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Two gormless truckdrivers vs five teenaged girls running away from boarding school.

Marcelo Quevedo and his brother Carlos Quevedo were separated in childhood when Carlos left Cuba with his mother on a boat to seek a different life. Marcelo was left behind in Cuba burdened with the heavy duty of caring for his grandfather who was in poor health. Distance wasn’t the only issue that marked the separation of the two brothers; their mother couldn’t endure the rough trip and she died before the boat could reach its destination. More than twenty years later, Carlos Quevedo decides to return to Cuba to see his brother only to find that he is now stricken with ALS, a terminal disease that slowly immobilizes him to the point of a vegetative state.

Carlos, a peaceful man, looks how his quiet life is shaken when Marta, a girl aged 13, irrupts in it and starts to extort him. Unable to defend himself, he becomes involved in a series of distressing situations that lead to a disproportionate response. The country of fear digs into our worst fears and how they may and up becoming the source of different forms of domination. Such fears can lead us to accept overprotective behavior.

After attempting to cross the US/Mexico border in search of a better life, Armando awakens in an unknown room, his body broken down and a Lucha Libre mask sewn into his neck.

The narration of two parallel stories tells the history of the student movement in Chile. A teenager immersed in the political climate of his school and a former prisoner of the Pinochet dictatorship will find in the social mobilization the meaning of their own story.

An intimate play evolving around three main characters: an adult woman, her mother and her female lover. Two days in their lives occur in two opposing setting, everyday life in the demanding metropolis of Santiago and a sailboat trip cruising a beautiful bay. The three character remain trapped in a claustrophobic confrontation. The film dialogs with 'Knife in the water' from the side of women, an intense character drama with many involuntary humorous scenes. The eternal, never completed quest of seeing and recognizing the other as they are or, at least, as they want to be seen.

In September 2003, Alejandra López de Lemos, eldest daughter of a professor of art history at the University of Seville, disappears without a trace. All suspicions fall on her ex-husband, but the police find no evidence against him. Several months go by and the media attention wanes. Then a journalism student decides to do her final thesis on the case...

Living in a village full of slopes can drive you mad. Those who have climbed them in the old-fashioned way are fully aware of that. What they don’t know is that their souls might have stuck around.

Illustrates the events of the Ponce Massacre through the life of one of the victims, Ulpiano Perea.

The story of a small .22 caliber gun ties together several episodes involving a cross-section of characters in the Caribbean underworld.

Matias suffers from annoying nightmares, which don't let him move on with his life. Meanwhile, he passes his days between Eugenia, his wife, and Silvana, his lover.

Ignacio and Paul are father and son. The first is fifty-five, and the second is about thirty. In recent months, none of them have lived in the family home in which the two were the only occupants, Ignacio because emigrated to another city in search of employment, his son, who was admitted to a detoxification center. The chance that father and son wants to return to the people the same day. A Ignacio, in their new company, we have taken early retirement and has run out of excuses to prolong his absence the people and what was his family home. To Paul, meanwhile, have been discharged in the center and, from now on, you can continue your treatment in the outpatient own people

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.

Close to Greenaway takes us behind the scenes of the first part of the trilogy The Tulse Luper's Suitcases in Barcelona and Almeria. In this film, for the first time we get close to the unique vision of the controversial Welsh director Peter Greenaway. The intense rehearsals with the actors, his meticulous method of shooting and his thirst for the new audiovisual and technologies are revealed in this documentary.

Camila, an explosive teenager with dreams of being an activist leader, organizes a pacific student protest. When no student shows up for the protest, she convinces her friends to take up arms to take over their school. Things take a turn when the Principal corners Camila and her friends, forcing her to make a choice: to surrender or push forward.

A young woman ventures into an unnamed city that has collapsed into chaos and disorder to search for her journalist brother.

Lolo is a 10 year old Andalusian who has to move to New York with his family in 1985. He only knows America through watching movies like "Back to the Future," "The Goonies" and "Karate Kid". Today, Lolo and his grandmother decide to go down to the pool of their new home in New York to cool. But something unexpected will cause Lolo to face all his fears at once. Because there are times when a simple decision can change the rest of your life.

Confined to his Tahitian hut by the French colonial authorities in 1903, the painter Paul Gauguin is forced to paint a new masterpiece to save his five-year-old native son, while battling illness and torn between madness and sanity. In the course of these events, memories of the past, especially of his life and work at the Panama Canal, the place where his artistic career began and his guilt at abandoning his family in Paris, begin to haunt him.

After the death of his girlfriend in an accident, Andrés discovers an unexpected way of coping, and remembering.

Grandpa, why did they try to kill you? The documentary addresses the animic changes that the filmmaker experiences while he tries to understand the participation that his grandfather played, as a civil associate, during the last military dictatorship in Argentina. The role that he played as the Dean of the Architecture Faculty at the University of Buenos Aires, as a link with the concentration camp ESMA, is one of the multiple topics that grandpa "Pico" narrates in camera.

