Discoveries from Spain World Cinema

Legend has it that Sarah Clockwork, a great virtuoso terminist, disappeared in the middle of a performance at a large theater in New York in 1928. It is said that she was "abducted by Martians." In 1986, young Fran, using his precocious scientific abilities, builds a Theremin. He intends to use it to communicate with Sarah Clockwork, his platonic love. What began as a simple game leads to strange events that lead Fran to believe that the Theremin truly has the power to attract Martians.

THE RING goes ‘found footage’ Peruvian in a terrific example of the continually igniting South American new horror wave. A group of media students embark on a documentary project covering ‘Reaction Videos’ - filming people watching intense shock footage online to monitor their psychological effect. And they find one example so terrifying the viewers have all died in mysterious circumstances. But what exactly is on this gruesome Internet footage? Their search leads to an obscure corner of cyberspace known as the Dark Web, a Quechua curse dating from the Spanish Inquisition and a demonic power they cannot escape from.

Raquel, a young radio announcer, is deeply in love with Tomás, an Olympic runner. The day she finds a house where they can live together, he collapses during training and is taken to the hospital.

A drama about a boy who lives in a bubble because of a rare brain disease.

While they prepare for the Three Wise Men's Cavalcade, Melchior, Gaspar and Balthazar open the doors to their palace for the first time for the filming of a documentary about their daily lives.

A shy and romantic girl of sixteen spends the summer holiday in a lavish mansion with her widowed mother.

While awaiting the results of a medical test, María José reminisces about her university days during the early years of Spain's transition to democracy in the 1970s.

Julio and Timoteo operate a private detective agency that specializes in cases relating to partners who cheat on their spouses.

In Las Grutas, on the shores of the sea and the cliffs, between stones and sandbanks, thousands of people vacation, come and go like the tide and the clouds. Bodies in the sun, fleeting anecdotes, distant glances, everyone is seen but no one is, each one enjoys their visible privacy.

A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead.

Flora and Carlos have a marriage of convenience. Realizing that she did not love him, Carlos joined the Blue Division and soon disappeared in Russia. Flora lives with a famous conductor, but they have not married because the death of Carlos has not been formally communicated. But one day, a mysterious character who turns out to be an old enemy of his husband, sends Flora a message telling that her husband will return.

A portrait of the actress and singer Pepa Flores, an incarnation of the recent history of Spain, who, in just twenty-five years of intense career, went from being Marisol, child prodigy of the Franco dictatorship, to being one of the first communist militants, icon of the Transition; an idol of the masses who became a discreet person after having claimed her right to remain silent.

The poet and playwright Lope de Vega is already a priest officially. The love affairs of the Spanish writer and actress Lucía Salcedo, whom he nicknamed as "La loca", are publicly known. Cervantes dies. Lope falls madly in love with Marta de Nevares. She is an intelligent and delicate woman, interested in literature and music. The two attract and live a romantic story.

Today, Leonor, a young teacher, flees to a small town in the mountains to try to recover from the death of her husband and the loss of the baby she was expecting. He takes refuge in the daily activity with the school children and the friendship he establishes with Miguel, a forestry agent. But the hostility of the inhabitants of the region and some visions that torment her lead her to believe that she is going crazy, as if an irresistible mysterious force led her to be related to that story of betrayal and death of seven hundred years ago. "La Loba", a strange woman despised by all, will end up revealing the truth of that fascinating and wonderful story.

When he hears how his grandfather left illegitimate children scattered all over the county, a young landowner is seized with an obsessive desire to make babies.

An urban drama of love and marginality, drugs and falls into the abyss. This is where Josetxo San Mateo's long-distance survey begins when David, a chic who lives on the street for vocation, begins to see María. One day she decided to approach her and enter a poem that she wrote for her: Báilame el agua. She doesn't hesitate to follow him. It's not easy to live on the street: bad companies, drugs, delinquency, including prostitution, become road workers.

Kim, an immigrant who is part of the LGBT community, goes to Spain alone. When she finds work, she experiences discrimination because of race and gender.

