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The sad story of a little girl from the coast who has to survive with her grandmother despite the murder of her grandfather, and who also runs the risk of being killed, all because her violent stepmother does not want a hidden truth to come out.
Inspired by the short stories of Julio Cortázar, Lynne Sachs creates an experimental narrative about a group of girls on the verge of adolescence. While their lives are blissful and full of play, the political and social unrest of contemporary Argentina begins to invade their idyllic existence. Sachs’ brilliant mixture of film formats complements the shifts in mood from innocent amusement to protest
Live recording of Pedro Aznar singing Brazilian iconic songs. Recorded February 2005.
The dark era of the Spanish postwar period where, through violence, repression and murder, part of the Spanish population was subjugated.
A right-wing family decides to exile themselves to Europe after Salvador Allende's victory during the presidential elections of 1970; only to find themselves losing their comfortable socio-economic status and be subjected to a dramatic proletarianization that will lead them to all kinds of struggles.
Film interpretation of the story of the writer Luis Rafael Sánchez bearing the same name. A man and his wife have lost various children. When he learns his wife is pregnant again, he decides to murder her, fearing they would lose another child.
When wealthy banker David Henrry receives a disturbing letter, he turns to Tom Carter, an intrepid British lawyer and detective, for help. (Partially lost film.)
This inspiring work explores the story of a group of veteran women from the Santa Cristina Rowing Club. The production combines documentary and fiction, revealing the poetic side of these women's work, who find in rowing a way to stay active and united in the face of life's challenges. Through intimate interviews and scenes of training and competition, the documentary shows how they defy the barriers of time and age thanks to their passion for rowing.
After his grandmother's death, a teenager comes to terms with his loss as he steps away from the conventions of grief to pursue the dreams they shared.
A mentally disturbed alcoholic desperately attempts to murder her mother. Only to discover that reality is not as clear as she thought it was.
In this version, opposite to Gelabert's film of 1908, the story tells about a woman who dies of a broken heart.
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.
Marcela spends a day with her dog, Chip, and tries to keep his light on.
While the day fades and the light suffocates its last breaths: the birds celebrate their first twitters. It seems like the sea is the only place that could retain a desperate sob.
A sophisticated and hypnotic fiction with inlays of reality, a kind of literary Friends—the television series—or a costume party at Entropía, where the characters move through the Buenos Aires literary scene while playing at being others, trying on new connections. It is an experiment on discourse, roles, and settings, in which each sequence turns out to be more charming than the last. At times Resfriada seems like an expansion of the publishing house’s discourse, and at others an unexpected recess.
In May 2013, Spain faced its worst economic crisis in 70 years, leaving citizens in despair. However, over four thousand miners went on an indefinite strike against government cuts, engaging in daily protests, roadblocks, rallies, and a march to Madrid. Despite their efforts, the situation had changed significantly from the past.
With 'A MAL GAM A' Zulueta brings the lyrical film into the territory of mystico-psychedelia. The cinema as drug, as vehicle for rapture—as will later be seen in Arrebato—is a theme of this most autobiographical of Zulueta’s experimental films (which could also be seen as a documentary of an agoraphobic mode of artistic production), the protagonist is played by the filmmaker himself (“Jim Self” is the trans-linguistic homophone that appears in the credits) and shot mostly in the family villa in San Sebastián.
Two stories intersect, with violence as a common axis. An inside look into the world of youth boxing, full of championship illusions, combined with jealousy and envy.
Far from his home, locked in a room in Edinburgh, a young man writes down all the names of women that he can find in the pages of his books with the desire to evoke through them the face of his idyllic beloved woman.
Aya is a tender and intimate story that tells the story of how Aya, an eight-year-old girl, and her family, in the spring of 2004, move to live in Aulina, a village in the middle of the mountains. Aya does not agree with the decision her parents have taken, but, bit by bit, she will have to adapt. The space and the dynamics of the neighbourhood are very different from what she was used to.
Five prominent politicians are celebrating the bachelor party of one of them, but an accident occurs and a person dies. Now everyone is involved.
A film director, sent by the Geometry Institute of les Terres de l'Ebre, undertake an apparently scientific mission: geometrically explore the Montsianell mountain, in Amposta. But objectivity soon is being altered by memories and poetic reflections. The mountain turns a simbolical space, and the story, between technique and emotion, reveals more about mankind than about the territory.
Marta and Ana break up, and shortly afterward, they get stuck in an elevator, forcing them to be honest with each other.
A young man isolated on a ship receives a mysterious signal that compels him to abandon his confinement and embark on a journey towards a destination marked by his past.
A 14-year-old boy goes to help his grandmother and spend a few days with her. She lives on the outskirts of an almost abandoned village where there is no cell phone coverage and no neighbors around. What if the digital divide affects us more than we think?
The urge to make others laugh led Camil Casanovas to become Nurse Aspirino in 1994. The short documentary film "Camil" is an intimate portrait of Spain's first hospital clown.
A young couple is trying to repair their relationship, while the mother is going through a postpartum depression, slowly turning into a psychosis.
Susi is frustrated that her son has dropped out of his studies to work where she works, in the factory. Afraid that her boss will take him on full time, she does everything she can to make sure he doesn't follow her path.
Based on real lives, White Tuna Fishing is the story of an Afro-Colombian teenager from a fishing village on the Pacific coast, who dreams of forging a future and to achieve it, she has to overcome all the difficulties imposed by her condition. of living in a hostile place, isolated by drug trafficking agents and ignored by the world. It is a story of strength and resistance of a young woman who dares to dream and fight to make her dreams come true.
'Azul la mancha' deals with a rare form of taking root in a place. Our Spanish hometown in Castilla-La Mancha reveals vast, barren landscapes that are part of our collective memory. The images recall this deep connection to our motherland through objects, visions and traits that channel the heart and soul of this unique space.
Pablo, aged sixteen, lives with his mother. Over the last few years, she has done her best to deal with financial difficulties, but it hasn't been easy. Pablo tries to keep living the way they used to.
The story of a gay and Latino couple in New York. One of the lovers has a full professional life, the other, who has left everything in his native land, is unemployed and complains that his boyfriend works a lot and does not spend enough time with him.
On a mountain in Colombia, paramilitary forces have Marxist rebels cornered against a high ridge without food. In search of a way out, the guerrillas ask an old friend (a missionary they had held hostage and released some 20 years ago) for the number of a humanitarian priest in hopes of finding someone to bring food to the mountain. The missionary mistakes the priests' name for the head paramilitary leader and inadvertently gives the guerrilla commanders the wrong number. Through a humorous confusion two sworn enemies end up face to face in an emotional encounter that unveils the very core of Colombia's conflict and the journey each one must take to finally find peace in a lifetime of war.
Olivia and Isaac wander through the city’s empty streets at night after a dinner with friends. What begins as trivial conversation turns into an intimate emotional face-off. The night becomes the stage for a verbal battle that questions the foundations of their love, the way they communicate, and their future. Olivia and Isaac are not simply arguing: they are confronting the fragile possibility of continuing to walk together.
Robert is a war photographer who moves to an andalusian village after the Spanish Civil War, watching in the population a panorama of sadness and pain. Because of his arrival, stories that happened there in the past resuscitate.
Nacho is a boy from El Bosque who dreams of studying Astronomy. However, social and family difficulties makes it hard for him.
In just seven seconds, what seems normal turns into a silent scream: no one really knows what lies behind a smile.