Discoveries from Spain World Cinema

A conversation about the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) and his perdurance in contemporary Spanish cinema.

Amadeu, nine years old, goes to a summer camp for the first time. The first few days are tough, but Nil, the most expert monitor, gains his trust and helps him integrate into the group. Just when Amadeu starts to feel comfortable a violent experience forces him to rebel against everything he had learned.

"The Confessor", attributed to the pioneering Baños brothers, is a curious and not very well known pornographic silent film that constitutes a true exception in the treatment of religion in Spanish silent cinema. In this way, the pornographic attraction of "The Confessor" is built through the perversion of the priestly vow of celibacy and the sacrament of penance. This film can be considered as another chapter in the cultural tradition of criticizing the vices of the clergy, and as a consequence of the environment and the new leisure culture that took place in the Europe of the so-called "frivolous twenties".

I won't tell you whose voice over leads us through three extreme situations that are actually the same. Will you survive?

The two million Spanish women who are victims of domestic violence and the death each week of a woman at the hands of her partner is not fiction but pure reality.

Based on the life of actress Rosaura Andreu.

Azaña tells the story of the last president of the Second Spanish Republic after the military uprising that led to the tragic Civil War. The film recreates and humanizes the life of the distinguished political figure, Azaña, until his last days in Montauban through the harshness of exile.

Barcelona, 1860. Mr. Esteve, owner of a haberdashery and proud of his son, attends the christening of his grandson who, years later, determined to become a renowned artist, seems unwilling to continue the tradition and take over the family business. (Only badly preserved and severely mutilated copies of this film survive, just 69 out of a total of 108 minutes.)

Since childhood, Dani discovers his love for filmmaking, a passion that drives him to pursue the dream of becoming a professional director. As he grows up, he faces numerous obstacles, including a lack of support from his parents, who want a more conventional path for him. Despite his best efforts, Dani is forced to abandon his filmmaking quest. However, an unexpected twist occurs when his friends, aware of his true passion, intervene to rekindle his flame for filmmaking. Together, they embark on a journey that not only challenges Dani's expectations but also strengthens the bonds of friendship. This transformative journey not only brings him back to the world of cinema, but also gives him the opportunity to discover new perspectives and possibilities to fulfill his dream of becoming a director.

Spain, 1692. The Spanish Inquisition is in decline, and as a result, their followers must be more ruthless than ever.

Mercedes Sosa making of her last album depicts encounters with other characters, creative moments, testimonies of the artists who participated and reflections of Mercedes Sosa about her life and the recording of "Cantora".

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.

Traditional dances in the basque region of Zuberoa

When Renée Duval, a Frenchwoman who had been on her way to Venice, is discovered by Al-Hadi, an Arabian prince in the wreckage of an ambushed caravan it is just the beginning of a breathless adventure that will put both their lives at risk!

Juan, a young guitarrist that has inherited his father's business, meets Sofía, a girl who's about to get married. Together they start a road trip through Northern Chile, where they could seek answers to their destinies.

Miguelito, an innocent seven-year-old boy, accompanies his father and grandfather on a hunt that will change him forever.

Elena, a shy and unmarried girl, belonging to the upper middle class and somewhat marginalized from the general environment, embarks on a trip to the family farmhouse one morning, and when she returns to the city that same day, at night, she is forced to take a strange woman in her car.

The fourth entrance in The Valencia Saga. With no one believing the events in Asturias, Dion's situation takes an even more sinister turn.

2060: In a dystopian future, a lonely mother faces an enormous dilemma when she has to choose between protecting her son, persecuted by an oppressive system, and maintaining her own moral principles.

Long take uncut about ANA's life, who is recently divorced and has a daughter, ANA has started a relationship but she want anybody knows about it. That morning Ana received a call saying her daughter is call and she must to pick her at school, but at school no one knows where his daughter is. There she received a unknown call from the kidnapper who has her daughter and they begin to blackmail her. If she wants her daughter back, she must to do anything and gradually she become isolated. Finally ANA is face to face with the kidnapper.

Two boys are sitting on the street, drinking alcohol and talking.