The love that a mother feels justifies everything, a mother is capable of murder because of her child, she kills, she steals, she works the corner or any other thing that keeps her child alive; the love that a mother feels, brings up the better and the worst in every woman. Ursula (Ana Polvorosa) is a mother and she is living two tragedies at the same time, a zombie invasion and the fact that her husband left home with their son, Nicolas. To Ursula, the zombie invasion is just “an anecdote” because she, as a mother and as a woman, only cares about her missing child, helpless and alone in a world surrounded by green and crazy beings.

Nina tries to cope with her breakup with Soraya. She writes her a letter that she never manages to send. Little by lite, she recovers her self-esteem until she finally gets over it. Soraya, on the other hand, has not forgotten her love for her.

Ana works side by side with her mother Maria Rosa in the fight to save the anti-Franco militants from the death penalty during the process of Burgos. Ana's mother is a former actress and Ana, her mother and a few other actors prepare an act of protest in the theater where an international festival on Strinberg is being held. But there are more things in Ana's life. The mother lives with her uncle, the brother of his father, Norman, an old doctor of devious methods. Helped by Fatima, an old nurse who loves her father, the doctor will try to experiment with Ana's ideas and feelings as well

Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced. Over half the movie is taken up with a performance of his masterpiece.

Nuri is 15 years old. Her mother survives as she can between her daily work, her frustrated dreams and the difficult task of raising a teenager. The teenager, without any vocation of Lolita, opens a dangerous door to situations that could be beyond his stature, his life is crossed with that of a man of 35 years, Javi professional athlete who faces the crisis of his retirement from the courts of volleyball.

A story of love and heartbreak. Of hope and despair. Of passion and abandonment. After two years together, Juan has left Marita, a mature woman that has kept him until he has found Adela, another woman from whom get her money.

Instructions for Polygamy addresses adult comedy from taboos and current themes: Pregnancy as a product of consumption, virtual links as affective delivery, sex toys as a possibility of exploring one's own enjoyment; plus tensions between hedonism, responsibility or individual interaction, marriage. And between these tugs arises the entanglement. Adult comedy entertains, opens debate, proposes refection. However, with some exceptions, it has long been completely absent from Argentine Cinema

Antonio has two wishes he would like to see come true--having friends and seeing the sea. The friendship part was hard for him because of the bullying, but he managed and with their help he was also able to fulfill his second wish.

Javier wants to forget his ex. But it's impossible when she's always on line. Getting drunk and partying it's the only solution. Or not.

Three murder-mystery fans team up to play detective together; they catch some thieves at the workplace of one of them, then get caught up in an old-dark-house situation...

Brother Pío, intending to collect charity for a group of nuns who run an orphanage, travels to Madrid with a statue of the Baby Jesus. On the train ride there, he meets Lucio, a slick-talking small-time thief, who steals the statue from him in order to collect the donations for himself.

A close look at Puerto Rico's unique relationship with the United States.

A young man who lives in Morocco, his father and his half-sister are the characters. When the girl disappears in Kasbah, a night club, her half brother becomes the prime suspect.

The most crude and atrocious institutional violence of the Spanish State hides behind a true dark figure, an abyss into which this documentary peers through 30 firsthand accounts.

A group of friends who are struggling to survive in the slums of Madrid commit petty crime in order to finance the debut as a bullfighter of one of them.

Sandra, lovelessly married to a landowner who owns racehorses, meets José María, a lumberjack, and they quickly fall in love. After some time, Sandra's husband learns of the relationship.

While Manolo, employed in a tourism agency in the Costa del Sol, enjoys the foreign babes, his wife suffers at home in the city. Advised by a girlfriend she plans revenge by simulating pregnancy. At first, Manolo is very happy to have a baby. However, soon he realizes that he cannot be the father since he was not in the city at the time of conception.

In the prelude of the twentieth century, Pedro arrives in Tierra del Fuego, an hostile and violent territory, to immortalise the marriage of a powerful landowner. Fascinated by the beauty of the bride-to-be, he betrays the rules and is left to face the land, crawling with violence and marked by the genocide of the land indigenous.

A group of undocumented Mexican immigrants work long hours six days a week, and then savor their day of rest on Sundays on the soccer fields of Brooklyn.

A gunfighter called "El Rojo" arrives in Gold Hill to avenge his massacred family.

