A Mexican-American filmmaker living in the city of Los Angeles, and in search of his identity, decides to travel to Mexico City, where he senses that he will find the muse he needs as a key to finish his movie.
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A Mexican-American filmmaker living in the city of Los Angeles, and in search of his identity, decides to travel to Mexico City, where he senses that he will find the muse he needs as a key to finish his movie.
A collective effort about the recent history of Spain. A distorting mirror, a radiography, a rotten but exquisite corpse: the blood, the sweat, the dandruff of a country in the shape of a large and extended bull skin. A parade of freaks. The ridiculous independence of the upstairs neighbor, the sovereignty demanded by an insane parrot prisoner in its open cage. Football, potato omelette, kings and safaris. Things not to do again. Guerrilla cinema. Hysteria of Spain.
Joan Crawford is a Hollywood legend. She star of bright and somber melodramas. She reigned on the screens for several decades, but every kingdom has her sunset. At that twilight moment, and as if trying to escape that crossroads, Joan decides to call the notable American artist, the greatest exponent of Pop Art: Andy Warhol. Her intention is to replace her muse, Elizabeth Taylor, in the serigraphs that the artist will present at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. This intrusion will give rise to a telephone conversation where the queen of melodrama will confirm that the world has changed and that her cinematographic life in black and white is already part of an implacable past.
Fragments of the memory of three great artists José Pérez ‘Ocaña’ (Cantillana, 1947 - Seville, 1983), Javier Patricio ‘Gato’ Pérez (Buenos Aires, 1950 – Caldes de Montbui, 1990) and Pepe Rubianes (Villagarcía de Arosa, 1947 – Barcelona, 2009) became icons who helped make the city of Barcelona Universal and Pharaoh
A woman who is trapped in a boring routine working in a slaughterhouse finds an unexpected opportunity to change her life. Marta Bayarri and Pepo Blasco star in this short film. Directed and written by Marta Bayarri.
You will love me again. I will stay by your side. We will start a family together… Just fifteen minutes in a woman's life who struggles for saving her love relationship.
Lucas is a withdrawn young man with a deep desire to travel. However, he carries the responsibility of supporting his dysfunctional family in his consciousness. Enduring the rejection he feels for his unbridled, but outstanding younger brother and his accomplice mother obsessed with appearances, Luke's contradictory emotions explode into a violent crime.
Desperate to keep her husband’s secret, a devoted politician’s wife struggles to stave off threats that could ruin their promising new life.
In 1864, the Spanish poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836-70), suffering from health problems, retires to the monastery of Veruela. Far from the noise and worldly activity of the capital, he immerses himself in the landscape of the mysterious Moncayo mountain. There, he discovers a new world full of legends that converge in a small village located at the foot of the mountain: Trasmoz, the Village of the Witches, the only officially cursed village in Spain.
A Journey to the Fumigated Towns is the final episode made by Fernando Solanas in a series of 8 films dedicated to the Argentinian’s crisis in the 21st century. Based on testimonies, re-creations, archives and photos, this investigative documentary reveals not only the after-effects of the soya’s model and other GMO’s grain productions with agrochemicals, on the health of the Argentinian people, but also the global and environmental consequences.
Marina has three secrets: one, she is a witch; two, she gets very bored. Regu deals with the third.
Lezo Urreiztieta was a 16th-century pirate, born by mistake in 1907. Risking his life, he saved that of hundreds of people; he negotiated with foreign governments for a free Basque Country; he managed to slip 17 boats full of weapons into Bilbao during the Civil War; he was on the point of killing Franco... Forty years after his death, the tape recorder of writer Martin Ugalde reveals his incredible story told in the voice of the actual protagonist. Starting with unpublished conversations between the two held from 1975 to 1978, this film sheds light on the testimony of a key character in 20th century Basque history.
A woman enters a quirky mental health clinic after attempting suicide upon finding out her husband is having an affair with her best friend.
