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Belén is 8 years old and doesn't want to go to grandma's house. To get her way, Diana, her mother, has promised she will get to taste the cookies she used to eat when she was a little girl, the best cookies she has ever tasted. It's been 10 years since the last time Diana saw her mother and she needs a favor. A favor that has nothing to do with baking cookies.
After several years working as a counselor in a high school, Maite, a vocational psychologist, receives an innovative employment offer: A job 24 seven.
A Short Story about Love [El querer]
Cuenca, early 1990s. Amelia takes care of her soul friend Miguel, sick with AIDS, who, in his last wish, expresses his desire to receive the last rites and tells Amelia a secret that no one ever knew.
30s are (not) the new 20s [Los 30 (no) son los nuevos 20]
David has turned the terrible 30s and he celebrates it in a different way: with his friends from the town, but also with some actors and a film crew. Despite the desire to get together, the distance and the years have changed everything. The party ends up becoming a manifesto for the millennial generation.
Amanda, you lied [Mentiste Amanda]
Amanda and Virgi are two inseparable friends, but nothing will ever be the same again, when one afternoon, a man crosses their path.
Gabrielle, Emma, Leire and Zoe sneak out of their rooms at a boarding school for a night out at the center's gym. But a secret from Gabrielle and her friend Emma's jealousy causes tension to spiral out of control when Gabrielle walks into the gym with a bow and arrows.
Ava is a teenager who takes the subway to go to school. When María calls her to ask her about her day, her daughter’s mobile phone is turned off. Ava never made it to school that morning. Someone had intercepted her on the subway.
Nilo, a young guy who has never left Valencia, will discover in one night how his world is put to the test when he crosses paths with a stranger at the drive-in cinema where he works.
Jesús is a 15-year-old boy who dreams of recording a homemade horror movie, starring Lara, his platonic love. The odds seem decisively stacked against him. An overprotective and extremely religious mother, classmates who bully him and a strange disease that forces him to use a wheelchair all stand in his way. But on Halloween night, they will all become part of his macabre film.
Alma, a solitary refugee child, is thrust back into her traumatic past when her doll falls into the swimming pool, mirroring the shipwreck of the refugee boat where she was the lone survivor. Luna, her savior, steps in to help her overcome her trauma and rebuild her life.
Diego, the owner of a television station, is thirsty in the middle of a desert. Desperate, he struggles to find water and his journey reveals the reasons that have led him to be in this extreme situation.
The personal circumstances of Carmen, a 74-year-old woman, lead her to force a meeting with an old friend, Ángeles, whom she has not seen for 30 years.
Did not sleep well Today [Hoy no ha dormido bien]
Sofia has one of the most important exams today at the acting school where she studies, but taking care of her brother in the hospital means she won't make it on time.
Some photos of a passing sunset. A book of frogs held by hands. A woman´s face, reading. Based on the poem ""Esta es la mano que cuida"" (""This is the hand that cares""), by veterinarian and writer Maria Sanchez, this film is constructed as a diptych on the learning processes of our relationship with other species.
Juan Carlos Estavillo ""el Kala"" is a survivor. One of those people that heroin turned invisible and who fights day by day against the pain to continue doing the only thing that makes him happy: going to Laurel Street to pick up the dishes and take out the garbage from all the bars in exchange for the will and to be able to socialize with the people
Eli spends day and night with her father Carlos, who is in the hospital. On Christmas Eve, her brother Tomás, who until now had been absent from the carings, turns up unannounced and offers to relieve her. But rather than a relief, this seems to unsettle Eli.
Emotional architecture 1959 [Arquitectura emocional 1959]
Here is the love story of Sebas and Andrea, first-time university students, in the 1958-1959 academic year. Here is how social class and ideology become insurmountable obstacles? Here is the architecture marking, unnoticed, the dotted line that ends up dictating their emotion.
