By chance, writer Eddie Ross comes to the aid of a young woman on the street, a good deed that lands him a job with a strange underground character known only as Martínez.
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By chance, writer Eddie Ross comes to the aid of a young woman on the street, a good deed that lands him a job with a strange underground character known only as Martínez.
Roa is a fictionalized account, based on real facts, about Juan Roa Sierra, the supposed killer of Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, Colombian politician and lawyer, dissident candidate of the Liberal Party for the 1950 Presidential elections, which he had a very high probability of winning.
My mother has died. Her name was Maria. Her children, we, Raúl and Santiago, discover among the objects left by our mother hundreds of photographs from our maternal grandfather, from REGINA -our great-aunt-, from our mother, from our father... And through those photographs, and with the help from an old camera -my grandfather's inheritance-, I, -along several trips to the places where those photographs were taken-, seek to recover and not lose my memory... that of my family. In the end, we will have to think on our memory and on what we have preserved and lost.
Two male cousins inherit a ranch occupied by three female cousins and their separatist aunt.
"In 2018 my grandfather was imprisoned for child sexual abuse and attempted kidnapping. Now I meet him again and confront his gazes, his answers and my own feelings. Meanwhile, my family gathers at the country house and deals with the emotional consequences of growing up under this father figure". (Daniel Tornero)
Glo Friends are fearless creatures with a magical glow and a delightful sweetness. They have the advantage of never having to fear the dark and that gives them the opportunity to explore it. These adorable characters light up sparks in children's imagination and bring, with humour and irresistible charm, the lesson of constructive cooperation. Glo Friends will have their audience beaming as their special brand of entertainment inspires, amuses and captivates children everywhere.
An ethnographic documentary which looks at the relationship between music and work in predominantly rural cultures. It depicts the lives of fisherman, shepherds and farmers and their relationship with music. The film also describes Basque ancestral instruments, with special emphasis on the origin and history of ‘bertsolarism’ (Basque verse singing) as a form of oral communication.
Paraphrase between the face of man and the face of the earth. It has a fundamental question: Who owns whom? The earth, man or man, earth?
A renewed and truthful vision of how Spanish America was born and prospered, an epic story developed over more than three hundred years, that of those who bequeathed to humanity an immense architectural, sculptural, pictorial, literary and musical heritage.
Antonio and his friends find the way to make a movie in a bohemian city of the Third World full of dream and hopes.
A court in the Republic of China sentences Spanish citizen Luis Ortega to six years in prison for illegal diamond trafficking. After serving his sentence, Luis is repatriated. From Barajas, he tries to locate his partner Rita Fernández, but is unsuccessful. Rita has rebuilt her life and works in an important art gallery where she meets an English dealer, with whom she falls in love. However, Luis locates Rita and shows up at the gallery. He blackmails her into disappearing again, but the situation becomes more complicated, and Luis makes her life miserable.
The documentary portrays a behind-the-scenes look at the poor state of Argentina's civil aviation, and puts the blame on the Argentine Air Force. The Air Force has been in control of air traffic operations since the military takeover of General Juan Carlos Onganía in 1966. The producer/director, Enrique Piñeyro, claims Argentina and Nigeria are the only countries whose air force controls and regulates the airline industry. The film is heavily based on the Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 plane crash. Enrique Piñeyro takes his camera, secretly, into the control tower of the Ministro Pistarini International Airport also-known-as Ezeiza, the international airport at Buenos Aires.
A love letter to the world of freaks, this documentary retraces the birth of Horrorland, voted Europe's Best Scream Park, as well as the love story between Cristina Raya and David Moreno, the two main driving forces behind this Catalan theme park. From St. Louis to Vilassar de Dalt, by way of Newcastle, the camera accompanies them on their odyssey to build a dream called Horrorland.
Santiago returns home from the Peruvian army ill-prepared to cope with the realities of life. Haunted by his violent military past, he is conflicted by his desire for education and his temptation to join his comrades in a decadent life of crime.
Bergala makes Erice wander about (DV in hand) between Madrid and Paris remembering those primeval scenes in his education as a filmmaker, retrieving places more alive than ever in his cinéphile memory. Paris-Madrid, allers-retours fuses genealogy & elegy, diving into the roots of Erice’s oeuvre.
The story of the creation of The Spirit of the Beehive, a film directed by Víctor Erice in 1973.
The most mischievous twins have returned 25 years later, in a monstrous adventure. Zape and Zipi had never believed in monsters other than the players of their favorite football team, until one day his buddy Invi, stepped three times on a tile without knowing that a curse would fall upon them: They had just opened the door of the monsters world!
A portrait of Spanish actress Concha Velasco.
The film tells the story of Fernando Quintero (Gustavo Camacho), revolutionary leader who, after the fall of the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez, ascends to power, betraying their ideals to become an accomplice of repression against whom he fought.
Episode 2 of the stories of jokes in the street.