Angel, a university student who doesn’t like getting into troubles. Jorge, a ministerial police officer, returns to work after a time of absence due to a personal loss. Their paths are crossed in the violence of the night.
When Juliet Capulet (of Shakespearean fame) is plucked from death and turned into a vampire, she is forced to live all eternity without her sweet Romeo. Now, 800 years later, Juliet meets a young woman who captures her heart again and teaches her that love and loss are all a part of life, and that a life without love is no life at all.
Sal is an odyssey whose hero has no home to return to. His is a search for transcendence in a landscape that pits him against a harsh, impervious human reality. Heraldo is a man with no identity who comes to the desert asking about his father. In this dystopian land, the last refuge of desperados who have no place in the world, he finds himself asking if maybe he is one of them when a strange couple, Don Salo and his wife, take him in.
Two little siblings live in the island of Menorca at the turn of XX century. Their parents are gone so they live in the countryside with their uncle, “Es Conco”, who takes care of them while he cultivates the farm in the raw nature. The kids play around learning all about the island in a kind of a magic mode- not only by the things you see but by the stories related to them and all the legends that grow around in the stunning environment. The past, the present and the future meet in one place where tales and real facts intermingle. One day, the children discover a ship on the bay, which is like an icon of a human wish- present while unattainable.
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In the crime filled city of Buenaventura, Colombia, a group of friends prepares for a dance competition that might change their lives forever. In this rough world, talent might be your only way out.
Spain, June 2014. King Juan Carlos I abdicates after forty years on the throne. The historical cycle that began in 1978 has ended. It is the beginning of a new era. Felipe VI is the new king and the future is uncertain.
She, leader of a religious sect, leads a group of people. All live together in a claustrophobic place. The arrival of a mysterious character changes everything.
Las Cruces is a poor neighborhood of Bogotá. By following some of these inhabitants, we plunge with them into an intense world where violence meets hope and joy.
Javi is a kid traumatized by horror films that his grandmother makes him watch. One day he finds out she is possessed by an otherworldly being and he is decided to do whatever necessary in order to save her.
The marriage between Claudia and David has ended due to Claudia's addiction problems, in addition to the different psychological disorders she suffers from. Despite the dire state of their relationship, David does everything possible so that his beloved is happy and manages to lead as healthy a life as possible. That is why they both move to Galicia, where they will build a new and better life, and rediscover buried feelings.
Flora Schvartzman is a ninety year-old single woman who has wanted to die since the day she was born. Distanced from her family, she gets in touch with them to organize her own death. Iair, her great-nephew, is the first one to take an interest in her and her heirless apartment.
A documentary to 'rediscover' the so called Sistine Chapel of Rock Art and to tell the story of the discovery of a cave and some paintings that astonished the world 138 years ago. Filming this documentary lead its director, José Luis López Linares, through many rock caves around the world, grasping information about the life of the Magdalenian man -who lived twenty thousand years ago- and about an art form, the paintings, that make Altamira "the Prado museum of prehistory".
A voyage into the labyrinthic memories of a Uitoto man, who worked for the drug Lords in the Colombian Amazon back in the 80s. Following his path between the forest and the ruin of a Narco´s mansion imitating the Carrington mansion in the soap opera Dynasty, the film unfolds the hallucinatory account of a near-death experience.
Tito is 23 years old with a mother who loves him and a car that allows him to earn an honest living. His neighbors see him as a formal and educated boy. Nobody knows that behind that façade hides someone with a nihilistic vision of life. And that involves committing terrible acts for which he may have to pay someday. But Tito does not care about the future. There is only the present.
Sometimes, everyday moments can turn into nightmares.
A very special trip to one of the most inaccessible sites of the Spanish heritage: the Altamira cave. A guided visit to its impressive painted walls and all its secret nooks and crannies.
Afraid to face upcoming parenthood and the ultimate deadline for his long-awaited novel, a once-promising writer develops a crush on a defiant muse, the 16-year-old girl next door, and escapes into a second adolescence, alienating his partner and those who care about him.
