Discoveries from Spain World Cinema

DIscovering our world and all of its stimuli is a challenge and an adventure for the main character, who is caught in a fierce inner struggle between the wonders of his new life and the longing for home. Voramar is a story about learning to find your place in the world by listening to your heart.

Different faces show us an Iran where tradition and modernity coexist and confront each other. Erfan Shafei invites us to discover a country through its music and its people. Erfan is a funny and ironic young Kurdish man who wants to become a film director. He sings, writes poetry, lives with his parents and his parrot, but knows nothing about love...

Naïve moviegoers in his hometown think a certain actor is tough like the characters he plays and will be able to clear their town of badguys.

Alice & her friend Dinah take a wild ride with a mysterious white haired albino and a golden painted, fallen Angel. Alice finds herself in an underground world being traded for a ruby red glitter drug. It is here she will remain as entertainment for the King, to play Russian roulette with a furious Queen.

In Spain of 1972 a student couple decides to test the marriage before marrying in reality in order to prevent a irremediable failure. But this was like a revolution for the catholic society of this time.

The story of the creation of The Spirit of the Beehive, a film directed by Víctor Erice in 1973.

When her parents tell her they’re getting a divorce, Moni does what any 16-year-old girl would do: she claims that the Virgin Mary speaks to her. What she doesn’t imagine is that her little lie will turn into one of the greatest religious frauds of the 20th century.

After receiving it as part of her inheritance, Ana decides to move into her painter grandfather's house with her partner, Lucas. In one of the rooms, they find an unfinished triptych that will make them go deep into a paranoid artistic process.

Clara Bell, a famous French actress, rejects the protection of a producer and falls in love with a handsome Spaniard. But the story is complicated and his love will not come to fruition.

A marital conflict reaches the courts and becomes public comment.

Julia, a young teenage schoolgirl, tries to hide her newborn baby from her parents.

After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current country, godless, far from the old ideologies and where all his old colleagues have changed.

Bea is an immature 16-year-old girl who lives with her mother in a suburb of a big city. One day a mysterious 7-year-old girl named Candela appears. From then on, Bea's life will change, maturing and beginning a strong relationship between the two. But, who is Candela?

A group of warehouse employees are scammed and charged with theft. Now they have to flee as they devise a plan to reveal the truth.

In the months before the war in Iraq , Abdel and Umayr , two brothers who are very close, will be forced to separate from each other. Months later , with the war in full swing, they will meet again , but neither of them is the same.

Kitty, niece of a Marchioness, is betrothed to Don Candido, a wealthy manufacturer of preserves. Nico, an old friend of Candide who is completely ruined, arrives to the fashion hotel in which both are. Nico falls in love with Kitty, but, unlike the other men who court her, treats her with indifference. The girl, wounded in his pride, it is interested to Nico. Just before the wedding, Don Candido leaves claimed by its industrial businesses, and instructs his friend to take care of his bride. Nico and Kitty end up falling in love. Don Candido back the same day fixed for the wedding.

A struggling single mother agrees to help her estranged, alcoholic father reclaim his home from drug addicts, despite years of distance stemming from his addiction and her mother's death.

Two fairy godmothers struggle to make their godchildren not fight and love each other, but a third person intervenes and worsens the situation.

Ernesto on Earth is a film that undertakes a historical journey through the life of the revolutionary poet Ernesto Cardenal, capturing his essence, the legacy of his human experience and his spiritual commitment until the last days of his life. Through a poetic vision, the movie settles the union of his soul, history, love and poetry with Nicaraguan lands.

Two bandits steal a number of gems and other valuable art from a museum in the Dominican Republic. They are helped by their American partner, Tom who double-crosses them and escapes with the stolen treasure.

Two Chileans, Daniela and Tomas, meet in Philadelphia. Daniela is the daughter of a former political prisoner, tortured during Pinochet's dictatorship. Tomas is the son of the physician that tortured her father. Both have been forced to deal with a past that doesn't belong to them, and together they will find a space to question their roles and their heritage.

"Plus Ultra" is the motto of the Spanish state. This slogan was used to encourage navigators to conquer new territories and to forget the warning from mythology: "Non Terrae Plus Ultra" (there is no land beyond here). The Canary Islands, testing ground for the tactics used during the colonization of the Americas, becomes the setting for a tale about this land.

Compilation of images of the amateur recordings of Madronita Andreu, Catalan intellectual of the nineteenth century, daughter of Dr. Andreu, famous for its pills and cough syrup.

