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Factory worker Nadine falls in love with her colleague Paul. Years later, she questions her view of him. A romantic social drama about the magic of falling in love and the pain of falling out of it, set in the Rhineland lignite mining region.
Tanit, Valeria and Shaila are three women from very different parts of the world who face the same problem: climate change. They will lose everything because of global warming effects and they will be forced to emigrate to survive.
National and international oil companies have been extracting oil for more than 50 years from the Amazon, the area with the greatest biodiversity on the planet, threatening the lives of communities indigenous people with the complicity of the Ecuadorian government. They are the so-called: Sacrifice zones.
Pilar is an ordinary woman who lives immersed in a routine that has never been questioned: work, family and housework. Therefore, when she is unexpectedly told that she is being fired, she enters into a deep identity crisis. Despite everything, she refuses to give up and clings to what she thinks she has left: her role as a mother of two teenagers, but, unfortunately, her children no longer need her as before. In this personal situation, she is moved by the generational clash regarding the young women in her family, who, like a mirror, reflects her longing for a life that she has never lived.
Combining modern footage with home movies and interviews, filmmaker María Casado's life is explored, focusing on themes of family, history, and belonging, with a particular emphasis on childhood experiences related to home.
The landscape of the olive grove is the protagonist of the Mediterranean territory and is shown in this documentary at ground level and from a bird's eye view, in different unique locations of the Iberian Peninsula. From the Somontano de Barbastro in Aragón, to the south of Andalusia, with a sea of olive trees, in the mountain ranges or in the fertile plains and riverbanks. A humanized territory that, for centuries, has been sculpting history and this, not only giving a characteristic identity to our landscape, but also outlining the gastronomic tradition and culture of the Mediterranean.
A short film taht takes place over a single day on a sailboat adrift at sea. With no script to rely on, two actors and a musician embark on a journey of improvisation, exploring the intricacies of their craft and their identities in a confined, isolated space. Guided by a director obsessed with uncovering "truth" in performance, the actors navigate the emotional demands of unscripted storytelling. As they delve deeper into their roles, subtle tensions and queer themes begin to surface, revealing the raw, unguarded aspects of their personalities. Shot entirely in black and white, Les Étoiles becomes a stripped-down exploration of the boundaries between artist, art, and authenticity.
A grieving woman sleeps. Between her agitated breathing, the footsteps of a strange man creep in. At dawn, he accompanies her for a last walk in the forest. The protagonist, a woman without a name, will say goodbye to life in a quiet walk close to nature.
One morning, Chloe Cazorla buys the newspaper El País and founds an article about her neighbourhood: a paedophile, resident of the same place, has been arrested thanks to a video discovered by the security forces of a country on the other side of the world.
Charile Cheesy (a robot rat) and Kooky Kitty (a strange cat-cookie hybrid) host a TV show in which they interview old ringtone mascots from the 2000s, those whose tunes could be heard on any Nokia cellphone. Their intentions of filming a happy and family-friendly episode come crashing down when they discover that these characters are now living quite disastrous lives.
Grief is the most profound state of heartbreak. Because the loved one is no longer there, they are gone, and memories become elusive and capricious. That's why their clothes and shoes should stay untouched in the closet, just as they were before leaving. Closets don't empty themselves. This speaks of loss, loneliness, fear, hope, and the way each human being faces that pivotal moment in life. Though capable, as we are, of burying or cremating a loved one, we nevertheless do not know how to begin emptying a closet. We intuit that the day it is empty, our hearts will truly begin the process of normalizing absence.
Narrator is a man in his early 30s who is cooking pasta while enjoying a seemingly normal morning. Suddenly, the phone rings: a mysterious voice is telling him things that don't make much sense. Something is not right but not wrong either, and it seems that some memory from the past might have triggered all this...
