Autumn 1985. A storm awakens the Mediterranean. A village is devastated, crops destroyed. On the beach, the waves have washed up a whale. Dead, it is declared a carrier of disease. Corbac, a sick and misanthropic winegrower, wants to save the cetacean's skeleton from being blown up for sanitary reasons. Day and night, his daughter Mathilde watches as the largest of creatures is paraded piece by piece in front of the church, the school, and the distillery, awakening the unconsciousness and violence of the villagers. Mathilde knows her father. He will see it through to the end...
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I'll Water Your Petals With Tears
Four young men are cited in a kiosk during a rainy afternoon. One has to study and the other three go to the cinema, although they are not allowed to entry because their young age. The group consists of Andrés, who works as bellboy in a hotel and dreams of becoming a bullfighter; Chispa, who follows the orders of an old grumpy man; Carlos, a student; and Negro, a shy boy. All they want is to have fun; but reality forces them to confront the problems of the adult world.
Los chicos
The struggle of the first Basque settlers who arrived in the province of Santa Fe in the 1920s and 1930s.
Mientras me dure la vida
Virgin field
Víctor is a handsome boy, skeptical and lover of the pleasures of life. He has no job or benefit and lives on women without realizing that his behavior triggers dramas and disappointments, pain and hopelessness.
A Glass of Whiskey
Fassman, l'increïble home radar
South of France, XIX century. Alfredo de Quiroga, a Spanish gentleman in exile, is reluctant to admit that Vera, his wife, has died. Very concerned, begins to rebuild its surroundings as if she were still alive. The objects, dialogues, gestures ... again everything is back to make sense to him. Even his faithful butler rests on this fiction. But one day, by accident, he meets the daughter of the notary and his world begins to crumble.
Vera, a Cruel Tale
La semana que viene (sin falta)
Manuel's life is upended when Esmeralda, his lost love from 15 years ago, calls unexpectedly. Despite being set to marry another, he rediscovers Esmeralda, and they realize their love transcends time.
Hasta el fin del mundo
Teresa, a Carmelite nun, reformer, and mystic of the Roman Catholic Church, has been ostracized for her beliefs. She will meet with the Inquisitor. All kinds of decisions regarding her are possible.
Teresa
Sometimes we find ourselves walking, talking or simply looking at things. That is what the protagonists of this film do. However, inside this mystery of life, we don’t know who they are or what they do. Teddy Williams builds yet again a dense and fantasmatic universe where breezes rhyme with vacancies and to the verb to be has its full double meaning. (M. V.)
The Sound of the Stars Dazes Me
Rumbo is a nice and splendid young man of gypsy origin who is in Seville with Gabriel, an old friend who was saved from suicide thanks to his intervention, who got rich in Paris thanks to the money Rumbo gave him, to the point of become an important and millionaire banker in London, Buenos Aires and Seville. Shortly after meeting, Gabriel asks him to impersonate him on a journey that he must undertake.
Rumbo
Hasna leaves her native Morocco to work as a seasonal laborer picking strawberries in Huelva, Andalucia.
Strawberries
La Aspirante
A rural worker suffers an accident and understands that in a few minutes he is going to die. In absolute solitude and surrounded by a natural environment indifferent to his tragedy, he will face, without drama, the fact that these are his last minutes of life and nothing he can do to modify that destiny. Based on a story by Horacio Quiroga.
The Dead Man
Regeneration
María has to write an essay about historical memory. This task will lead her to investigate Francoist repression and to uncover a dark family secret
VA PER TU
Monica, a renowned choreographer, returns to Spain after a 20 year absence to see her sick father. Upon arriving her father has already died and her mother asks her to stay to sell the family home. In delaying her return to Buenos Aires Monica rediscovers her childhood landscapes and is forced to confront the past.
Facing the Wind
The old Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-83) imagines a movie plot, set in Toledo in the future 2002, about the fantastic adventure of three actors, who play him and his friends, the painter Salvador Dalí (1904-89) and the poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), and their search for King Solomon's table, a mythical artifact capable of revealing the past, present and future.
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
In light of the lack of opportunities in the big city, a pair of inseparable friends decides to rob a supermarket, not knowing the price they will have to pay for doing so.
Goodbye Garibaldi
Ella (Trágica obsesión)
Film diary about the process of grief caused by a sentimental rupture.
Duelo
La última sesión
Petit
A young woman seeks out someone who has entered her house when she is between sleep and vigil. Based on Henry Fuseli's painting 'The Nightmare', 'Mare' depicts a sleep paralysis as told by the incubus myth.
Mare
Jesús sits down at his office desk one day and suffers a heart attack; Marcos Loayza's film follows Jesús in the immediate aftermath.
