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In her forties, Juana is tired of working as a hairdresser. By chance, she discovers the crime of some clients and decides to blackmail them. But they have other plans, which include a wedding to cover up the crime and blame the groom.
On a quiet summer day in the countryside, two men drink wine while chatting and playing cards. Time passes, the sun sets on the horizon, and they become increasingly drunk, more euphoric, more focused on their game: now they are willing to gamble all their money on one last card.
Can Marguerite Duras cure us of madness? Can that woman who is mute in soul be crazy? This film, through analog casting, explores the representations of madness in silent films of the 20s and 30s.
LIANG HUAN is a young man with a Chinese mother and a Spanish father who grew up in the suburbs of Barcelona. He makes a living giving as a kung fu teacher and dealing with his neighborhood friends: PARDALES, a thief by profession who is like a cat with nine lives, and TRACAS, a drug dealer who is dim-witted, but with a big heart. Liang's great love is PEI LAN, a beautiful and mysterious student who attends his classes. What LIANG doesn't know is that Pei Lan is the daughter of SOONG, head of the Chinese mafia in Barcelona, whom she hopes to succeed one day. In order to get Pardales out of his regular prison visits, Liang acts as a confidant of MONTSE GELABERT, a police inspector who is after the Chinese mafia for having killed her family years ago.
Juanita decides to abandon her family and go to a convent where, together with a group of extravagant nuns, she must discover the mysterious murder of a priest.
Paco and Regina are going to get married, but they don't know that this will unleash a fight between their mothers to see who decides every detail of the wedding. Carmen, Paco's mother, is an expert in sentimental blackmail to get what she wants. While Catalina, Regina's mother, is an expert in using her contacts to pressure and extort people until her slightest whim is fulfilled. Their struggle unleashes a battle of epic proportions, where nothing will be left standing.
Winner of the Silver Shell for Best Director for his debut film, Del rosa... al amarillo, Manolo Summers was the great revelation of Spanish cinema. Over time, he became a very popular figure, while criticism of him intensified. Now we will get to know his personality through his own words, as well as what his films tell us about him. And with the help of film critics, directors, professionals, and his family, we will discover Summers the rebel.
Teresa changes her vacation plans to spend the summer with Ani, her mother. Living together day and night after so many years is not easy for either of them. Accustomed to living alone, it is difficult for them to agree on even the small things of daily life. However, the forced coexistence will also bring revealing moments for both.
Norberto has spent a lifetime with María. They are humble, from the neighborhood, and from time to time robbers. But Norberto needs to take a turn to feel alive, free, and to be herself. An unexpected confession will jeopardize his entire life.
Lucas, a six year old boy, enjoys a summer day with his family and with the visit of his aunt Ines and her partner, until they all decide to go for a walk.
Can oral history restore a forgotten part of our past? Can it break the silence perpetuated over generations? In 1969, seventeen-year-old Mariona was arrested and imprisoned in a reformatory governed by the Patronato de Protección a la Mujer (Women's Welfare Agency), which was dedicated to "regenerating fallen women" during the Francoist dictatorship. In 2023, Mariona and her daughter look back in an effort to piece together her story.
Documentary film that tells the stories of improvement and effort of a group of boxers, whose lives intersect in the same boxing school in Camas, Seville. Each of them tells us what led them to boxing and how this sport has healed their lives. From reintegration, the inclusion of disabled people, gender equality to bullying or juvenile delinquency, each of their stories highlights the importance of practicing sports in our society.
In the 9th century, Emma, a 17-year-old girl, is named Abbess in order to repopulate and Christianize border territories in conflict with the Moors. Upon arriving at the Abbey she will have to overcome the mistrust aroused by a woman determined to fulfill her mission, which will lead her to confront nobles, peasants and the nuns themselves. Despite everything, Emma will show that it is possible to challenge established power structures. Although she will pay a high price to get it...
A documentary film that delves into the life and cinematic career of one of Japan's most prolific directors: Ishiro Honda. The film will spotlight Honda's filmography from both a historical and personal perspective, exploring his contributions to the Japanese film industry and his firsthand experiences of war, from which he barely survived. It will also delve into his profound feelings regarding the atomic bomb, a subject that became an obsession for him and was frequently reflected in his films. The documentary will analyze Honda's body of work through interviews with individuals who had the privilege of collaborating with him, as well as experts on Honda's films from both Japan and the Western world. Furthermore, the film will uncover Honda's friendship and professional relationship with director Akira Kurosawa.
Andrés, a music teacher diagnosed with cancer, seeks treatment at a hospital in the city. His travels there on a singular, dilapidated bus accompanied by other cancer patients. It soon becomes an extraordinary experience, giving him new friends and a far more joyous understanding of life. He also learns to conquer his fears, such as the stage fright which has frustrated a budding career as a musician.
The poet Gabriel Ferrater – or Biel, as his friends called him – grew up during one of the most turbulent times in Spanish history. Shortly after his birth, there was a coup d’état; before he even turned 10, the king abdicated and Spain became a Republic; as he was entering adolescence, the police imprisoned his father for politically supporting an independent Catalan republic, and two years later, a terrible civil war broke out. During his childhood, Biel is barely aware of what is happening. He is a gifted child who learns to read and write at home. However, the radicalization of the political and social clashes taking place around him turns Biel into a witness of horror. The story of a teenage boy through the most violent years in the history of Spain, years that will lead to the disenchantment with which Gabriel Ferrater and other members of his generation perceive the human condition.
