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Browse 17 movies from Suica Films
Ana, her mother and grandmother live in a small town in southeastern Spain where all three are regarded with suspicion.
Nov 2022
Javi is a teenage student so shy and clumsy that he does not know how to attract the attention of his classmate Sara, a geeky girl who is only interested in a literary saga about vampires.
Jul 2022
Jan, a mysterious character haunted by a deep feeling of guilt, tries to get Violeta back, a youth love he lost 20 years ago, with a sickening plan.
Sep 2020
Spanish Civil War, May, 1938. Four villages in Castellón, Benassal, Albocàsser, Ares del Maestrat and Vilar de Canes, were bombed from the sky and ravaged. 38 people died. Inhabitants never knew for sure who piloted the planes responsible for such atrocity, although the rebel propaganda attributed the act to the republican side. Now, 80 years later, the truth is finally exposed.
Nov 2018
At the foot of Europe’s largest glacier, seven Icelandic siblings once lived in deliberate isolation, dedicating their lives to observing ice and nature long before climate change had a name. Their abandoned farmhouse becomes a living archive, animated by photographs, objects, and a 16mm film that restores gestures, spaces, and a vanished way of being in the world.
Mar 2026
Women of mature years talk about their marriage, their first time, their intimate relationship with sexuality. In the repetition of these ancestral rituals, the director questions her own lack of marriage, of children, and with it, a chain of mother-daughter relationships that is dying out.
Jan 2025
The documentarial work on world wide famous flamenco dancer Sara Barba's latest show "voices"
Aug 2017
Domingo Domingo, a witty Valencian orange farmer, tries to stand up to the multinational companies that oppress the humble workers of the land.
Mar 2023
Old Tjikko: a 9.550 years old tree standing alone in the Swedish tundra. Surtsey: an island born only 63 years ago on the coast of Iceland. Lotus Gomeritus: the last and only known specimen of a plant species discovered in the Canary Islands. Through these three main subjects of observation, and many other images collected through a process that took over ten years, photographer Aleix Plademunt and filmmaker Carlos Marques-Marcet set up a meditation on how we construct our world through looking and the complex relationship between images and the spoken language.
They're called water carriers, domestics, 'gregarios', 'Sancho Panzas' of professional cycling. Always at the back of the group, with no right for a personal victory. These wonderful losers are the true warriors of professional cycling.
Nov 2017
Guillem Agulló y Salvador was killed by a stab in the heart by a group of neo-Nazis on April 11, 1993. Destroyed, his parents, Guillermo and Carmen, will fight so that the death of their son is not manipulated, and is not considered the fruit of of a simple gang fight. The way, full of obstacles, threats and a dirty media war, will be about to destroy the family, who must learn to mourn the death of a child while fighting for his memory, which little by little becomes the symbol of a cause they would never have thought to lead.
Oct 2020
[m]otherhood will make us stop asking women without children why they don’t want to be mothers, because it gives us all the answers. These types of inquiries can become very annoying after a while; at times, the only way to get out gracefully is by smiling and not saying a word. This documentary brings together several women who’ve decided to sound off on the subject, and whose reasons –hard-hitting and solid– knock the concept of contemporary motherhood as an “ideal” off its pedestal.
Feb 2019
Every morning Krilli prepares the myriad ingredients required to make the lobster soup at the Bryggjan café, a tiny eatery in Iceland’s dullest town. His wife helps him in the kitchen and yearns to return to Rejkyavik. In the café, Krilli’s brother Alli sits with the old fishermen, the last boxer in Iceland and the translator of Don Quixote into Icelandic. Every day they find a new answer to the world’s problems. Once a month the neighbours meet at the Bryggjan café to remember those who died in Grindavik and pronounce their names. Four crazy musicians play jazz. A few lost tourists turn up at the fishing harbour and are captivated by the atmosphere in the café. Real people, they think. A real place. On the other side of the mountain is the Blue Lagoon, the island’s great attraction. People from all over the world come in fascination to see the volcanoes, the ice and the genesis of the Earth.
María is 30, has an intellectual disability, and a deep desire: to be a mother. The lack of understanding from her family and the foundation where she lives will lead her to fight for her rights, to an uncomfortable rebellion to regain control over her own body.
Oct 2024
The artist Mateo Vilagrasa from Castelló, one of the greatests creators of the end of the twentieth century, who was quadriplegic for 15 years fter an accident, prepares the trip to his departure. This is his last chance to make a difference about the direction of his work and his life. A thinker that paints about the “self” and about the sense of existence.
Dec 2019
A couple of dancers appear one morning in a High School. It's Monday and they announce to a group of youngsters that they have five days to get up on stage and dance. A short time but a big challenge. The dance compels these youngsters to break through their roles exactly at the time of their lives when the social roles are being forged. The handsome boy is no longer the most admired, the timid one takes a step forward. Wilfried van Popple and Amaya Lubeigt are the choreographers. Professional dancers who have decided now to work with people who have never danced before. This is the challenge: five days, a class of teenagers, a microcosm in which occurs a little big bang.
Nov 2014
Entire generations lost. We can't change the world if we teach the same things we were taught. Let's start a revolution in school! But how? A high school takes on the challenge: to form good people, not just to think about forming good workers.
Nov 2019