A 1957 Spanish film.
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A 1957 Spanish film.
Spain, late 19th century. When, in a time of great political instability, Flora, a beautiful young woman, starts working in a ministry doing a job that supposedly only a man can do, a great scandal breaks out.
A divorced taxi driver shows up with a black eye at the home of his ex-wife’s new family; he’s been invited to dinner and he desperately wants to reconnect with his young daughter. A professional magician’s car breaks down and he ends up spending an emotionally intense night with a young, widowed toll booth worker. A singer songwriter serving a lengthy prison sentence is released for one night to perform at a local community centre. These three deeply engaging stories about yearning for connection unfold in parallel, one New Year’s Eve in a small town in central Uruguay, balancing the universality of human suffering with a powerful sense of hope.
Ana has received a message from her friend Diana, a link to a bizarre website full of selfies.
30 years after Basic Instinct, Sharon Stone is still stigmatized for her role as a sexual psychopath. But the Oscar nominee has always fought against domination. She embodies the independent woman of the 21st century, who refuses to be invisibilized and a "passive" object, subjected only to the male gaze.
Luzía visits the eight stages of the 'pilgrimage' that the intellectuals Otero Pedrayo, Vicente Risco and Ben-Cho-Shey hiked from Ourense to San Andrés de Teixido in 1927; the story of the journey was published in the book ‘Pelerinaxes I’ (Pilgrimages I). She carries out this journey in order to finish up an audiovisual project about Otero Pedrayo’s book started at the University, together with a colleague who passed away in an accident.
Sebas es un delincuente de poca monta recién salido de prisión que decide buscar empleo en una pequeña empresa de Galicia. Pero no por vocación desde luego, sino porque algo le dice que el dueño de la empresa, Regueira, no se ha pagado el Jaguar con cangrejos. Cuando por fin es contratado, Regueira comprueba muy rápidamente que aquel joven de dientes mellados tiene agallas y decide convertirlo en su ayudante. Pero, Sebastián, tan listo y tan despiadado, ignora que forma parte de un juego que le supera...
To revive its sagging fortunes, Barcelona FC has bought the services of Jack Mortimer, European Footballer of the Year. No sooner has Mortimer taken possession of his company Porsche than death threats start arriving. Are they a hoax, the work of a loner or are they connected to the awesome real estate speculation that is tearing Barcelona apart? While Catalan pimps and racketeers are being hustled off the streets by crime syndicates from the Middle East, Pepe Carvalho is thinking of retirement, but the need to save the soul of his beloved Barcelona forces him to take on a case that can only end in disaster.
Surreal experimental film in which angels take part in a murder.
At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the members of a group of vaudeville performers have been stripped of everything: all they have left is hunger and the instinct to survive. Day after day, agonizingly, lost and helpless between the victors and the vanquished, the musician Jorge, the ventriloquist Enrique, the couplet singer Rocío and the orphan Miguel search tirelessly for something to eat and a safe place to live.
A famous painter returns to Spain under a false name as he once had to run away, to meet his half gypsy daughter, who has become a flamenco dancer. He offers her his house, making popular rumors take flight.
A subjective audiovisual essay on the ideas of work and rest in the modern era, for which traffic between distant places where the individual performs both practices is necessary, always under the prism of the "American Dream". An unofficial and classified version of rush hour and its consequences on the life of modern man.
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him. The Merchant of Venice is a play written by William Shakespeare between 1596 and 1598, which was not published until 1600.
Completely desperate, an unemployed actress resorts to her agent looking to help her to make an important decision.
Arriving at a distant town, a businessman decides to take the identity of a passenger who died during the bus trip.
A sensationalist television show unravels the sordid story of Luciano Fernández and analyzes the possible motives that led him to murder a child. (Inspired by a real event that occurred in the forest of Verrières, Paris, on May 27th, 1964.)
A recovering alcoholic travels to the untamed coast of Patagonia to reconnect with his estranged daughter in this gentle yet deeply resonant drama from Argentine writer-director Carlos Sorin.
They say that in 1600s, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Fumagalli, was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing his eyeballs it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on the person's retina. He named such tecnique "Thanatography". Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crimes r
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.
Two friends spend a weekend together before one of them leaves to live in France. During those two days, a series of events will put their true friendship to the test.
A group of actors posing as others provide social recognition to its customers in order to obtain financial gain.
This is a movie about Uruguayans who want to make fiction films. We visited various filmmakers seeking to capture the enormous diversity of stories, realities, and sensibilities through the scripts they are writing. We get to know their neighborhoods and homes, and then we get closer to the ways in which each of them adapt the fantasies that have been born in their minds and hearts. In this way, we portray how they experience cinema and what would mean for them to make their film come true.
An old cat and a deteriorating urban villa are witnesses to the drama of five youths living together, who are drastically transformed into a close-knit family by the arrival of a flamboyant housemate.
For financial reasons, an aspiring actor begins working for a phone-sex enterprise. Through his new line of work, he develops relationships with two regular clients: Bill, an elderly homosexual, and Amanda, a mysterious femme fatale.
An old man, facing a housing problem, goes back to the place where he was raised. He starts to lose his mind, his memory slowly fades and confusion installs in his brain as he travels through those known landscapes.