Ranchera romance; two young lovers whose families are hostile to each other.

A young factory worker sends out pictures of herself to a beauty contest and hopes to be chosen. In the same place works Fernando, whom the other employees do not like because of his being very arrogant. In revenge, Rosita pretends to love him. Fernando discovers her double game, but also pretends he is not aware.

The documentary Gregorio Ordóñez, el asesinato que despertó la rebelión contra ETA is an exercise of memory recalling the figure of the People's Party councillor and Deputy Mayor of San Sebastián on the 30th year of his assassination. The production looks back at the circumstances of his attack, the context of the Basque Country and San Sebastián in particular in 1995 and the events that followed his murder.

Ultrashow by Miguel Noguera at the TEA.

Julius is an upper-class boy in Lima in the 1940s. He lives in a palace with his aristocratic family and extensive servants. As the years go by, Julius will gradually lose his innocence, discovering and never understanding an adult world full of inequalities and injustices.

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.

After eleven years of absence Ernesto returns to his hometown and reencounters his most intimate childhood friends. To have fun they steal an abandoned boat. In the middle of local anecdotes and blurred memories from the past, Ernesto finds himself bound to a place and a past that he though he had forgotten.

Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has married a handyman, given birth to three children and runs the family household. In the wake of the Argentine military coup of 1976, Maria's oldest son Carlos is abducted. Desperate, Maria turns to her prominent friend for help. Yet the more Raquel gets involved in the search for Carlos, the more she becomes herself a target of the junta. Finally, she flees from Argentina to Berlin. Meanwhile Maria joins a group of women who investigate the fate of their disappeared relatives. In 1983, after the fall of the dictatorship, the two friends meet again.

José is a forty-something guy who finally manages to make his dream come true of owning a bar. For the opening night, he invites his best friends from the high school: Tania, the most popular girl of the classroom who now works as an influencer on the Internet and actress in musical plays; Ismael, an unstoppable loudmouth and womanizer who is convinced to be eternal young and the king of the hill; Quique, a naive man with obesity troubles married to Sofía, his lifelong love interest from the high school; and Manolo, the smart and streetwise boy who was the heart of the bunch. However, Quique and Sofía have troubles in their marriage after the suspicion that Quique was unfaithful to her; Ismael struggles his feelings about Tania against his fear of opening his heart to a woman; and Manolo reveals herself as transgender Lola.

"Tiempo dos is a melancholic and sad movie. Soft gray and poetically evocative. It is made with the heart. It has purity, it denotes clarity and is sharp and concise. The image that most remains me is that of the old-fashioned photographic apparatus protected from the rain by the umbrella" Rafael Alberti

Ambitious non-starter gets a job as a bill-collector at a beauty-products company and tries to bluff his way into a management position, then tries a couple of other business schemes with minimal success.

Alberto and Isa, a young couple, have met up with their friend Martin to spend a day bicycling around the mountains. Martin wanders in search of Graellsia Isabellae, a rare species of butterfly that for the moment is evading him.

After the death of a powerful businessman, his estranged daughters reunite at the funeral home. Amid scandals, betrayals, and unresolved issues, each family member must confront the truth about the man who shaped their lives.

Rocío Dalbaicín is a singer who returns to Spain after a long stay in America. Now, she triumphs again in Barcelona, ​​but various love problems await her there.

Nine knots, a prayer for each one, and then, nine wishes for the soul that no longer inhabits the earth. María knew about the cult thanks to her mother and knew how to tie them thanks to her father. But now she and her brother José are alone

Carme lives in a mountain village in Galicia with her sick mother and her father Ramón, with whom she hardly speaks. Working in a bakery, she feels the urge to escape from this oppressive atmosphere, but circumstances always seem to stop her. But during the “Rapa das Bestas” weekend – a celebration of the age-old struggle between man and horse – Carme’s older brother, Luís, comes home with his wife María...

Julieta is a young beautiful woman who has just started her holidays. She doesn't know what to do until she meets two women who propose she goes with them. The three women decide to go to the beach, where they meet a young boy who claims to be the best lover in the world. So the women decide to test if it's true.

After the explosion of an atomic bomb, a handful of people at the mercy of a disturbed millionaire.

In his second stand-up special, Daniel Sosa reminisces about his childhood, ponders Mexican traditions and points out a major problem with "Coco".

Flotando is a short film about a russian astronaut aboard the ISS that wakes up after a collision. After several failed attempts to communicate with the base he receives an un-welcomed visit. Although it might be just his imagination, or not.

A memory of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), woman, actress, goddess, myth, in the words of the Spanish director and scriptwriter José Luis Garci, who returns to his childhood and recovers a lost paradise.

Amnesiac woman is stuck between her lawyer and a detective after her husband's murder.