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Browse 72 movies from Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Luna runs away from home in the middle of the night. In an unexpected encounter with a group of drag queens, she redefines her concept of family.
Apr 2023
Chumi is the janitor of the summery Apartamentos Paradiso. He has turned metal detecting into a magical illusion that helps him endure his day to day life. Last days of summer he needs to find something worthwhile.
Mar 2024
The youngest daughter of an isolated family, crippled by the whimsical desires of a demanding religion, will be forced to get pregnant by her brother under the presure of their parents.
Oct 2022
Summer camp. Èlia and Nil kiss for the first time. They are the first campers, from all boys and girls, to ever kiss. Suddenly, the camp fills with an atmosphere of curiosity, discovery and enthusiasm.
Dec 2022
A desktop documentary that focuses on the Golden Record that NASA sent into space in the late 1970s. The piece reflects on issues such as the power of scientific discourse to produce revisions of the world, the evolution of the concept of the archive and the resignification of borders in the rhetoric of space colonialism.
As the town says goodbye to summer with their Festa Major, all the villagers fill the dance floor. The last to leave are a group of young people who, in the early morning, will exchange their cocktails for coffees while they decide they won’t go to sleep. At the same time, a mailman arrives at Custodio’s house and delivers something he was no longer expecting: a coffin for his wife, who was buried three months ago. On their last day of summer, three dead tired friends, Rita, Clara and Pau, wander around the village expecting something, but without knowing what it is.
Apr 2024
Minutes before leaving the floor that they have shared for years and ending their relationship, Gala and Marçal try to confront all those feelings that they have never been able to express.
Mar 2020
At a party in Barcelona, Helena hopes to meet an old lover from who she is still in love. While the night moves forwards, her initial sensuality becomes disdain.
Jun 2017
Aragon, Spain. After living through her parents' divorce, Mar arrives in the summer in a mysterious town where she is fascinated by the horrifying stories about the Civil War and its terrible consequences told by members of a group of teenagers who seem to live according to rules that are strange to her.
Dec 2019
Max is around thirty and lives with Emma, his intimate friend. Unexpected news create a gap between them causing doubts and concerns to grow inside Max, pushing him to go out at night. Walking aimlessly, Max spends the night alone and accompanied by picturesque characters in remote places of Barcelona. A night of absurd and fantastic drunkenness that is at the same time an inner journey for Max. Yo la busco is a portrait of two friends, their breakup and the strange transforming walk through the nightlife of Barcelona.
Jul 2018
Salva Expósito, an orphaned painter, decides to create his next masterpiece unaware that the woman depicted in it will be the trigger for an existential crisis linked to his past. Immersed in an artistic block, Salva will relive the memories of a tumultuous and hazy past, while the painting itself will lead him on a personal quest where unraveling the mysteries surrounding the female figure becomes his primary objective.
Dec 2023
A young Spanish exchange student who is on her own for the first time in her life tries to adjust to a vastly different life in Berlin.
Mariona realizes the distance formed between her and her friends when they go on an excursion together to the river pool they used to visit when they were kids.
Oct 2021
This is the story of a man who created a jungle next to the highway, building with his bare hands beautiful and unbelievable works of engineering in the forest. This is also the story of how he ended up burning them to ashes to reconstruct them, time after time, over decades. He is known as “Garrell”, also as “Tarzan from Argelaguer”, and he is not driven by any apparent purpose, except one: going “on the go”.
Sep 2014
A mysterious girl has a really strange first date in his own apartment.
Dec 2020
Lights of colors, Spotify playlists and lots of beer cans. This is how the party where Ada, Rita and Marc celebrate one more night of their eternal youth is. They drink, dance and love each other, surrounded by their music and people. It begins to be hot; they have all the summer and all the life ahead of them. They are the future, the generation that joins together inclusion and narcissism, determination and uncertainty. The generation that wants to change the world while it collapses around them.
Apr 2019
Paula, a thirteen year old girl, starts to experience certain complications in the relationships with her family and friends. In order to be with her ill grandmother, which she barely knows, she spends the summer in Ojos Negros. There she will meet Alicia, a girl her age, who also stays in town for the summer. Together they will venture into the adult world through a stifling summer that never ends.
Jul 2019
Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the words we use to describe it. Through research, activist actions, and artistic interventions, they analyze the importance of language in the way we understand the world. The documentary includes analysis from more than 20 international experts and leaders in the fields of political communication and information.
Bruno’s (18) life is increasingly limited by the growing dependence of his grandmother Natividad (86), the only family he has ever known. When the opportunity to take her to a nursing home arises, both will have to deal with a decision they had not allowed themselves to consider before.
Dec 2024
A short film about Marina Comas, an actress who left the film industry at the height of her career to become a biologist and farmer, despite winning a Gaudí award and a Goya award for her role in the film 'Black Bread' (Agustí Villaronga, 2010).
Jul 2025