Eight stories related to Death, who is a corporeal character in this film, an excuse to talk about the relativity of loss, love at first sight, the ridiculousness of rituals, and unfulfilled dreams.
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Eight stories related to Death, who is a corporeal character in this film, an excuse to talk about the relativity of loss, love at first sight, the ridiculousness of rituals, and unfulfilled dreams.
Saint Peter welcomes a woman at Heaven's Gate.
The heroine, a young archaeology student, whose relationship with herself, and with those around her, is forever marked by a traumatic event. Initially, Gaia cannot find the words to describe her situation, let alone the courage to speak about it. Eventually, however – like an archaeological excavation – she begins to uncover fragments of the past in order to piece her life together.
Adrián and Diego are spending a typical day sunbathing and chatting on the balcony of their home. Diego talks while Adrián notices a man watching them from the beach.
The war in Ukraine continues to leave indelible scars, but beyond military strategies and political speeches, there are stories that are rarely told: those of people who survive day by day amid the conflict. In an effort to document the human reality of war, Rubén Díez (Lethal Crysis), one of the most influential Spanish-speaking travel and exploration content creators, and Ignacio Marín, a renowned photojournalist specializing in war zones, traveled to the heart of the conflict in December 2024 to capture the experiences of those who resist in the shadows. For two weeks, they visited trenches, evacuation points, rehabilitation centers, and front lines, meeting soldiers, doctors, civilians, and refugees who shared their daily lives in a world where normalcy has been destroyed. Through intimate encounters and raw testimonies, this feature-length documentary offers an honest, unfiltered look at the human capacity to adapt, resist, and carry on—even in the darkest of settings.
fragments from song lyrics of different artists have given life to this story about love, loss and desperation.
It tells the story of an unknown figure from the world of Spaghetti Westerns, Joe Kardos, who never played the lead role in any of the more than two hundred films in which he appeared. Always dressed in a hat and wearing an eye patch over one eye, Kardos is just another member of the cast of characters that populate the northern part of the Community of Madrid. To his credit, Kardos has appeared in more than two hundred films, mostly as a stunt double or extra. No one remembers him, no one knows who he is, but he claims to have been the greatest cowboy the world of cinema has ever known.
Sara, a responsible and outgoing girl, accidentally breaks her boyfriend Carlos' cell phone. Sara tries to calm him down, but Carlos' aggressive personality makes it very difficult for her.
With this installation, the Estampa collective continues its exploration of the new algorithmic relationships between words and images established by analytical and generative AI models. In Ekphrasis, excerpts from various films are subjected to an extremely complex and layered algorithmic description process: objects, faces, and emotions are detected and classified by artificial vision and facial analysis systems, while image-to-text models are used to generate detailed descriptions and analyses. The work draws our attention to the poetic potential inherent in the radical impossibility of translating images into words, and vice versa.
We're all descended from immigrants if we dig deep into our roots. We all belong to a place, but that place doesn't belong to us. This is the conclusion reached by actor Alex O'Dogherty, as he continues the research his father began into the history of his surname. Not all descendants of immigrants are treated equally. It depends on where they come from and the color of their skin. Alex tries to find out who he is, searching for where he comes from, only to discover that he's from... a little bit of everywhere.
A family with three children lives within the dark walls of an apartment. The mother does everything possible to care for her children and protect them from an essential, latent evil: an abusive power relationship that, like a hereditary disease, continues to plague her and so many others. But breaking the cycle isn't easy, and every failed attempt is a lost opportunity. From Jerez comes a harsh and furious fable.
Cherri is gay, and he is obese. In the clinic where he is being treated, Cherri has started a new therapy for weight reduction. At his 55 years age of, his will to live gets bigger when he meets Tim, a security guard of the soon-to-be first McDonald’s in Cuba. But Cherri will discover along this journey that desire and friendship, hamburgers and punk and psychology and healing are divergent paths in his life.
Five residents of a tiny village in Catalonia decide to make a report on the drought it is suffering from. A group of young filmmakers accompany them for a day.
After forty years, Julián returns to the bar he used to go to with his girlfriend Carmen when he was doing his military service in the city. His intention is to heal an old wound, but he discovers something that will change his life.
A man becomes obsessed with a woman to the point of wanting to become her. What begins as attraction turns into a morbid imitation that blurs the boundaries between desire and identity. Inspired by Julio Cortázar’s Axolotl.