Two Brothers dealing with the divorce of their parents
A young Mexican boy tries to save his beloved pet goat from a debt collector in this short film.
Ana is a woman who lives with her grandson Manuel. They spend the day together, do the shopping, take walks, prepare meals and generally enjoy spending time with each other, and so on every day.
At a party in Barcelona, Helena hopes to meet an old lover from who she is still in love. While the night moves forwards, her initial sensuality becomes disdain.
Mercedes and Pedro, Cuban producers and screenwriters, travel to Spain to close an agreement with Alberto, a Spanish producer. Together, they try to make a film about Cuban reality. A movie about those who leave the island, those who return, but also those who still want to leave but cannot. A simple idea that will slowly become more complicated because Spaniards and Cubans have a very different point of view on this reality.
After assassinating a government official, guerrilla takes refuge in a foreign embassy. Tense standoff ensues.
Evelyn travels to Spain from his native village in Peru. She thinks she will work with her cousin in a restaurant. But is deceived and kidnapped to engage in prostitution at a club road. This is the story of brainwashing, which transforms a small town girl into a sex slave.
In a dead-end room lives a slave of the system, addicted to the computer mouse and a reality show that never ends. Obsessed with an illusion, his dream is to go to the paradise that he has seen in a TV commercial...with just a flick of a finger.
"La Bella Lola" is a struggling singer trying to make a living for herself and her sister Ana in late 19th Century Spain. Lola is having an affair with Gabriel, a rich and influential older man who gives her jewelry and supports her singing career. Things change rapidly when Lola meets and falls in love with young playboy Javier, although the romance is doomed from the start. Javier belongs to an aristocratic family and has a bright future as a politician.
Performances by the Teatro Universitario La Barraca, directed by Federico García Lorca and Eduardo Ugarte, during their first tours in Burgo de Osma and villages in the province of Soria. Accompanying activities organised by the teaching staff.
An anthology of 11 erotic short films, which were shot in 16mm and later formatted for sale in Super 8mm.
Morena is a trans woman who lives together with her elderly mother, keeping a harmonious relationship. Morena has been working in a textile factory for several years. She has two transvestite friends, one of them is Claudia, who is a teacher and has just accessed to her first employment as substitute; another is the very young and beautiful Myriam, immersed in a maelstrom of excesses linked to prostitution with police protection. Morena discovers that Ricardo, her current partner, has lied to her from the first moment, that he is married and is the father of two children, so she decides to end the relationship.
On the 10th anniversary of the publication of his first video on the Internet, "Rubius X" is a documentary that deals with the origin, motivation and secrets behind Rubius, one of the most followed Spanish content creators in the world. A review of the history of a pioneer, the icon of a whole generation, who represents like few others the revolution of the new digital media.
The exhibition 'The Complete Letters' features epistolary works defined by cinematographic creation. This is an experimental communication format used between pairs of film directors. Although each director is situated in a location geographically distant from that of their partner, they are united by their willingness to share ideas and reflections on all that motivates their work. Within this space of freedom, the directors featured in the exhibition examine their affinities and differences, within an environment of mutual respect and simultaneity of interests and with notable formal variants established in each of the correspondences.
Dani, a poor 15-year-old boy, hates women, loves the gym and cryptocurrencies, and, despite his family, idolizes Leonidas, a controversial social media guru who constantly promises methods to become a millionaire, win over the girl of your dreams, and, most importantly, get out of San Blas.
LOVE ABOVE ALL THINGS is a passionate love story that unfolds over the course of five years. In it we witness the trials and tribulations Of Teo and Ana, their separations, reunions, euphoria, disappointments and joy. Ana cannot love any man other than Teo and Teo cannot live without Ana, but their love affair will not last, that is their destiny. Years pass and their lives continue with their peculiar love story that sometimes enlightens them and sometimes tears them down.
Luzaida Cuevas spent years doubting that her infant daughter Delimar had died in a fire. When she spots a girl resembling Delimar, Luzaida battles skeptics to prove the child is hers.
Alba, an elderly woman living with her daughter, is unhappy with the way her daughter’s partner treats her. When she finds herself alone with him, she will have to decide how far she is willing to go in order to save her most loved one from a life of suffering.
This film within a film is based on the painting Las Meninas by Diego de Velazquez. A young boy enters the canvas of the famous picture of the Spanish king and his court. In order to return to the real world, he must convince the artist to create his famous painting. The other plot involves a film director who is not sure how his film within a film will be created. He is distracted by his troubled marriage and has difficulty focusing on his project.
Gungo is a scrawny, spoiled young caveman who has lived a life of luxury as the son of the tribal chief. In an age where only the strongest survive, he’d rather perform his “Tik-Rocks” dances than hunt or fight. But when he’s falsely accused and exiled after a plot to overthrow his father, Gungo is forced to prove himself in the brutal Caveman Games—an ancient competition where strength and bravery determine who leads. Banished to a dangerous and wild land, Gungo must now train with a group of misfits he once mocked. Together, they’ll face prehistoric perils, uncover the truth behind the conspiracy, and learn that real strength comes not from muscles, but from unity, acceptance, and the courage to lead with heart.