No mother has ever been as tender and powerful as the Virgin Mary who appeared to the Mexican Indian Juan Diego 500 years ago. Today, more than ever, Our Lady of Guadalupe shows her tenderness and power in so many places around the world. What seemed impossible happened. Why? Who made it possible? What secrets does the "Tilma" hold? Are these miraculous stories true? Thrilling historical reenactments take us to experience the apparitions as if we were actually there. Shocking testimonies from people in Mexico, the United States and other countries, add a universal dimension to Mary's crucial message. They reveal to us how the irresistible love of the Mother of God and of Humanity consoles and heals the wounds of the hearts of those who turn to Her.
On the island of La Gomera, children imagine stories while they examine archeological remains. An ethno-fictional journey in which past and present coalesce, creating resonances between the volcanic landscape and Silbo, the whistled language of the island.
A young couple walks down the street, they have left the children at home and are going out to dinner a crowd gathers around something.
For days, Eloísa, a woman focused on her routines, has been having disturbing dreams. Eloísa tries to ignore them, but deep down she knows that these visions are trying to reveal something to her.
Ten Minutes tells the story of three friends who, before one of their weddings, get locked on a terrace and how that situation opens the way for them to confess things they have never dared to say out loud.
At a high school in Avilés, a new Twitter account is causing a stir among students and teachers. The profile name is "Suicida" (Suicidal). While students and teachers try to figure out who owns the account, Paloma shares her point of view.
In the Central Asian steppe, Kyrgyz herders live in conflict with a ghost. In winter, at -20 below zero, the last cabin in the valley awaits the arrival of an actor in peak of his career.
Eli invents a collection of glowing jars filled with values that, when combined with animated story catalysts, create the perfect formula for success. His 10-year-old apprentice, Pauli, assists him in sorting the jars. When Pauli’s cousin Tino arrives, upset after being scolded for not helping his friend win a contest, he becomes the ideal candidate to test the formula.
A visual essay on the stimuli that draw a bridge to past memories of my life; a real documentary about where I was and where I am, what I did and what I do; a reflection of the person I was and continue to be.
With police and bounty hunters hot on her heels, a young filmmaker embarks on a wild ride with a Brazilian brotherhood of balloon builders. A real-life action film with an incredible story about finding freedom against all odds.
A look that explores the role of the muses in the History of Western Art, highlighting their close connection with the work of the so-called great geniuses as co-creators.
How much does private life impact on art? Julen uses persons. The power and domination that a man exerts to make a film. Marian uses her friend June. Using friends to make a movie. Using people to make a movie. The money. Maybe a film has nothing to do with art or storytelling, maybe it's just another way of exercising power.
A documentary which follows the actor Carmelo Gómez as he tours Spain in his rickety car, evoking Federico García Lorca's play "La Barraca" in the midst of the pandemic. With music, narration and interviews, it delves into Lorca's work, while interspersing fictional and surreal scenes that illustrate his verses.
After giving birth to a deaf daughter, a Pakistani mother questions the custom that would have her hide her child out of family shame, and ends up building a community that uplifts deaf children through education and respect.
Alberto is the head of a production company always looking for scandalous stories to cover. One day he comes across Paula's viral TikTok, a cannibal activist who defends her lifestyle on social media. After getting in touch, the "Alberto Te Lo Cuenta" crew will follow the girl and her partner to show a day in their lives.
A sniper grows curious about his target and can’t bring himself to eliminate him… Or can he?
Marina finds herself on the previous days of her last piano concert that will change her life forever, continuing her studies in Germany, far away from her actual life. However, what nobody sees, blinded by the scholarship, is that the preassure is killing her and that it will drive her where to what a 17-year-old shouldn’t go.
A mother named Ana is celebrating her daughter's birthday when a strange man named Walter shows up asking about her husband, Ricardo. What seemed like an awkward visit quickly turns into a tense and dangerous situation, where Ana begins to uncover dark secrets about her husband's life.
A brother and sister are hibernating. Only the sister wakes up. Human hibernation blurs the boundary between people and animals. A thought experiment equal parts sci-fi and meditation shot in searing images.
