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On August 15, 1972, during the dictatorial government of General Lanusse, twenty political prisoners belonging to the PRT- ERP, FAR and Montoneros, escaped from Rawson prison in the Patagonian province of Chubut.
Experimental documentary that reflects the historical and socioeconomic situation of rice cultivation in Valencia and its crisis, while researching the material production process, both of this agricultural product and of the means of expression used: cinema.
In this film the director's recurring concerns return: the divisions in the Chilean left, and its contradictions between what the director calls the "traditional" and the "revolutionary" left. The problem is exposed through the doubts and obsessions of a strange police chief who cannot establish the limits between critical behavior and militant responsibility.
It portrays young people from different social and political classes, and collects their impressions of the context in which they live. The documentary offers a critical view of the youth of the Unidad Popular period, through an audiovisual essay.
Based on Esopus' fable "The lion in love".
Police agent Camelia is assigned the investigation of a drug smuggling ring. Pro wrestlers-crimefighters El Soberano and the "Hermanos Rojo" (El Valentino and Félix Ramírez) will be working with her. Meanwhile, the sinister Dr. Gandía assembles his gang of evil wrestlers -- including El Asesino, El Araña, El Yancy, and La Bruja Maldita -- to warn them about the imminent arrival of Soberano and the Hermanos Rojo. The heroic grapplers must not be allowed to meddle in Gandía's business.
A woman close to turning 40 is in a strange relationship with a teenager in the absence of her husband.
Andrés, a young provincial who became blind during his childhood, comes to the capital with the possibility of having a transplant and recovering his sight. Upon arrival, he stays with an old friend of the family, Rogelio Molinos, who lives with his daughter Marisol. Soon a relationship is established between the two young people that makes Andrés conceive false illusions.
Carles Santos, at the piano, plays the notes that make up the title 74 times, dressed up and disguised as that many characters.
Documentary of the phenomenonal band Sui Géneris in its farewell tour at Luna Park on September 5, 1975.
In this docudrama, life in a Catalan village in the early years of the Franco era (1939-1975) is chronicled.
Documentary about the annual athletics event held in Coamo, with the participation of the world's best long-distance athletes.
While watching on television a bullfight where his son Luis acts, the matador Rafael Lucena dies of a heart attack upon discovering Virginia in the bullring, a woman who looks like Soledad. Soledad was his father ‘s, Manuel Lucena, great love. Both Luis and his brother Alejandro meet the singer Virginia and fall in love with her but when Luis suffers serious goring, he begins to think that Virginia brings bad luck.
A young shop worker and her guitar-playing boyfriend navigate sudden fame and personal transformation in this early Super 8 work by Pedro Almodóvar, a rarely seen and largely inaccessible film from his pre-feature period.
After a long absence, Ulises, a theatrical author, returns to his home to be with his wife, Carlota, and their son. However, upon arriving in Madrid he discovers that Carlota has become a great theater actress and that she is sentimentally united to Miguel, a renowned playwright who copies the comedies that Ulysses himself had written.
Documentary made immediately after Franco's death, which includes interviews with the dictator's sister and with Alfredo Mayo, the actor who played the lead role in the film 'Raza'.
As a prize for a beauty contest, two girls win a trip to Bariloche.
In 1977, José Ernesto Díaz-Noriega made a humorous and iconoclastic soundtrack version of Nosferatu, entitled 'Manuscript Found in Zarazwela' or 'Nos fera tu la pugnete'. Using a copy of the English version in Super 8, and "observing the curious coincidence of the fiction told in the film with history", Díaz Noriega adapted the vampire plot to the years of the Spanish Transition, turning Arias Navarro into Draculas Navarro, Juan Carlos de Borbón into Jonathan Carolus (prince of Franconia) and Santiago Carrillo into Jacobus Carrillus. The original Transylvania becomes Galicia and the Pazo de Meirás becomes the vampire's castle. All of Murnau's characters find an equivalence in the political actors of the Transition.
In documentary fashion, drag queens are shown preparing for a performance, of which clips are also shown.
Two best friends tragically fall in love with the same woman.
The adventures in Africa of an Argentine child
Documentary that explores the construction of socialism in Chile: we see the difficult transition from capitalism to socialism attempted by Allende's Popular Unity Government in 1970-73, tracing its historical background, developments and impending tragedy.
On June 14, 1977, the eve of the first democratic elections after Franco's regime, Llorenç Soler and his crew go out into the street and ask passers-by which party they are going to vote for.
A young police officer fresh out of the academy, sees casually as a man is beaten and forcibly put into a car in the car park at Barajas airport. The rookie cop tracks them down and discovers a band dedicated to trafficking in women in Spain.
"The universe is rotary, circular, spherical, round ... / ... The street of our planet = three dimensions. The kinetic = Two dimensions. Analogous to the real, to the law of Universal gravitation." Maruja Mallo
Avant-garde analog animation techniques in stark black and white dramatize the effect of white men’s violence on an African jungle.
Documentary about the mural created by Joan Miró and Josep Llorens i Artigas for the Osaka International Fair
Documentary about the earthquake that devastated the Yungai area on May 31, 1970, which killed more than 40,000 Peruvians.
Father and uncle have conflicting ideas about who a young woman should marry, so they set up an elaborate, wacky contest to resolve their disagreement.
Very hard radiography of repression, torture and the unstoppable desire to achieve freedom. The untold protest drawn by OPS, with a mouth that screams in a face that has literally sewn other parts, becomes one of the most political and adult works of Spanish animation.
Marta goes to Lorenzo's bar to bring Matías home. His father's untimely death and Elena's betrayal have left him bitter. As they leave, they are confronted by Pedro. Matías smashes a liquor bottle over the hunchback's head; for this, he is sentenced to one month in jail.
Documentary about the vital, intellectual and political trajectory of the poet and grammarian Carles Salvador, one of the main promoters of the linguistic normalization of Valencian.
An experimental film: dozens of pictorial techniques applied directly on celluloid; a work of impressive aesthetics that recovers certain ideas of abstract expressionism: endless chromaticism, constant mutations, the music of the cosmos, mysticism, synesthesia… and an enigmatic title that, although it imitates the phonetics of the Basque language, means nothing.