Discoveries from Spain World Cinema

Two aliens come to Earth to take over the planet. To do so, they plan subdue and clone famous pop singers Juan and Junior.

Manuel waits impatiently in the bank of a square where his friend Juan is trying to finish telling his story. Manuel begins to show interest when he realizes that his partner is narrating the night itself that is happening and that everything points to a disastrous end.

Lola, a member of a gang of crooks, is visited by a cousin who comes to work in a multinational.

A series of short films examining the world's overlooked problems and the people who suffer from them.

Koto is a restless and impulsive young African, born in a refugee camp. His life in Catalonia among the paddy fields of the Delta passes by with few changes, always under the protection of his foster parents. He has left behind the tough childhood he had in the Saharan refugee camp where he was born. One day life takes a sudden turn: the doctors tell him that he urgently needs a kidney transplant. The best choice as a possible donor would be his biological mother. The sudden arrival of his Saharan family is a shock for Koto, who watches as the life he has been living for the past 10 years falls apart around him. Far removed from the beliefs and customs of his people, the young man must deal with his origins to try to save his own life. The film is based on a real story and played by Koto himself.

Jorge is an old artist, actor and director, who says he wants to direct a film about the Latin American wars of independence. Charito is a young woman who comes from the Peruvian jungle to work as a maid in Buenos Aires. The unconscious of the protagonists bursts in the form of dreams, visions and fantasies amid horses, fencing sessions, fragments of lost films and anthropological videos.

Nearly four months after the historically devastating Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, only half of the island has power back. “Candlelight” is a journey through the storm’s aftermath and the events that changed Puerto Rico forever. It’s a heartfelt tribute to the resilience of the Puerto Rican people.

Agent Lemmy Logan is investigating the case of a missing NASA scientist and discovers that an ex nazi is developing a new super weapon.

A group of ambitious new filmmakers wants to sell a broadcaster a television program involving ghosts and paranormal events. They have lots of special effects, but special effects aren't necesary when something from beyond is lurking.

Two prostitutes in a small corrupt South American town, falls in love with a freedom fighter, posing as a guard at the local prison. Run by the corrupt Governor and a sadistic wardress.

A reunion with his family provides a clue into the cause of one man's lonely life in this drama from filmmaker Manuel Martin Cuenca. Oscar lives in a barren section of Almeria, Spain, where he works as a guard at a salt mine. Oscar's days are governed by a monotonous routine: he goes to work, has lunch with fellow guard Miguel, finishes work, visits his dying grandfather at a hospice, and then goes home. While he sometimes spends his evenings with a woman, it's clear their relationship is not a close one. One day, Oscar gets word that grandfather has been transferred to a hospital, and his sister Maria, who now lives in Paris, comes to Almeria to pay the old man a visit. Maria, who is expecting a baby, is accompanied by her boyfriend Jean , who tries to keep a distance between the two siblings. It becomes clear that Oscar and Maria share an ugly secret that she wants to keep hidden at all costs, leading to an grim tension that grows between her and her brother.

In seclusion at La Quinta del Sordo, Goya confronts illness, memories, and haunting visions, exorcising his demons through the Black Paintings —sacrificing peace, sanity, and self to immortalize his torment.

Barcelona, 1983. Agustí Martorell is a left-wing lawyer, atheist and former anti-Franco fighter, who discovers that his 15-year-old daughter Esther, influenced by the optional religion classes of Mossèn Parcerisas, a progressive priest and post-councillor, has converted to Catholicism and was secretly baptized.

Elisa, an aspiring actress, goes to talk about her experience to a journalist. During the interview she becomes aware of what she has gone through and the guilt she is carrying. Based on a true story.

Lucia travels with her boyfriend, Alex, to the house of her enigmatic sister Lula, a place trapped in time and memories. During their stay in the last days of a summer, ghosts and family secrets return to their lives.

A group of young actors plays a reality show in a theater. Fiction imposes itself cruelly on reality while the characters devour their performers little by little. A labyrinth between the real and fictitious in which only one can remain.

The two million Spanish women who are victims of domestic violence and the death each week of a woman at the hands of her partner is not fiction but pure reality.

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

The usually absent father of a chubby kid shows up to take him on a road trip.

Ray does not know what he is doing at a party full of strangers.

Since his father's death, Bruno divides his time between his duties as a student and his love of cinema. When he finds an old super8 camera belonging to his father, he changes his perception of the world in which he lives.

Two military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same guys rape and murder his wife, then use their young son for target practice. Enough is enough.

Naïve moviegoers in his hometown think a certain actor is tough like the characters he plays and will be able to clear their town of badguys.

It’s the late 1950s, and in an affluent and quietly respectable part of Buenos Aires, young Sulamit Löwenstein strikes up a friendship with her next-door neighbour Friedrich over the whereabouts of her family dog. She is the daughter of German-Jewish immigrants to Argentina, he is the son of a senior SS officer, a tragic political legacy from whose shadow both characters struggle to escape over the next three decades. Following the teenaged Friedrich to Germany, Sulamit finds him caught up in the radical politics of late-1960s student life; and she’s forced to make important decisions about her attitude to her homeland when Friedrich returns to Argentina to join the fight against the military junta.

A woman who works as employee in a fashion store has to care for her ill mother. At the same time she falls in love with a bohemian man.

A detective with a broken life finds the truth in the last case of his career.

