Actor and comedian Dani Rovira returns to the stage with an honest and hilarious take on finding light even in life's darkest moments.
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Actor and comedian Dani Rovira returns to the stage with an honest and hilarious take on finding light even in life's darkest moments.
Alicia teaches book binding to students Maite, Unai and Merche. They share a workshop where they cut, sew and glue the pages to give the books a longer life. While each one works on their book, they talk about life, grief and its different variations.
During an interview, Tadashi, a young Spanish-Japanese actor who plays female characters in a theatrical practice similar to kabuki, will return to the past to relive his most intimate memories.
To mark the premiere of his theatrical version of the musical GYPSY at the Teatro del Soho Caixbank, Antonio Banderas reviews his life, his motivations, and his dream of returning to Malaga to direct a theater in an extensive interview.
Núria, Lila and Andrea are preparing to spend a weekend together, out of town, in a smart, luxurious house full of works of art that a friend of Núria's has left her. Their WhatsApp group is ablaze with good intentions, but the reality is that the three of them are too lazy...Everything changes when an innocent question pushes them to break free and let their impulses take over.
A young filmmaker finds a notebook containing his great-grandfather's memoirs from the Spanish Civil War in Soria. He discovers that his great-grandfather was persecuted and imprisoned for years and attempts to reconstruct his story by revisiting these locations to film them.
Mauro has arranged to have dinner at a luxurious restaurant with Angel, the stranger whose life he saved a few weeks ago.
Un germà explores the emotional and physical distance between two brothers, through archival footage and present-day material, the film blends past and present to show the difficulties they face in reconnecting.
José Corbacho and Catalina Solivellas met thirty years ago sharing stages, dressing rooms, laughter and also some sadness. They they began to be aware of how therapeutic theater can be in difficult times. Years later, and inspired by Don Quixote, they decided to put together a free version of the chivalric novel, together with Mallorcan amateur actors and actresses with a mental health diagnosis. The documentary proposes a journey in which José, Catalina and the wonderful company created for the occasion, share stages, dressing rooms, laughter and also some tears.
Arrebato (1980) is the great cult movie of today's Spanish cinema and Iván Zulueta, its director, an accursed filmmaker. Arrebato was the film that forecast the end of the movida, a dark and harrowing reel whose history and intra-history are intimately linked. Arrebato acts as a premonition of the director’s own life. Just like his actors, Zulueta will end up being brought down by drugs and the cinema and, like them, will also disappear.
It's the first night he's bringing someone home. They must be quiet.
A damaged film shot in 1982 in a Latin American country documents the violence that took place on 9 May that year. Beneath its apparent banality, the film raises suspicions of manipulation of the truth.
Tourists eating and taking photos. Tourists strolling and taking photos. Tourists bathing on the beach and taking more photos. Barcelona has become an overexploited photocall to the point of paroxysm, and this is what this film shows by turning the camera and pointing towards the visitors. A small gesture that, added to a powerful sound contrast and a caustic sense of humour, exposes without subterfuge a grotesque normality.
José Manuel Ibar, Urtain, was a unique case in world boxing. Franco was looking for an idol for this sport and found a champion of stone lifting in Basque Country, who had never considered stepping into a ring. He became a myth and the most popular Spanish athlete of the seventies, but after leaving boxing, that good man lost everything. Alcoholic, ruined and forgotten, he ended up jumping into the void from his tenth floor apartment in Madrid. From heaven to hell the boxing ring.
Short film winner of the first prize at the Lyon Fashion Film Festival, telling the story of Julia, a creative soul who is lost between dreams and reality.
Recorded at the Teatro Alhambra on May 10 and 11, 2023.
Mara leaves her house on the beach after a night of partying. Something is not right, an evil has been unleashed.
In a world that spins faster and faster, bibliomaniacs take refuge from the rush and the noise inside the library. Amid whispers, they confess the meaning of life. A celebration of thought and obsession, where libraries reveal their inhabitants
Two lives, two lines, two friends… Olga and Fabiana are exactly that. Two close companions navigating a world where they seek approval from men to feel accepted—only to be weighed down by guilt afterward. Can they save the world while completely out of it? They certainly believe so. A tribute to those rare, sharp moments of clarity that strike when everything else is a blur.
Ingrid, a young aspiring actress, lives with enthusiasm her passion for theater. Driven by her dream of devoting herself to cinema, she decides to audition for a casting that seems like a great opportunity. However, what begins as an exciting experience turns into a disturbing situation that will leave a deep mark on her.
