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Víctor is in his last year of his Violin Studies and is about to perform his last recital. During his years as a student, he has put his family and friends aside to focus entirely on his true passion. Now that the first defining moment of his future professional career is approaching, he feels emotionally blocked, unable to play his piece well. Víctor will have to make amends with his close ones, those who have supported him and have been by his side, in order to feel at peace with himself. He will have to remember who he really is to find the right emotional balance that will allow him understand music and life in a much healthier and human way, and carry on with the concert.
Nov 2019
Bilbao, August. Jone, 20 years old, lives with her father and younger sister Marta. Aita, Jone's father, had to quit his job due to the consequences of his Parkinson's disease. Meanwhile, Bilbao's Semana Grande festivities kick off, setting the stage for Jone's first experience of love. Throughout this summer, Jone will navigate the dichotomy between the sense of invincibility she shares with Olga, the girl she falls in love with, and the fear of being left alone due to her father's illnes
Sep 2025
Nito is a teenager with learning difficulties who has been put into a class with kids younger than him who are always mocking and playing jokes on him. Urged by the ideas they've planted in his head, Nito tries to lose his virginity.
Oct 2003
The Pyrenees, 1883. Silo and his brother Bruno are escaping from a crowd of villagers when they begin a trip through the mountains.
Nov 2018
The streets of Barcelona, thousands of people coinciding at the same time, eyes crossed lost in thought. Not realizing that even though it may seem unique, everyone has a story worth telling. People who live the moment that will change them forever, that will define and vindicate them. Moments in our lives where we have been, or will be, aware of a change of stage; of a before and an after. Moments when we feel like we’re dragging our backs every minute we’ve lived. Because we are all inside our chrysalis until someone breaks them and forces us to face the real world.
May 2022
Pol is a teenager with a seemingly calm life: he lives with his brother and is still in high school. However, Pol has a secret: Deerhoof, a cuddly teddy bear who thinks, moves around and with whom he shares his best moments. Life goes on as normal until the arrival of Ikari, an enigmatic student who seems to be hiding something. Pol is fascinated by his new classmate and attracted to the dark side he harbors. An inexplicable death and a series of strange events will transform the meek student's routine into a fantastic adventure which will take over their lives. Animals is a story of teenage love, of sacrifice, of the tragedy of two clashing worlds. A Tale in which the power of imagination blurs its borders with reality and where death turns out to be an ending as tempting as inevitable.
Oct 2012
Santi, a 17-year-old boy, plays football with his friends at the entrance of the village while Marco, his childhood friend, returns after a two year absence. The last summer Marco was in town, Santi began to feel something towards him. But while living in that cave, the best thing for him to do was to forget about it and focus on building his life based on tradition. The return of Marco throws Santi off, who had finally managed to forget him. Under the conservative gaze of all the people, he will have to fight against his feelings as he considers his identity for the first time.
Jun 2022
What would you do if you had to fire your best friend? It is at this point where Julio (a young businessman of an apparently reliable firm) finds himself when he learns that Santi along with twenty four other workers under his service has to be fired. His boss and friend Max tries to advise him on how to handle the situation but it soon becomes increasingly entangled. Somos Amigos (We Are Friends) is a short film that seeks to explore the limits between friendship and work... if they exist at all.
Mar 2014
Alexandra has been playing tennis for as long as she can remember. After years of training under the instructions of her father, Julio (a retired tennis player who intends to relive his victories through his daughter), she has become one of the most promising junior tennis players in the Spanish circuit. During one of the most important tournaments of the 1978 season, the increasing pressure from her father will exert on and off the court will begin to affect her mental health. With the arrival of adolescence and the questions it brings, Alex will realize that, perhaps, this is not her destiny.
Mar 2022
Montse, a woman who takes care of a hyper-realistic doll as her own son, is avoiding meeting her newborn niece because she doesn't know how to deal with her past.
A man uses a glory hole and then is asked to fulfill his life's purpose.
Oct 2025
Alex was adopted at birth. Now that she has come of age, her biological mother has agreed to meet her. She has to choose between letting this opportunity pass or know her at last, striving to overcome the fear of loosing something precious on the journey.
Feb 2014
Nàdia, an 18-year-old model who gets absorbed by the fashion industry and the exhibitionism of social media, wants to get surgery to fix a small deformity on her ears, an obsession that will develop in lockstep with her father’s lengthy cancer.
Basque Country, Spain, 2011. A young woman who intends to flee to France due to the turbulent political situation stops in Zubieta, a border town where ancient myths and modern problems converge.
Dec 2023
Rafaela, an 80-year-old woman, has a long conversation with her grandson, going over his path from childhood to old age. Now that she has been diagnosed with chronic breast cancer, faith is more present in her life than ever, which coexists with Rafaela's fear of death, and her grandson's fear of dying.
Sep 2022
Mari, a housewife who is unsatisfied with her life, feels a strong devotion to aliens. One night, she goes to the countryside to sight UFOs and discovers a devastating revelation concerning her marriage. Fed up, Mari decides to look for love beyond Earth.
Oct 2021
The mother of ten-year-old Martina turns up late, just when the little girl is about to give up hope they might spend the afternoon together. As they have an amazing chemistry, she really wants to have her mum to herself, but all too soon she realises that her mother has not beaten her drug addiction and Martina finds herself in a hard situation yet again...
Aug 2021
Seville, 1977. At a time when homosexuality is a crime, Reme, a traditional mother moved by the love of her son, an adolescent aspiring artist, will become involved in the Andalusian LGBTQ+ movement, paradoxically born in the bosom of the Church.
Jul 2023
A premature birth in the middle of the darkness of the 2019 national blackout in Caracas, Venezuela.
Ove is a young man who has been treated and raised like a sheep all his life. His daily life consists of eating, sleeping, grazing and hanging out with LL, the only sheep in the herd that seems to accept him.
May 2021