Discoveries from Spain World Cinema

Mr. Olivares is already recovered; all he needs is to take a vacation in a paradisiacal place where he can relax.

Frank and Roger are shocked by the death of their friend Gene--who apparently has died of an unknown disease--and decide to investigate. They visit the old haunts of their friend and meet Maria, the girl Gene was in love with. They soon discover that Maria has strange supernatural powers and the unexplainable mystery of Gene's death deepens. What really happened to Gene? Was he the victim of an evil force? What is the mystery of the strange and beautiful Maria?

A spaceship is about to come to pick up Javi, so him and Berta have to put an end to their summer love.

Film director Mikel de Garay and the attractive young producer Andrea Bilbao, who hide an obscure past, are going to make a film based on the latest novel by Rosendo Carballo, a successful writer with homosexual tendencies who has put an end to his marriage of convenience and is sharing his life with a young gay man. Rosendo is going to meet with Mikel and Andrea, and three friends of the writer, Fernando, Beatriz and Nacho, join the group. Conflict arises unexpectedly when the characters start to play a dangerous game: digging around in their respective pasts in the hope that this will produce a catharsis.

Guadalupe is an orphan as a child by Eulalio host and Euphrasia, who incite to steal and commit crimes. She opposes and decides to leave the house to avoid it in the company of a goldfinch and his trusty cat. The girl comes to live independently but failures will accumulate, until he accidentally meets Baby, a lady of good family, and among them emerges a sincere friendship.

Roman a clef, based on the final years of the life of singer/songwriter Jose Alfredo Jimenez.

The quiet day-to-day existence of two kidnappers, Alfonso and Marta, comes to an abrupt end when the elderly businessman they are holding in captivity tries to commit suicide.

Lozana, a young, beautiful and clever woman decides to move to the city after a tragic love story. There, she meets Rampin, a naughty rascal who soon finds out that her wit surpasses his own by a handful. When he falls in love with her, he can't help suffering as he sees how she plays not only with him, but with all of her lovers as well.

Late 1800s. The arrival of the railroad to an isolated town brings the long-awaited progress, but also Oleguer, a dark loan shark with shady dealings. When he seizes and stays at Cileta and her family's farmhouse, the young peasant will do anything possible to get her house back. Even if that means following in the dark footsteps of the money-lender.

Joan, a sullen old peasant tired of being robbed, decides to join the peasant patrol that watches over the fields. His son Pepe, who has just returned from the city, accompanies him. During the nightly patrol Joan and Pepe come across a thief.

Follows four youngsters who will commit vandalistic and vulnerable acts to try to survive, but these acts will bring unexpected consequences.

Second short film by Belén Macías, which shows the unbeatable narrative pulse of a director who has combined film and television work and her unbeatable work directing actors from the beginning, tells the summer story of a teenage girl - played by the renowned actress Adriana Ugarte in one of her first roles - who lives a huge conflict with her elders.

Billy and Eva are two people who meet in the gap of time between life and death.

'Ora Ponciano stars Chucho Solorzano as the eponymous hero. Set in 19th-century Mexico, the story deals with a celebrated matador named Ponciano, as skillful with the senoritas as with the toros. Special attention is lavished upon the romance between the bullfighter and the fair Rosario (Consuela Frank). Much of the film is given over to authentic re-creations of various folk festivals and dances, with the extras colorfully (and accurately) costumed for the occasion. The fact that the bullfighting sequences are not excessively brutal is an indication that the producers of 'Ora Ponciano hoped to release the film in the U.S.

Two girl detectives known as "Labios Rojos" ("Red Lips") outwit both criminals and a bumbling police inspector.

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.

Inspired by films like “L’inconnu du lac” and “O Ornitólogo”, director Valentino R. Sandoli has created “Cruising,” a film that explores desire, erotism and flesh, using an almost voyeuristic style that mixes together with oneiric images that provides a metaphysic tone to the story. A man meets a group of young men while bathing in a lake at the end of summer, and he immediately falls for one of them, who seems to shine with his own light. He follows them into the woods, where he watches them as he finds them in different groups and sex scenes, until he arrives to the one he fell for.

An anonymous love letter left in Carli's locker wreaks havoc on his life, and the lives of everyone who come in contact with it.

