Discoveries from Spain World Cinema

AWOL from French Foreign Legion and hiding in a Prince's harem, clowns get mixed up in palace intrigues

Raúl has invented something that can change the destiny of humanity: a whistle whose sound arouses irrepressible sexual desire. The deluded inventor thought of avoiding wars with the blow of his dick, but his friend Manuel, a real cheek, will not deprive himself of using the invention to arouse as many women as possible. Not even Lucrecia, Raúl's naive fiancée, will be able to resist the magic whistle.

When three estranged sisters, Gloria, Ana and Lidia, meet up again on the death of their mother, Adela, they find themselves obeying her somewhat eccentric last wishes. Though their mother has spent the last 30 years without uttering a single word, she has left very clear written instructions of what she wants done after her death.

A group of journalists currently investigating the disappearance of all the inhabitants of a town one night, 1945. Julia is an investigative journalist who works for a magazine supernatural-themed "Year Zero". Despite not believing in parapsychological events, finds a surprising reality. Following a terrible fact found to be able to feel certain presences, even "see" the past when the force of the environment that is powerful enough.

Hugo becomes captivated with Octavio, a middle-aged local boxing champion, but their relationship is tested when Hugo finds a new job in the city.

Emma's eyes are blind but she believes to see everything very clear: she wants to be a mother. She longs to obsessively. After discovering that her boyfriend can not get her pregnant, she breaks with him and goes in search of a perfect sperm. Without falling in love, no feelings. Sounds easy, but quickly discovers that her blindness is not only in her eyes.

Angelica Zamora is a famous actress and singer, ignored by her three children Julio, Clotilde and Felipe. After learning of a serious illness that leaves her little time to live, her children and their friends intend to make her spend her best moments without being aware of the disease she suffers. Julio will even propose to someone to please his mother.

Blaquito is thirty years old and lives with his mother in El Matal, a small fishing village on the coast of Ecuador. One day, the beach turns up filled with cocaine packets. Blanquito, along with his friend Lorna, decide to travel to Guayaquil, where people will pay five times more per package. Little does Blanquito realize that in the days that follow he will be staring at death in the eye and losing his head for love.

Emma is 50 years old and twenty who acts corrections officer. Her life revolves around the jail where he works and her home. Without leaving his loneliness, her order and her almost obsessive routine, lives locked in a reality that has been built for she.

Miranda tries to be cordial and respectful to Leonardo after their breakup, but her nostalgic and carnal thirst is greater than her common sense.

Michelsen, an older trucker who is lonely and sick, while traveling through Patagonia meets someone on the highway who reminds him of his daughter, whom he has not seen in years.

Manolo (Fernando Esteso) is a porn actor who no longer has any attraction towards women, having become "a decent man". But, of course, there is a horny doctor, who happens to be a fan of this actor, that will do everything to help him, even trying to turn him on with his own wife.

In this joyous documentary about the passion of soccer, the iconic Uruguayan musician Jaime Roos and his son reunite to embark on a journey to the South African World Cup with the Uruguayan national soccer team.

María works in a hostess bar in Madrid because, forced by the Puritans of her little village, she had to leave accused of public scandal just for having kissed her boyfriend. María, together with her three sisters, decides to return and builds a club in the village faced with the scandalized don Florencio, a repressed banker and overlord who secretly desires María. In order to go unnoticed, María and her sisters run the club through a wax-chandler's shop where the majority of men of the village will parade, which excites even more the lascivious and hypocritical don Florencio.

"La Tama" is a troubled teenager. Tired of constantly fighting with her mother, she takes off on a journey with no return.

Elías is just beginning his career as a high school teacher and just beginning his relationship with Pedro when he finds out that he's HIV positive. How will he tell his new lover?

Mr Wong is a third generation fisherman in Hong Kong, struggling to keep this tradition alive. One night, he decides to leave the crowded waters of the harbour, and fish in calmer waters. His luck changes when he catches something that does not belong to this world.

Huelva, Spain, an isolated region lost in time. The grass, the sand and the sky are the same that those foreigners saw in the spring of 1895, when they crossed the sea from a distant country to mark the unspoiled terrain and extract its wealth, when the tower was new, when people could climb to the top of the highest dune and imagine that the city of Tartessos was still there, in the distance, almost invisible in the morning brume.

A young photographer takes nature shots and selfies for an online dating profile. During a break, another young man seemingly appears by chance, but as the conversation unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing is accidental when your image is on the internet.

Katrina and Bruno plunge into a wild night of strobe lights and deafening music… until a brutal conflict shatters the fun and ruins the party forever.

Antu, a young screenwriter journeys into the fictional worlds of his screenplays.

Arturo is obsessed with cleanliness and order. This trait interferes with his normal life and raises problems with those around him, specially with his mother and bride. A doctor suggests he should make a treatment with gamma rays, in his private practice.

A group of people are taken hostage by some brutal thugs.

Aura and Gael's passionate new love is quickly overshadowed by horrible news: Aura is diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor. Gael decides to stay in the relationship and support her, but don Julio, her father, deeply concerned about his daughter's health and blinded by the possibility of losing her, opposes the relationship. Aura now faces her biggest challenge yet: to live her life with death and love knocking on her door.

Sharing car is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.

Infidelity and the unpleasant consequences.