Two small-time dealers, Fran and Tuto, go to the airport to look for Lola, Fran's girlfriend. Lola comes from Venezuela carrying cocaine in her stomach. When it seems that everything has gone well, he begins to feel bad and dies on the spot.

Valentín and Mauro are a maquis couple who have abandoned the fight against the Franco regime to become robbers in order to survive. Their area of ​​operation is the mountains of Asturias, where they terrorize the local population with their robberies and acts of violence.

The story of the more than nine thousand Spaniards who were interned in the Nazi concentration camps, through the testimony of a group of survivors who tell what life and death were like in Mauthausen, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Ravensbrück.

Maria Fuenterreal remembers the days of resistance in the sanctuary of the Virgen de la Cabeza. There she met Aracil, a man of extremist ideas who saved her from the enemy troops, and then Captain Cortes, who died in the final battle with most of the defenders. After the battle, Maria suffers a bout of amnesia and Aracil escapes.

El Pichi, El Trompas and El Orejas are street children who pick up a bill that Fernando has dropped, who prevents them from being arrested and offers them a job at a cake stand. Fernando meets Queta, El Pichi's sister, and they both feel attracted. This will lead Fernando to know the hardness of life for people in the suburbs.

Based on the Vicente Blasco Ibañez novel "Flor de Mayo". Its a familiar tragedy seted in the maritime towns of Valencia, in the early twentieth century. the struggle for survival, love and betrayal mark Tona's life. She loses her husband in the sea and rebuild her life opening a bar in the beach to bring up her children.

Los Marziano reconstruye la oportunidad de un reencuentro entre dos hermanos tras un largo período de distanciamiento. Se trata de un relato que trabaja con profunda inteligencia -y con rasgos de comedia- el universo de las relaciones familiares.

A short comedy film, among the first films directed by Pedro Almodovar

A young aspiring director is an admirer of a famous filmmaker whom he kidnaps and impersonates in the production of a film.

Carles Santos plays several of his pieces on the piano. This film was made for the exhibit on Carles Santos Visca el piano! held at the Miro Foundation in the summer of 2006.

A young boy who loves to draw and build ferris wheels encounters strange creatures that turn his life upside down.

Clara, determined to earn her living and be valued for herself, leaves his rich father's home, changes her name and takes a room. While copying paintings at El Prado Museum, she meets Juan, who is also hiding his identity, pursued under charge of murder.

Joseph is a sailor who returns to his aunt's home after 14 years at sea, there he will be involved in the process of African colonialism signing a contract to travel to Congo captaining a ship called Florida that is shipwrecked as soon as it reaches Congo forcing them to walk the Congolese forest in the heart of darkness

A documentary about the inner, unknown world of the brotherhoods, a universe of its own with its own laws, rules, and philosophy far removed from religion, which were (and in many ways still are) foreign to most people, especially the non-Andalusian majority in Spain. It is the only audiovisual document that captures the pivotal moment for the "people at the bottom" when professional bearers (dockworkers, day laborers, and various other wage earners) are being "pushed out" of the brotherhoods and replaced by fellow bearers. From an anthropological perspective, "Costaleros" projects peculiarities of Andalusian culture that are often misinterpreted and misunderstood from the outside.

Sinnahí is a young woman who discovers the secret hidden in her bed: a terrifying monster. At first, fear is present, but it fades due to the love that arises between them. However, having a relationship with a monster turns out to be more complicated than they thought.

Moved by the closure of a cinema, a young director decides to investigate if the theaters of Barcelona have their days numbered. During the five years of the documentary's shooting, she will enter the closed world of the Catalan exhibition, watch the transformation of this art and business and live unrepeatable experiences in the bowels of many cinemas.

Leopoldo Contreras, a professor emeritus of Roman law has serious economic problems. His translations of classical authors do not give enough money to live and had to sell even their floor. To remedy the situation is offered as a slave to a former student in exchange for room and board.

Based on a famous Chilean musical play first performed in 1960, this Spanish-Argentinian adaptation is the story of a young woman from the country who comes to the big city in search of love and leisure, only to discover the true value of her roots.