Pepe has left the psychiatric hospital after serving time for stealing to work. Only the solidarity of Antonio, a disabled activist, allows him to build a fragile life on which to project his weak hopes. Nevertheless, his need to fit in a senseless world becomes a desperate chore. The horizon of his long-awaited “normality" proves unreachable. The relationship with Antonio interpellates his view of life, inviting him to recognize himself as an anomaly and invent a new madness in which to live.

Madrid, 1974. Six years have passed since Martin and his family have returned to Spain from Switzerland. A visit to their adopted country will bring complications.

An army pilot who's passionate about his job finds out he has a brain tumor. He decides to continue with his job for as long as possible.

February 2026: Nerea, a young dreamer, arrives in the city where she meets Sael. Through voice memos recorded on the underground, streets and buildings, Nerea reflects on our place as human beings in the world. Nerea’s message will fall into Sael’s hands, thrown from the top of a skyscraper.

For many years lions and hyenas have competed hard for meat. Both control each other, stealing and killing each other. But in this game, both survive and no one prevails.Their destinies are united. This is the story of the ancestral confrontation between the most iconic predators of Africa

A married couple are temped by passions around them.

In a dressing room of the theater where she performs a play by Miguel Delibes, actress Lola Herrera has a long conversation with actor Daniel Dicenta, from whom she has been separated for several years.

Roberto decides to ask for permission at the office because he suspects his wife has a lover and wants to catch her. A friend of the protagonist offers to investigate the woman with the intention of giving sufficient evidence of thedeception. However, he soon discovers that his wife knows his plans.

Irene, a former member of the terrorist gang ETA recently released from prison in Catalonia, recalls her past during her return trip to the Basque Country.

Eduvigis is an Eldery Lady who lives in Madrid, and visits bad luck on everyone that she looks at through glasses that her late husband gave her, which were made from crystals from an Egyptian Tomb. To arrange the sale of an inherited house, she must travel to the Canary Islands, and so puts an advert in a newspaper asking for a maid to accompany her, and a chauffeur to drive her car. Mercedes, a girl who works in a Museum in Madrid, and Tony, a student whose college has just started Summer vacation, answer the advert. Neither of them gets along with the other at all, but both are hired to make the trip with Eduvigis. Arriving in Tenerife, Mercedes and Tony discover that the house is worth much more than it appears, and much more than what is being offered.

Two families that hate each other coudn't hinder the marriage of their firstborns. From this relationship born two pair of twins. Unfortunately their parents die and each family take in one pair of twins. Time pass trough, the twins find each other and many questions need to be solved.

At the end of the 20th century, humanity sent a series of documents into space representing Earth's culture. Among them were images, sounds, brainwaves, and various popular science articles. The goal was to establish galactic intercultural connections and share our culture with outer space. All of these documents have been floating through space without a response… until now.

Two twin sisters are making a birthday cake. Like a two headed creature, they appear to be a projection of one another. In the brief afternoon they spend together, they relive past conflicts and some shared fears that come back to haunt them.

Aging wastrel wants to have his sister declared incompetent so he can take control of her estate.

DESTINY (2006) Based on the novel "The man who came to a town" by Hector Tizon (Argentina, 1929) who in 1976 was exiled to Spain, where he worked in publishing houses, newspapers and magazines. A Spanish drug dealer has to close a transaction in the remote region of Jujuy, Argentina. Almost killed it. Chance will make you have to hide in a remote village disguised as a priest, where the inhabitants will be taken as such. There you will have to take sides with the imminent changes that threaten the people, and decide if takes that second chance that has given life.

This adaptation of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. The boy's mother is a surgeon and therefore a rather uncommon woman for her society. She and Werther gradually become romantically involved, and his feelings for her begin to run much deeper than is apparent on the surface.

Andrés, who lives with his grandmother in a decadent mansion, decides to become a dog in order to overcome his moral prejudices so that he can commit a horrible act.

A Chilean exile leaves his Swedish partner to return to Chile. There he meets his old love, Consuelo.

Melodrama that tells the tragedy of a peasant family.

A long talk with the spanish screenwriter Rafael Azcona, who's credited in the writing of more than 100 films. He's well-known for his colourful scripts, indulging in picaresque characters and flavourful dialogue, but has a wide range of facets. He worked for filmmakers like Luis García Berlanga, Marco Ferreri, Carlos Saura, Fernando Trueba or José Luis García Sánchez.

Romantic comedy about a cinema director who is cheated by his producer and distributor, forcing him to make a low budget movie from a terrible script.