Event Thought It's Night [Aunque es de noche]
La Cañada, Europe's largest slum on the outskirts of Madrid, has been without electricity for over a year. In the firelight, among Roma legends of a possible future, Toni, a 13-year-old boy, discovers that his best friend Nasser is leaving forever.
Alba is going to leave the house she shares with Mrs. Hortensia through a university exchange program between students and elderly people. Before leaving, they celebrate the lady's birthday, and that evening their true intentions are revealed.
An astronaut returns from a failed mission to Earth extinct from contamination. His condition of being the last of his kind torments him.
Felina is a woman capable of turning into a panther; or maybe a panther capable of turning into a woman. She is in love with a blind pianist to whom she does not want to reveal her condition. However, one day she receives unexpected news: she is pregnant with kittens.
Berry, a little koala, accompanies her father to the casino where he works. The machine that presides over the place will soon discover her shortcomings to attract her towards it.
Two friends bump into each other at a shopping mall’s toilet after losing touch in their teens. One is a successful white businesswoman while the other is a romani woman who hardly makes ends meet. Long gone are the endless summer days in the village. Nothing will ever be the same again.
A warm light shines through the small windows of an apartment in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona. Teo, the younger of two brothers takes a shower while his mother prepares food and his brother, Pol, quietly dies in the room next door.
Film essay about the rejected image. The selection of the photographs creates a tale to narrate usWhat snapshots do we consider imprecise, defective? What is the history that we remove from our life tale? What do we find in those discards?
Following the death of a pet fish, two little sisters organice a funeral in the bathroom of their house. What starts as a playful game turns serious when the time to flush the toilet and say goodbye arrives.
On their last day together before he moves to Los Angeles for college, he and Kai hide in the sports center where they have always played basketball. What starts as a prank ends with Leo confessing his feelings for his best friend Kai.
Three young friends face the challenge of paying rent for their shared flat each month.
Alba has always gotten herself out of trouble. She is 20 years old and works in a flower factory. Her life takes a turn when she receives a call informing her that his father, whom it’s been years since she has seen him, is dead. Alba will abandon her job to take care of all the paperwork that comes with death while she searches inside her for a motive to cry and start her duel.
Longing for light [Anhel de llum]
Through a radically personal look, the director explores Barcelona and its light. The sun as a brush that naturally highlights the intimacy of the rooms, friends, lovers and the people around her: her chosen family.
Mischievous Lucita and Her Guide on How to Go to Hell [Para lo que me queda en el convento]
Lucita is a 65-year-old woman who lives alone. She says that one night, after cooking dinner, she looked out onto the street and saw the Santa Compaña in procession. Now, a year after she saw it, she is preparing to die so that she can visit her son Vicente in hell.
Moliner and Company [Moliner y Compañía]
María Moliner es la protagonista de uno de los periodos más transformadores de la educación de todos los tiempos. Estudia en la Institución Libre de Enseñanza, siendo una de las primeras licenciadas en Aragón y colabora con el Estudio de Filología de Aragón en la confección del Diccionario Aragonés.
Detective Mortelli, a friend of gambling and alcohol, is not dealing well with his retirement. The same day his wife leaves him, he receives a call from Commissioner Rowley who assigns him one last case, perhaps the strangest and most exciting of his career.
Paula is coming back home from a party when suddenly her car breaks down. It’s midday and she is in the middle of the desert waiting for someone to help her.
María de la O is a recently widowed woman with a pica disorder that makes her ingest raw, unpitted olives compulsively. After taking charge of her husband´s affairs in the countryside, she´ll hurry to complete the olive harvest. When a group of former laborers reject working with her, she will be forced to hire an unusual bunch.
Out of the blue [De buenas a primeras]
Two friends meet urgently. One of the girls has problems with her boyfriend, she loves him but she can’t take it anymore. She asks her friend to help her to end up with him. The girls plan together how to do it but the one that has the problem doesn’t think she would be able to deal with it by herself.
