Discoveries from Spain World Cinema

Based on a play

Political corruption infiltrates a college campus in this Spanish-language action movie. Students become pawns in a larger political game when politicians pretend to be professors to achieve political gain.

Film homage to the great Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, in which they dramatize fragments of his poems and the play "La casa de Bernarda Alba". From his texts, the voice of the poet himself weaves the plot. His characters come to life: El Amargo, which runs from a poem taken from "El Cante Jond" to the "Romancero Gitano". The Woman, blurred and present in so many of his poems. The Mother, a living synthesis of his play-writing. The balcony is open from the hidden Granada to exciting New York. From the rider of tireless riding to the mysterious baroque of Holy Week. From the first babble of the poet to his violent death. Spain is behind its lyric. Also in many images and tensions of the film. The argument of this one wants to approach the argument of a poet. His life and his work, united irremediably.

Film based on the ballet 'Coppelia.' This version is completely silent, not containing the songs/narration, or animation of the later reworking, Mysterious House of Dr. C.

Emma is a teenager when she is the victim of a terrible road accident in London, and needs psychiatric care after she suffers from resulting brain injury. Her mother, Silvia, confines her in the house, and Emma's personality becomes aggressive, leading to a regrettable series of violent deaths.

Spain, 1950. Two guerrilla fighters are forced to hide after an ambush by the Civil Guard. Without weapons, water, or food, they must decide whether to remain hidden or resume their escape. Both options seem fatal.

A young Sahrawi woman faces deportation to Western Sahara, struggling to readjust to her homeland and confront family tensions sparked by her earlier departure.

No hay olvido, composed of three parts, each directed by a young Chilean filmmaker forced to flee his country, is about the difficult condition of exiles in a specific political and social context, in this case, Quebec. The first part, entitled J'explique certaines choses, is in Spanish with French subtitles, and shows us more precisely the lifestyle of a group of Chileans. In Slowly, which forms the second part, we are asked, through Lucia, a young Chilean exile, the problem of integration into a new social environment. Finally, Jours de fer (Steel Blues), the third and only part available in English, is a cruel reminder of the harsh condition of the uprooted man who must find work at all costs to ensure his survival.

Bernardo is a renowned architect and professor at the University of Buenos Aires. He just buried his wife, refusing to fulfill her desire to be cremated and her ashes scattered into “Costa del Sol”. Only when his wife’s grave is desecrated, he decides to take the trip to Spain. With Abel, owner of a bankrupt real estate business, and Amalia, a beautiful public relations employee, Bernardo will be involved in absurd situations to get rid of the ashes of his wife. Bernardo will discover that he didn’t know his wife as much as he imagined.

Newlywed couple loses their moral compasses while hubby climbs the career ladder in a corrupt office.

Based on the Vicente Blasco Ibañez novel "Flor de Mayo". Its a familiar tragedy seted in the maritime towns of Valencia, in the early twentieth century. the struggle for survival, love and betrayal mark Tona's life. She loses her husband in the sea and rebuild her life opening a bar in the beach to bring up her children.

A group of students go to the jungle to get medicinal plants for their experiments.

Comedians Facu Díaz and Miguel Maldonado, along with filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo as host, tell the brief story of “No te metas en política,” a Spanish late-night talk show that was broadcast online between 2016 and 2019.

An amusing search for self-identity by the famed American-born animator of Yellow Submarine (1968), with witty nods to animation history and the design style of New York’s Hubley Studios.

A filmed diary which chronicles two visits to the Olivas, a family of Spanish beekeepers from Salamanca, at the time of the honey harvest, in August and September. Their work and their itinerant life are seen from a friend's point of view.

A peasant without money or work, sells his soul to "El Garrudo" in order to get wealth and marry the young and beautiful Petita. Years later, Juan Maula and "El Garrudo" debate in a duel of "payas" (a singing and composing competition) , where the peasant's soul and his freedom will be the prize.

A Documentary seeks the encounter between people, the collective memory of the city of Madrid.

A Swedish woman pretends to have a child with a man who is part of a couple of scientists.

Four young people, who show no respect for their elders, wake up one morning to the surprise they are now 70 years old.

