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Browse 15 movies from Abano Producións
In the near future, the Government aims to replace judges with Artificial Intelligence software, pledging to effectively automate and depoliticize the justice system. Carmen Costa, a distinguished judge, has been invited to assess this new procedure. However, when the software’s creator is found dead, she realizes her life is in danger and that she will have to fight the powerful interests that are at play in the highest echelons of the State.
Sep 2024
Arnold, an unemployed middle-aged mouse, confides to his wife Maria that he suspects his entire world is nothing more than a set, and his life a scripted performance. When his best friend Ramiro dies under mysterious circumstances, he traces the conspiracy to a monolithic corporation whose influence reaches every corner of their daily lives.
Oct 2025
María narrates in first person her mother Adela's journey from Asturias to Havana in 1929. On this trip, she follows her sister Segunda, who had left years earlier and to whom she was very close. Adela, like her sister, grew up cleaning and washing clothes in the prao, a field that was always covered in snow, causing her constant ovarian pain in the cold. Painful and heavy periods are a heavy burden, but thanks to sisterhood and understanding, Adela will gain the confidence to take control of her life at the end of her journey. The story María tells us is a story of migration, one that has always existed and will continue to exist. It is also a cycle—one that repeats itself in many lives—but one that has only one meaning: it is a cycle of departure.
Dec 2025
Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.
Nov 2023
Alicia arrives at her parents’ house in A Pobra do Caramiñal, a coastal town in Galicia, to choose the clothes her mother will wear at the wake. There, she reunites with her sister Berta, who has just been released from the rehabilitation centre where she was staying.
Mar 2025
Valentina is fed up of her Down’s syndrome, convinced that it prevents her from making her dream true: becoming a trapeze artist. But a magical journey will reveal to her all that she is capable of doing.
Dec 2021
Apr 2014
In a world overrun by plant-like creatures, Cleo must venture into the jungle to rescue her brother. Guided by a mystical elder and an unusual anteater, she will uncover a surprising secret hidden within the monsters.
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A plea against the building of walls that divide and restrict freedoms through the animation of 102 graffiti by artists from around the world painted on the largest section of the Berlin Wall.
Dec 2016
Rare, medium rare, medium, medium well and well done. Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old age.
Aug 2019
Adela, a woman with an undiagnosed mental illness, seeks relief through folk rituals. Misunderstood by her family and a medical system that offers her only medication, she lives convinced that someone, or something, is watching her. At times, she feels its presence: it touches her, hurts her, and leaves her bedridden for days. Only religion seems to offer her a sympathetic ear, leading her to consult a healer and confess the disturbing origin of her suffering.
Nov 2025
With great humour, love and insinuations, Mabel Lozano tells us in first person of her journey with a pea-sized lump in her left boob. But this isn't only Mabel's story, it's also that of millions of women.
Jun 2024
Elisa likes Martin, but Martin doesn’t seem to realise it. All the advice Elisa receives to make Martin fall in love with her is to change not only her appearance, but also who she really is. Will she give up being herself to get it? Will that be a good thing?
Illustrator, comic author and animation director Martin Romero takes the allusion to the famous Shakespearean phrase as a starting point to propose a critical look at today's world based on tragicomedy and the grotesque. "To bird or not to bird, that is the question".
Oct 2024
“The European Dream: Serbia” is an investigative documentary by journalist Jaime Alekos about the tortures of Hungarian police to the refugees and migrants they catch trying to cross their border and the harsh living conditions in which they survive in Serbia awaiting an opportunity to enter the EU.
Jan 2018