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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.

A conversation about the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) and his perdurance in contemporary Spanish cinema.

A portrait of the fugacity of time. Bruno, Elio and Matías, three 16-year-old boys, after performing a Shakespeare monologue at high school, return to their refuge where they create their own world; where the time passes differently, as in a dream that they will eventually wake up.

Spain. Faced with the progressive aging of the population and the dire economic situation, the Administration launches an assisted euthanasia campaign aimed at so-called -unproductive beings-. Keen to get their hands on the amount of money set for the substitution of the old man, the Arevalo family will try to get rid of Granddad unaware that he has plans of his own.

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A grieving woman sleeps. Between her agitated breathing, the footsteps of a strange man creep in. At dawn, he accompanies her for a last walk in the forest. The protagonist, a woman without a name, will say goodbye to life in a quiet walk close to nature.

Although he works in a nice nursery, surrounded by plants and making bouquets, the real aspiration of Jorge is to become a mortician. However, as he goes through the simulations at his thanatopraxy school, he wonders if he will really be able to face reality when the time comes to see a deceased person.

When time seems suspended, young people meet in the forest.

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.

At 6 p.m. on an otherwise ordinary day, Isidro picks up his last passenger. 97 minutes and 5 stab wounds later, everything is captured by the vehicle’s interior camera. Now, the testimony of his fellow drivers pieces together a story of fear and fury from those who make their living with their hands on the wheel.

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 —.

It was Thursday when we met her at Puerta del Sol. Sandra is a seventy three years old woman who’s life is dedicated to fight injustices, towards others and the ones she suffered herself. Everytime we meet we learn something new that she once was not allowed to say.

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.

Madrid, April 2020. Covid-19. A girl, at home, is bored. A boy feels lonely in his room. They don’t know each other, but imagine each other on a chat. And while they do so, they start a journey in space and time trying that will take them away from their enforced lockdown.

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.

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.

Teo, a little eight-year old girl, wishes to go to the moon during his birthday. 20 years later, Teo, like most of us, has not accomplished many of the things she would have liked by now. However, "There are many ways to reach the moon".

Jesús, a devout Christian, leads the women’s choir at his local parish. A few days before the Christmas celebration, he experiences a revelation: he has discovered that there is no paradise. Feeling deceived, he decides to prepare a speech to tell everyone that the afterlife does not exist.