Discoveries from Spain World Cinema

A rural community awakens to a crime scene in the middle of the forest. Gradually, a series of previous situations show us the conflicts that occurred in the same place.

During the strict lockdown in Madrid, Diego, a 35 year old unemployed actor, kidnaps Sara, a 20 year old law student. She will be his audience.

A young addict attends an alternative therapy that will lead him to discover himself, his sexual identity, his acts from the past and their consequences in a journey through the darkest corners of his mind.

The story of Andrés, a heavyweight boxer preparing for a big match. It turns out, Andrés has a medical problem, which could kill him if he continues boxing. Mariano, his manager, refuses to tell him about his condition and lets Andrés continue his training.

Aitana organizes a big Halloween party in her huge apartment in Madrid in the hope that her friend Cleo will come.

An expressionist reimagining of the classic Greek myth involving Acteón and Diana, transposed to Spain's Costa Brava by a future auteur of horror cinema. Based on the myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses in which Acteón accidentally catches a glimpse of Diana, the goddess of love, and is subsequently turned into a deer for his dogs to devour, Jorge Grau's modernist retelling resets the story to contemporary Spain, where a fisherman – played by Martin LaSalle, star of Bresson's Pickpocket – follows an enchanting, flirtatious stranger into the city.

On the eve of a long-delayed opening, a fallen chef, his paranoid partner, and two gangsters collide in a kitchen where taste is gone and time has run out.

A world of childhood relationships from the perspective of garden animals. With their way of life, their relationships, their games, their conflicts and adventures. Through some protagonists, with a predetermined and precise psychology, and who also embody types, they weave this complex and interrelated world.

Above all, Delfín wants to participate in a Children's Orchestra that is forming in a neighboring city. This trip will mean an adventure for him, and also for his father.

An analysis of the causes, social, political, and economic that caused the rise of Hugo Chávez as president of Venezuela; his abuse of power and the response of civil society, including the student movement; his political fall as well as the secrecy that surrounded his illness and the succession of Nicolás Maduro.

Rudy, son of victims of the dictatorship in Argentina, and Maru, daughter of the perpetrator, are inheritors of a tragic and bloody history that separates them, but the destiny seems to be determined to unite them.

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.

Based on real events in Peru, 1963. A team of revolutionary foreigners planned and pulled a heist on the biggest bank in Peru. The loot helped fund the rural revolution in Concepción, Cusco.

A young bank clerk is transferred, in view of his special way of being, to a branch for misfits, where he will meet a whole series of very strange characters.

This adaptation of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. The boy's mother is a surgeon and therefore a rather uncommon woman for her society. She and Werther gradually become romantically involved, and his feelings for her begin to run much deeper than is apparent on the surface.

A documentary about Tito Villanova, the man who was FC Barcelona's coach before tragically passing away in 2014. The leader of the legendary 100-point league season is remembered by players, managers, friends and his family.

Satan opens a nightclub in a small town, scheming to seduce the townsfolk into naughtiness.

Episode 2 of the stories of jokes in the street.

Alicia arrives at her parents’ house in A Pobra do Caramiñal, a coastal town in Galicia, to choose the clothes her mother will wear at the wake. There, she reunites with her sister Berta, who has just been released from the rehabilitation centre where she was staying.

After a terrible breakup, Dante will have to face his grief through a mysterious letter, which tells the story of a broken heart among its letters.

Domingo Regalado, an older farmer, was from a young age a person attached to their environment, but they would also live great moments of fame outside the Canary Islands as a transvestite. This short film narrates their life, and the hard relationships that they have maintained since childhood with a large part of society, which has not accepted their sexual condition.

The filmmaker, writer and teacher-teacher Ricardo Becher likes extreme decisions, both in his life and in his work. Now, at 80 years of age, he begins a new book called “Recta Final”, about his geriatric experience. Lipgot portrays the present of the filmmaker, at the same time that he reviews his history, from his first shorts and the collaboration with Torre Nilsson, passing through the fundamental "Shot of Grace" (1969) - a film that defied its time and was censored -, leading to the new movement that Becher founded with his students: digital neo-expressionism

The Taking of Siétamo is a report on the activity of the FAI (Durruti) Aguiluchos column on the Aragon front in August 1936 and focuses on the conquest of the town of Siétamo.

The politically and environmentally challenged landscape of the Bolivian town of Uyuni is the backdrop for a tense exchange between a man and a woman, which is intercut with sound from Peruvian radio.

Documentary on the life of Juan Negrín.

In a hostile medieval world dominated by the Great Master Agragon, a fortune soldier, the Nameless Warrior, tries to change his life and start again after many years of violence and disputes. When, discouraged and disarmed by Agragon's betrayal, gets the assignment to custody some smugglers to the remote Great Prairi, he can't yet imagine he is about to decide his destiny and of the whole world who waits anxious the arrival of great change. Dark monks, hidden spots and a gallery of unforgettable characters in an epic of impressive dimensions.

