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Carmen is a gypsy teenager, destined to live a life that is repeated every generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. But one day she meets Lola, an uncommon gypsy who dreams about going to university, does graffiti and is very different. Carmen quickly develops a complicity with Lola and discovers a world that, inevitably, leads them to be rejected by their families.
Sep 2018
Young Eva makes her decision to stay in Madrid for the month of August an act of faith. She needs to feel things differently and think of summer as a time of opportunity. On days of festivities and verbenas, while events and encounters take place, Eva will discover that she still has time, that an opportunity can still be given.
Aug 2019
A conversation about the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) and his perdurance in contemporary Spanish cinema.
Jul 2021
A sex doll called Lucy wakes up in the bedroom of a doll brothel. She lives with Mina, another doll. Together they watch TV: their window to the real world. They imagine themselves living far away. After a while, Lucy wants to escape. But Mina doesn’t want to leave. Lucy has to choose between freedom and the doll she is in love with.
Sep 2022
A boy and a girl who have just met transport a corpse on request to the north of Mexico. When the police discover them at a routine check, they are forced to flee. Forced to team up, they will abandon their secrecy and mistrust while trying to assert his only heritage: a dead man who they only know is worth money if they manage to take him to his destination.
Sep 2021
When Paula’s painful breakup with Raúl causes her to stop seeing his son Dani, Paula will have no choice but to challenge a hypocritical legal system that ignores the custody rights of a loving, non-biological parent.
Dec 2021
Oct 2011
Madrid, 1980. When Sole sees Nano come in, bloody and beaten, she already knows what to do. In an improvised infirmary, she tries to mend his son’s wounds. But Nano is getting old, and his body doesn’t heal like it used to. At his mother’s pleas, Nano offers a deal: he will retire from boxing if she, for the first time, watches one of his fights.
Sep 2024
Violeta and Pablo are a squatter couple who have just entered an abandoned apartment. They try to go unnoticed while they explore the rooms full of memories of an elderly couple, whose end is nothing more than a mystery. The discomfort and fear tense up, hesitating before the doubt of being able to conceive that apartment as a home.
Jun 2023
Pili is a middle-age woman. She owns a tabacco shop in a working class neighberhood of Madrid, and she is a gambler. Enraged by the prize of a slot machine, she will chase Ying and Li-Sung throughout the neighborhood. How far will she be willing to go?
Sep 2019
Election night. Aimar, leader of the left-wing Basque nationalist movement, returns home more tired than ever. Itziar awaits him, exhausted. At the entrance, the remnants of a protest by the radical youth of their own party. Aimar has to make a decision: Does he want to continue dedicating his life to the nationalist cause, even in the worst of times?
Sep 2023
Eusebio José Fernández López Reboredo Bergamín is a teenager in the 1960s whose dream is to be a movie director, but General Francisco Franco prohibited in 1964 all types of art. A coincidental encounter with another artist, named Antonio Mínguez, will change his life.
May 2022
In a militarized, post-apocalyptic world, ravaged by an infection that turns people into beasts, one child defies all obstacles to find his mother. He has one question to ask in the midst of all this doom: does she still remember him?
Toño, an 11 year old boy, takes on the responsibility of caring for his sick sister due to his father's neglectful behavior. When he learns that orphans can have a better life in a shelter, he must choose between letting his sister's condition worsen or becoming a monster himself.
Sep 2025
It's a journey in a dead place, the need of finding a home. Get trough the grief to understand it.
Javi, Fer and Miguel are three friends who roam the city looking for fun. Tonight they have prepared something special.
Feb 2013
Yi and Dong Dong are two Chinese people residing in Spain. Despite their problems with residence in a foreign country, they decide to go about setting up a fish and aquarium store in the centre of Madrid.
Sep 2016
A group of travelers is trying to cross a lake to survive, but to do so they must face a hermit who lives in a cabin, the only one who can help them.
In a dark, abandoned mansion deep in the forest, an aging vampire filmmaker lives in communal seclusion with his five disciples. On the night of his birthday, he reveals his final wish: to film the one moment he has never dared to face — the sunrise —.
Musa goes to the Registry Office to verify his identity, but discovers that there is no trace of him in the system: he does not exist. This raises suspicions among the officials and they convince Musa to plunge into a Kafkaesque process where he will have to go to a judge.