Cinco fueron escogidos taking place in Slavko, a "peaceful town in Yugoslavia," with only Yugoslavians and Germans as characters, not a Mexican or Spaniard in sight. Another interesting point about Cinco fueron escogidos is the existence of an alternate version, shot in English with a different cast (at least in major roles). Sadly, this film, usually referred to as "Five Were Chosen" but sometimes called "Hostages" (not to be confused with the somewhat similar 1943 Hollywood movie with that title), appears to be lost. García Riera indicates the English-language version was screened in Mexico, at least for the press, but does not seem to have been released commercially in the Mexico or the USA. Since Herbert Kline was well-known for his leftist views, it's not surprising to note that many of the imported Hollywood actors were also left-leaning (and in fact more than one was blacklisted during the Red Scare era).

Alfredo Di Stéfano plays himself, not as a soccer player but as a man, husband and father. This is a personal portrait of the mythical athlete, in the decline of his career. Film made to the greater glory of the football player Alfredo Di Stefano. In principle it is a portrait of manners of the life of the athlete at the time of professional retirement. Filmed by Luis Marquina, " The Battle of Sunday " mixes the form of a conventional film with the topics of biographical documentaries. However, the film was an important public success, given the importance of Di Stefano in Spanish football.

16th century ruler King Philip II of Spain maneuvers within a court of deceit and betrayal

Andrea finds out that an embarrassing video of her has gone viral. While she contemplates the idea of suicide, a hacker hired by her ex-boyfriend watches her anxiously through hidden cameras installed all over Andrea's apartment.

A U.S. engineer in Spain hunts thieves of two candlesticks, one of which is found in his suitcase.

As the new year begins, Leonor lands the breakthrough of her career: narrating a wildlife documentary series. But as she immerses herself in the world she describes, the line between reality and fiction begins to blur, awakening the lioness within.

A young European, Diego Medina (Carvell), joins the Mexican revolution and becomes a courier for Pancho Villa. He is captured and tortured by the Federales but escapes to the desert where he meets and joins a bandit named Malpelo (Fajardo) and his gang.

One Thursday a month Lucas, Río and Marcos play cards at Xabi's house, the perfect host. It seems like a regular game until Xabi tells them what he has been doing during the last month

A disturbed middle-aged man is obsessed by a dancer and prostitute and abducts her, with tragic consequences.

Tricked by a former college rival (Guillermo Toledo), two juvenile brothers (Santiago Segura, Javier Gutiérrez) travel to a concert that's not taking place.

Mercedes (Neus Asensi) Mariángeles (Ana Risueño) and Carmen (Miriam Diaz Aroca) need to escape something: the stress of the job, a divorce or a gray and boring existence. And all three are looking for something: a love affair in an exotic country. The destination is Tunisia, land of contrasts, from the deserts and beaches. But far from land into a paradise unprecedented journey undertaken with a group of quirky characters.

Adaptation of the suite "Iberia" by Isaac Albeniz. Documentary about the world of flamenco. The story arises from the music itself and those who interpret it: the musicians and dancers. The film recreates and reinvents musical pieces and merges classical ballet, contemporary and Spanish dance and flamenco

José comes back to his family house to take care of his father, Gonzalo. Old memories and unresolved conflicts will arise, in a moment where uncertainty and fear will act as a catalyst.

In the '80s, Tito, a 17 year old boy, faces a difficult choice: leave school and follow the road to university or front his past and take on a battle against the dictatorship. Motivated by Cecilia, who he secretly loves, and his father, Tito passes from an adolescence without worries to the responsibility of taking justice into his own hand. Integrity mixed with commitment, will crossed by want, fear associated with the pleasure of adrenaline, the reasons behind the violence, are the contradictions of Tito and his friends. In the end, Tito and his opponent Ricardo, a police officer who he knows since childhood, end up facing each other in a terrifying game. The type of game in which nobody wins.

Los desafíos presents three separate stories that are linked by an American presence in Spain in the 1960s, with Dean Selmier playing the role of the American male in all three.

The young Enrique leaving to study at the University and is married to Juana. One day he meets a painter who takes Enrique into another life and confused begin to think about taking some drastic measures.

Compilation of images of the amateur recordings of Madronita Andreu, Catalan intellectual of the nineteenth century, daughter of Dr. Andreu, famous for its pills and cough syrup.

Three Italian couples and a single Italian girl, the title character, check in an Istanbul hotel. The hotel attendant is spying on the customers with a network of hidden cameras. The three female tourists are unsatisfied with the sex they get from their partners who are more into light kinks rather than straightforward love-making. The hotel attendant sells them an aphrodisiac he has manufactured. But will he himself be able to get Daniela?

Tom Rodriguez, a young cowboy, arrives in Torrejón City. However in Torrejón City the unsuspecting Tom is mistaken for the famous outlaw Tim El Malo and the people want to lynch him.

Mary dreams of following the footsteps of his mother, Stella Marco, once famous popular singer. Both survive renting rooms to people in show business. Determined to follow the career of her mother, Mary fails in her first attempt to succeed in the theater. But the faintness of the star at the premiere of a play will be her big chance. Mary has an unexpectedly huge success and becomes 'Miss Cuplé'.

Today is the premiere day, and Artur, son of a bourgeois family and dancer in a contemporary dance company, acts like the prince in a kingdom tailored to his own image. Everything changes when his father is arrested for corruption in a real estate scandal. From that moment on, Artur must decide between protecting his family by covering up for his father or facing the consequences of losing his privileges.

J. Kramer is a publicist who wants to win Marisa, a girl he met in a club. She thinks that publicists are stupid, will J. Kramer manage to change this girl's mind?

Three celluloid letters sent from different parts of the globe to Paul Morrissey, director of Trash, Flesh and Heat, collaborator with Warhol and agent for the Velvet Underground.

Moving between classrooms – static interiors and roaring, raucous exteriors – Leagues explores the subject of academic exclusion in native communities. Named after an archaic unit of measurement, Martel's postcolonial film depicts how education, though a social tool, can also create division and discrimination.

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.