádiz. At present. The routine transfer of a yacht seized from a dangerous cartel becomes an adventure between life and death for three old friends: a drug dealer, a civil guard and a bailiff.
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.
Artificial Justice [Justicia Artificial]
In the future, the Government aims to replace judges with Artificial Intelligence software. Carmen Costa, a judge, has been invited to assess this new procedure. However, when the software's creator is found dead, she realizes her life is in danger and that she will have to fight the powerful interests that are at play in the highest echelons of the State.
The contemporary artist can do without their manual skills and give as much or even more importance to intellectual work than to the artistic object. So, what does an artist do?
Alone in the night [Solos en la noche]
A group of left-wing labor lawyers hide in a house when the coup d'état takes place in Spain on February 23,1981. Unsure of what to do, they debate between fleeing the country, stay in hiding to await events or trying to do something to defend Spain's fledgling democracy.
All the Names of God [Todos los nombres de dios]
After a jihadist attack at the Airport, Santi, a taxi driver willing to help, is taken hostage by Hamza, the only surviving terrorist. An unexpected twist switches their roles and Santi becomes a human bomb walking through the center of Madrid wearing an explosive vest. If he stops moving the bomb will detonate.
Afternoons of solitude [Tardes de soledad]
Afternoons of Solitude intends to be the first feature-length film to approach the aesthetic side of bullfighting in all its complexity, and to do so with the expression and the artistic and conceptual sophistication of the director Albert Serra. It also intends to handle this subject from the perspective of the bullfighter, as someone that takes on the risk of facing the bull as a personal duty; partly out of respect for a tradition, but above all as an aesthetic challenge to create a form of ephemeral beauty that arises from the material and violent encounter between the calm rationality of
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.
The memory of the poet Vicente Aleixandre remains silent at No. 3 Velintonia Street. Home of a Nobel Prize in Literature 1977, it also recalls the joy of Lorca and other members of Generation'27, the pain of civil war and post-war, and became a meeting point for most writers in 20th century Spanish Literature, now is abandoned and for sale. This documentary recreates its story and spirit.
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.
The Other Way Around [Volveréis]
After 15 years together, Ale and Alex have come up with the crazy idea of throwing a party to celebrate their recent break up. While their close ones are quite skeptical, they seem to be sure of their decision. Or are they really?
Jérémie Pastor returns to Saint-Martial for the funeral of his former employer, a baker. He spends a few days at Martine’s, his widow, who doesn’t want to see him leave. Vincent, Martine’s son, disapproves of this and the two men end up fighting. Jérémie kills Vincent. He manages to conceal that he is the murderer, with the unexpected complicity of Abbe´ Grisolles, the village priest, who provides him with an alibi in exchange for his affection.
Sofia, The Possession [Tu Sangre]
My name is Sofia. My mother vanished inside the boarding school where she works, and my father just tried to commit suicide under strange circumstances. Next to him, a Ouija board. I used it during a terrifying seance, and the ghost of my mother told me to look for her. Everything is clear to me now. I’m going to enroll at the boarding school to find the body of my mother.
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 House On Fire [Una casa en flames]
Montse is thrilled about the weekend she gets to spend with the whole family at her house on the Costa Brava. Her divorce was long ago, her ex has a new partner, and her children are all grown up with lives of their own. No one pays much attention to her. But the weekend will be perfect… even if she has to burn everything to the ground to make it so.
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 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 Closet-Free Home [Un hogar sin armarios]
They didn’t want to go back into the closet, to pretend that old age was taking away so much of their struggle. They had a dream: to live in the first public LGTBI residence in the world.
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?
A House in the Countryside [Una casa en el pueblo]
In this house, you spent all the summers of your childhood. On the floor of that room your mother was born. Around that fire, your grandparents survived the misery of the postwar era and the hard wintertime in the countryside. At the end of the courtyard, behind that door, it is said that a saint was born.
A Moroccan Affair [Ocho apellidos marroquís]
Carmen is determined to carry out the dying wish of José Maria, her husband and patriarch of the family, to recover the first fishing boat of his fleet, which is currently anchored in a Moroccan port. She will be accompanied on her journey by her daughter, Begoña, and Begoña’s ex. As they struggle to overcome cultural barriers, they will also stumble across José Maria’s huge secret.
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.
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.
