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Browse 75 movies from Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Greta's parents have decided that the three of them are going back to their hometown. Greta has to tell them that she won't return with them.
Mar 2022
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
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
It's summer. Three friends meet. They will spend a few days in the mountains, camping, walking, chatting. As the days go by, so do their relationships, their misgivings, their affections. And when they return, nothing will be the same.
May 2026
A three-hectare ruined space in the middle of Montseny purchased with the hope of being able to raise a child in a privileged environment has ended up transforming into a labyrinth of books, words, artistic representations and reflections known as Bibliobosc.
Nov 2024
Mila, an eleven-year-old girl, faces her last days of life before the end of the world. At the same time, she struggles to understand what this means and to keep her family together by holding a party for the final moment.
May 2024
After receiving it as part of her inheritance, Ana decides to move into her painter grandfather's house with her partner, Lucas. In one of the rooms, they find an unfinished triptych that will make them go deep into a paranoid artistic process.
Jan 2025
A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now thar she is entering into adulthood.
Jun 2022
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.
Jun 2017
A woman discovers the infidelity of her late husband.
Eric, together with his friends Ona and Marcel, steal Pol's ashes, their recently dead friend, and begin a trip with the objective to throw them. Even so, the getaway becomes a bubble that separates them from reality and move them away more and more from the return to home.
Mar 2021
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
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.
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.
A documentary that invites the viewer to immerse themselves in a intimate and thoughtful walk through Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona, better know as "El Santet", to see what is happening at its surrounding areas and, especially, inside: work, buildings, people watching over those who are no longer here, cemetery workers... A trip through a space that is closer than we think.
"Caracremada" ("Burnface" in Catalan), a nickname given by the Spanish Civil Guard to Ramon Vila Capdevila, reflects about the libertarian resistance against Franco's regime through the last active guerrilla fighter. In 1951 the CNT ordered the retreat of its militants; however Ramon Vila remained in the woods of inland Catalonia where he restarted the fight operating on his own.
Dec 2010
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.
Sep 2026
Six months after the death of his wife, Salva puts aside his grief to empty the house of the remaining braces, awaiting the arrival of his family to show them his progress.
Dec 2024
A tale about the Little Red Riding Hood versioned.
Mar 2024
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