Michele and Valentina are about to get married despite the financial problems that threaten to make the first years of their marriage very difficult. Valentina wishes she could skip the first five years of marriage and find herself at a point in her life where all the difficulties have been resolved. A mysterious man who has overheard everything grants her wish, and the couple reunites in Spain, where he is a successful singer but the couple feels uneasy.

Tomás, a birdwatcher and photographer, tries to give his career a push by taking an impossible photograph: an albino bird never seen outside captivity. To this end, he drags his wife and daughter to the Amazonian forest.

Walter is lucky. From his terrace and without leaving his house, the birthplace of his fantasies and regrets, he meets a new girl.

A visual exercise which aims to synchronize classical music to the digital image. In this manner, two completely different cultural paradigms are put together.

This intimate documentary follows a group of Syrian children refugees who narrowly escape a life of torment and integrate into a foreign land.

A story of a family whose father tries by all means to maintain the strictest ethics and morality ... or at least appear so. His beautiful young daughter tries to emancipate hereself and looks for a job, but the chance is that the first thing that comes out is underwear seller. She starts to work and problems start for all.

Quim and Ramon are two friends that meet at the beach, hanging out and enjoying their relationship, but each one of them has a different view of their friendship.

In the city of Córdoba, in 2018, a group of neighbors is getting organized around a multisectorial called Defendamos Alberdi. They carry out activities in order to revalue the historical, architectural and cultural heritage of the neighborhood against a State that prioritizes a commercial and individualist system.

Three men and three women cross each others' paths at different times and places in Madrid during their daily life and amorous pursuits.

Two old friends. An ex couple. A music tour. Two lives to meet again.

Grete Stern decided to be a photographer. Then she also decided to be Argentinian. Those two choices are interwoven in a unique heritage, of paramount importance for modern Argentinian photography, that helps us better understand the world we live in and the worlds that live inside us.

An impostor pretends to be the mother of a blind man so he can manage his assets. But things are changing because of the arrival of the person who takes care of the blind.

In a retro-futuristic, tropical-punk twist on Dante’s Inferno, a group of misfits converges at Babel, a legendary dive bar that doubles as purgatory, where La Flaca—the city’s Grim Reaper—presides. Here, souls gamble years of their lives with her, daring to outwit Death Herself.

Juan Benatti, a tango singer in a typical quartet, is left in charge of five-year-old Ignacio, the son of the group's director, Horacio, and Marisa, when his parents are forced into exile for political reasons. Ignacio calls Juan "grandfather" and becomes a father to him. Horacio dies abroad; his mother remarries and demands the boy. But since he doesn't get along with his mother's new partner, custody finally falls to Juan, who raises the boy until he graduates from high school. He then turns down university to become a musician in a rock group, where he will be the voice and host.

Specialized in arranging weddings, Federico arranges marriage by proxy between Ana and Juan, two friends of his who do not know each other. Juan arrives by plane to Spain after spending ten years of safari in Africa, hoping to meet his wife, who arrives the same day from Buenos Aires. At the airport, Fernando receives him and they go to the bar to wait for Ana. But everything starts badly, because during the wait Juan drinks too much and gets drunk. When Ana arrives, she is displeased to meet her husband in such condition. Then Fernando takes them to a hotel for newlyweds where they meet other happy couples and where a peculiar honeymoon begins.

On a planet trapped in black and white, a strange comet crashes—transforming young intern Vector into the first being in Technicolor. Under the guidance of the brilliant Dr. Molecule, Vector becomes the center of awe, fear… and a cosmic decision: remain in a world that can’t accept him, or follow the comet to a new one. A retro sci-fi tale with B-movie flair, vintage visuals, and a burst of color that changes everything.

An account of the life and work of the singer and songwriter Miguel Ríos, pioneer and true icon of Spanish rock music.

In a dystopian future, with a social context influenced by various pandemics and with a political upheaval triggering reactionary governments, various young people hide on the outskirts of a city after looting a batch of vaccines. While the leaders of the group seek to sell them on the black market, the subjugated try to get their distribution among the marginal population who, like them, are deprived of vaccination. Tensions and discrimination based on sexuality or ethnicity soon arise in the group, reminiscent of past times, and that are the reflection of a society that has regressed. Desire and melancholy will mark characters stunned by a reality that is as fickle as unpredictable.

