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A documentarist fights to free himself from his own fate.

Before leaving adolescence behind, a group of students split into fictional characters to film their transition into adulthood. Between cameras, confidences, and a shared journey to the mountains, the film captures the tremor of an ending and the glimpse of another beginning.

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.

A group of documentary filmmakers retrace the steps of 19th century serial killer Manuel Blanco Romasanta, who blamed his crimes on lycanthropy.

For some time now, Inma has felt something strange when she is with Manuel, when she sees him open a beer, when he picks up his guitar, when a song plays... One given night, Inma thinks about changing this situation when she looks back. Remembering the moment in which he met Manuel and wanted to be by his side.

Some visitors descend into what appears to be a luxury bunker. There they find the end of the world.

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.

Madrid, 2021. The parks are empty. There are regional elections. And final exams. Meanwhile, Pedro, Kiko and Jesús agree to star in a movie.

Javi, Fer and Miguel are three friends who roam the city looking for fun. Tonight they have prepared something special.

A glimpse into the day of a son visiting his sick father. The film follows the son as he helps his father with his daily routines, while trying to create a connection with the distant figure.

Los Pilares is a family home, and also a portrait of the passing of time in one place and in one life, contained in the personal recordings of Antonio García Zarandieta between 1971 and 2018. Around the swimming pool, we get to know each tree, each grandchild that is born, each family celebration, which Antonio films painstakingly while adding a live narration. A film that pauses on the lyric of domestic life, at the same time as, through the past, it investigates a current theme: how what is around us is affected by constant recording, what does it mean to experience each event through the mediation of a device.

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.

In an undefined location, in a indeterminate time, Guzmán, his sentence completed, starts his shift in a gas station. Every night is a repeat of the previous nights, where he begins a succession of routine motions, tasks and habits. And every night, lost women stop at his gas station to ask him for help. Just help? Guzmán will be the one who, much to his regret, enables them to carry on their way to their fates, until his change of shift comes along. Or until he himself says that he cannot take any more.

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.

Miguel arrives at his grandmother's house to celebrate Christmas with his family, ready to face another night of reproaches. But this year is even worse; they want Miguel to join the family business, sacrificing his own dreams. Will Miguel be able to stand his ground, or will he end up succumbing to his family's wishes?

About to release her new album and to clean up her image after several controversies on social networks, the hitmaker pop star Alicia Galicia will have to spend a day with one of her biggest fans: Lucía, a 17-year-old girl anchored in her preadolescence who has won a contest to meet her for a day.

In a boarding school, legend has it that a time capsule has been hidden in the walls. They say it could change the world. Today, the new students fall in love, play cards, dream and laugh in their rooms, which in turn become their own time capsules, like snapshots of a generation at 20 years old.

Carmen, a woman haunted by family tragedy, drives at night after a long day of work. To fight sleep, she decides to stop in a gas station to rest. There, she meets a shadow of her past who could explain her present.

Marc long ago decided to confront the trauma that has haunted him for years, but the past is starting to creep back in.