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Τormento

All families have their resentments that are not told even though time goes by. Tormento is a story where time and memories intermingle on a spring sunny day, where they will have to face family problems whose schism is the illness of the mother, who can still resist life, according to her eldest daughter, but does not have a dignified life, according to her other siblings. Meanwhile, Rafa the father who has lived a whole life as the family nucleus, lives in himself an amalgam of feelings derived from an old and very familiar song.

Τormento

NR 2021
Réquiem por un campesino español

Hypocrisy and betrayal are the two dramatic pivots in this effective, emotionally gripping tragedy about the life and death of Paco (Antonio Banderas), a Spanish peasant who had been fighting against the feudal landowning system that kept farmers impoverished. Paco's life is told in flashbacks by a priest (Antonio Ferrandis) who is seen officiating at an anniversary mass attended by three wealthy landowners and no one else. The priest recalls Paco's baptism, his communion, his marriage ceremony and then his work for the peasants as he advocated and led them in a land-reform movement. The rest of the story will rest heavy on the priest's conscience, as he looks out at his empty church.

Réquiem por un campesino español

5.4 1985
Pantanal

Pantanal is a South American road film, situated somewhere between fiction and documentary, that takes place between Buenos Aires and the Pantanal in Brazil’s Mato Grosso. A man flees Buenos Aires with a bag full of money and with every intention to repay the debt he owes his brother, with whom he has lost touch with years prior. The journey towards the Pantanal becomes complex as the man runs into various complications and begins to believe that someone may be following him. As visually stunning as it is intellectually stimulating Pantanal employs documentary testimonies of the people who encountered the man throughout his journey, adopting real life into the fictional narrative. Working within a hybrid between fiction and documentary keeps the film both captivating and engaging throughout the film’s entire journey, in addition to adding emotional credibility to this road movie.

Pantanal

3.8 2014
The Debt

The drama tells the story of an Argentine elementary-school teacher sent by the government to a rural hamlet located in the northwestern province of Jujuy. It shows how he touches the lives of the villagers, especially the young and impressionable boy Verónico, whose mother died and father left to seek work when he was an infant. The film is based on a non-fiction book written by Fortunato Ramos, a rural teacher in northwest Argentina, that discusses his teaching experiences.

The Debt

7.5 1988
The Dark Night of the Soul

Pantheon filmmaker Carlos Saura bounced back from a handful of failures with 1989's La Noche Oscura (The Dark Night). Juan Diego stars as San Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross), the legendary 16th-century poet-prophet. Galvanized into action by the spirit of Santa Teresa de Jesus, San Juan fought to install reforms in the Carmelite Order. Like many another visionary, he was regarded as a heretic, and promptly subjected to the most appalling of tortures. Writer-director Saura manages to draw several parallels between the religious persecution of the 1700s and the political despotism of Fascist Spain.

The Dark Night of the Soul

5.3 1989
Therapy

Lucia is a patient who wants to be discharged. Ana, her psychiatrist, does no want to discharge her. But Anna will receive a cell call that will change her life radically during that therapy session. Ana and Lucia will engage in a psychic duel where shameful secrets, the pain, and the lies will come to light. What Ana does not expect is that, through her patient, she will learn to accept bad things life brings. During that session, they will interchange their roles. When the treatment is over, neither Ana nor Lucia will be the same. Something will have changed forever in their minds.

Therapy

NR 2009
Romance de la Luna Negra

The story of "Romance of the Black Moon" introduces Clara, a 75-year-old woman who lives alone in an apartment at the top of a Basque farmhouse. Her routine is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious neighbor. From then on, the apparitions begin: shifting faces, philosophical presences, returning memories. Clara moves between the everyday and the extraordinary, between the tangible and that which fades like a dream. In each place, the encounters with these figures draw her closer to an intimate enigma.

Romance de la Luna Negra

NR N/A