Hector Pelegrin, an unsuccessful insurance agent is admitted to the prestigious school Ferran as a gym teacher. The only problem is that he completely lacks the necessary skills for the job. He organizes a game between the football team at his school and another center, a historic rival, resulting in a surprise full of humorous criticism to our society. Pelegrin tries to convince everyone that football is just a sport

Ava, an Iranian-born sound artist, lives in Germany far from her family. While she is recording sounds of nature, she hears a strange sound from the vastness of the forest, a sound that becomes impossible to ignore.

Transformation of urban space by the tourist economy of platforms and the apparent neutrality of screens.

Spanish jurist and republican thinker Antonio García-Trevijano (1927-2018) expounds his political thought and reflects on the recent political history of Spain.

In Asturias, the Duro Felguera company dismissed 232 employees in 1993. From then on, a ten-year struggle began for the workers to be reinstated. "Resistencia" is the story of a workers' struggle that ended up triumphing.

Two sisters marked by their mother’s murder years before find the murder weapon and the clues that lead her to the perpetrator.

Buddy-cop comedy: police officer with a fatal disease will only draw pension/benefits for his family if he dies in the line of duty.

Berenguer wants to be an actor. He fights with all his strength, but it’s not an easy profession for youngsters. His grandfather, an authoritarian patriarch, is against Berenguer's "misguided passion": he only enjoys bringing home young mulato girls. An accident will knock him down. In Los Angeles, Berenguer will search for a secret buried during many years. Will this trip change his fate, his way of understanding the world and the land where he was born, and his own life? It will be a short and powerful emotional journey full of smiles and some tears.

Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmakers like Fernando Colomo, Fernando Trueba, Imanol Uribe, Carmen Maura and Antonio Resines, protagonists of the so called 'New Spanish Cinema' in the 80s. His first films were produced between friends, her back to the industry. Rolled with minimal budget and with the sole intention of having fun ... And big surprise were critical and box office successes. And also true generational manifestos.

A son of the Marquise of Seven Almenas is robbed by a crook and deposited in Melchor's house, who sells dolls in the street. The administrator of the Marquise discover the whereabouts of the child and goes to pick him up, but Melchior gives him one of his children, thinking that will ensure the future. Over the years, Melchior, widower, enters as a steward in the house of the marquise where the alleged 'marquis' live splendidly.

One letter can tell more than a lifetime. Iván faces the moment of opening up to his recent date after returning from dinner. When they get home and everything seems ready for their first sexual encounter, Iván surprises Mónica with a revelatory letter.

Eva, a young woman, discovers she is pregnant and decides to have an abortion. With her partner against her, she feels it's the best thing to do and will soon discover that the decision was easier to take than to face. Nevertheless, she knows she made the right thing, even if it sometimes haunts her.

The infamous Don Juan Tenorio, a reckless and charming libertine, engages in various amorous exploits and challenges morality in his pursuit of pleasure and conquest. A wager between Don Juan and his rival Don Luis Mejía is established, laying the groundwork for a contest of seduction and moral defiance. "Don Juan Tenorio" by José Zorrilla is a dramatic play written in the mid-19th century, renowned as a classic of Spanish literature.

Pedro is accused of the murder of Eduardo . The evidence against him is overwhelming. A famous lawyer has to give up his defense because he is seriously ill. But his son Pablo, who is a writer, decides to investigate

The most mischievous twins have returned 25 years later, in a monstrous adventure. Zape and Zipi had never believed in monsters other than the players of their favorite football team, until one day his buddy Invi, stepped three times on a tile without knowing that a curse would fall upon them: They had just opened the door of the monsters world!

This is the visit to an exhibition of painting and photography with the help of a girl named Claudia, and a sickness called Anorexia.

Based on the assassination attempt at the then dictator Augusto Pinochet on September 7, 1986.

After committing a robbery, Rafael joins Silvestre and they begin a long run to escape the Police that takes them to Puigcerdà, near the French border they want to cross. Silvestre is tougher and they have some quarrels.

After being in rehab for two years, Cesar now works in a small balloon factory in suburban Buenos Aires. His former father in law will force him to take care of his young estranged son, whose mother died in an accident. But Cesar has plans to give Alfonso up for adoption.

The bizarre adventures of the three gunmen Western grosser, next to a delicate young.

Six friends return to the big farmhouse in the middle of a subtropical landscape where their best friend Miguel spent his last days. While the sound of his recordings fills the house and gardens, they pack the things he left behind. Brzezicki's directorial début is a haunting sensorial journey through memories, images and sounds.

Mateo invites his friends for a weekend and proposes they play an unconventional game. They’ll each share their best memory of him, and then he’ll choose a winner. Secrets emerge in this exploration of the shared memories that bind us.

In 1980's Madrid, five-year-old boy Ivan is confronted with the birth of his new brother. His sister is Dad's favorite, and the newborn will be Mom’s favorite. So where does that leave Ivan? If only he could grow wings and get away from it all...

In Cerro Bayo, a mountainous region of Patagonia on the Chilean border, a Kolla Indian falls in love with a girl from another village. His mother disapproves the relationship and hates the woman. When the girl becomes pregnant with his baby, he must travel to find better work, leaving her alone with the mother's wrath.

Galo has enough free space in his old and luxurious apartment so he asks Fama, an exgirlfriend with cash problems, to come live with him. She arrives with her Canadian boyfriend, Alex. They both couldn’t find themselves in a more comfortable situation: free space to live in, stocked fridge and no pressures to leave anytime soon. Nevertheless not everything goes smoothly for Fama while in there, specially with Carlota (the fourth roomate in the house) who seems to hold an interest for Alex.