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Marta has found a dress that is not hers in her boyfriend Fer's room, all the trust she has placed in him over years of relationship is shaken.
Apr 2022
Maca and Carmen, two lifelong friends, spend their last day together in the town where they lived their childhood before moving to different countries for work reasons. Spending that last day, we take a walk through her memories walking through the streets of her town, her dreams and her disappointments.
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Jun 2022
Nov 2023
Málaga, late 15th century. A lost Christian knight seeks to join the King’s armies to prove his worth to his beloved, but he encounters a dying Muslim soldier, becoming his only option to trust his enemy in order to win her heart.
Feb 2026
Casandra, a young woman with schizophrenia, moves into her deceased grandfather's apartment. There, her symptoms reappear stronger than ever. But is it her illness or is there something more? This country hides painful secrets... and she's locked up with one of them.
Isa has been in a relationship with Vera for months. Although neither has any doubts, their relationship has developed like that of two girls playing hide-and-seek. By fleeing from their reality, they have made fantasy their refuge and consolation. Hidden in a closet where she feels freer than she does in her own world, Isa will have to choose: Break the silence or live as a Martyr?
A bachelor party becomes a mystery when the groom disappears without a trace.
Jun 2026
During one of her regular trips to the lake, Irene meets Nereia, the mysterious daughter of the engineer who rebuilt the dam. For some strange reason, her father keeps her isolated in the residence he built on the banks of the lake, so she has never been able to interact with other people. In an attempt to give her back the youth she has been denied, Irene invites Nereia to join her group of friends. It will be then when they discover that playing with the unknown can have a very high price.
Mar 2023
Rafael was the outlandish mayor of a small Andalusian village until his absent-minded eccentricities caused him to draw in the village elections. Now he has a clear objective: to win in the second elections. His best idea is to organise and star in a documentary to brag about 'his people'. Through these cameras we will get to know one of the crazy traditions of the village. But also, the criticism and laughter that his dubious management arouses, and the irrefutable prudence of Victoria, his competitor. All these problems will explode back at him... literally.
Jun 2024
When she waited impatiently for him, he never showed up for their date. He can't tell time; he's a fish out of water.
Braida and her father are vampires whose life has been reduced to wandering aimlessly. One night, they encounter Laura a young woman who looks eerily similar to Braida's long-dead sister, Iselda.
After a wild sex session in a brothel on his 40th birthday, Luis, bitter and haughty, tries unsuccessfully to escape from the blood stain that, without explanation, grows on the sheet over the bulge formed by his lover. Desperation and what he finds under the sheet means that the only option is to jump out the window of the room already full of blood. The blow plunges him into a strange dream in which a particular fairy godmother reminds him of the child that she still carries inside and the need to take care of him. Convinced of the teaching, by blowing out the candles on his birthday cake, Luis wishes to become that child. Beneath the sheets, drenched in blood, he discovers the error of his desire.
Bullying turns Esteban's life into a nightmare while Rubén fights with all his might to keep his job in the face of a manager who seems determined to fire him immediately.
Nov 2018
Jun 2023
Short film winner of the first prize at the Lyon Fashion Film Festival, telling the story of Julia, a creative soul who is lost between dreams and reality.
Oct 2025
Candela is a 70-year-old woman with advanced senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type. Gloria, her wife, struggles to keep the parts of memory that time has not yet extinguished, each time with less fortune and more wear and tear. Both Gloria and Candela are increasingly lost in that disease that drags them to the two and separates them. Gloria understands that even if she is capable of recovering pieces of the past shared with Candela, it will never be the same; although they can live moments similar to those of their youth.
Oct 2021
Spain. 1978. Year of the first democratic elections following the dictatorship, and of the birth cine quinqui (delinquent movies): films that rapidly became a big commercial success, showing things that were banned by the censorship not too long before.
Apr 2018