Eight friends get together to present the real Santiago Segura. They are going to tell everything, but the question is whether Segura is going to let El Gran Wyoming, Anna Simón, Kiko Rivera, Angie, Alex de la Iglesia, Silvia Abril, Carlos Areces and Jorge Sanz reveal their secrets.

A short film documentary on Los Amigos Invisibles where they take us through a journey of the meaning of music and their mixed feelings on the critical situation of their motherland: Venezuela. Shot in a few hours right before their show in Barcelona, Spain.

Between 1960 and 1962 more than 14,000 cuban children were sent alone by their parents to the USA. This clandestine operation -with the participation of the CIA and the Catholic Church- became known as "Operation Peter Pan". Many of the parents had expected to follow their children, who had been granted visa waivers by the US government, but the Missile Crisis terminated the flights between the two countries and the children found themselves stranded in the USA. In 2009, for the first time a group of the Peter Pan children, now adults visited Cuba to give "closure and make peace with the land where they were born".

During a visit to her grandparents´ house, Kath finds some pictures of the Argentinian civil unrests in 2001. Upon her return to Buenos Aires she will attempt to discover the link between these photographs and her deceased mother, the author of the images.

During the COVID-19 lockdown in Lima, Ramón, a gay man in his thirties, receives the ashes of his estranged father. Unable to hold a funeral, he sets out to return the remains to his father’s native village of Mito. Along the way, he meets Mateo, a striking traveler grounded by the pandemic. Despite curfews, masks, and distancing, an unexpected bond forms. They dance, laugh, and grow attuned to each other’s presence, their closeness charged with quiet intimacy and unspoken possibility. As they journey into the Andean highlands, Ramón is drawn not only to Mateo but also to a deeper confrontation with grief, memory, and the hope of healing.

In November 1971, Salvador Allende and Fidel Castro chat to each other about revolution, imperialism, oligarchy, underdevelopment, cultural dependency and economics.

On the front line of the Syrian war, a 30-year-old commander leads her female battalion to retake an ISIS-controlled city and emerges severely wounded, forcing her to redefine herself in this empowering tale of emancipation and freedom.

A humble shoe shiner is hired by a drug lord as a driver, and he quickly raises up the ranks to become his most trusted hitman. But his biggest desire is a woman that can't be his.

Guzmán’s final installment shifts from covering the actions of Allende’s opponents to those who battled to revive & promote their toppled leader’s vision for a new Chile.

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.

An Argentine travels to Spain to begin his studies. During the flight, he causes so much troubles to a flight attendant that she is fired. At home, the ex flight attendant discovers some dresses that belonged to her grandmother and decides to try her luck with an artist representative. There she will find the guy who caused his dismissal. Both fail to act in Barcelona, ​​but the boy's father attended the performance, being surprised, because he believed his son was studying in Madrid.

Carlota has an open war with the caretaker of her community, Candela, whom she considers a person at risk. Carlota did not always know that HIV does not understand social status, gender or sexual orientation, she had to learn it by having it closer than she could ever have imagined.

Chico, a young Puerto Rican living in Spanish Harlem, becomes a heroin addict after a rivalry between him and his father for his mother's affection. Following a 6-month jail term, he is now cured of his drug habit and working in his father's business. Chico meets Nick, his former dealer, for a casual drink, but his father assumes he has resumed drug use.

A 15-year-old girl and her father join an old friend on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico for the most spectacular solar eclipse in modern history. The characters are affected by the eclipse and somehow come undone.

A secret agent is assigned to capture a criminal gang that is threatening to destroy Earth with a death ray.

A motley crew of seven outlaws are pressed into service to defend a town from marauding Apaches, then two of them are appointed co-Sheriffs. Also some stuff about hunting for a lost treasure.

Greg Vincent is a struggling, alcoholic writer who has suffered a terrible loss in his life and is looking for inspiration for his next story. During this difficult time, he encounters a strange being from out of this world. Could this possible be the basis for the perfect story which could jump start not only his career but also his life?