The Heart of Jesus
Pujol's revelation of hidden wealth in Andorra sparked a corruption scandal, shifting his image from anti-Franco Catalan hero to a tainted patriarch.
Parenostre
Juan and Ana suffer a marital crisis. Ana's pregnancy should harmonize her future, but Juan's sterility will cause a whirlwind of unexpected emotions.
El diario rojo
A ninguna parte
Raised in New York, Marilyn Morales returns to Puerto Rico to claim an inheritance. Her obsession with Marilyn Monroe, dressing and acting like her, creates a clash of acceptance with the residents of the neighborhood. The new surroundings and clash will lead her in search for her identity.
La gringa
Adiodato is an old priest about to retire. Ramiro, the young priest who is going to succeed him, talks to him about his fear of inheriting the church.
The two priests
June 18, 1961. In a small village in Northern Spain, San Sebastián de Garabandal, four girls, Conchita, Jacinta, Mari Loli, and Mari Cruz, claim that St. Michael and the Virgin Mary have appeared to them. The village's parish priest, Fr. Valentín, and the Civil Guard brigadier, Mr. Juan Álvarez Seco, suddenly become protagonists in an overwhelming event.
Garabandal: Only God Knows
An honest and heartfelt confession of a guy. A sharp return to reality.
Two Twenty-Three
Carlos Monzón, el segundo juicio
In 1973, towards the end of the Franco regime, the famous catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda bumped into the literary critic Josep Maria Castellet in Geneva where she lived exiled and she invited him to tea at her house. The writer was a most discrete person and maintained everything that concerned her wrapped in secrecy. Indeed she herself had become a secret or perhaps, even a maker of secrets. However that afternoon, strangely, she opened up and shared many intimacies.
An Afternoon in Geneva
Have you ever thought you didn’t fit in? That’s what the 9 characters in this story feel without realizing that they are part of the puzzle of life “pieces” introduces us to nine very different characters at a moment of emotional crossroads in their lives. a final setback will unite all the characters.
Pieces
Barrio
A Catalan man of Chinese descent returns to China after decades away drawn back by his grandmother’s declining health. What starts as a family visit becomes an emotional reckoning, as he confronts the cultural legacy he’s tried to leave behind and faces the fragile boundaries of his own identity.
Lóngquán
A young man at the beach wearing a crucifix tries to put on his Argentina's national football team t-shirt but it suffocates him
No se culpe a nadie
A Jewish man who escapes from the Nazis takes refuge in a mountain house where a strange family lives.
Dimorfo
Many years later, two people meet again in an apartment.
Página en blanco
In the Shade
Inner City Princess
Noche de fiesta
A mad doctor performs a head transplant on an injured criminal, which results in him being even more dangerous and murderous than before.
Crimson, the Color of Blood
As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a young Chilean girl slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.
Thursday Till Sunday
Ecos
Has it ever happened to you that something very simple, an insignificant detail, ends up becoming more and more complicated? Green and Red is the story of an encounter where a detail that might go unnoticed could end up becoming a problem.
Verde Rojo
March 1952, days after Puerto Rican Nationalist Party members made an armed assault on the U.S. Congress. Tomás, a journalist and former Party member, attemps to obtain an interview with Pedro Albizu Campos, the Party's leader, shortly before his arrest.
El arresto
Told in a manner more common during the Franco era, this movie tells the story of a man who fought with the Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and has been hiding in the hills for 10 years. Local people help him avoid constant searches by the police, who know he is there. A returning exile seeks him out to try and get him to surrender, with tragic consequences for both of them.
Heart of the Forest
An organ grinder called “El Rubio” has the crank of his street organ confiscated because he did not have his identification papers in order. From then on, a journey full of misfortune begins in which he tries hard to find a crank like the impounded one, to allow him to work again.
Death and the Lumberjack
Christmas Eve. The children ask for money for the Judas (Un Vintén pa’l Judas), and the protagonist, a failed tango singer without means or will to live, meets a friend, a public employee, in search of some rummage. This one asks him to buy a lottery. The tango singer, in need of money to buy a guitar to use in a singing contest, collects the winnings for himself, betraying the trust of his friend, in the same way as the Judas that the children burn on the streets.
Un Vintén pa’l Judas
Lo dejo cuando quiera
The expected return of the son for his father funeral shakes up a traditional and secretive familiar environment where women are supposed to count on men to survive as he shows himself turned into a female.
The Guest
Renata, tormented by her past, goes to see a psychoanalyst in order to confront her inner demons.
La paciente desconocida de Freud
The Fast Set
Quim and Ramon are two friends that meet at the beach, hanging out and enjoying their relationship, but each one of them has a different view of their friendship.
Cornerstone
Cig, Fag, Smoke