Mario is dominated by his castrating wife, and is also suffering from writer's block. He goes to a local (very mixed) bar where he meets an exhuberant blonde prostitute, through her room mate, a gay gigolo. With Mario's help, the blonde goes on to better jobs in the world of pornography, involving traveling abroad. This may not seem like good news for Mario, but he may also move on to a better phase in his life as a result.
This third installment will tell three stories, three inseparable friends, and three reasons to sing and laugh.
Dreams die. Blood is eternal.
Mariana isn't sleeping well and that brings her problems at school. She has nightmares with her parents; One night she sneaks into their room to discover the truth about herself.
A poignant story about a painter who suddenly can't see the beauty in his own art.
A testimony about Afro-Cuban popular music from its origins to the present day.
A single night tells the story of Lucía (Emilia Attias), a 36-year-old woman who has just separated from her partner, and on a failed trip to New York she meets Horacio (Naim Sibara), a man who seems to have lived all his life. in order. These strangers will spend the last night of the year together and during the evening, they will reach an agreement in which both of them must open their hearts with the truth without any lies.
Teo, a little eight-year old girl, wishes to go to the moon during his birthday. 20 years later, Teo, like most of us, has not accomplished many of the things she would have liked by now. However, "There are many ways to reach the moon".
A group of seniors attends a workshop on sex. Olga, their teacher, try to make them see that their bodies are still alive giving them homework such as learning to look at themselves in the mirror or dedicate twenty minutes a day to some pleasant activity. The problem is that neither society nor their own relatives are always willing to accept that elderly people have their own sexuality.
A collection of stories set during the Spanish Civil War, ranging from an account of Republican executions in a Madrid bombarded by Franco's forces and his fascist allies, to an Andalusian marquess who sets out to hunt communists with his personal death squad, to a militia woman who saves the life of a right-wing lawyer out of compassion.
As he fights for his life against the supernatural powers, Jose will have to discover the secret behind the phenomena if he wishes to regain control of his home.
When a group of isolated people in the Greek mountains set off a cave explosion, they are menaced by an invisible shrieking dinosaur that had been buried for eons
In the middle of the night, a boy is startled by the sound of breaking glass and the presence of a creature in his home. With a lamp in hand, he ventures into the hallway to discover what lurks in the darkness.
An intimate view on suicide, its taboo and its effects on two different families and a friend.
Servando, a young Galician who acts as judge in Seville, discovers while snooping old files, a case of suicide a little suspicious. He believes that in reality it is a crime that was hidden and decides to clarify the case, forgetting his girlfriend, who lives in a village in Galicia.
An international spy is about to unravel an European conspiracy.
Concert filmed in Seville at the Olympic Stadium of the Charterhouse.
Teresa accidentally comes across Pablo, her old college love. Fifteen years ago, they had each left their country believing the other dead at the hands of a military dictatorship, and they must now come to terms with their past.
A soldier is leaving for war.
It is Uri's last day in Barcelona and his flatmate Arnau has kicked him out of their house for the afternoon. Without any friends available to hang out, Uri will decide to film the city with an analog camera he finds in his wardrobe, but he receives an unexpected phone call from Arnau.
On a cold winter night, a taxi driver helps a young couple look for a love motel around Santiago Centro. As the search is prolonged into the early morning, the tedium of the situation pushes them to reconsider what they are searching, and what they ultimately want.
The sad story of Andersen's little match girl; the fate of Balthazar, Bresson's donkey; the impossible love affair between a militant of the Red Army Faction and an Argentinean pianist; the adventures in Buenos Aires of Helmut Lachenmann, who is trying to stage an insane opera; the problems of Marie, Walter and their daughter, who are trying to survive on very little money…
The eponymous hero of the Fakir Gonzalez series hunts for gold from New York to the Wild West.
Magdalena is a young girl who lives in a brothel in the heart of Bogota-Colombia. On the night of her 15th birthday she gets her first client; 77 year-old Eduardo has paid to see her sleep naked. She is supposed to take a sleeping potion and sleep through his presence but, forgetting this task, she pretends to be asleep. Over the course of several visits, Magdalena begins to fall in love with Eduardo, never having opened her eyes to see him. As she realizes her mistake, Eduardo teaches her something that will help her cope and become the woman that she has always wanted to be.
1927. Spain under the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship. The great actress, Margarita Xirgu and her company are about to perform "Maria Pineda" by a young Federico Garcia Lorca. The Dictatorship cannot tolerate it, but the actress, Margarita Xirgu, in the name of freedom will stand her ground.
Alicia and Carmen are two recently divorced single mothers who become friends after their kids get in a fight at school. Their new friendship is put to the test when they agree to start dating the same man for fun.
A digital poem made by strangers who travel the surface of the world to new continents.
Dario, Zoe and Asia form a united, open and polygamous family. Asia was in India in her youth, and she has convinced Zoe and Darío to travel to that country together, as was once done on the well-known hippie trail. Each character will find a reason for being in this initiative journey.
Elena, a shy and unmarried girl, belonging to the upper middle class and somewhat marginalized from the general environment, embarks on a trip to the family farmhouse one morning, and when she returns to the city that same day, at night, she is forced to take a strange woman in her car.