Summer afternoon. Three friends chat in the back of a car, and the present blends with memories of the previous summer. Surrounded by wild nature and the twilight glow, each one reflects on what love means. The love they’ve inherited, the love they’ve learned, the love that hasn’t come yet, and the love that no longer exists.
The tradition of hazing in university halls of residence is the catalyst for a nail-biting thriller, provoking serious reflection on gender and power struggles along with shocks and surprises at every turn.
Toño works as a local policeman in his town. He is clumsy and his neighbors laugh at him, so he asks his old teacher at the academy for help. What he finds is a town full of tensions, with a day laborers' strike that doesn't help.
A heartbroken painter develops an obsession with all sorts of triangles following an encounter with a mysterious blind woman who gives him a key.
This is the little-known story of an extraordinary, highly charismatic and adventurous character, born in 1900 in Tsarist Russia. A member of the nobility, Boris Skossyreff was a Nazi collaborator, “assistant” to the Queen of the Netherlands, but above all self-proclaimed king of the Principality of Andorra in 1934, quickly chased away by the French and Spanish authorities. Involved in the great conflicts of the 20th century from which he always emerged unscathed, this enigmatic man was in reality a professional crook and forger, but also a gigolo, organizer of orgies… An unpublished documentary, based on a fascinating investigation carried out over more than a decade, in collaboration with an international team of historians and advisors.
Daniel and Adrián are two friends who like to frequent a ruined space located on the Havana boardwalk. Given Daniel's early departure from the country, they both decide to spend one last time together in this place.
Raised in a repressive era where sexuality was taboo, Ana, Patricia, and Mayela found their understanding of womanhood based on unspoken rules and implicit impositions. Now, their fearless voices incarnate in a single 65-year-old woman, who revisits a kaleidoscopic life of intertwined memories, secrets, and hidden desires.
In the Argentine Pampas, life seems to be on hold. A prolonged drought is killing off the livestock and threatening the existence of Omar, a farmer, his nonagenarian mother and Libertad, his 4-year-old granddaughter.
Sixteen-year-old Lola is studying for her resits when the possibility of a semester in Germany comes up. Lola wants to go, but her family, bogged down by her elder sister's psychiatric problems, don't want her to make the trip. The lack of stability and exhaustion in the ties with her family prompt Lola to go ahead with her idea and set out to find new experiences that make her see both herself and the circumstances that surround her with different eyes.
Alma cannot sleep. When she goes to bed, soon a series of sounds and shadows involve her. With the help of surveillance cameras and therapy, Alma is going to discover the horrors that surround her, one of which can be her nextdoor neighbour. The house becomes her enemy. Until she decides to do something. Director López Gallego, who also wrote the screenplay, brings us another example of the excellence of Spanish horror and mystery cinema, with great performances by Alba Galocha and Denís Gomez. One of the scariest and most intriguing features of the year.
Second part of the romance between father and son. In this installment Alex introduces his new girlfriend to Gonzalo, who cannot hide his jealousy.
The day after his father's funeral, Manuel waits for the arrival of his sister Olalla, with whom he has not spoken in more than twenty years. Twenty years since their mother died, at which time she left home without warning and never returned. Olalla returns with the subconscious idea of understanding his brother's decision to condemn his life to staying in that remote place in rural Galicia, a question that he does not even consider.
Bruno’s (18) life is increasingly limited by the growing dependence of his grandmother Natividad (86), the only family he has ever known. When the opportunity to take her to a nursing home arises, both will have to deal with a decision they had not allowed themselves to consider before.
Far from the party crowd, somewhere in the house, they kiss passionately. Everything seems to go well until it doesn’t.
Carmen is going through the worst moment of her life when she receives an unexpected call: she has won an Instagram contest whose prize is dinner with her favorite influencer. From this moment on, the future dinner will become an encounter with unpredictable consequences since, in the world of fame, nothing is what it seems.
A man and a pregnant woman are crossing a snowy forest, trying to escape a dark past linked to a traumatic crime, but she is waiting for them, hidden among the trees, determined to stop them.
The film Miralles tells, as in a novel, the vision of the world of one of the most important Spanish architects of the contemporary international scene. Enric Miralles dies at the age of 45 from a brain tumor. The next day he is buried in his masterpiece, the Igualada Cemetery, an unfinished forest-cemetery. From that moment on, his life and his work are inextricably linked. The film unfolds in variations, following Miralles' own creative method inspired by Giacometti. A search without the possibility of conclusions, as in the extraordinary and complex Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, one of the architect's last works and also one of his magisterial works.
A pregnant woman travels along the countryside to move into a house by her own, hopping to reconnect with the inner nature of her current body.
Lola Índigo is one of the most relevant female figures on the Latin music scene and has collaborated with the best international artists. With her EP "GRX" she returns to her roots. This documentary shows us how her most personal project was created.
An introverted man who oscillates between reality and imagination wanders in a photography gallery where he draws the art he sees. As he walks through the gallery, the man finds refuge in the works of art.
The pandemic, images from the past, images in the trash, various animals, a wounded lion boy, musical neighbors singing an old bolero, a medicinal herb vendor making cooking videos. An experimental piece in collaboration with I Acevedo, Paula Trama, and Inés Copertino, commissioned by the Buenos Aires Queer Art Festival.
An elderly woman accustomed to human interaction verbalizes what she needs to be heard.
