À Punt

A series of standalone stories satirizing absurd misfortunes are stitched together by the story of clockmaker Carlo.

Spain, April 15, 1939. With the Civil War concluded, and with the intention of celebrating his victory, General Franco attends a dinner with his generals at the Palace Hotel.

Isabel's life is turned upside down the day her daughter Madalen asks her to visit her sick ex-husband Ramón on a regular basis.

The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he assumes another man’s identity as a gardener on a Portuguese estate, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner, stepping into a new life that isn’t his own.

Life for the bike citizens is idyllic, until one day, a new and surprising gizmo, the gas engine, comes to town. What follows is a thrilling, hilarious adventure, that will see Speedy the mountain bike become the unwitting leader of a group of environmental activists, who are determined to stop the gas engine from polluting their unspoilt haven.

Lucas just lost his father and everything around him is starting to crumble. One day he meets Alvaro, who offers him money in exchange for some innocent pictures. Álvaro will use them to create fake accounts in social media to “just talk”, he assures, with underage girls. Desperate for money, Lucas takes the deal.

Spain, 1982. Andrés Expósito, a young police inspector, accepts a posting in Denia, a small town on the Mediterranean coast, in the hope of leading a quieter life and that the natural environment will help improve the fragile health of his daughter; but once in his new post he becomes involved by chance in the investigation of the strange death of the inspector he has come to replace.

Sister Marina, a very unorthodox nun, is sent during the summer of 1994 to El Parral, a boarding school for boys threatened to be closed soon. Even though the kids welcome Marina with all kinds of pranks, they will, little by little, become something very close to the family they never had.

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.

One weekend, after years without seeing each other, several friends, over whom hangs the shadow of a murky episode of the past, meet in a house in the mountains. During the first night, a strange incident takes place that leaves them isolated.

Roger, a college student, agrees to take in his grandfather Roger despite his bouts of senile dementia. Now there are two lost Rogers, searching for a past that seems real, unable to understand a present that seems like a lie.

Lis is a teenager whose dream is to become a circus artist and leave her hometown, even if she knows that to do it she’ll have to fight her side against her parents. It’s summer and she spends her days playing with her friends and flirting with her boyfriend, a few years older than herself. The lack of privacy and the neighbours’ gossip force Lis to keep their relationship secret so that her parents won’t find out. A relationship which change her live forever.

In Valencia, Spain paella is much more than a dish; it's part of the identity of every resident.

Cecilia Bartolomé, a filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer from Alicante, is a pioneer of Spanish cinema. Mistreated by censorship, she still preserves at 80 the free spirit that has always defined her. We will journey with her through a fascinating life, a vital body of work, and a struggle that remains—so far, yet so close.

Óscar Peyrou is a veteran Spanish film critic who writes his reviews according to a very peculiar method: in his opinion, it is not really necessary to watch the films since it is possible to judge them simply by looking at their promotional poster.

Since 1997, retired high school teacher Bruce Farrer had been giving his students a task: to write a letter to themselves about how they imagine their lives in twenty years. He keeps all those letters himself and, twenty years later, he sends these to them.