Discoveries from Spain World Cinema

A group of soldiers, lost in the woods, must face the traumas of their past and the terrifying forces stalking them.

On a cold winter afternoon, António and Jota return from the front with their friends, looking for an ancient Roman thermal bath. They joke with each other while wading through swamps, recounting past tactical glories. The baths have appeared after a long time spent under the water of a reservoir, and people of all ages curious about the discovery come to spend the day. But there is something mysterious about these thermal waters - as if the baths influence the mood of the men, giving them the courage to say things they have never told anyone. As day turns to night, they confess their feelings and their fears of losing their best friend forever.

Erlantz leaves home after an argument, one too many, with his father who is way too traditional. At a party, he meets an old friend in the crowd.

Paula, a thirteen year old girl, starts to experience certain complications in the relationships with her family and friends. In order to be with her ill grandmother, which she barely knows, she spends the summer in Ojos Negros. There she will meet Alicia, a girl her age, who also stays in town for the summer. Together they will venture into the adult world through a stifling summer that never ends.

After losing his job and his girlfriend on the same day. A man visits his friend in AZ for some R&R. But after a series of what it seemed impossible events the two turn into fugitives

Amanda is a melancholic prostitute, in love with a regular client, a disenchanted doctor. Since the day Amanda met this man, he has become, without knowing it, her only client. This explains why Amanda, since then, has been stealing suitcase in a bus station in order to live. One day Amanda steals a suitcase which is different than the other. Its content will change her life.

A young woman just released from a mental institution returns home to her mansion and faces a new set of horrors.

Alma cannot sleep. When she goes to bed, soon a series of sounds and shadows involve her. With the help of surveillance cameras and therapy, Alma is going to discover the horrors that surround her, one of which can be her nextdoor neighbour. The house becomes her enemy. Until she decides to do something. Director López Gallego, who also wrote the screenplay, brings us another example of the excellence of Spanish horror and mystery cinema, with great performances by Alba Galocha and Denís Gomez. One of the scariest and most intriguing features of the year.

Monste, a scatterbrained, well-meaning sex therapist, embarks on a mission to reconnect with her angsty son after discovering his troubles may stem from the huge "problem" tucked inside his trousers.

An old boat is a silent witness of how the lives of the characters on board are fleetingly intertwined on a predetermined day.

A videographic essay born from the desire to explore spaces from an intimate and domestic perspective, subverting the solid approach linked to epic and grandiloquent narratives.

Three good guys vs a bad dude who sells weapons to the Apaches and provokes a range war between US Cavalry and a splinter group of tribesmen, breaking the standing treaty between their tribe and the invaders. Sequel to Los Hermanos Diablo.

Based on the life of Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria), president of the PCE. The film is a documentary, prepared over three years with archive material from Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Havana, Yugoslavia and Basque and Spanish film libraries.

On his way to Santiago de Compostela, a pilgrim recounts his experiences through the letters he writes to his friend.

The epic story of a great man of cinema, Samuel Bronston, as recounted by those who knew him. Bronston created a parallel Hollywood in Spain that was much larger than the one in California, and this provoked the wrath of an industry that ultimately devoured him.

Mateo is a teenage boy who lives his life glued to the screen. There he spends his hours in silence. Maria has recently moved in to face the burden of their complex family situation on her own.

There are men who have become myths, true icons of our time; but an icon, by definition, is surrounded by mystery, unattainable and indefinable.

María, a young and attractive woman, loses her job, meets Luis, a young man with no stable job neither, his wife supports him. Luis wants to start a relationship with María, but she doesn't. She prefers to be with Luis' friends instead.

After the death of her younger daughter, Carmen is incapable of confronting her loss, still living with her ghost. Through the Spanish dance, she will be passing through the mourning with her eldest daughter.

A premature birth in the middle of the darkness of the 2019 national blackout in Caracas, Venezuela.

Uruguay, 2045. Yerba mate is prohibited. Two illegal vendors travel to Paraguay to smuggle weed. On this journey they become accidental heroes as they return to the people their lost identity.

Another nearly-ordinary winter day in the life of 64-year-old Doron, director of a municipal home for the aged: the rain is pouring, someone nabbed his reserved parking spot, and Bela Schorr, occupant of Room 212, passed away that morning.

"One of the thematic lines that Juanjo Giménez's cinema has covered is dedicated to football. In addition to Rodilla, his shorts Libre indirecto (1997) and Máxima pena (2005) bring us closer to this world, whose passion is not so much in the big leagues and championships, but in the emotional universe that cinema is for many people."

The adventurous life of Natacha Rambova (1897-1966), an American artist, born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy, who reincarnated herself countless times: false Russian dancer, silent film actress, scenographer and costume designer, writer, spiritist, Egyptologist, indefatigable traveler, mysterious and curious; an amazing 20th century woman who created the myth of Rudolph Valentino.

The adventures of a young orphan, who is determined to explore the world no matter what.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. El Rubio left the crime underworld years ago, but a serious family problem forces him to rethink his life choices when drug dealer Júnior proposes him to steal his bosses' frontman…

«Etiqueta negra» is about love and about masks. It tells the story of Erik, a night-shift employee at a lonely gas station, and one of its clients, Alex. Tonight, something happens that will give them the opportunity to discover who they really are.

