Discoveries from Spain World Cinema

Three shepherds are turned into princes by the Forest Fairy and they go live to their lively castle.

Alejandro and Beto are in love. Their relationship, however, is being seriously tested. Alejandro is HIV+ and becoming more desperate as he finds the drug treatments in Mexico City are not working as he had hoped, and his t-cells continue to plummet. After much anguish, he decides, without input from Beto, that he needs to go to the U.S. for better information, medication and treatment. That decision unleashes havoc for Alejandro as he and Beto fight, slip up and finally reconcile. At the U.S. embassy, Alejandro is denied a visa, which ultimately leads him to try crossing the border illegally.

Robin Hood tries to help a crossed gentleman, in love with Isabel, because the girl's uncle has decided to marry her with another.

While house-sitting for a distant cousin, a lonely man fabricates the existence of a vindictive ex-wife withholding his daughter, in order to gain the sympathy of the single mother he has just met.

Inspired by the French classic Les diaboliques (1955), this psycho-thriller copies that film rather closely. In Barcelona, ​​a couple falls apart and the husband falls in love with his wife's cousin. To hide the former‘s accidental death, the cousin takes her identity. But one evening the husband thinks he recognizes his wife in the street...

A smart and innovative look at the possible futures of a young Chinese immigrant to Buenos Aires, told in the stilted language of an elementary Spanish textbook.

Youngsters harass a prostitute in the middle of the street. She begins her revenge by seducing them.

A series of mysterious thefts of jewelry are occurring in many museums in Europe. All the stolen jewels belonged to the collection of the former Order of the Golden Eagle, with many of which will be held an exhibition in Toledo. Interpol stands guard and, despite his precautions, there was another robbery. The investigation leads to the Duke, a character who, in the twentieth century, wants to revive the extinct Order

Short film directed by Denise Castro.

María has to write an essay about historical memory. This task will lead her to investigate Francoist repression and to uncover a dark family secret

An account of the personal life and genial work of Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920), the greatest Spanish writer of 19th century, a journalist, a novelist, and a playwright; a free independent man who narrated with a firm hand the history of the most troubled era of modern Spain, both that of the rulers and powerful characters and that of the humble people.

Another kind of biography, one that unravels the mysteries of Dalí, the conflicts with himself and with the characters with whom he had greater emotional involvement: his father, his sister Ana María, Gala and Lorca. They lead us to a Dalí from different eras.

Cute elementary-school kids get mixed up with black-marketeers.

31 years after the first Bañeros, comes the fifth installment of the saga in which the spa is to be sold to new owners, unless the bañeros find a way to collect the money to pay what they owe and avoid losing their place of work.

Trotín Troteras is the disinterested witness of the absurd situations lived first by a lecturer and then by a soldier with an umbrella, which opens when it stops raining and closes when it rains…

Alexandra Cuesta cites eternal wanderer Henri Michaux as one of the inspirations for her first feature. It’s curious, then, that the opening sequence of Territorio (the first film Cuesta shot in her native Ecuador) shows us a boat heading for the shore. It is very likely that, to Cuesta, the image of water hides the same connotation than it does to the author of “The Sea of Breasts”: returning home, being sheltered in the mother’s womb. Without detouring from the formal approaches of her previous work, Cuesta traces a journey that crosses the country from north to south, drawing a human cartography in which the aim is to achieve an impossible balance between the foreign traveler’s gaze and the earnest familiarity of those who return home temporarily.

Alessandro, a young, idealistic, and romantic film director, crosses paths with Emma, a perfectionist theatre actress whose dream is to perform on stages across Europe. Their fleeting encounter, portrayed through a non-conventional structure reminiscent of *Bohemian Lights*, reveals that love appears when and where we least expect it. We accompany the protagonists on a journey through a timeless Madrid, filled with colorful characters such as: a megalomaniacal and jealous actor named The Interesting Actor; an obscene film producer called Stefano Clemente; and a priest and a nun searching for anisette. These almost phantasmagorical figures compel the two young protagonists to question their ways of believing and loving.

In the last and most dramatic aria in Roberto Devereux , one of the four Tudor period operas composed by Donizetti in 1837 (along with Anna Bolena , Maria Stuarda and Il Castello di Kenilworth), the protagonist, Queen Elizabeth I of England, exclaims: "I do not reign, I do not live". This statement encapsulates great operatic themes, and it is the culmination of an opera that reveals the passions of characters who live among palace intrigues. Written in the mature period of the leader of Italian romanticism, the opera displays a great vocal virtuosity, and is an example of Donizetti prizing the voice above all in the genre. The staging, by South African director Alessandro Talevi, who has been very successful in great opera houses as well as with more experimental theatre, places the play in an undetermined period, focusing on the chiaroscuro. Bruno Campanella conducts.

An out of luck journalist, a shady lawyer and a mysterious bachelor await for the arrival of "El Godo", an elusive acquaintance with contacts in the squalid and ruthless world of Mexican politics.

