Claudia works. Maider reads. Claudia cooks and Maider keeps reading. Who takes care of those who make movies.
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Claudia works. Maider reads. Claudia cooks and Maider keeps reading. Who takes care of those who make movies.
In 'Don't Take Pictures', a brave young woman goes into an abandoned place in order to prove the existence of an urban legend. Taking a picture in the depths of the place will have dangerous and unexpected consequences
Twelve shots, four sequences. Each of them will try to evoke a feeling, a sensation, an idea, a landscape… just like the iconic and transcendental Japanese poems known as “Haiku”.
Co-director and protagonist Abraham Jiménez, one of the most important voices of Cuban independent journalism, is expecting a baby with his wife, producer/co-director Claudia Calviño. As they become more and more exhausted and depressed from the constant harassment of the Cuban government, the young family embarks on a journey off the island and become political exiles in Spain. A heartfelt, intimate look at daily life in Cuba and the measures taken by one family to protect their freedom.
Brave Valentina is an emotional short film that explores the generational differences between two women. The way to resolve their personal conflicts and how to face life with the changes of each stage.
Reflections on Spanish cinema, based on seventy interviews with prominent filmmakers, analyzing their work and addressing their views on various general topics such as the industry and the evolution of Spanish cinema, as well as current issues such as the arrival of digital platforms.
"Oh son, do you know, do you know where you come from? From a lake with white and hungry seagulls. [...] That's how you came into the world. From so many places you come, from water and earth, from fire and snow, from so far away you walk, towards both of us, from the terrible love that has chained us, that we want to know how you are, what you tell us, because you know more about the world we gave you." - The Captain's Verses (1952), Pablo Neruda.
A couple of robbers flee from the police after robbing a bank. Their car breaks down and they are picked up on the road by three touring musicians in their van. They stop in a forest for the night and decide that each musician has to tell a horror story by campfire light. The one who tells the bloodiest story will stay alive.
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.
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ángel Flores, a promising Spanish actor returns to Spain to fulfill the last dying wish of his theatre master Miguel Lama. Ten years earlier, as a result of his personal tragedy, Ángel had escaped to Mexico where he had become a TV soap star. Miguel Lama’s last wish for Ángel is to travel to a remote monastery up in the mountains of Northern Spain and there to read each page of Dostoyevsky’s thousand-page-novel The Brothers Karamazov three times, then to come to his graveside in the monastery cemetery every night to tell him about the progress made in reading the novel. This mysterious experience reveals the secret of Ángel’s tragedy and helps him understand the role of reading in healing inner personal traumas. Ángel also learns that no dictator in the East, West, South or North who destroys his own people and neighbors will be able to eliminate the importance of authentic literature as the cornerstone of humanity.
Salva is in a difficult financial situation. In this context, a mysterious woman appears and offers him a large sum of money to kill his daughter's rapist and then rebuild his life. She is just one bullet away from changing her life, if she accepts.
Anonymous lives… Real lives… Lives that deserve to be told.
METRALLA was a rock group from the late 1980s that achieved great success with its first and only LP titled “Por Tus Muertos”, but which mysteriously dissolved just before giving its first concert. Thirty years later, Miguel, one of the members of the band, still dreams of being a rock star, even though no one goes to his concerts and his music store is about to be seized by the bank. Ordúñez, a famous rock radio communicator, offers him to give a concert at the Palace of Madrid on the condition that he reunites the original members of the band.
During her 18th birthday celebration, Mer, a young woman with Down syndrome, makes an important decision: she wants to get her driver's license. However, almost no one at the table seems to support her, which triggers a mixture of frustration and envy in Mer towards her older sister, Paloma, who is becoming increasingly independent.
The 'ninja writer' fights back against an evil cartel when they kidnap the love of his life.
Three sibilings moved to a new house and they are home alone for a week, one of them stars recording everyday with the camera their parents gave him, but one night, they cought something really strange on camera.
When their car breaks down in the woods, two sisters become the hunted prey of a deranged killer, who captures his victims on film.
Lucita is a 65-year-old woman who lives alone in a flat in the city of Valencia. She says that one night, after cooking dinner, she looked out onto the street and saw the Santa Compaña in procession. Now, a year after she saw it, she is preparing to die so that she can visit her son Vicente in hell.
