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Browse 75 movies from Universitat Pompeu Fabra
A boy. A girl. An (unexpected) date.
Mar 2022
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
Two girls work at a spa helping old people. They help them going in and geting out of the swimming pool, they fill them with unguent... But the aged bodies generate a weird resistance when they leave the water.
Oct 2022
A portrait of Jaume, the fishmonger of Esplugues de Llobregat.
Jun 2024
A tale about the Little Red Riding Hood versioned.
Mar 2024
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.
Ivan is sad because his partner, Meri, has broke with him. Alex has put up with him all night while they were at a party. With the sun rising they decide to go home, but an unexpected event waits in the car.
May 2020
A bride wanders through her wedding, where everyone treats her as simply another guest. The only one to offer any support in these surrealist surroundings is her father.
Mar 2016
Trying to escape a rave in an abandoned textile mill, a young girl finds herself confronted with ghosts of past and future times.
Apr 2024
When Gabriela finds out that Zoila, the Mapuche nanny from her childhood, does not appear in the family tapes, she begins to inquire about the maternal relationship that unites them.
Aug 2021
Isabel and Jaume enter the forest to dig up their deceased son and bring him back to life. They want to spend one day with him, but death can’t be fooled.
Sep 2024
In a corner of a border town in the Lleida plains, there once stood a pub called Plató 3. Years after its closure, a group of young people decides to meet in an old fruit cooperative to rehearse a play about the best nights of their lives. What they do not know is that, in those nights, there were old shadows they must reunite with.
May 2026
Jana, a girl suffering from depression, escapes to her grandmother's country house in a desperate impulse to escape from her increasingly destructive thoughts. She is searching for the warmth emanating from her grandmother Helena and the home that saw her grow up between summers and holidays, but nothing tears her away from her unease. The forest that surrounds the house further immerses Jana in her loneliness, taking her to the limits of her own darkness.
Apr 2023
Roc's father kills himself less than a year after meeting him. Dragging his friend Jordi, they cross the country by car to go to the burial. In an absolute intoxicated state, they sare the path broken by the circumstances that surround the suicide of his father.
Jun 2014
One year after the death of Iván, his group of friends attend the tribute that has been organized in his honor. Since they feel that it doesn't represent him at all, they decide to remember him in their own way.
Mar 2021
2060: In a dystopian future, a lonely mother faces an enormous dilemma when she has to choose between protecting her son, persecuted by an oppressive system, and maintaining her own moral principles.
Jul 2025
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.
Jun 2017
The sea has always been a space where many fishermen have found beauty, calm and freedom. It is different nowadays, as they seem to easily find garbage and all kinds of pollution. This piece is an homage to the marine beauty they remember, a brief journey alongside these fishermen who work and fight to bring back what they once knew.
Oct 2019
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.
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