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The turbulent history of the twenty-five years during which, in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, Spain was turned into an immense movie set on which many foreign production companies shot dozens of films, from westerns to historical epics.
In 1972, in one of his best-known articles, Pier Paolo Pasolini spoke of the disappearance of fireflies. A few months later he was murdered. Since then the fireflies have continued to disappear. But there are still people who remember them.
Four friends go hunting and "accidentally" one kills another. The argument over what to do with the body will get to unsuspected heights.
Whenever I tell it, I'm afraid it will not come back. Telling my sexual partners that I'm living with HIV is always the beginning of the end.
Daniel is a young poet from Madrid with the purpose of create an artistic movement (Pasión, the artistic movement of the Storm). He define himselfn as a poet, musician, model and actor with two published books, he is 19 and has a known artistic family. Passionated and with his comrades they make efforts to found the new art of the 21th century.
An emotional visual portrait starring fans of the most important melodic singer-songwriter that Uruguay had, the founder and leader of Los Iracundos, Eduardo Franco.
Every year, thousands of people coming from Africa try to reach Spain in desperate and dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean. Tariq is a young Moroccan who works for a mafia that organises these illegal journeys. His job is to carry immigrants in a dinghy across the strait and not getting caught. But every trip might be the last one.
Santiago de Chile, 1994: financed by mysterious textile entrepreneurs, the rock band Lucybell enters the Sonus Studios to record their first album, by the hand of the famous Argentine producer Mario Breuer. The budget is enough for only eight days. Santiago de Chile, 2017: after being disappeared for twenty-three years, the videotapes with the chronicle of those eight days come to light. This was the creation of Peces, one of the most important Chilean records of the '90s.
A recreation of the interview with Stanley Kubrick that Playboy magazine published in its September 1968 issue and that has become essential when approaching the reflections and theories that led the director to shoot one of his masterpieces.
The movie tells the story of UMA, played by Alexandra Braun, who lives in Italy and meets a writer, interpreted by the also Venezuelan actor Orlando Delgado. There's is an inexplicable chemistry between both, which would later become a love story that springs up on the wonderful coasts of Gaeta, until crossing the beautiful land of Florence. An accident will change their lives.
In the north of the pampas, the remains of a population lie hidden under the soil; they’ve been this way for more than a century. Their casual discovery is the starting point with which the film tries to puzzle out that mystery. There where soy reigns, one more battle is fought in the constant struggle of film against oblivion.
In 2016, four mummies of the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid left their showcases headed to a well-known hospital in the capital of Spain. The objective: to study them with the most advanced radiological technology in the world. However, no one could imagine that, under the bandages of the so-called Golden Mummy, there would be a secret with more than two thousand years old. A hieroglyphic enigma that hid the identity of one of the best preserved Egyptian mummies in the world.
Out of the haunting shadows of the sexual underground in Medellin, sixteen-year-old Jhony is excited and hopeful for this upcoming date with the boy he loves.
Mysticism and nature. A phenomenon that rides between myth and reality. The abstract, the intangible, the incomprehensible. What is previously and we are unable to define by allusive. Does it exist or does it not exist?
During the hot, sweltering summer, Mike, a young American tourist goes looking for his missing friend in an isolated Spanish village. Here, he gets embroiled with an alluring local woman who soon becomes obsessed with him. Forced to escape, Mike soon finds that the horror is far greater than he could have ever imagined.
Filmed in the Ligurian Alps. For Tania Masanti. "¿How to deal with this inhability to access things? Walk through the desert, it is the water that its lacking, it is the sun that burns". J.M.
In the mountains of Costa Rica, Lya Battle gives a second chance to over 1,000 stray dogs at her sanctuary, and hope for those who have yet to be found.
A young city man joins the construction of a lighthouse in the deep south of Chile. Among rude workers, the only woman in the place will be his best company on this cold and lonely piece of land.
In 2017, the citizens of Catalonia voted to become an independent state, a result which was soon after deemed illegal in Spain’s constitutional court. Through conversations and WhatsApp chats recorded in the leadup to the referendum, join the voters as they head to the polls and anxiously await the results.
Tribute to the story of Gabriela Marin, and to all women who have been victims of abuse, rape and femicide.
Juan is a mediator that struggled for peace between the ETA and the Spanish government. Roberto is the agent of the secret service who infiltrated his life for years. The Spy Within follows the story of the director’s father Juan and the man, Roberto, who spied on him — their friendship remained despite the betrayal. It also chronicles the filmmakers’ relationship with Roberto and their struggle to understand who he really is.
