Discoveries from Spain World Cinema

Miguel Gila (1919-2001) was a Spanish actor and stand-up comedian, famous for his surreal phone conversations with imaginary people, and a skillful cartoonist; an idolized star, a king of laughter.

The first years of the Cuban Revolution characterized by social transformations and class struggles.

Mateo, a young Mexican man, embarks on a pilgrimage through Spain to confront his past, but becomes entangled in a dangerous Catholic cult where forbidden love threatens his very survival.

Shot in six European countries, it tells the story of the concerts given by cult underground band Laibach during the siege of Sarajevo back in 1995.

The Nieto family lives off crime: Assaults and express robberies commanded by policeman Molina, who orders the missions. Nieto executes them, with his son-in-law Boris as henchman. Nieto is already over 60 years old and wants to retire and leave something to his children, Nati, hairdresser, Marcelo, the youngest son who works security in a company and does not want to get involved in these jobs. A final mission could give Nieto the tranquility of retirement and some well-being for his family. But things do not go as expected. Marcelo must return to action and the situation will go from bad to worse.

An overweight man and woman become penpals but are too embarrassed to send each other photographs of themselves and instead exchange pictures of two thinner people. Comedic complications arise when the two penpals finally arrange to meet in person.

The story of the formation of a police squad (Narcos PR), who must leave their differences behind in order to accomplish a common goal: the capture of a drug network's leader.

This story begins with Andrea being born. She is premature, beautiful and different. Her parents start a search that lasts more than a year, trying to get a response and a diagnosis. Lisa Pram, her mother, writes the Little Black Book, a very personal book with texts, drawings and photographs. Chromosome 5 is based on this intimate diary. This is a story of loss and encounter. Andrea is later diagnosed with a rare syndrome called 5p or Cri du Chat. She has lost a small part of her Chromosome 5 and Lisa finds a new way of seeing and accepting light and life.

Actress Lone Fleming suffers terrible nightmares in which she is pursued by zombie Templars.

The tragic story of the encounter between the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and the emperor Moctezuma, lord of the Mexica Empire, through the words and mediation of a woman called Malinche.

Divided into three grotesque stories of absurd humor that, as the title suggests, are based on life, love and death.

A family seen at two different periods, some 40 years having passed between the two. A dysfunctional family marked by what used to be called an ugly illness, cancer and death. The characters quarrel, hate each other, and refuse to accept in their predecessors what they will eventually, inevitably repeat in themselves. A family marked by relations of rejection, love and hate of the other, the upstairs neighbors, those strangers from a far-off land, Andalusia in the 1960s, Morocco at present, who will also form part of this repetitive game that is life. To what point is everything a metaphor or symbol of our society? Are we really strangers to ourselves?

A young addict attends an alternative therapy that will lead him to discover himself, his sexual identity, his acts from the past and their consequences in a journey through the darkest corners of his mind.

Adventures in explotation.

When the Parcheesi kids return from Disneyland, they learn that Vicky, Don Atilio's daughter, will be their new group mate. But Don Atilio opposes Vicky's relationship with Gemma, Yolanda, David, Tino, Frank and Carlitos, so he sends her to a nuns' school run by Don Atilio's sister.

Joan Ximénez el Petitet is a Catalan gypsy who pursues a dream. A former musician now —a percussionist, son of Ramón el Huesos who worked with the mythical singer Peret—, and affected by a rare chronic disease, he wants to accomplish the promise he made to his mother before she died: to celebrate a rumba concert on the stage of the Liceu, a great theater in Barcelona, along with a big symphony orchestra.

Spain, 1602. The knights of the order of the sword of Joan of Arc have been defeated. After generations of fierce fighting against the herald of hell, El Caminante, who has broken the armors and hearts of the generals of the Faith. Possessing the most celibate and virtuous of them all the ulterior enemy has achieved what no thousand leviathans and witches they never dreamed.

Vincent is married to a very sexy woman, who everyone knows as "The Monument", and envy the fate of her husband. However, Vincent is very busy with his work and doesn't pay her enough attention. The situation complicates when the richest man in town gets interested in her.

Two hippie-identified dudebros take over the management of a bikini factory belonging to the father of one of them. Remake of A Ritmo De Twist (1962).

Boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, girl suffers an obsessive compulsive disorder, boy and girl live happily ever after.