A couple from Burgos, Alfredo and Teresa, travel to New York where they intend to “switch off” and do all of the things listed in the guidebook. But the moment they land, they start to notice signs, some subtle and others rather less so, that in fact they’re not in the city sold to them by the travel agency. So where are they?

Retired billionaire, Rooney, feels his family loves only his money and not him. He plans to live as an adult baby with his wet nurse, Sagebrecht. When thieves break into his mansion and hit him on the head, he starts to grow younger.

In 1960s Spain, legendary trapecist Pinito del Oro hires young poet Natalia Sosa Ayala to help with her memoirs, sparking a profound emotional bond between them. Through historical events, intimate encounters, and decades of letters, their admiration, affection, and creative passion intertwine. The story moves between memory, desire, and imagination, showing how these two artists influence each other’s quests for freedom, artistic expression, and recognition. Rooted in real moments but told with a dreamlike, imaginative lens, it explores what might have been between them, revealing a tender, evocative tale of connection, longing, and the courage to defy societal constraints.

Martin is a finished actor, both professionally and personally. He is divorced, has no friends and a son he has not talked to for more than a year. But one fine day he will get a working offer his agent will not let him pass: to be companion of a 5 years old boy in a costume contest at the Amusement Park.

Violeta is willing to do anything to find her missing kid. Elena keeps a strange secret. Lola wants to settle her debts with the past. Juana needs someone who loves her unconditionally and Enriqueta just looks for someone who makes her laugh. These five women have something in common, all of them are linked to Diamond Flash, a mysterious character who will change their lives forever.

Antonio is a millionaire who spends his time conquering beautiful women aided by his faithful butler, Pablol. He tries to seduce the beautiful Marta, but when he realizes that she prepares a trap to force him to marry, Antonio disappears.

The brother of a condemned man kidnaps the son of the warden to blackmail him. But the director, firm in the line of duty, does not agree, so the criminals decide to get rid of the child. After seven years, the kidnapped boy lives with tramps and together with another child sings along the streets to earn money while committing rogueries

When the troubled son of an NGO worker refuses to take a test and announces that he is not leaving his room, his concerned mother asks one of her clients, a Cuban exile, for help in setting the boy straight. Gonzalo has decided to drop out of school, and his mother Ana isn't sure how to convince the boy that he's making a crucial mistake. Ana's client Carlos is a Cuban exile who makes his living selling cigars and artwork on the black market. When Carlos learns of Ana's dilemma, he calls on recently released convict Mikel to teach the boy how to play chess. Perhaps is young Gonzalo can master the game, he can learn to start living again. As the lessons get underway, each of these characters learns that in order to truly move on with their lives they much first break free of the bonds that prevent them from being who they really are.

From the Olymp the gods keep an eye on a married couple whose disputes are endangering the stability of their marriage. In order to repair the relationship they use unconventional methods...

Chilean soldiers try to survive in the desert after they are attacked by Peruvian troops. The 17 survivors are held together by the Captain. The Lieutenant is a civilian attorney who clashes with the Captain as he pursues the valuable rights to nitrate deposits in the area. When the fighting was over, 25,000 soldiers from Chile, Peru and Bolivia had perished while trying to secure the coveted mineral rights for foreign companies.

Spain, 1931. Under the Second Republic, women are eligible, but cannot vote. Victoria Kent and Clara Campoamor, the first women in the Spanish Parliament, intend to fight for women's rights, and Clara knows that the first step is to get the women's vote approved…

One of Hollywood's brightest stars is eclipsed by drink, drugs and self-doubt.

Two strangers, Doroty, a domestic employee from Central America aged around 45, and Mari, an elderly woman who is hard of hearing, are forced to spend the lockdown together to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

A young woman, who sells music recordings in the flea market in Madrid, passes herself off as a friend's girlfriend so that he doesn't lose his inheritance.

A gardener working at a resort on the island of La Palma decides to go to the top of the volcano to plant a garden amidst the ruins. Meanwhile, a young girl vacationing at the same hotel feels bored, reflects on utopia, and searches for happiness.

One night, at the end of the seventies, Venus, Paula and Miguel's band, performs its last concert.