Ricardo Lopez Aranda's play that follows Isabella II of Spain as she is forced to abdicate and leave the country in 1868.
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Ricardo Lopez Aranda's play that follows Isabella II of Spain as she is forced to abdicate and leave the country in 1868.
Student/radical returns to Argentina after years in exile, renews his old friendships and stalks a politician from the bad old days.
The film takes place in Ireland – an Ireland where people speak Catalan with a Fassbinder accent – from the 1930 to today, and follows in several parallel directions the sprawling saga of two rival gold mines, the exploitation of artists by Capital, and the simultaneous opening of a brothel where women do not like men. Because he does things his own way, Albert Serra’s most narrative and wordy film was not meant for cinema: produced by the Venice Biennale, it was part of an installation, its chapters shown simultaneously on several screens. Singularity could very well have been called “Velvet Goldmine”, as it sings the meeting of brothels and tunnels, of a golden stud and lustful bodies (both shown as abstractions).
A high school student invites two classmates to embark on a backpacking trip to find a community located in the middle of the Mountains of Cordoba
Mara returns to Tenerife after breaking up with her boyfriend in Madrid. She spends the whole day with her sister Emma and they go to Carnival together. But there she remembers that this was the place where she met her ex.
A plastic artist is discharged from a rehabilitation where she was admitted for drugs and surménage. She is going to live alone in an old family house in the mountains, where the noises and the strange things that happen test her weakened nerves. She becomes suspicious of the few inhabitants of the place, who seem to be creating a world of conspiracies against her. Fantastic events end up showing that sensitive people can look out and see a world that is not ours, at the risk of their lives.
Love triangle in Chile
To cope with her anxiety about feeling the proximity of death, Dorinda transforms the house where she was born, now in ruins, into an unexpected refuge where she can travel through her memories.
Manuel is dark-skinned, approaching thirty, and about to become a father. This fact fills him with joy, but at the same time, he feels it has destroyed all the bridges that led to his future life. Fran, his lifelong friend, is blond, strong, and has nothing and no one to tie him down. The two meet at a pizzeria, and Manuel confesses to Fran something that has been keeping him awake at night...
At the bus stop of an animated city, several fragments of everyday stories happening at the same time, become a space for reflection, love, death, and other situations that could resemble a city like any other.
Carmen, a young flamenco dancer who begins her career in her family's tablao, falls in love with Tito, a waiter in the family business. The revenge of the Marquesa, usual client of the tablao, makes that, when the Civil War breaks out, they both are separated and have to flee. Carmen starts a journey with her uncle Ricardo until arriving to Madrid when she suffers a tragic incident that will change her life. Madrid became a dangerous place and finally they will be forced to run away to France. In France they will be rescued by Tito, who takes them to Paris where the famous talent scout Dominique gets Carmen and his dance to succeed despite her disability.
Don Melcho peddles his political influence in his town and take advantage of his impoverished neighbors. An ambiguous character who may or may not expand his power.
When teenager Felix, from a deadbeat Brooklyn home, is asked by Mr. H, the kindly corner store owner, to mind his dog while he's away, it's up to Felix to either reciprocate the benevolence Mr. H has always shown him, or perpetuate the neglect handed down as a family legacy.
Two fairy godmothers struggle to make their godchildren not fight and love each other, but a third person intervenes and worsens the situation.
Monologue of an actor meditating about doom.
Carmen decides to find herself, again.
A cold,husband has his marriage on the verge of failure. One day he will begin an affair with an eccentric and impulsive woman who will awaken the sensitive and affected man who slept in him. But this new attitude of his will make his wife believe that he is interested in her again, reliving the relationship. Thus, when the situation becomes untenable, the husband must make a difficult decision between moving forward with his recovered marriage or go along with a vertiginous romance that could make him a better person.
Breast cancer. A sloppy operation. A woman murdered in a brothel room.
Despite not having stopped the creative desires of a generation, the economic crisis of 2008 decisively stopped trajectories and projects. But this is not a short film of lamentations, but a chronicle about friendship and creation in difficult times.
Nacho, a young man in his mid-thirties, is losing control of his life. In order to finance his various addictions, he has accumulated large debts with dangerous moneylenders. Fearing he no longer has control over himself, he flees to the city, leaving everything behind. There, he meets a woman who is older than him and falls in love with her. Lucia is very supportive of his development into a better and more adult Nacho. As Nacho’s mother is lying on her deathbed, he is forced to return home and face everything he had left behind.