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.

Local trade: a lifestyle, an aesthetic, a commitment. The shop sales have decreased since they were unjustly accused of selling a product in bad condition. Therefore, Mentxu organizes a surprise party to his sister Laura, responsible for the establishment. However, what seemed like a support meeting does not develop as expected.

A film that focuses on the sexual changes that occur in the minds and bodies of adolescent boys and girls. It explains the process from sexual contact to childbirth, as well as contraception.

A soldier will have a mission of rescuing his partner kidnapped in the Colombian jungle although he will miss a dating with a beautiful girl that is his partner's sister.

Clara seems to have it all: a perfect life, lovely parents and a partner that loves her. However, when she introduces her partner to her parents..all seem to go from bad to worse

Juan, Pepe and repeaters are three young usual repeaters at a religious school. For Easter, the friends decide to organize a study trip to Paris and through Campitos nerd, negotiate the trip with the rector. This agrees with one condition: they are accompanied by a teacher.

Two teddy-bears go hunting unicorns, their favorite prey.

6 girls living together. The one who has the pencil can control the others

In 1868, while the Cuban War of Independence develops, Gaston de Montero, a noble Spanish knight, rescues a young girl named Siboney and he helps her to become a successful dancer. Over time, she discovers that she is the daughter of a prominent aristocrat.

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.

A guileless Japanese girl gives up everything to marry a lieutenant in the US Navy. But when he suddenly leaves the country, she is determined to wait patiently until he sails back into harbour. Live from Valencia's iconic Palau de les Arts, the audience favourite Madama Butterfly returns with soprano Marina Rebeka and tenor Piero Pretti in the leading roles. Director Emilio López’s staging culminates in the bleak landscape of Nagasaki destroyed by the atomic bomb to evoke Puccini's early outcry against the soul-crushing spirit of colonialism.

OSO is a journey through the history of a pop icon told by its own protagonists, the Tous family, Spain's most famous jewelers.

The documentary chronicles the 139 years of the ex penitentiary García Moreno in Quito, Ecuador, and traces left by the inmates to be transferred to the new prison in the province of Cotopaxi.

A man (José Luis López Vázquez) walks into a bar and shoots four people dead. Next day everybody is talking about the murders. The police know who the killer is and have his photo, but the man himself remains at large. Blanca (Serena Vergano), a lonely librarian, receives a letter from him, declaring his love for her. Apparently he has been a regular at the municipal library, although Blanca denies ever having noticed him.

Pepe Carvalho receives a call from an ex-lover in distress.

A filmmaker scrutinizes his coarse body hair.

Mario and Berto are brothers and they live in Galicia at the “Finis Terrae”. Their father left them when they were children and they grew up with the idea of finding him someday, without knowing that they were the ones separating from each other. Once reunited they will intent to take up again their mission

Short film in homage to José Luis Rebordinos and Olaciregui Lucia, who had left the direction of the Fantasy Film Horror of San Sebastian, after 21 years in charge

A young man, Onofre Bouvila, arrives in Barcelona escaping the troubles of his family. Knowing no one, his only objective is to build a new life. But Barcelona is a city run by warlords and mafias. And it doesn't take Onofre long to understand that in order to move forward has to adapt to the prevailing order of things: only power and money have value. The rest doesn't matter. His ambition is endangers his only love, Delifina.

Rosario a young mixed race woman who works as a maid of a bourgeois family in Quito in 1945. One day the family, because of her daughter's 15 years, decides to take a family photograph. Rosario struggles to get out in this picture.

In 1973, Chinese writer Sanmao (Echo Chen Ping, 1943-91) marries Spanish naval engineer José María Quero while living together in the Spanish Sahara. Sanmao recounts her daily experiences in Tales From the Sahara, a book that is a best-selling phenomenon in Taiwan and China. Sanmao then becomes an icon for independent women and the protagonist of a life that takes on legendary overtones: love, adventure, literature and, finally, tragedy.

Spending her summer in Mallorca, Antonia comes to recognize the latent similarities between her and her dead grandmother and discovers a power over her mourning grandfather. She can't resist playing dress-up, but it becomes unclear who is inhabiting who.

Cris, a 21-year-old girl, goes alone one night to a half-ruined hut far from civilization. There she will try to contact someone important to her from beyond.