Discoveries from Spain World Cinema

Death and the solitary pleasure of masturbation. Luis takes on an inner search looking for something that releases him from his anguish.

An atmosphere of mystery surrounds the death of Juan Durán. Paula, his wife, who has traveled to Rio de Janeiro to meet her husband, receives the news of his death. Since then, she also feels the impression of being watched and persecuted.

Doctor Fausto is observed by unknown creatures in outer space. All of a sudden, a strange woman appears in his life. Her strange behavior leads his life down the path to insanity.

Through a pictoric play, this movie tells the story about the painter Eduardo Miranda who, one night, while he was lokking to a gipsy group that was dancing, discovers a beautifull girl called Carmen. Dazzled by her beauty he decides to paint a picture. This causes roumours in the neighborhood, and it also arouses the jealousy of his wife.

Manuela and Rosario are two sisters who, after years of not speaking because of a family secret, find each other unexpectedly in the birthday party of their grandchildren. The kids have met thanks to their nannies, Trini and Milagros, best friends and neighbours. When they discover the conflict that separates the children, the nosy housekeepers will try, clumsily, lovingly and through silly shenanigans, to reconcile the families.

Elías is just beginning his career as a high school teacher and just beginning his relationship with Pedro when he finds out that he's HIV positive. How will he tell his new lover?

In Santiago, Andrés Barros is a partner at an up-and-coming law firm. He's getting married, and his friends, including his law partner Roberto, arrange a bachelor party where he spends the night with a prostitute, Gloria. She later shows up at his office and the passion continues, against his better judgment. Soon, Andrés is entangled in sex, lies, videotape, and blackmail. His relationship with Rosario, his fiancée, is strained, he neglects his work, and there's a dead body in a bathtub. A pimp, a whore, a doorman, a receptionist: where are the decent people?

After a year spent mourning his wife's death, a father and two sons cut loose for some wild living. Loose remake of Los Tres Alegres Compadres.

An anthology film centered around a film company called Tiacapa.

Story of a group of settlers and how they had to take refuge in a fort when they were attacked by Indians, as told by the only survivor

Luis is an astrophysicist who leads an orderly life with Angela. Everything changes when their new neighbors arrive with their daughter Iris. Overwhelmed by memories of a childhood love, he tries to control his emotions toward the girl so that his life does not fall apart. Luis finds himself immersed in a descent into his own personal hell, where everything seems to lead him to make the most terrible of decisions.

How will a top cardiologist mend her broken heart in the wake of a failed relationship? She is clear about her symptoms: first, pain in the sternum and then an obsession that hijacks her brain as she goes over and over her most recent dates. Once she has made the diagnosis, will she believe in her speedy recovery? Perhaps the energy efficiency manager who works in her hospital will be able to revive her broken heart.

The story of a group of American commandos assigned to kidnap General Rommel. But the soldiers are caught by the Germans who decide to use their plan against them. Replacing the American soldiers with German soldiers, and with the help of a fake "kidnapped" Rommel, they plan to kill General Eisenhower

In order to prepare for her role as a certain well-known actress, a young woman has lengthy conversations with three different actresses who were good friends with the famous star. Emerging from these conversations are three equally different versions of the past and the events that shaped their lives and careers. This cinematic adaptation of a theatrical work is true to the original, but does not stray far from a theatrical rendering of the story.

A group of former computer University colleagues and their partners meet for dinner after several years only to share one of the most secret files on the Internet.

Don Juan Tenorio makes a bet with a friend as to which of them will commit more outrages in a year. He wins, killing twirty-two men and seducing seventy-two women. In the end, however, he is saved from damnation through a return to true belief and the love of a saintly woman, Doña Inés.

Every morning is the same morning: the alarm, then breakfast, then shower… And every morning the same desire, the same wish to break with everything for once. Today, everything is still the same but something has changed inside. Today may be the day.

Ambitious non-starter gets a job as a bill-collector at a beauty-products company and tries to bluff his way into a management position, then tries a couple of other business schemes with minimal success.

Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmakers like Fernando Colomo, Fernando Trueba, Imanol Uribe, Carmen Maura and Antonio Resines, protagonists of the so called 'New Spanish Cinema' in the 80s. His first films were produced between friends, her back to the industry. Rolled with minimal budget and with the sole intention of having fun ... And big surprise were critical and box office successes. And also true generational manifestos.

A family spending their holiday at the Costa Brava. The older brother's belief system will be disrupted when an act of kindness results in a little tragedy. This will lead him into a routine where refusing to make decisions could lead to greater tragedies.

Buddy-cop comedy: police officer with a fatal disease will only draw pension/benefits for his family if he dies in the line of duty.

On October 30, 1988, the businessman Emiliano Revilla had been kidnapped by ETA for 249 days. After more than eight months of captivity, hopes of liberation were increasingly scarce and very few journalists were still standing guard at the employer's house. María José Sáez, a young editor, formerly of the EFE Agency, was the only one who was close to the house on the night of October 30th.

The life of Maribel, a disilluisoned prostitute working the Madrid of 1960, suddenly changes when a simple man that she meets by chance without knowing her profession, decides that she is the woman of her life and that he wants to marry her and to meet his odd family.

Ramon Riera is taking a well-deserved bath when his cell phone suddenly rings. On the other side of the line is Clara, a girl who insistently tries to sell him a life insurance.