Two men accidentally exchange briefcases. One contains a videotape that will lead the new owner to embark on an unexpected journey to figure out what is in it.
Estefanía, an 8 year old girl, refuses to accept the changes that her sister's illness causes in the family. Without understanding the disease, she thinks they have abandoned her.
He's the bartender at a bar with no parishioners. There he spends his nights yearning for good times, now that he can not even attract his only neighbor: a stray dog. He only has his Pomace to attract some clueless soul. However, he prefers something much more select, human blood. His luck changes with the arrival of two visitors but the Fortune has reserved a surprise for him. Their new preys are family. Amancio has to choose between ending his lonely existence or his thirst for blood.
Vicenç is about to be a father. When his friends invite him to eat at the house of Isabel and Pere, his sister and her brother-in-law, he meets Claudi, a good childhood friend. While they wait for Anna, Vicenç's partner, they ask him a whole series of questions about his paternity and all that this entails, without ever losing their sense of humor... But when they suddenly ask him if he has already chosen a name for the child, his response will explode hidden tensions between all of them.
Documentary about a house of witchcraft in Buenos Aires
Isabel and Willie are two people with different past but a common present: both are brain-strike patients. This documentary short shows in detail one day in their lives. Two stories of overcoming, reflecting the struggle against a disease affecting 300,000 people in Spain.
This film follows Isa, a real gypsy living in Andalusia, Spain, as she experiences a tradition in which older women in her family confirm her virginity.
When the woman he loves commits herself with another, Joe, a ridiculous huaso who thinks he is a cowboy, steals from him a valued horse in which he embarks on a journey where he meets singular characters who convince him to fight again for her.
In Valencia, Spain paella is much more than a dish; it's part of the identity of every resident.
A bar in the middle of nowhere. A girl facing her demons. Her twin brother. An incestuous relationship. A mother they never met. A violent, alcoholic father. The nomads' periodic visitations.
A young man haunted by an unrequited love, begins to write a novel about his non-existent relationship with Carolina, a Brazilian resident in Argentina he met a long time ago.
Jóvenes Inocentes (Young Innocents) is a haunting short film dealing based on the Spanish novel series by the same title, written by David González. It deals with the corruption and darkness that is sex trafficking and exploitation
The north of Chile with its dry land, is one of the most hostile places on the planet, nevertheless, with much effort some families dream of seeing their lives flourish here, like the family of Felipe, a boy who begins a solitary journey in search of the most precious resource, water.
A documentary about faith through an essay on aging and the fear of death. A story about a group of elders in a ghost town and their lifetime struggle for the respect of their culture and their different ways of understanding faith, where the need of water is the main element that supports their demands and ancient culture is presented as an heritage for new generations to come, that if their home town survives after they are gone. A film that portrays youthfulness as hope, while the main characters reminds us all that nothing is more powerful than our own will and that there is no such thing as a lost cause.
Salvador is willing to do absolutely anything. Even mutilate, physically and emotionally, in order to retain the woman he is in love with.
Víctor is a film director who is overcome by his own misfortunes. He is an alcoholic, unemployed and terribly depressed, largely because of the death of his wife. However, Victor is still the best in one thing: telling fantastic stories to his nine-year-old son, Ingmar. These stories are each of the scripts he dreams of directing in the future, when he gathers all the necessary resources. Victor and Ingmar share a present full of sadness and precariousness, but also full of robots and locations of films they have seen together. Despite forming a great team, their problems will multiply when others begin to question their role as a father.
Elena & Mario have a daughter who suffers from a serious illness. In order to survive, she will need a transplant from a genetically compatible sibling. After a number of unsuccessful pregnancies, Elena is expecting again. This time, everything is going well; but loneliness, and the fear of losing her husband's love will push Elena deep into the abyss.
Lucía starts tonight as a Call TV hostess on the worst night of her life.