Andrea’s Love [El amor de Andrea]
Andrea, a young, fifteen-year-old girl, is desperate to recover the love of her father, who disappeared from her life after getting divorced from her mother a few years ago. Andrea remembers her father as a loving, affectionate man and cannot understand why he doesn’t want to see his children now. Andrea will go as far as it takes to win back her father’s love. This includes confronting her mother and even taking legal action. Tomás and Fidel, her two younger brothers who barely know their father are her tireless companions on this adventure of family and disillusionment along which we will al
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.
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.
Awards, beyond the limits of hairdressing
An approach to avant-garde hairdressing. A world full of creativity that sets trends in hairdressing and fashion.
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.
Colombo works at a 24-hour parking lot and tops up his measly wages by selling weed. Mario is a lawyer and a keen birdwatcher, but unfortunately for him, he is unable to drive due to a past accident. Mario offers to pay Colombo to drive him from Valencia to a lake in the Costa Brava (Spain), where he wants to see some cranes. When they reach the lake, the lawyer tells him that the birds have changed their migratory route and are now going to nest in the Danube delta in Romania. Mario needs to get there and Colombo needs the money
Spain, 1982. Marisa decides to take her daughter to Madrid to find a solution for an unwanted pregnancy. Lucia ends up in Peñagrande, a reformatory for pregnant teenagers. There, she will forge strong friendships with the other girls and discover the awful truth that her still unborn child is to be taken away from her.
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.
Black Butterflies [Mariposas Negras]
Lobuin, Vanesa and Soma are three women from very different parts of the world who face the same problem: climate change. They will lose everything because of the global warming effects and they will be forced to emigrate to survive.
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.
"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.
Thirteen men retreat to a country house where they undergo a personal and collective transformation in search of new ways of being men. They confront their wounds and blockages through physical and emotional dynamics that will put them to the test. For three days they will live a tribal and cathartic experience, for which not all of them are prepared.
The siege of Malaga, forgotten amongst major events of Spanish Civil War, touched deeply those who passed by between July’36- Feb’37, when the city was conquered by an Italian army sent by Mussolini to help Franco. The 7-month revolution turned out as a sour experience for both locals and visitors among which writers and journalists: 8 of them recall their exploits in a sort of fake documentary.
Los Amigos wins the Spanish basketball championship for the first time but are disqualified due to Sergio’s fault, leading to their dramatic breakup. Two years later, Cecilia, an inexperienced but optimistic coach, commits to fulfilling Julio’s dream of reuniting the team. Despite a string of misfortunes associated with Cecilia’s arrival, labeled as a “jinx”, Los Amigos’ enthusiasm remains unwavering. Against all odds, they find themselves participating in a thrilling and unexpected international eSports tournament watched by millions worldwide.
Candela goes from being the cream of the crop to the cream of mediocrity. She gets offered the opportunity to return to her old high school and teach socially marginalized kids. Yet when she sees that a bunch of losers could end up as national chess champs, she realizes that it is not important who you were, but who you are today.
Close to the Sultan [Dans la chambre su Sultan] [En la alcoba del Sultán]
«The Venerable Sultan of Morocco Moulay Abd el-Aziz is looking for someone to initiate him in the mysteries of the camera obscura and the cinematograph». In 1901 the adventurer and operator of the Lumière brothers, Gabriel Veyre, reads this advertisement. He will stay in Morocco 30 years; he will initiate the Sultan in the cinematograph... and also in other mysteries of palace and bedroom.
Close to Winter [Negu hurbilak]
A young woman involved in ETA - an armed nationalist and farleft separatist organization in the Basque Country - wants to cross the border from northern Spain into France. Arriving in the last town of the valley she must wait for further indications, but they never seem to arrive. She can only wait.
Close your eyes [Cerrar los ojos]
CLOSE YOUR EYES turns on a famous Spanish actor, Julio Arenas, who disappears while filming a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at a cliff by the sea. Many years later, the mystery is brought up once more by a TV program that tries to evoke the actor, offering as a scoop images of the last scenes in which he participated, shot by his close friend, director Miguel Garay.
Olivia lives in a Space Colony far from Earth together with her partner and his daughter. She is in charge of the controls and the security of citizens in the Control Room together with Arlo, her colleague. When they are attacked by some non-human creatures, her cold and calculated reaction, always adhering to the protocols, will not be seen with good eyes by Arlo and some of the citizens. Olivia will realize that her mission is to save the people she loves, making the Colony a safe place.