While Mario is driving under the rain, he finds a woman in the middle of the road, disoriented and covered in blood, who does not remember where she has been or what happened to her. Looking for assistance, Mario stops at a quiet bar called The Den.
Eager to reunite with their young daughter after being deported, a married couple enlist the help of a coyote to get them across the border.
Eighteen-year-old Anne explores body image, self-perception, and her own understanding of twenty-first-century womanhood in two highly contrasting worlds: that of her traditionally “feminine” mother, Céline, at home, and the gym where she trains among like-minded people.
Olive oil is arguably the most essential ingredient of the Mediterranean diet. In the stunning southern Spanish city of Jaén, olive oil is a way of life. Recently, a revolution broke out in this region sparking a new appreciation for Jaén’s emblematic Picual olive oil that was pivotal in bringing this city to the zenith of olive oil production. This documentary introduces us to the challenges raised by these radical changes as seen through the eyes of the people from the Jaén olive groves, the chefs who experienced the gastronomical transformation, the olive-producers and the all-important consumers. With precision and emotion, the cast describes the life cycle of olive oil, from the tree to the table, allowing the audience to share the vibrant spirit and culture surrounding olive cultivation and oil production in the largest producing region in the world.
While the vultures squabble over food, life carries on as usual for a small community in the Spanish mountains. The elderly teach the young to hunt. Those still too young, (im)patiently await their turn. A girl sets out with her donkey. A farewell and a new beginning.
Through a girl, we see how life, and art, persist in spite of everything.
On the outskirts of the Pampean town of Eduardo Castex there is a park where about 30 cement and iron works represent different aspects of the prehistoric life of dinosaurs. Its author is Jorge “Cacho” Fortunsky, who besides having an innate talent for drawing, carving and sculpting, has a past marked by crime that he tries to leave behind forever.
Following the instructions of a dream, Flavia sets out to make a film about the Chilean Antarctic. Mixing together Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker and Pinochet, this film also features an unforgettably hilarious interview with Nanni Moretti! Creative and anarchic cinema at its very best.
Two friends with a secret find an honest moment on the beach at sunset.
From the light that falls on the backyard of his house on the day of the equinox without shadow in Quito, and inspired by the "Theory of colors" of Goethe, the director takes us to several cities in America to reflect on the influence that the light has in the understanding of our surroundings.
On the slopes of the Navarrese Pyrenees, the construction of the Itoiz dam in the 1990s flooded seven villages and three nature reserves. A strip of bare land, 592 metres above sea level, today marks a dividing line within the landscape of the valley. Below that level, the water; above it, life goes on.
A road movie starring a Muslim family, a checkpoint and a flock of sheep.
Chilean society neglects its ethnic and cultural diversity. Historically, the relationship with the Mapuche people has been defined by institutional violence, directly affecting those involved as well as generations to come.
ROTAS shows the moment in which Emma has to break up her relationship with Luca beacuse is hurting too much. Her ideas of "letting her go" begin to fade away when Luca reappears into her life and she realizes that she still has feelings for her.
A shy raised abroad teenager travels to a farmhouse in his birth country and starts discovering his sexuality.
Four different views of the village of Cangas do Morrazo.
While they wait for the end of the world in the place where they met, they remember how their relationship began.
Everything's all right on Earth, people eat, drink, defecate, have intercourse and watch soccer games happily with no troubles. Till Eviltrashman starts to eat and absorb every worthless creature it finds. The famous agents J. Jackson and McCardigan investigate this sadistic and macabre wave of crimes, committed by a merciless and ugly monster from outer space. Will they be worthy?
“Luis, El Sabio del Éxito” reviews with unpublished images the triumph of Spain in the Eurocopa of 2008 with Luis Aragonés as key protagonist. Emotional speeches, moments of tension, tactical talks, situations of euphoria, make this documentary a unique opportunity for the public to enjoy success from within.
A teenager will try to tell his best friend a secret on the last afternoon they spend together before illegally emigrating to the United States
A group of beings who live in constant fear, an ordinary man devastated by the death of his wife and daughter, a sixteen year old girl who tries to transcend the harsh reality through sex, a bloodthirsty guy with strange culinary habits and a man without wishes to live
Chile 2006, a country that maintains the same public policies of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. After 16 years in a state of democracy, young chileans still do not see any changes in the education system, so they decide to manifest in the streets starting a movement that finally manages to mobilize a nation.
Manuel and Isidora have been dating for a month. One afternoon, he will visit her to confess a secret that he cannot keep hiding. Manuel must face his fears and reveal his truth.
A reflection on memory from the work by Juan de Ávalos, the sculptor responsible for the Valle de los Caídos.