Chance leads Eiko to live in Barcelona. There she meets a series of characters who, like her, also live between two worlds.
Based on real events. The 1990s. Two friends from Móstoles set out on their first trip together to Valencia, unaware that their adventure will turn into a living hell and that they will be about to become two more names on a macabre list, and part of one of the darkest chapters in the history of this country.
Aisha, a 13-year-old girl, lives in 11th century Al-Andalus, where fireworks displays are the most popular entertainment and the one big passion of young Aisha, who dreams of becoming a professional rocketeer one day. Someday, the adventurous alchemist Txawir comes to town, using Aisha for his own purposes and convincing her to steal a banned book from the Calipha’s library without permission. Txawir disappears with the book, for which Aisha’s father is blamed. To recover the book and save her father, Aisha embarks on an adventurous journey…
Aquí donde soy is an intimate portrait of three LGBTQ+ people from Asturias, whose stories are intertwined with the spaces they inhabit and the desire to go to where everything seems to happen: the big city.
During a train journey, Laura tries to break the silence surrounding her in order to connect with a stranger sitting across from her who has stirred unexpected emotions.
Every time Laura (in her mid-40s) avoids a new conflict, she adopts a cat, and now she has ten. One day she leaves home on her way to the animal shelter to adopt a new one, but a last-minute burst of lucidity leads her to the office of a psychologist, Ana (in her mid-60s), so that she can help her avoid it. Ana will force her to go back to the moment when the first cat came into her life. Will she manage to avoid it this time? This story will end with a person who has managed to face her problems, or with a new kitten that has managed to be adopted, so one way or another, this is a story with a happy ending.
Alex struggles to stay afloat in a stifling Madrid when an eviction order unleashes a chain of disturbing events.
Hormiguilla and her father are about to have a picnic. A secret hidden for years will explode, forever changing the course of their lives.
Two former lovers reunite at a nightclub. As the night unfolds, latent emotions emerge, like photographs developed on film, and the lines between past and present begin to blur.
A documentary about the erotic writer, costume designer, theater decorator, and composer of several very popular cuplés. It is part of RTVE’s special programming for Pride 2025 and pays tribute to one of the pioneers in advocating for sexual diversity. Álvaro Retana’s family has opened their personal archive to recover the figure of their grandfather, a creator as essential as he is currently unknown. In addition, extensive research was conducted in the files of numerous archives and museums. All this work brings to the present a world of color, freedom, revolutionary frivolity, and compulsive creativity, which he left behind in a legacy of over a hundred novels, more than 1,000 cuplés (perhaps the most well-known being Las tardes del Ritz, Ven y ven, La pulga...), hundreds of costume designs, drawings, and more.
Elira, Chiara, and Diego, three young people already intertwined in the past, embark on a three-way love affair. Despite their differing perspectives on commitment, intimacy, and relationships, the love between them is undeniable. During a night together in Madrid, their disagreements surface, turning their encounter into a struggle between harmony and fear.
A stand-up comedian is doing a gig at an open mic venue. The show is not going as she thought it would. Faced with this situation, her body reacts strangely, offering the audience the most grotesque show of their lives.
Desi, Samara, and Aurora, three Roma women, go down to the city center to buy a gift for one of their niece's children.
A short film about Marina Comas, an actress who left the film industry at the height of her career to become a biologist and farmer, despite winning a Gaudí award and a Goya award for her role in the film 'Black Bread' (Agustí Villaronga, 2010).
Living in a van on the outskirts of Barcelona, Bear (Pol López) does everything he can to give his six-year-old daughter a life filled with joy, even when there's little to hold onto. Between unsteady routines and fragile hopes, their bond becomes a quiet act of resistance. A heartfelt story about love, dignity, and the small miracles that can bloom in the hardest places.
Asunción and Mari Carmen are two young women who aspire to a position in the Women's Section, but the Beatles' visit to Spain has another destiny in store for them.
AIid, a telemarketing company, has just implemented AI that writes personalized scripts for each customer. While her colleagues follow these scripts to the letter, Carmen uses the information gathered by the AI to manipulate them until she gets the sale. This strategy works so well that she is soon on the verge of earning a productivity bonus. One more sale and it will be hers.
Illegally arriving in Spain, young Senegalese immigrant Bilal evades the police and finds refuge in an Andalusian manor house. Discovered separately by the capricious lady of the house, Carmina, and the maid, Lupe, Bilal's sanctuary turns into a perilous prison.