One of the first (and perhaps therefore ambiguous) approaches to homosexuality in Spain at the time. The film narrates in cinematographic form the problem of the third sex, its justification and its existence within a real environment that is society itself. Two parallel worlds are shown to us; one, the hard and professional life of some artists who try to put on a 'music-hall' show. The other world is independent but it shows us what the life of an old glory was like, of an old man who was an artist in his time. Comparing one era with another is the intention of the film and ultimately its plot.

Death Note: Rewrite is a recut version of the Death Note anime series, comprising two movies. The first film, titled Death Note: Rewrite Genshi Suru Kami or Death Note: Relight Visions of a God, condenses the events of the series' first half. The second film, titled Death Note: Rewrite 2 L o Tsugu Mono or Death Note: Relight 2 L's Successors, does the same for the series' latter half. In addition to being shorter, the story's setting and timeline have also changed. Some new scenes and dialogue were introduced—especially in the second film—and the first film is now presented as a reminiscence of the death god Ryuk.

Clari is going out tonight with one objective: hooking up with the Internet date her friend is about to ghost. They spend a night together and he wants to see her again, giving her all the cards she needs to be the object of her friends' envy as he becomes the love of her life. It's all too perfect for Clari not to mess it up.

A landowner dies of disgust when his rival makes him believe that he has legally taken away his property.

Documentary about the movie theaters in Valencia that, since the seventies, had been closed or turned into department stores and bingo halls; dream spaces of Valencian cinephilia such as the Cine Alameda.

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, whom History knows as El Cid Campeador, is an essential figure to understand the Middle Ages. His legend has endured throughout the centuries to become a myth. In this documentary we will discover his character as a military leader, a mercenary or a undefeated hero in hundred battles, but also as the man, with his virtues but also with his defects.

After meeting at a party, Luciana and Pedro... embark on a spur of the moment journey together that takes them to the forest. Asthey explore the beauty in the nature that surrounds them, they camp out under the stars, go on hikes, indulge in the passions of their encounter, and discuss their personal beliefs surrounding love, obligations, and attraction. Lensed in lush black-and-white cinematography amidst the gorgeous backdrop of the Costa Rican forest, an honest and genuine relationship story unfolds, lending a feeling of realism to their storybook romance in a refreshing and youthful way.

Estitxu and Susi are two sisters with a strange profession: they steal hair on demand. After a failed heist, the hairdresser's chosen as a hideout will quickly turn into a violent trap.

An on-the-rocks couple retreat to a secluded countryside home for the weekend in an effort to repair their marriage. They're greeted by the singular head of the real estate agency who shows them around the place and hands over the keys. Just before he leaves, however, the entire world slips into a time loop, and the last five minutes begin to repeat endlessly.

An intricate exploration of football, international rivalry, personal disappointments and the enduring power of friendship that transcends national boundaries.

Bank-robber hiding out after a heist discovers that half the world knows where he is. Can he finesse some way out of his predicament?

A veteran lawman must escort a brutal and bloodthirsty bandit, Big Bill, back to the prison from which he escaped. On the way, the commissioner is wounded and only finds the assistance of Nick Sanders, a young homeless man with great skill with weapons. The lawman and Sanders establish a friendly relationship, and Sanders agrees to escort the bandit. However, the two protagonists are pursued by hostile forces: the prisoner's gang, and law enforcement officers, who are after Sanders on a murder charge. The meeting point is in a town where the local sheriff tries to fulfill his duty by hosting the prisoner while facing the pressures and fears of the townspeople.

Is there anymore mutual understanding than a bag of sunflower seeds between two girlfriends?

Madai, Shanel, Rosmer, and Victoria have been forcibly displaced from their homes and, after a long and dangerous migration journey in search of a better future in the United States, their dreams are cut short. However, their paths cross at an LGBTQ+ shelter in Guatemala City, where they receive support, protection, and, most importantly, form a deep friendship. Together, they discover their inner resilience and find new opportunities to rebuild their lives, holding on to the hope that, despite the challenges, the future still offers them a new beginning.

The postcard is diffuse, but in the memory there are flashes of clarity. They appear in the scene: they chat, they meet again and they recognize in each other's eyes and words. Expectant for what may happen in the future, they decide to talk about the past to understand the configuration of the present.

On 6 March 1906, four men were executed for the attempted murder of Colombian president Rafael Reyes. The event was photographed, and the photos were later used for a fictionalised film on the failed coup. From then on, cinema in this South American country has been inextricably linked to its violent history. Moving images have been used for historiography, propaganda, disinformation and to instil unity in a nation that refuses to come together. Falsos positivos, murdered youths disguised as guerrillas by the army to simulate military success, are a common element.

A man in his twenty-something is drinking his coffee when he suddenly sees a girl that calls his attention. She also notices him. The short is a love story between the two, and the coincidences of an important aspect of their lives that links them.

The story of Manolo, an old-fashioned tobacconist who misses Franco's Spain and secretly loves fantasy films. His only son Miguel gets involved in drug traffic to get some quick money for his mother Carolina, who suffers from Alzheimer's. When Miguel is kidnapped by the drug dealers, Manolo and Carolina must go through the streets of the city, armed with a shotgun, looking for him. But Manolo has accidentally eaten an omelette stuffed with all kind of hallucinogenic drugs, so their quest will be a real trip.