The impunity of Franco’s dictatorship in the former Spanish Guinea persists to this day. The regime concealed its crimes against the political independence movement in the late 1950s. One of its main leaders, Acacio Mañé, was arrested and forcibly disappeared. Sixty years later, two men take up the investigation of the case.
Sara and Mario started dating in high school. But a lot has happened in the seven years since the beginning of their teenage love. They've been trying to break up for a while, but they always end up coming back together: they're too afraid of never finding in other people what they found in each other...
Visual representation of Manuel Azaña's 1938 speech "Paz, piedad y perdón" from a new generation's point of view.
After receiving it as part of her inheritance, Ana decides to move into her painter grandfather's house with her partner, Lucas. In one of the rooms, they find an unfinished triptych that will make them go deep into a paranoid artistic process.
The six members of L'Impératrice get Bilbao BBK Live dancing with their swayful pop. A trans-Pyrenean meeting to introduce Spanish audiences to Pulsar, their third album.
In one of the most beautiful and captivating corners of the planet—between the majestic Victoria Falls and the mighty waters of the Zambezi River—the human–wildlife conflict has reached alarming levels. Elephants, baboons, crocodiles, and other dangerous species are leaving protected areas and venturing into the city in search of food. At the same time, some residents of Livingstone are entering Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, setting snares or attempting to defend themselves from attacks by wild animals.
Daniela's voice must be fully rested before she's able to use it again. Given the adults' inability to handle the situation, her classmates see the perfect opportunity to silence her for good.
The making of a soldier in Peru. A group of young men, some of them teenagers, voluntarily enlists in a rigorous military program within the Peruvian Armed Forces. They are driven by their desire to engage in an ongoing armed conflict in the VRAEM, an area with military intervention framed by a 'war on drugs' policy. They aspire to become ‘men of war’ and embark on a transformative journey from hopeful adventurers into soldiers. Amidst the violence in the secluded military environment in Peru, intimate moments unfold beyond a prejudiced gaze, where compassion and care blossom among them.
Julia is my mother. She's worked as a hairdresser all her life, but she's retired now. She spends her weekdays cooking and styling her friends' hair; but her greatest dream is taking care of her grandson, my son. He comes to visit us once a week and stays overnight. The morning after one of those nights, my mother tells me she thinks she's had a stroke. I don't know what to say; I hug her. Two weeks later, we shot this film.
Landi and Mercedes live in Cuba’s Zapata swamp, a biosphere reserve. To feed their sick child, Landi must secretly hunt crocodiles, leaving his wife and son behind for days on end.
Instant chronicle of the times we are living, with a world and moral order that seems to falter without letting us glimpse what will come, the strength of the film lies in the use of images destined to disappear, poor images, rescued from mobile phones, social networks, Telegram groups, that no one will bother to archive. The film confronts us with two memories: on the one hand, the memory of the day before yesterday, where a spark emerged that caused everything, and on the other, the memory that we captured without protecting it later, without making it accessible.
After a "dream" about a guardian of the forest, Samuel, a 25-year-old boy unmotivated by adulthood, recalls the story he experienced as a child: One day, he found a small gnome village in the middle of the forest. He always went to play there to try to spot some creature, until one of the times he returned, he found it destroyed. He salvaged a few remaining pieces, and his mother stored them in a trunk in the basement. That morning, after so many years, he decided to go down to the basement in search of the trunk. With it under his arm, he set off on a hike back into the forest to see the ruins of the village, hoping to find at least some sign of a creature living there. When he gave up on everything, he found a door in the trunk of an old tree. Behind it, the rebuilt village appeared, and the lights began to turn on.
An immersive journey into southern Galicia, one of Europe's most vulnerable wildfire zones, where humans and animals alike struggle to cope during the hottest, driest summer on record.
The caves of Almería where Conan the Barbarian was filmed bear the profound imprint that cinema leaves on the places where it is shot. What happens when the myth of fiction fades? Can we reuse that imprint to imagine something different through it?
An apartment in Madrid for €40,000 is a great opportunity, isn't it?
Paula and Ramón are expecting a baby. Between nerves and excitement, they share ideas and conjectures about the child's future. However, what begins as an exciting fantasy gradually turns into something darker: the possibility that their baby will end up becoming a genocidal killer.
Two estranged brothers reunite after their father’s death, forced to face each other at the reading of the will. Old wounds resurface and the tension threatens to explode at any moment.
While resting in a park, private investigator Chema Villarejo received a call that offered him a new mission: to find some stolen feet.