Mockumentary about the confrontation between Miguel de Cervantes and Lope de Vega around the apocryphal second part of the Quijote signed by Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda. It also tells the relations of other writers and influent persons on the Spanish Golden Age.

A film crew travels to the Valley of Baztan to make a film about certain events that occurred in the seventeenth century is the history of discrimination suffered by so-called "agotes", people who were forced to live apart from the rest almost to our days.

The routine of a group of trans sex workers is upset when their leader, Aunt Encarna, finds an abandoned baby and decides to adopt him without realizing she is putting everyone around her in danger.

In an unnamed Central American state on the eve of a crucial election, a young police informer working for police officer Miguel Mora bent on uncovering the shady works of popular politician Maurice Leprince is killed. However, thugs working for Leprince began to be killed one by one as well.

Enjoy a thrilling operatic double bill — Ravel's L’Heure espagnole, performed during the year of Ravel's 150th birthday anniversary, and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi — by award-winning duo Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier at the magnificent Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia! The star-studded cast features renowned mezzo-soprano Eve-Maud Hubeaux and soprano Marina Monzó, as well as acclaimed baritone Ambrogio Maestri and tenor Iván Ayón Rivas, performing under the masterful baton of Michele Spotti.

A transformative experience, this emotional documentary addresses some of the most pressing issues of the 21st century, reflecting on happiness, social connection, daily life, death, and aging, while exploring doubts about the "word of a thousand shades and somewhat perverse" concept of success. This film has the potential to change your life and your perspective on the true meaning of success. An intimate reflection on success, it features María Teresa Paniagua, a joyful and unique octogenarian Zarzuela singer. The documentary offers surprising insights from interviews with notable figures from the worlds of art, science, and intellectual thought, including actress Rossy de Palma, philosophers Fernando Savater and Javier Sádaba, tenor Plácido Domingo, monk Matthieu Ricard, psychiatrist Martin Seligman, Harvard professor Nancy Etcoff, and TED Talk speaker and writer Victor Küppers, among others. This documentary is a balm for the soul.

Julia, a shoe store clerk, dreams of marrying Lieutenant Ernesto, a very handsome young man. To fulfill her dream, a "fate" will appear, named Felipe, a cheeky lawyer who will turn Cinderella into the heiress of a millionaire marquise.

Italy, today. Mark Draveni, 19, disgustingly wealthy, is the charismatic leader of a teenager brotherhood, the Demons. The Demons are bloodthirsty and lethal, albeit quite outlandish. Among them there's a martial arts master (Berserk), a hip hop madman nicknamed Spike, the cooler-than-ice computer whiz called Conan, and the gorgeous ninja woman Kite. All of his sheer power, though, can't give Mark the strenght to face his lovely girlfriend Giulia, 18...

A parapsychology student investigates his father's death.

Mariquilla is a beautiful gypsy who is in love with Lucas, a soldier of the garrison in the Alhambra, but her father wants to marry her with Don Cosme, a rich old clerk for the service of the mayor. Soon, the girl asks for help to the governor of Granada, a gentleman who has always had a great adoration for the girl.

A struggling single mother agrees to help her estranged, alcoholic father reclaim his home from drug addicts, despite years of distance stemming from his addiction and her mother's death.

The story is set during the early 1980s in a small town in rural Spain. El Chiqui is a talented young man about to debut in the local bullring, expected to continue the legacy of his family name. But that is not what he truly wants. His secret relationship with a young man from the town, Nicolás, offers an escape from the village, leaving the family pressures behind.

He calls the elevator and, inside, he will find an unexpected passenger that will make his life impossible during the short journey they will share.

A love story between a gypsy woman and a nobleman, who disguises himself as a gypsy under the name Andrés Caballero to test the sincerity of her declarations of love. Based on the novel of the same name by Miguel de Cervantes.

The story of the 65th Infantry Regiment of the US Army composed almost entirely of Puerto Ricans and who participated in the Korean War, suffering heavy casualties.

Federal-agent/cowboy battles crime

"Life in the clouds" tells a part of the protagonist's life, Q, above the clouds with his pet. In an age of uncertainty and loneliness for Q, they suddenly meet Y, a foreigner of a similar race. Friendship and some feelings soon flourish.

A group of actresses and a director living in a house under construction for a week. Improvised fictions, karaoke and cinema. The search for a film as an improbable goal. Sorority, laughter and collective creation to invent a film-experience about the craft and the creation process of this group of women.

In an unexpected encounter, the life of an experienced writer takes an unforeseen turn when he meets Fernando Lara, a peculiar hotel receptionist with an unusual medical condition. Fernando suffers from irritable bowel syndrome, a disease that basically makes him soil himself at any moment and in any circumstance throughout the day. This will lead him to a great adventure.

As all teenagers, Ainoa has had an exhausting school day. So this summer, for the first time, she has decided to go on holidays wherever she pleases, and not were her father decides.