Jan debe cuidar de su madre enferma de Alzheimer. Sin tener mucha experiencia como cuidador, busca cómo puede mejorar la situación de su madre para hacerla sentir mejor. Una historia de amor familiar, realista y conmovedora. Un emotivo cortometraje con Luisa Gavasa y Alain Hernández que ha sido nominado a los Premios Goya y Forqué 2024.
Juan and Gonzalo have been journalists and friends for a long time. Both enjoy a good position within the newspaper, but the “midday demon” (or midlife crisis) lurks. Especially today, coming from a funeral where they had to say goodbye to a former colleague. They stop to have a coffee before going to work and, suddenly, Juan starts a confrontation with his friend for feeding bread to the ducks.
Resonances (of a Silent Music) [Ressonàncies (D'una música callada)]
Three resonances of a music that, according to its author, will not be understood by anyone, but will penetrate the deepest regions of the soul. How can a music be silent? 'Resonances' is a sensory cinematographic immersion into music (by Frederic Mompou). Resonances of our origin, love and eternity.
A group of bandits hidden in the Mountains of Ronda is going to execute “The Deaf”, the veteran of the group and a living legend amongst them. The 7-bandit group suspects that he has committed the worst offense against them: giving them out to the justice. Before being executed, the prisoner asks for the last rites, the sacrament of the extreme unction.
Scrapyard [Cementerio de coches]
Ruben and Asïr, two great friends, meet every afternoon to play soccer in a car scrapyard. One day like any other, Ruben waits for his friend, with the surprise that he has been beaten up because of racism. The unconditional support that Rubén offers to Asïr reflects the purest friendship, although the worst is yet to come.
Sorry for the noise [Perdón por el ruido]
The world of Violeta, a deaf girl, changes when a musician moves in next door. This is how the writing by Ana begins, who by chance prints it at the copy shop of Mikel, her ex-partner. However, the story does not seem to have an ending.
A tear from a child, Malko, tells us that she does not always come out equally from the eyes of the child to which it belongs. Depending on the reason that causes the child's crying, the tear has a different appearance, in particular, she dresses differently. The child likes his tears on all occasions and the tear likes all her forms.
The Change Of The Wheel [El cambio de rueda ]
The puncture of a wheel surprises the protagonist traveling as a passenger in a car. Stopped at the edge of the road while watching the driver change the tire, she wonders if that path is heading in the right direction.
A group of artists from the LGTBIQ+ collective return to their hometowns aboard a pride float. A road movie that travels through the Spanish geography making visible the cultural clash with the most intransigent past.
Marisa is a widow who lives alone with her dog Tico. One day, she receives the unexpected visit of Hiroshi, a Japanese gentleman who claims to be friends with her son. Despite the absence of a common language, Hiroshi and Marisa try to communicate with each other.
Rita masturbates thinking about her ex and then cries for half an hour. That is how the night starts for our heroin, a young woman in a cosmopolitan Berlin.
1978. While talks are going on for a new agreement in the metal industry, a group of libertarian militants encourage their fellow factory workers to defend their radical position. Meanwhile, they watch in dismay as the workers’ movement becomes fragmented.
Two weeks after a night of sex with Luis, Berta discovers she is pregnant. Try to contact Luis. No response to any of the messages. She argues with her roommates, her concentration at work disappears. She tries by all means to contact Luis but he ignores her. She decides to tell him what is happening via message but Luis blocks her on social networks. Outraged, she decides to go meet him at Luis's workplace to confront him. The result will not be what she expects. -Agente de ventas: Madrid en corto
Red Gold is based on the protest of Moroccan women who pick strawberries in Huelva and builds a polyphonic account that appeals to the structural dimension of the conflict: migration policies, the fight against north to south global extractivism, racial capitalism... helping us to reflect on the conflict’s complexity and its representation.
Angela is deaf and Darío is hearing. They are a couple and have six chickens, four dogs, a vegetable garden and many communication problems. Now they are also going to have a child.
