Discoveries from Spain World Cinema

Magaly enters a TV contest looking for Marilyn Monroe look-alikes, pressured by her husband and a money prize of $25,000 to help them overcome their precarious financial situation. During the casting for the contest, Magaly meets Norma, her strongest and cheating competitor, a voluptuous version of Marilyn ; and Rossel, the sponsor, a well-suited millionaire who is sure about conquering her. Looking for an adviser for the contest, Magaly and Arturo find Hector, a transvestite that believes himself to be Monroe's reincarnation. He tries to do with Magaly what he cant do with himself as a man: to become the real Marilyn Monroe. In the process of becoming Marilyn Monroe, Magaly suffers an identity crisis that mimics the life of the mythical blonde.

During an ordinary car ride to a friend's house, father and son share a conversation about their estranged relationship.

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

Santiago comes out of the closet to his 2 long life friends at the age of 50. The reaction is not very positive from one of them, Raul. Who tries by all means, to convince Santiago that he is only going through a moment of sexual confusion, and there's no way he is gay.

Animated documentary that collects the Christian tradition of the visit of the Three Wise Men to the manger where Jesus was born and adds elements typical of Puerto Rican national folklore.

During the first Carlist war, Beatriz, daughter of an Isabeline colonel, secretly marries a Carlist captain who gets killed. Years later she returns to Rubiercos, an Asturian lost hamlet where she left her daughter, to find a troubled village where traditional rural lifestyle is threatened by the emerging coal mining industry and a new way of life darkening the river waters.

Film that tells the biography of the great bullfighter Sebastian Palomo Linares Linares, with the very skilled actor who plays the character. Palomo Linares belongs to a poor family but with great human values​​. He, like many others of his age, has a dream: to be a bullfighter. He works as an apprentice shoemaker fights secretly at night in the meadows. After a career of suffering and obstacles, the boy never lost hope, typical of his strong Christian convictions, and became a teacher, finally achieving success in the sand. The film shows with particular clarity the great Spanish tradition, as is the art of bullfighting.

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.

MORIR DE DIA writes history from the Transition to the present day through one of its hidden faces: heroin. The stories of characters like Pau Malvido, Mercè Pastor, Pepe Sales or Juanjo Voltes are intertwined to draw the challenges of a chosen life, marked by addiction, from the entry of drugs in Barcelona after Franco's death to the present.

In Valencia, Spain paella is much more than a dish; it's part of the identity of every resident.

In this film, the director maintains an interview with Leonardo Da Vinci (played by Manuel Tallafé). It is a priceless document where the Italian artist reveals to the world, the secrets of some of his best known works

Trini spends her days fantasizing about the private lives of her neighbors, whom she observes through the window. Unknowingly, she triggers an irremediable change in the course of their lives.

A young actress arrives late to a casting, making up a great excuse without knowing a small detail.

Three different times and three different places. A study of a young man, Lee Fan Bao, through the vicissitudes of his grandfather in Seoul, his own in London and those of his boyfriend in Hong Kong. Trains Bound for the Sea aims to convey a sense of place, but also a sense of time, as we see its characters dwarfed by history. Love and loss, time and place, a sensual downplayed melodrama.

The film recreates the miracle of the birth of Jesus in a Puerto Rican field. It begins with the pilgrimage of Mary and Joseph, the birth of Jesus, and the arrival of the Three Kings.

A young Chilean woman moves into an abandoned house in Valparaíso to piece together her family's history, which has been colored by dictatorship, exile, and silence for five decades.

Finding what appears to be a homeless man on the landing of their downtown apartment, a young couple worry about what to do.

When a car accident causes Jonás to completely lose his vision, he finds himself unable to live the life he used to know. Despite his refusal to accept his new condition or to show any vulnerability in the presence of his wife and daughters, the circumstances will lead him to discover new and unsuspected paths that will allow him to carry on.

It is said he has someone locked up. People have seen him looking over from the other side of the fence. That kid will disappear any day.

The story about a boxer and a police in the forest following the traces of evil forces.

A man uses a glory hole and then is asked to fulfill his life's purpose.