After moving into a new house with his friend, Vladimir starts to notice that he awakes every day in a different week as if he has traveled trough time. Could it be the popular local drink -- beer with eggs?

In the early 2000s — a period of rapid disruption in viewing habits and the community spaces built around cinema culture — Mila fights to keep alive the neighborhood video store she has just inherited from her father, even as a nearby Blockbuster threatens to wipe it out. When the shop becomes a refuge for a small community of outsiders, Mila is pushed to confront loss, change and her own fear of letting go. Based on the 2025 short film of the same name.

Turning to alcoholism following his wife's death, a deaf painter is very confused when he finds her alive two years later.

A small community of old people are living in a rural town, deep in the countryside in Uruguay, lost in a vast expanse of green grass. They do not have electricity or running water. They watch the time go by slowly and silently, but they do not complain or make excuses as they wait for the new day. That's just what life is like in Quebracho.

Fly is the story of a bird that has a deformed wing that prevents it from migrating. Abandoned by his flock, he sinks in despair. Everything changes the day Pio-Pio appears. This defenseless chick gives him joy and a sense of purpose in life. Until one day destiny makes him do things that he would't even do for himself, such as flying.

The story of a young couple, from beginning to end, from the euphoria of falling in love until the final days blurred and dark, is realized with an analytical eye and investigative zeal. How and why two people fall in love? What now? How quickly will they get into a relationship? When a relationship ends, and when should it end? Peter and Sofia, with its simple story of love, they become reflections of all those who, at twenty-five years have been in love.

When an eight year old asks his mom "where do babies come from?", he is forced to embark on an adventure to reverse a spell he did himself.

Marcos and Sofia are two thirty something friends from Barcelona that plans to make a film. But they don't have a penny and everyday life isn't glamorous at all. Marcos falls in love with a mysterious man he saw in the street.

A fearless sea captain, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.

Sensationalistic group portrait of New York City ‘’club kids,’’ makes you long for those good old days when Andy Warhol’s self-appointed superstars brought a certain humor and bohemian sense of style to his semi-improvised films.

Patty Diphusa is an erotic film star created by Pedro Almodovar. One day she comes to Poland, because the script says so. She waits for a man of her dreams, but he is not coming. She calls to Almodovar...

Every year for the holidays, a lonely man visits his night owl family, who only occasionally leaves home. After his debut with La noche, Edgardo Castro returns with a film that finds genuine moments of cinema in the confinement, the silence and the apparent daily insignificance.

A relaxed summer day in a Spanish village. All generations gather around the local outdoor swimming pool and enjoy this well-deserved moment of idleness.

Bordeaux, France, 1828. Spanish painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes dies in his French exile on April 16th and is buried in the local cemetery. Nobody, not even his only living son, Javier, claims his body. In 1888, after years of paperwork, the Spanish consul Pereyra finally obtains permission to exhume Goya's remains with the purpose to bury them in Spain. When the crypt is opened, the gravediggers make a discovery as macabre as it is stunning…

A math teacher is hired to teach on a school with serious disciplinary issues. He will face the bullying that a group of student suffer.The feeling of impotence for the unjustified practices will take Jorge to corrupt he's own moral.

The story of Ana Belén, who has to give her daughter Gilda to her best friend and foster sister Maribel, because she must serve a prison sentence.

An aspiring teacher (Eduardo Noriega) falls for a maid (Ingrid Rubio) in a village where people claim they see the Virgin Mary.

Women of mature years talk about their marriage, their first time, their intimate relationship with sexuality. In the repetition of these ancestral rituals, the director questions her own lack of marriage, of children, and with it, a chain of mother-daughter relationships that is dying out.

Four stories with the intention to make the people reflect on their actions, decisions, and how they affect others around them.

A parable about a solitary man who has forsaken the world and finds comfort only in planting trees. This activity has become a sacred ritual for him. Yet deep inside, he awaits and seeks some sort of solution to his solitude. One day during a particularly severe drought, the Earth answers him - the man finds the unconscious body of a woman in the soil cracked by the heat. Without stopping to think, he takes her home, resuscitates her and looks after her. This unexpected companion seriously test his convictions. How far can solitude go? A story about the destructive vicious circle of solitude - the fixed idea, love and giving up love.