Discoveries from Spain World Cinema

A documentary celebrating the life of Fernando Estrella, a pioneering LGBTI activist and beloved cultural icon. Through testimonies from friends and collaborators, it traces his fearless advocacy, artistic brilliance, and deep impact on queer visibility in Spain—from the Movida Madrileña to his influential presence in Palma. A chef, performer, and actor in Almodóvar’s films, Estrella defied norms and built community, especially through his legendary restaurant, Flexa. The film culminates in the surreal and moving farewell party held just before his death in 2023, a testament to the love he inspired.

A food delivery worker reflects about his job while biking home.

Iván decides to propose to Natalia, a creative and intelligent artist, despite the fact that they have been dating for a few months.

Sebastián is a retired superhero who lives alone in a small flat. He leads a quiet life and it's ages since he last used his superpowers, but an unexpected visit puts his world at risk and he will be forced to defend it.

Franz works for the Japanese, but makes a mistake and the corporation condemns him to wander through a harrowing virtual setting.

When the darkness in a musician's dreams tears its way into his waking life, a series of brutal murders rocks the city and word spreads of a spectral form looming over the rooftops.

Jairo and Javier, two young Colombians, are recruited to travel to Venezuela to work as farmers. A few days later, they will understand that they have been deceived and that they are now part of the complex Orion Operation.

Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.

A popular writer looking for a peaceful environment in which to finish his latest novel gets an unexpected surprise upon arriving at the remote summer home he once shared with his ex-wife.

María de la O leaves her family and her former boyfriend Miguel to go with a rich landowner who's supposedly in love with her...

Ö is an ancient asleeped figure, mute as a mime, a brightness, a movement that wakes up three times during the attempt to propel themself with the inertia of a jump sufficiently high to get out of the silent obscurity. The process of transformation of a synthetic idea of a tangible body of bones and meat.

Set majorly Pamplona in 1965, follows the life of American writer Alan Jolis as he awakes to a vivid sensual world and grows up emotionally.

A group of pirates chases a mermaid until a cave where they will find something that even in their worst nightmares they could never have imagined.

An epic investigation into countless murders in Mexico. Presented in chapters, the film unfolds methodically through unsettling testimonials, sketching a portrait of an entire country transformed into a gigantic mass grave thanks to a climate of impunity established by both criminal gangs and state authorities.

A group of adolescents from the same school, although of different social classes, intervene between them. Oscar falls in love with Sandra until Diego seduces her and makes her pregnant...

An action movie directed by Jess Franco based on Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Gold-Bug".

Two girls spend a weekend alone, sheltering in a solitary house next to a swamp, trying to live their love to the shelter of prying eyes. But they won’t be alone…

Xavier, Miguel, Johnny, Ricky, and Charlie (the members of Menudo) decide to take a hot air ballon to a concert and end up crashing in the woods. The boys have their own adventures (jumping in the mud, skateboarding, stealing motorbikes, playing practical jokes on each other, throwing sea sponges, and meeting beautiful girls) while the record company tries to get them back so that they can perform in concert.

Spanish drama about anti-immigrant racism and family problems. Berta is a single nurse raising her deceased sister's three teenage children in a Spanish port city. The two boys are neo-Nazis with a flaming hatred for African immigrants, and the girl has a boyfriend who runs an underground business smuggling illegal aliens from Africa. Into this time bomb comes a cop, Eduardo, who is investigating the vicious assault of a black man. He and Berta fall for each other and make tigerish love in scenes that are much hotter than you might expect from middle-aged actors.

...the desert is your own face, and if you don't love your own face, who could you love someday?...

Carme, a gynecologist from Barcelona who has just separated from her colleague, gets involved in the problem of Shahida, one of her patients, whose husband refuses to recognize their newborn daughter.

The owner of their performance space dies, and a group of young singer/dancers is concerned about the future of their musical revue. The new owner seems to be an uptight old Legion Of Decency fuddy-duddy, so... much anxiety, until a happy ending is contrived.

Nadia travels to Valladolid to give Nestor French classes. There, she will be welcomed by his father, Fernando, an eccentric, traditional man who will immerse her in the heart of Castile. In a foreign environment populated by "banderillas" and bulls' heads, Nadia will do her best to teach Nestor the language of Molière. Or so she thinks.

A 1943 Spanish film.

Elena and Marcos live in a guesthouse. Their serious financial difficulties force them to resort to the help of Mrs. Jarque, an aunt of Elena who humiliates Marcos constantly. Marcos dreams that he kills Mrs. Jarque, and she appears dead.

A Peruvian schoolteacher conspires with a journalist to assassinate the official responsible for her fiancé's murder.

Two men meet in a florist shop. Their talk will bring them through the city of San Sebastian and through their memories.

Matia, a marginal young man, escapes to an island in the River Paraná. In an uncomfortable atmosphere that is not his own, he tries to start a new life, but the tensions his arrival cause take him back to his criminal past and to the idea of having to flee in order to survive.

Agadiri and Oussama, two Moroccan friends, laze around and survive while the camera explores their bodies and faces. But things are by no means simple. Both have only been in Spain for a short period and are facing a supposedly temporary situation, which must culminate in their futures being defined in the midst of a pandemic. Filmed indoors, Monte Tropic gradually travels towards a more indefinite and dreamlike space to question the memories and desires of these young people, whose inactivity vindicates their right to be above the disastrous political use of their situation.

Live Concert Celebrating 10 Year Career

Out of the haunting shadows of the sexual underground in Medellin, sixteen-year-old Jhony is excited and hopeful for this upcoming date with the boy he loves.

A city man receives a call from the woman he loved and embarks on a clandestine journey to reunite with her in an outlaw community settled on the top of a mountain. Two successive guides take him to his destination: the reunion with a story that he has not been able to forget.

Based on the assassination attempt at the then dictator Augusto Pinochet on September 7, 1986.

Andrés, an unsuccessful young pianist, witnesses a murder; but keeps silent for fear that the man he has seen next to the corpse will retaliate against him.

After a decade of ignoring his family, a young filmmaker has to care for his father, newly diagnosed with Alzheimer's, for the first time.

A ride to the country could turn in more than just a simple vacation for a mother and daughter.

Rolando Díaz's comedic Melodrama follows Esperanza, a dying newscaster, desperate to have a child through whatever means necessary - even if it means bypassing her husband and sleeping with her fellow coworker or a local librarian.

In North Africa, Captain Valcázar and Lieutenant Herrera's harka, great friends, stands out for its heroism in actions. The wife and the sister of a dead Captain travel to Morocco. At the time, Herrera falls in love with the sister in law, Amparo, who wants to return to Madrid. So does the lieutenant, but soon learns the harka has been undone in combat and the Captain Valcázar died with it. Herrera runs to take charge of the harka to reorganize it.

Ivan is a kid whose family decides to go back to Chile from New York, after at least a decade away. Ivan of course is not quite the Chilean kid his grandparents would like him to be: he sulks, misses the Opera, finds things odd and ugly, acting like a real "little gringo" (hence the title).

After filming in Seville, García Pelayo and his team moved to Kazakhstan to shoot Ainur, a film about " love, moderna arquitectura, echoes and bicycles” (G. G. P. dixit). Víctor (Víctor Vázquez, El brau blau, La vida sublime), who lost the love of his life in an accident, Ainur, a young Kazakh, returns in search of his tracks to that country with his friend Pablo, secretly in love with Ainur, and his new girlfriend, Olivia, who prepares a documentary about the city, a mixture of tradition and avant-garde.