A woman, the film's director herself, feels the need to discover herself and search for answers. She picks up a camera and films her mother and grandmother for the first time. She felt the need to return home and be with them. The portrait of her mother and grandmother is also her own portrait. Thanks to them, she is reconciled with the place and the memories.
To Die Before Dying [Morir antes de morir]
Tristan is a 16-year-old French boy who lives an apparently normal life with his mother Blanca in a village in Extremadura, Spain. But everyday normality is disrupted when he is trained and prepared to become a bullfighter.
The Illustrated Woman [La mujer ilustrada]
In Ahmedabad, Isabel runs an animation workshop for a group of henna tattoo artists, the Mehndi. She interviews them about their dreams: Ramia wishes to fly, Saadiya dreams of a women's parliament, Shubhashree longs to travel to Switzerland, and Samira claims her independence through rap.
Daida Ruano Moreno, 18 times World Champion, tells her fight against her most difficult rival: a Cancer that almost took away not only her Life, but her most personal and intimate dream...
When the cicades fall silent [Cuando las cigarras callen]
Sara, a 23-year-old girl, has just found out that she is pregnant. It’s summer in a small village in the Andalusian mountains, where she lives with her 8-year-old sister, whom she has taken care of since they were left alone.
To bird or not to bird, that is the question. A critical and kaleidoscopic view of the current world told through the tragicomic and grotesque experiences of some birds.
This Is Raquel's Not-so-secret Diary [Este es el diario no tan secreto de Raquel]
I kept three diaries, at different points, between the time I was a preteen until early adulthood. Whenever I went back to my mother's house, I would find them. I decided to read them all at once and realized a problem, that they dealt with the same topic—boys.
What's Up with the Sky? [Què li passa al cel?]
The sun rises happily over the horizon and is welcomed by the most beautiful landscape. The humans also wake up and do what they always do: cut down trees, construct aimlessly and pollute without shame. Their ideas and actions, usually very disrespectful to the planet, are putting in jeopardy the whole environment.
It’s been years since Ovidi disappeared in the sea without a trace. Teresa, his widow, still visits the cave where he was seen for the last time. Ten years later, the lovers will meet again, although not in the way they would have expected.
A young couple walks down the street, they have left the children at home and are going out to dinner. A crowd gathers around something.
Elías, is an autistic child that sees flying trains. This makes that the rest of children, who cannot see what he sees, ignore his game. Until one day arrives to the school a new girl, Carla. She’ll try by any mean that Elías stops being how he is so he can integrate with the rest of the kids. When she realizes that she cannot change Elías, Carla will start seeing how he really is.
Ulises, a man who suffers from a psychomotor disorder, is cared for by his brother. One day he leaves the house and tries to bury himself. The brother, powerless, no longer knows what to do to take care of him.
The Twilight of a Perturbed Consciousness [El texto culpable]
“I like ‘em fatty, but this is too much”, “The only thing I find appealing is her butt when she’s on all fours”. A film built upon internet forums where men share their experiences as prostitution clients.
After being the victims of abuse by the group of the older generation, Martí’s group leaves the town, prepared to make mischief in a nearby farmhouse. There, they discover a nest of chicks, but things go wrong, and Genís discovers a different attitude from his brother.
The day before leaving for the first time the town where they were born, two preteens play an innocent game of football that ends up leading to an unforeseen and tragic outcome.
The Eternal Night [Betiko gaua]
When Miren recognises Elena, who is driving a rental car, she starts chasing her on the road.
Raquel, a woman with an uncertain past, responds to an artwork for sale ad. When she arrives at Manu's house, she discovers something much more personal and sinister. What starts as an apparently innocent negotiation turns into a tense confrontation where the real piece of art is deception.
Ane and Andrea are in their bedroom having sex. Life goes on outside, but they have lost track of time.
Two boys from a soccer team disguise their love relationship as sheer friendship so as not to be discovered. One night of passion inside a car wash could trigger a different path in their lives.