In the mountains, a boy and a girl play "Truth or Dare," unearthing secrets and confronting their fears. Between confessions and desires, a recurring dream and a dark challenge push them toward an unexpected journey of self-discovery.
Dealing with the loss of a mother at such a young age is not easy, either for the person or for those around them. Only certain people have the knack for saying the right words to help. In a dentist's waiting room, Alexandra has a conversation that will change her life forever.
Luna is a 6-year-old girl who doesn't want her mother to leave her with the babysitter every time she has to go to work. Her mother, Sara, is a flight attendant and has invented a game to help her daughter cope with her absences: bringing her stones from every place in the world she travels to. Each stone will be a new story to tell. Luna's imagination runs wild every time her mother leaves for distant countries, immersing herself in imaginary worlds unknown to her.
The elderly Amaia has Alzheimer's and can no longer recognize Nerea, her own daughter. From her point of view, reality is distorted, and being in a confined space makes the relationship between mother and daughter unbearable.
Natividad Zaro, born at the beginning of the 20th century, was a woman ahead of her time: a performer, playwright, screenwriter and film producer. Friend and collaborator of Lorca, Azorín, Valle Inclán or Forqué, who described her as the Spanish "Modesty Blaise", she produced Furrows (1951), Cannes for Best Film, and Dawn at Dark Door (1957), Extraordinary Jury Prize Berlin Film Festival.
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.
Through a child's imagination, it tells the story of a man who, after falling prey to his fears, must cross a strange world, a universe full of magic, where he will be presented with his fears and conflicts from the past and where he must find solutions to his destiny in order to discover his own identity.
In 1948, the Spanish directors Juan Antonio Bardem and Luis García Berlanga made their first film together: "Paseo por una guerra antigua" ("Walk through an Ancient War"), now considered to be almost lost. In 2021, Léon Siminiani takes what's left of that film and builds a puzzle about war, Francoism and the creative process of two artists.
A comedy writer working on a TV show has to collaborate with a new partner, Humormatic, a joke-writing machine.
A young writer, in the midst of a creative block, receives an unexpected visit from one of her characters...
In Spain, a poor country ruined by the recent Civil War (1936-39), and in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a film school was created in Madrid in 1947, which became, almost unintentionally, a space of freedom and pure experimentation until its closure in 1976.
Two friends meet after many years and decide to have a coffee. Over a cup of coffee, feelings and well-kept secrets that had to be confessed come to the surface: are they happy now, and do they regret any decisions made in the past?
With great humour, love and insinuations, Mabel Lozano tells us in first person of her journey with a pea-sized lump in her left boob. But this isn't only Mabel's story, it's also that of millions of women.
In an ordinary park, a samurai and a cowboy face off in a sudden duel, each claiming a client’s final coin.
A trumpet player who, during the San Fermín festival, feels alone despite being surrounded by thousands of people. No one seems to pay attention to him, except another boy who gets lost in the labyrinth of the city, the night and his fantasies.
During a duel, two quirky cowboys are interviewed separately, expressing on camera their true intentions.
The epic story of a great man of cinema, Samuel Bronston, as recounted by those who knew him. Bronston created a parallel Hollywood in Spain that was much larger than the one in California, and this provoked the wrath of an industry that ultimately devoured him.
Twelve men go on a retreat together during a weekend to a country house, in order to face a personal and collective transformation. They are twelve wounded men that try to gain back their relationship with other men with less masks and blocks, to trust each other again and get in touch with their vulnerability.
Now with Mugaritz, the Valencian will document what happens behind closed doors in this restaurant and record the creation process, conceptualisation and commentary of the dishes, but not the making of the dishes themselves. Because the creation of Mugaritz is more to do with expressing ideas through food than with the cuisine itself, according to its creators.
A variant of the rabies virus has infected the global population. Now, in a world full of infected people, three siblings do everything they can to survive and reunite.
A birthday. Two brothers. And Mom's gift?
This documentary explores how Madrid, under Franco’s regime, became a crucial nexus for numerous German Nazis and Italian Fascists fleeing the Second World War. They found not only the protection of the regime, but also a network of sympathisers who provided them with spaces and businesses where they could meet discreetly.