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Nao's day-to-day life is guided by MOM, an advanced artificial intelligence capable of adopting an overprotective role in people's daily lives to the point of controlling and manipulating their lives.

The Falklands/Malvinas War has proved a powerful motif in contemporary Argentine film-making and Ramiro Longo's new documentary offers a unique take on the conflict and its pervasive legacy. While Argentina suffered 649 casualties during the War, subsequently over 350 ex-servicemen have committed suicide while attempting to come to terms with civilian life in the aftermath of the 1982 defeat. Longo's film is structured around an extended interview with War veteran Sergio Delgado who provides a moving testimony on the conflict and the ways in which it has subsequently haunted his life and aspirations. As much an insider's view of the conflict as a tale of the legacy of trauma, Not Really Ours offers a reflection on memory, fear and the shaping of a nation's psyche. Longo's deft editing juxtaposes telling footage alongside Delgado's story. The result is both a moving tapestry of war and its scars and a telling reflection on the ways in which official history is constructed.

Documentary about Gerardo Ortiz, a regional mexican music singer.

Experimental and psychedelic car accident inspired by the movies of Teo Hernández.

8:19' is a smart gallery of characters living, unknowingly, their last 8 minutes and 19 seconds in absolutely rutinary situations, letting time go by, delaying decisions, postponing meetings and pleasures. Characters who think there is a future to be reached. Like everyone.

A film commissioned by the Municipal Housing Authority that was meant to praise the city council's social housing policy; It was screened in a private session for Mayor Porcioles and was not accepted; a new, happier, more hopeful ending was added, but even so it was never publicly shown and came to be known as "the movie that never existed."

"The Surprises" is an episode film. In the episode Five Years of Life an unknown man and woman spend a night locked in a subway station. In Corazonada, a domestic employee takes revenge on her employer by making her son fall in love and in The Wells there is a love triangle in which the deceived husband is blind.

Grieving widow finds new purpose in life as director of an orphanage.

Félix (Juanjo Puigcorbé), a likeable and careerist flat salesman, wants to be the commercial director of his company at all costs. The bad thing is that this position is deserved by Lola (Cristina Marcos), a young and efficient saleswoman, with whom Félix gets on terribly and who, to make matters worse, is the lover of Emilio (Joaquim de Almeida), their boss.

A cinematographic meeting of four writers who are also actors, directors, teachers and playwrights. This multiplicity of trades is related to the word and the common point of two episodes four that compõem or film. Four stories, four protagonists: two men, two women who reflect, in different ways, on writing, reading, the generational clash and the creative process.

A wealthy hedonist discovers cocaine and decides to make a movie about the drug, becoming an expert through research and experimentation.

A sexually dissatisfied woman is confronted with a man who is the victim of a puritanic education.

Diego is a narcissist who pretends to be interested in solving mysteries so he can have sex with a girl named Uxía. The two try to break into a farm to show the world the mysteries hidden there. While this is happening, Diego gives himself away and Uxía begins to understand the situation. What they don't know is that they are attracting the farmer's attention.

The castrating mother confronts the young woman who is going to marry her youngest son.

The everyday stories of a parish priest and his sheep, some more troublesome than others, in Madrid's El Rastro neighborhood.

Specialized in arranging weddings, Federico arranges marriage by proxy between Ana and Juan, two friends of his who do not know each other. Juan arrives by plane to Spain after spending ten years of safari in Africa, hoping to meet his wife, who arrives the same day from Buenos Aires. At the airport, Fernando receives him and they go to the bar to wait for Ana. But everything starts badly, because during the wait Juan drinks too much and gets drunk. When Ana arrives, she is displeased to meet her husband in such condition. Then Fernando takes them to a hotel for newlyweds where they meet other happy couples and where a peculiar honeymoon begins.

Portrait of the life of an amateur boxer, who falls into the hands of a cruel manager while turning into professional.

The Program has changed everything. It has rejected human creativity has questioned free will and seems to be able of breaking the walls of reason. Universal Knowledge is now within reach but, is the human race ready?

Based on the novel Francisco by Anselmo Suárez y Romero, "The Other Francisco" is a socio-economic analysis of slavery and class struggle through the retelling of the original novel. The film contrasts the romantic conceptions of plantation life found in Suárez Romero's novel with a realistic expose of the actual historical conditions of slavery throughout the Americas. It offers a critical analysis of the novel, showing how the author's social background led to his use of particular dramatic structures to convey his liberal, humanitarian viewpoint.

Three young present-day activists kidnap and interrogate Juan José Pérez García, a former psychiatrist who used “science” to justify political torture during the dictatorship.

All families have secrets and lies, and at some point everyone has thought of confessing everything. But when? How? One by one? Suddenly at a family reunion? Today, on Christmas Eve, it doesn't seem to be the best moment. On Christmas Eve you must enjoy yourself, because Santa Claus is coming, because children are there. Tonight, the secrets are whispered and lies are floating in the air. But who cares about another small lie, it will be the last one. Tomorrow, yes, tomorrow we will tell her everything. So, grandma, Merry Christmas.