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.
An eighteen-year-old musician decides to design a cybernetic organ and illegally implant it into his own body, thus acquiring a new sense that allows him to perceive on Earth sounds coming from outer space.
Devil Dog Road [Lo Carga el Diablo]
Tristán is a frustrated writer who’s lives changes when he agrees to transport the frozen body of his brother Simón from Asturias to Benidorm, to bury it in the house where they grew up. Álex, a young hitchhiker will convince him that the obstacles he will have to face on this strange road trip are perhaps his last chance to live a true experience and find his identity.
Documentary feature film that tells the story of the successful Madrid band DOVER through its protagonists, from its beginnings in 1992 until its definitive separation in 2016 after 8 studio albums.
Dragonkeeper [Guardiana de dragones]
It’s a dark time in the ancient Chinese empire. Dragons, once friends and allies of men, have been hunted down for years and thrown into dungeons. In a faraway fortress, a young girl helps the last living dragon escape and joins him in a quest to retrieve his most precious gift: the last dragon egg. This odd couple embarks on a journey across China, to ensure the survival of the dragons’ lineage.
The Drunkmen’s Marseillaise [La marsellesa de los borrachos]
In 1961, a group of Italian anthropologists traveled clandestinely through Spain to record anti-Franco resistance popular songs. They were prosecuted and censored. Sixty years later we recover the unpublished recordings.
Leo is a successful author of mystery novels, who writes under the pseudonym Cameron Graves. While penning his next book in an isolated chalet, he receives a strange visit from Jota, a somewhat troubling character, who claims to be a journalist. No one is aware of Leo’s true identity and only Victoria, his agent, knows his whereabouts, so... How has Jota managed to track him down? What are his intentions? A dark secret linked to Adriana, his young lover, seems to be behind the mysterious visit. Lies, betrayal, threats and death will be the order of the day as the two characters go head to head
Equipo Crónica. Art in the Trenches [Equipo Crónica. Arte de trinchera]
Can art be a weapon? "The hand of the artist must hold the paintbrush and spatula as workers and labourers hold their work tools, in order to advance our society”. Equipo Crónica Manifesto
ETERNA is not only a documentary about the life of one of the most relevant voices in Spanish speaking rap in recent years, it is also a reflection on memory, time, art and the mark we leave on the world.
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.
Telmo, a young man who aspires to become a filmmaker, arrives to the remotest part of the Amazon jungle. He arrives loaded with innocent illusion, romantic ideas and a camera. Nothing that happens from then on responds to his plans. The travel takes Telmo to the limit of reason and his world, to the place where the uncontacted Taromenane live. In that invisible limit, Telmo discovers who he is.
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.
Foremost by night [Sobre todo de noche]
When Vera was young, she could not care for her son. When Cora was young, she was told that she could not have children and that only adoption would let her establish a family. Today these two women meet on the banks of the Douro River and plan to rewrite their destinies. This is a story of violence, of revenge, of 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.
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.
An exploration of the gun culture in the United States through the content created by its supporters on Youtube. Thousands of hours of videos that range from the tragic to the comical without ever leaving aside the extravagance of the most extreme points of view.
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.
It’s the end of the 19th century, Cileta and her family are victims of Oleguer, a Poor-squeezer, who expropriates and takes over them and their farmhouse. When he leaves the farmhouse to marry the wealthy ex-notary’s widow, Cileta sets up her next steps; infiltrate on their house to apply what’s learned: money comes first.
Grandma & the Foreigner [L'àvia i el foraster]
Teresa is a dressmaker. She meets Samir, the greengrocer, who is actually a great tailor who had to emigrate from Pakistan. Enric, in the midst of a life crisis, returns to the village to attend the funeral of his grandma and discovers the relationship he had with Samir.
Germán works as a taxi driver at a nightclub, but he is completely broke. This is why he decides to steal the earnings from a night's work, putting himself in the gravest danger of his life.
Stéphanie and Ncuti, two Rwandan actors, and Simon, a Belgian technician, meet at the former headquarters of RTLM, the propaganda radio station during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, to rehearse a program that conveys to its listeners ideas of forgiveness and pacification. But they will discover that they have a common past and they will see that reconciliation is not as easy as they believed.