A woman asks a mysterious knight for help in searching for her parents.
My grandfather Antonio was born on the street and was a vagabond until he got married. When he was just a child, he and his father walked thousands of kilometres from Valencia to the Pyrenees in order to survive. He was writing his memoirs for a while but had to abandon them because it affected him so much to remember his life. Now, 75 years later, we're going to walk the same route together, using cinema to try to bring out the memories that are stuck in his head and try to get him to finish writing his book.
José Manuel is a man who at a first glance appears ordinary, but carries a profound personal journey wrapped in violence, crime, and drugs. That is until he found a congregation of aliens that saved him…
A young woman goes to meet her mother, a renowned theater actress, after some time apart. The tension between them will bring up old grudges from the past. Neither of them knows that they need each other more than they want to admit.
A short film that denounces bullying and the indifference that often surrounds victims.
Madrid 1635. Queen Isabel de Borbón, nicknamed by the Spanish people “the desired one,” summons the writer Calderón de la Barca to her intimate chambers to give him a very special and dangerous assignment. A secret relationship, an intellectual and liberal woman for her time, a writer who tries to climb socially and be recognized as an artist, a queen who seeks to leave her inheritance in time and the sexual tension between them.
This piece belongs to the ongoing series POLITICAL GESTURES, in which I document televised electoral debates captured frame by frame on laboratory emulsions (sound record 7702 or, as in this case, color print). This film captures the only electoral debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on September 10, 2024.
The Escape reveals the stories of victims abused as minors by two Jesuit priests in Barcelona over thirty years. The priests were transferred to Bolivia by the Jesuit Order, where they continued their abuse. The victims now revisit the impact of these crimes, linking the impunity experienced between Barcelona and Cochabamba.
A journey into Ernest's childhood. Now living out his days in a nursing home, he confuses past and present as he revisits his memories of the civil war. And with them comes a clear determination: to return to his village to finish what he started 70 years ago.
Spanish filmmaker David Trueba travels to New York to interview Woody Allen, who reviews his filmography and his many personal and artistic concerns.
Confined to his Tahitian hut by the French colonial authorities in 1903, the painter Paul Gauguin is forced to paint a new masterpiece to save his five-year-old native son, while battling illness and torn between madness and sanity. In the course of these events, memories of the past, especially of his life and work at the Panama Canal, the place where his artistic career began and his guilt at abandoning his family in Paris, begin to haunt him.
Documentary about Elena Huelva, a young woman who took social media by storm by sharing her battle with cancer. With her smile and her motto, "My desire wins," Elena won the hearts of all of Spain and celebrities such as Aitana and Manuel Carrasco. An activist, influencer, and writer, this film is a tribute to her legacy.
Desirée is a young podiatry student who starts working as a sales assistant in a shoe store. She and the owner, Manuel, seem to have little in common, but they will soon discover that they are a perfect match for each other.
A young girl tells us through a story, her love story, and how past traumas and wounds can still hurt. We navigate through a fantasy world in which imagination protects us from a much harsher reality. A metaphor that gives us a glimpse of a much harsher reality.
In the summer of 1961, a group of young Italian anthropologists made a clandestine journey through Spain, in order to record popular songs that supported anti-Franco resistance. As a result of their work, they were prosecuted and their recordings were censored. Sixty years later, and guided by Emilio Jona, aged 92, the last living member of that group of travellers, we recover the unpublished recordings and reconstruct the journey, today, across an emotional and political landscape, regaining historical memories through these songs, as relevant today as they were then.
Nico wants to become independent with his neighborhood colleague, Raca, but she doesn't want ties. Fed up with his parents, Nico leaves home and rents a room on the outskirts. Despite the distance, he begins to hang out with Leo, Raca's little brother, a boy who is getting hormones, because he wants to transition into a woman. Nico is torn between the love of his brother or his sister. Meanwhile, their respective families fall apart, because in one there is no love nor in the other fidelity.