Lucas wants a motorcycle. He meets Alvaro, who will give him money for just some innocent pictures. With them Alvaro is able to create a fake online identity to contact young girls.

The end of the world is imminent. A man goes into a parallel dimension, a limbo between reality and fantasy where the normal rules of time and space have ceased to apply. His wife goes to rescue him. Both will be trapped in a strange and cruel world where a ruthless Queen organizes reality as a mad game of chess, a post-apocalyptic dystopia of domination and subjugation where characters can’t eat, speak or move about freely and are periodically viciously attacked.

A young woman has found a clever way to make it to marriage as a virgin—so why is her pregnancy test positive?

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.

For many people the sea is synonymous with peace, freedom and fullness, but the story of my sister Carmen and my family carries with it something much more special. She is an 18-year-old girl with an intellectual disability whose limitations disappear when she goes into the water. Thanks to the perseverance of Julián, our father, she learned to swim and even to dive when he bought her the "Decathlon" mask. He provided all the tools my sister needed to feel fulfilled in the water. ​Agua is a tribute to my father and to everything he fought to make Carmen happy. In the short film there is a dialogue between our family archive and the voice of Toña, my mother. She narrates a very powerful experience that she lived with my sister when we went to Mallorca, six months after my father died. We were going through the worst moment of our lives when chance brought us the travel companion mask to remember the legacy of effort and love left by my father.

Japanese Masao Maruyama, co-founder of the Madhouse studio and producer of the cult films Perfect Blue and Tokyo Godfathers talks about the fantastic universe of mangaka and filmmaker Satoshi Kon (1963-2010), one of the most brilliant and fascinating authors of world animation, ten years after his death.

Documentary made immediately after Franco's death, which includes interviews with the dictator's sister and with Alfredo Mayo, the actor who played the lead role in the film 'Raza'.

Paco, a middle-class young man, tells his lover the shady story of his cousin Montse, a social worker.

The story of the sexual discovery of Kriko Krakinsky, an 11-year-old boy living in a strange and bizarre family of immigrants that share mysterious and surprising behaviors around sexual issues.

Perla is obsessed with having a beauty queen in the family and she is willing to do whatever it takes to make her dream come true.

Estela and Ramón have been through a divorce and the suicide of Hugo, their only child, at the age of 13 years, after suffering bullying. When Estela gets her hands on a video recorded by her son's agressors, she believes the time has come to have a conversation with Ramón. As they discover the reality of what happened to Hugo, they'll try to find out if they could have prevented it and if they were up to the task of being parents.

On the birthday of the patriarch of the family, one of his sons decides to come out of the closet and test the tolerance of his nearest and dearest. But the surprises that he has up his sleeve do not end there.

Carmen and Ángel are in love but her mother does not approve their relationship.

The kidnapping 77-year-old man in Argentina forces his daughter to return to Buenos Aires after years of exile abroad.

A girl waits in the living room of her house for her boyfriend's arrival, but he warns her that he will arrive later than usual that night...

After a blackout paralyzes the country, the residents of a small town manage to organize themselves in order to survive. However, their fragile peace is threatened by a group of feral children. For the teenagers, who have been locked up with their parents for some time, their presence is a problem.

Kevin and his girlfriend Evelyn are camping in the woods when she is abducted and impregnated by otherworldly beings. As the entity within her begins to grow, Evelyn discovers that her cravings can only be satisfied by human flesh and blood.

A story set in Uruguay in 1993. It revolves around an investigation by a law court lawyer, Julia. She's looking into the possibility that a chemist named Eugenio Barrios is being secretly sheltered in Uruguay by right-wing political powers.

Trini is the daughter and granddaughter of thieves. Before it was a specialist in the art of opening safes, but one day decided to change their way of life and is now a cashier at a supermarket. It has also taken a law student boyfriend, but all will be dashed when his father stop, Mr. Baldomero, for stealing 36 kilos of appliances.

A rural community awakens to a crime scene in the middle of the forest. Gradually, a series of previous situations show us the conflicts that occurred in the same place.

Salvador Sunyer (Son) has been the creator of the spots for Temporada Alta Festival for the past ten years. Coinciding with the thirtieth anniversary of the festival, Salvador’s first daughter is born, and he feels like he no longer has the strength to continue to be the same person he thought he was.

Nadia keeps a secret watch over friends and family. She is a voyeur, thriving on the silent observation of others, incapable of interaction. But she will soon have to face up to the reality of an unwanted pregnancy from a relationship that ended with the discovery of her partner's homosexuality. All will be revealed when a family arrives on the scene, the same family that fifteen years before, initiated Nadia in the art of observation.

Children’s birthday parties are most parents' worst nightmare. While the kids play frantically and raise their blood sugar levels, the adults are condemned to a succession of dull conversations about the weather with people they barely know. Not on this birthday party though. Here there is a delightful way for them to break the ice.

Mr. Vila is a family father who has worked a lot during his life to achieve a good life for his family. His oldest daughter, Elvira, causes him many problems because she acts as a rebel.