A shy, young woman has reasons to suspect that her enigmatic boyfriend is cheating on her. Determined to reveal the truth she’ll discover a sinister secret that will turn her life into an endless nightmare.

Based on a true story. A Spanish soldier hides out with and aids the Saharawi people of the Western Sahara against the injustices of his own army.

Families gather to receive the New Year. But this meeting brings a series of confessions that will make for a very peculiar evening.

As every year Carlos is spending the summer in the country with his family in order to help out with things. Perhaps he won't even be returning to Madrid, as economic prospects are hardly rosy there. In addition, his father's health is failing and he needs Carlos to help. In this town, where the elders still celebrate the medieval rites, Carlos meets a young policeman Juan and they fall in love. A friendship ensues amidst age-old rituals and a crisis of a nation, all this set against a spectacular backdrop which seems somehow not of this world.

Two children, Pancho and Birutas, who live peacefully in the same village, are platonically in love with Xonxa. One of them, El Birutas, has to emigrate in search of a better future, leaving Xonxa and Pancho in the village.

A father sets out to win back the love of his son, whom he abandoned when he was one year old.

Luna runs away from home in the middle of the night. In an unexpected encounter with a group of drag queens, she redefines her concept of family.

Tension mounts between a quadraplegic man and his wife as she prepares a bath for him.

A woman who is trapped in a boring routine working in a slaughterhouse finds an unexpected opportunity to change her life. Marta Bayarri and Pepo Blasco star in this short film. Directed and written by Marta Bayarri.

Although the title (which translates as "Murders in Chicago") promises a gangster story, this is more of a murder mystery that kicks off with the seemingly accidental death of a construction worker, followed shortly after by that of a noted publisher (an uneasy-looking Eduardo Fajardo). What follows is a very confusing story in which the police, a police coroner (José Campos) and a vagrant (Fernando Sánchez Polack) who witnessed Fajardo's death embark on separate inquests on what actually happened. Meanwhile, June (María Luisa Rubio), who works as a secretary for the publishing company, is under pressure by a blackmailer (Antonio Jiménez Escribano) who has pictures of her in the sack with the deceased publisher.

Gulliver washes ashore on de country of the giants.

Late at night, a brother and his sister ride in an elevator with their father. Suddenly, the lights go off, and the lift gets stuck between two floors. In the dark and unable to get any help, the father pushes his son through the narrow space between the shaft and the hallway. Alone in the claustrophobic box, the father and daughter stay silent, until a childish whining is heard from the shadows. Someone is inside the elevator... breathing by their side.

Three friends embark on a psychedelic and illegal adventure with the goal of picking up some girl friends from a concert. Along the way, they’ll realize that mixing paracetamol with beer wasn’t the best idea.

Trip to the refugee camps of Lesbos and Athens which shows the difficult situation experienced by refugees trapped in the camps, contextualizing the causes and giving a small ray of hope through the small organizations that treat to cover basic needs, such as food, physical and mental health, support, etc.

At the end of the Spanish Civil War, almost half a million people moved by fear of reprisals to France. A hundred thousand of them were children. The French Government overflowed by the human avalanche, put them in improvised refugee camps. Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, former consul in Spain before the war, convinced the President of Chile to save more than two thousand refugees. The film tells the story of Julia, a little girl that escapes Barcelona with his father, a young widower. They embarked on the Winnipeg, a ship chartered by Neruda. That saved them from a dark future in Europe. Now, she is “a daughter of Neruda”, as the descendants of the 2,200 refugees call themselves.

A couple travel to the beach, only to find it's a nude beach.

In a Catholic seminary, Brother Nestor is found dead and his best friend, Brother Esteban, tells the story of the events that preceded his death. There, a repressed and unhealthy love is discovered.

The documentary chronicles the week the streets burned, police charged against crowds, and Barcelona experienced the five most chaotic days in its recent history. When the Supreme Court sentenced the 12 pro-independence leaders for sedition, misuse of public funds, and disobedience, the widespread rejection of the verdict sparked a wave of demonstrations, protests, and violent clashes that transformed the streets of Barcelona, ​​and other cities in Catalonia, into a veritable battlefield.

Serena fights for the rights of others, but not for her own. When her best friend Marina confesses she's in love with her, Serena is forced to face her own fears, her mental health, and the prejudices of those around her.

Suave jewelry-thieves caper comedy overlaid with howling family-melodrama coincidences.

A clandestine vessel sinks off the coast of a small port town on the Andalusian coast without disturbing the routine. The civil guards sort out the castaways as they do every day, the tourists take advantage of the fine weather to go sailing and to the funfair, and the night trucks head north. The shipwrecked, hallucinated, discover the concrete floor of a Europe that doesn't see them.

In 1994, a triple homicide at the Miramar home of a vivacious South Florida bar owner shocked the entire community. Pablo Ibar, son of famed Spanish jai alai player Candido Ibar, is convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. After 16 years on death row, the Florida Supreme Court suspends Pablo’s execution and orders a new trial: Pablo’s last chance. In this docuseries, a swirl of characters, including judges, attorneys, victims’ family members, Pablo’s family, other suspects, detectives, jurors, create an epic tapestry of what it means to be on trial in America.