- Home
- Black Comedy
Black Comedy
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.
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.
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.
Mamantula is the boy everyone wants, but he is also, secretly, a giant spider cross-dressed as a human, fruit of a brief encounter in a far-off paradise. In an alternative past of brutalist saunas, never-ending subway corridors and detectives in trench coats and hats, each of Mamantula's lovers succumb to the insatiable lust of blood and semen.
Pet Peeves [Pequeños calvarios]
Welcome to the big city, to the wonderful world of obsessions. With the city as an ideal territory for the cultivation of the most pathological manias, and throughout five stories, we will treat obsession as an escape valve, or as the only way to survive in society, while we listen to Pet Peeves, Conrado Garcia's radio program.
The Permanent Picture [La imatge permanent]
In rural southern Spain, Antonia, a teenage mother, disappears in the middle of the night. Fifty years later and much further north, Carmen, an introverted casting director, is looking for people to share their memories when arriving in a new city. In her search, she meets Antonia, whose impulsiveness intrudes into Carmen’s solitude. Who said time heals all wounds?
We treat women too well [Tratamos demasiado bien a las mujeres]
In the cold autumn of 1945, the survivors from a batallion of resistance fighters flee to the Pyrenees, trying to escape the Francoist army. Our protagonists are an unlikely group of romantics, dim-wits and idealists. Their lack of any tactical ability and a cruel twist of fate lead them to take a post office by force in a forgotten village: Black Eagles.
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.