Alex Txikon, internationally renowned mountaineer, is launching a new winter expedition in 2021 to Manaslu (Nepal). It is the first non-polluting ascent, powered by solar panels. With this sustainable system, which reduces the energy footprint in accordance with the Paris Agreements, the EKI Foundation is beginning its work of solidarity. Alex is going to learn about the work developed by the Foundation in Sierra Leone, where they provide solar energy systems that enable energy autonomy in schools and hospitals. Txikon proposes to replicate this idea in a very special school in the Diamer Valley in Pakistan, the Günter Mountain School, uniting two different but at the same time equal cultures.

Loris is a young man who begins a romance with Francisca, his piano teacher, a forty-year-old who lives dominated by her mother, who was a successful soprano in her youth. Loris goes to live at Francisca's house. They will have as neighbor a sexual obsessive, fan of carnivorous plants and spying on people with binoculars. When they are preparing a trip, Francisca's mother shows up at the house. Her initial indignation soon gives way to a great interest for the young man, which will provoke the terrible jealousy of Francisca.

The film tells the true story of the Argentine military dictatorship's decision, during the 1978 World Cup, to eradicate the Manuel Dorrego shantytown, known as the Hidden City, and the resistance of its residents.

Biographic film about the pioneer of argentine aviation Jorge Newbery.

Andras Pulac, a young pianist, refuses to perform a concert in honor of a senior Soviet leader, as a sign of rebellion against the 1956 invasion of Hungary. His refusal, although he does not know it, harms the organizers of a demonstration against the communist cruelty, since his concert had been chosen like slogan. When Pulac finds out, he agrees to give the concert. Andras and Maria Kondor, the daughter of a communist journalist, are in love and decide to get married before the concert. Meanwhile, communist repression in the streets provokes the anger of the Hungarian people and gives rise to a real revolution.

Hadji, a young man living humbly on the banks of the Ganges River and in desperate straits after losing all his possessions, is accepted as a disciple by a mysterious spiritual guide.

Appointed by the dictator Huerta, a local official tries to use his authority to pressure a young woman into marrying him. Meanwhile, counter-revolution is brewing.

Paula, a renowned designer, set up his workshop and his home in a suburb of Barcelona which is imposing an upper class with a penchant for shopping and fashion brands. Believes that its name and its contacts can set a trend in this place has decided to make a large investment. But the arrival of Paula is not exactly what the neighborhood expected. In fact, it earns the dislike of people who are displaced from the building where its modern boutique sets.

A father and son discover the family legacy through the memories of a photo album.

"Dama de Porto Pim" tells the story of a rich woman who arrives at a little Portuguese island while her husband is in the II World War; there, a humble fisherman, promised to marry a girl of the town, falls in love with her, and she will also fall in love with him, but his husband could come back.

Notodofilmfest short.

For as long as she remembers, Francisca lives with an inexplicable and uncontrollable aversion to belly buttons. Nothing makes her more anxious than this simple part of the body and the shapes in the world that resemble it. When therapy isn't enough to solve her cherished phobia , Francisca turns to other types of methods - without any scientific basis and not recommended for anyone who suffers from the same condition.

Remigio, a man abandoned by his lover, walks his lonely existence through the night of the city. Fate sets him up a date with Julia. As in fairy tales, the enchantment lasts until dawn. The presence of the moon gives us the measure of time and reinforces the feminine ideal.

A lot of witness are talking about trues and lies about ANARCHISM ( And how afraid are the states about anarchism )Since early days in Spain and adding reflections about the future of this way of life. There are also actors performing historic chapters.

Three decades later, the San Juan Civic Center construction project is back on track and, as if nothing had happened, the bureaucratic machinery seems to be united with the cranes and the human force and the megalomaniac desire that such an undertaking supposes. There, in that interruption and that return to activity, in the pharaonic recovery of lost dreams and projects that suddenly come back to life –as if they were architectural zombies–, there Mariano Donoso sees a movie.

A man suffering from dementia asks his son to help him fly to the moon so he can say goodbye to his late wife. Manuel Trotta and Luigi Sciamanna star in this award-winning short film.

Pop musician lives out a situation in which he throws over a good woman for a bad woman and then discovers the terrible secrets of her checkered past... or does he?

Routine and red sausage have led Mauricio to lose things he took for granted. In an act of illogical desperation, he visits a carnival fortune-teller to try and tie up the lose ends he left along the way. With the help of her crystal ball, the fortune-teller shows him an alternate reality.