A handsome young millionaire wastes his life in parties and debauchery. When his father dies, he inherits him on the condition that he works and marries, but he gets drunk and dies in an accident. A fat and poor bum in love with the waitress of a restaurant, robs the factory where he works as a watchman and when the police arrive he falls from the roof and dies. Both arrive at the reception of the afterlife and receive a new opportunity. They are given pills to temporarily recover their bodies, but they confuse them and end up exchanging them, which causes trouble and entanglements with their girlfriends and friends.

A young or very young individual of any mammal. Some adult mammals reproduce, giving rise to new offspring. Others remember the young they once were. The young either dies or ceases to be a young animal. We can only continue to remember it in dreams, freezing it in images.

Valerio lives trapped at home with her mother and the memory of his recently deceased father. His window to the outside world is his little sister, 'Little Girl', an aspiring actress with questionable talent. 'Little Girl' comes to visit them. Valerio idolizes her and waits her counting the seconds.

The adventures of a young orphan, who is determined to explore the world no matter what.

A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelter, a nun who takes off to find a drug habits in the black market, and his own witness of a robbery and as a lover.

After the Turia River overflows its banks, journalist Olvido and police sergeant Fermín investigate the appearance of six bodies with strange scars that point to a dark conspiracy.

In the mountains of Madrid, Spain, a railway track on an abandoned bridge and a poem erased from the wall of a ruined building reveal a deliberately silenced story: the system established by Franco's dictatorship after the civil war (1936-39) that allowed hundreds of companies to use thousands of convicted Republicans as slave labor.

The romance between an actress and a young man provokes the rejection of the class to which he belongs.

Directed by Ramón Torrado

Due to a rail accident, the passengers of a train had to be housed in a nearby town while awaiting the arrival of a relief convoy. In the train were traveling Alicia and Paul, a couple who will marry soon, along with her ​​mother, and George, a mature man who looks for a woman he loved. Due to the accident, they will have to spend the night there, where chance lead to a series of events that make the passengers no longer be the same.

Dioni, like every day, is late for work. His boss already warned him that if this happened again, he would leave him on the street. Someone is going to have to run if he wants to get paid this month...

Today Isaías runs back and forward between the park where he plays with his kids and his architecture studio, where he complains to his colleague Nico. No matter where he is, Isaías feels he should be somewhere else. And when he's with Ainhoa, his wife, they realise just how tiring children can be when they're so young. In the park, he makes friends with Sonia, the mother of another child, from whom he learns that raising children and coming of age isn't that easy. It never was.

Yaqui Indian fights for justice in Northern Mexico. Adaptation of popular comic-book, first in series.

Nerea is 37, is married and has a daughter. Professionally Nerea is a journalist and has to spend most of the day in the newspaper, subtracting much time to her family. The difficulty in balancing work and personal life greatly overwhelms the protagonist and the problem does not get worse when her mother, Luisa, Alzheimer patient is admitted to hospital.

The life and tribulations of Carmelist nun Teresa de Jesús, who had transcendental experiences. She would write several works and would reform the Carmelist order.

When Carlos invites his father and his brother to spend a pleasant New Year in a strange house isolated in the forest with him and his wife Ana. But what promised to be a quiet family dinner, suddenly is interrupted by the presence of a peculiar vagabond, dwarf and very bad man, who claims to be God.

Opening with a tragic crime, whose perpetrator attempts to hide his tracks, including his relationship to people in power and organized crime. The father of the victim – his daughter – who thought he had left behind a life marked by violence, decides to seek justice on his own, crossing red lines from which there is no return. If there is anything more dangerous than a father defending his children, is a father who no longer has any children to defend.

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 year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods that arrive to Cuba are not always the products that were shipped, in some cases, they simply arrive "lumps" or "coal". As it appears in the logbooks of the ships. 'Havanera 1820' is a film that tells stories of love and adventure in a time when Cuba confronts the Spanish colonizers.

Gloria and Enrique form an apparently happy marriage. But their sexual relations do not work out as they would both like.

Sexual violence against women is a very effective weapon in modern warfare: instills fear and spreads the seed of the victorious side, an outrageous method that is useful to exterminate the defeated side by other means. This use of women, both their bodies and their minds, as a battleground, was crucial for international criminal tribunals to begin to judge rape as a crime against humanity.

This film focuses on an aging starlette (Silvia Perez) was once an it-girl. She returns to her hometown for her niece's birthday party and has to deal with her conservative family who does not agree with her chosen lifestyle.

Inspired by "The diabolical" by Clouzot. The life of a woman becomes a sinister nightmare due to the plan drawn up by her husband.

Fernando, a priest accused of murder, encounters with Ruth, the woman who falls in love with him, and the real crime plot unravels after several intimate rendezvous over a number of years.

On the 11th July 2010, Spain’s national team reached its goal of winning the World Cup, a victory that was felt by the team and nation as a whole. Despite this successful ending, “La Roja” had to overcome various struggles and difficulties in order to become legendary. The team arrived in South Africa with the triumph of the 2008 European Football Championship under their belt and Vicente del Bosque leading the way. There was a general feeling of favoritism attributed to ""La Roja"" and while the defeat against Switzerland in the first match came as a shock, it motivated Del Bosque and his team to come together and focus on one intention: good football; and one goal: to make history.