Paula waits impatiently for the ghost of her ex-girlfriend. Her friend Julen accompanies her without fully understanding the situation. Together they share this strange and magical moment in their lives, waiting for a sign from beyond that doesn't seem to come.
Miguelito, an innocent seven-year-old boy, accompanies his father and grandfather on a hunt that will change him forever.
After 19 years without seeing each other, two former “guerrilleros” reunite to sign their divorce papers. As they catch up with their lives and revisit their shared romantic and political past, they unveil intimate secrets to finally discover who they truly are and how much their country and convictions still hurt them.
Olivia, a 26-year-old architect in Madrid, will return to her hometown after the death of her grandmother. She grew up in a hostile environment, with absent parents and a conformist sister, always longing to find her place in the world. Her grandmother Carmen supported her and believed in her potential, but returning to her roots will force her to face criticism and guilt for having been distant. Espigas chronicles her physical and emotional journey, exploring themes such as uprooting, family ties, and reconciliation with herself, as she seeks to understand her past and find her identity.
A transsexual, after having tragically lost his lover, falls in love with a young man in need of protection, without suspecting that this is the fruit of a past love affair, when he was still male.
Aida doesn't interact with anyone, until one day she happens to meet Michel, a young deaf-mute man who delivers mail on his motorcycle.
After an argument with her boyfriend, Maria goes to find him but he seems to refuse her attempts to make things up.
in the night two boys try to understand whats life
In the middle of her husband’s funeral, Maritere (70) receives a visit from Angela (65), whom she hasn't seen in decades. Maritere reacts as if she has seen a ghost, and wards off all of Angela's approaches. Maritere's overprotective son, Fernando notices the strange interactions between the two women and assumes that Angela is one of his late father's mistresses. However, it is revealed that Maritere and Angela were intimate lovers a long time ago. Under pressure by Fernando who wants to throw Angela out of the house, Maritere will have to decide whether to continue her present life as a widow or give herself the chance to feel love again.
A short film created for Spanish TV touching on the subject of Catalonia's struggle for independence, interspersed with symbolic images.
A girl becomes obsessed with reaching the top of her streaming career as her life falls apart.
A woman confines herself to her apartment and to a daily routine that keeps her sane, but a brief encounter with the outside world threatens to dismantle her meticulously maintained refuge.
The world is increasingly divided by walls. There are human beings on either side of them. Brilliant editing connects people living and working on different sides of decisive walls between Mexico/U.S., Spain/Morocco, Israel/Palestine and South Africa/Zimbabwe.
José is a passionate young man in the Dominican countryside who has been in love with Julieta ever since they met when they were young kids. 10 years later and after Julieta returns from the city to visit her father, José looks for the help of his best friend to win over her love. But things don't exactly workout as planned when Julieta's new step-mom ("Seliné") cooks up some good 'ol Dominican witchcraft and decides to put a spell on José, hoping to separate them. It is then up to Julieta, her best friend María and El Jobo to take on this new 'witch' to save themselves and José.
In his travels through the southern sea of Chile, the privateer Francis Drake discovered a strange island. The extraordinary events that he lived there described in his travel diary have disappeared just like the island.
A politician's decision was the key factor in economically collapsing the country. Now, he attempts to escape from the consequences. His driver holds a mysterious briefcase, which positions him in a moral struggle between being the salvation or damnation of the politician.
Valentina is a young woman from Galicia who moves to Laredo to pursue her dream of entering the Basque Culinary Center. In the kitchen of La Parra, she discovers a world ruled by noise, haste, and the constant pressure of nonstop service. Between endless shifts, financial worries, and a growing sense of failure, the kitchen stops being the place where she imagined building a future and becomes a space of exhaustion and anxiety. Far from home and increasingly isolated, Valentina tries to cling to a passion that is beginning to crumble before her eyes. Mise en Place is an intimate portrait of youthful insecurity and the wear and tear on a generation forced to turn their dreams into a means of survival.
In the winter of 1936-1937, in the Biscayan-Alevan front, militiamen of the CNT arrive in the village of Meroño with the aim of reinforcing the defenses against the imminent advance of the columns of requetés; Carlist soldiers adept at the cause of the rebels. Alicia, an anarchist militiaman, will establish a close relationship with Rosarito, a girl from the village, who will try to survive a war that will change her way of life forever.