Jaime (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener) have just moved to a remote gated community in Madrid. Their teenage daughter Isa (Manuela Vellés) is not happy about the transition; she constantly and unapologetically fights with her mother. As the family prepares to celebrate their first night in the new house, three men break in and take them hostage. One man takes Jaime out to collect cash from various ATMs in town while the other two stay behind with the women to torment them.Read More »
A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus, unaware that the skeletons that he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is her next target.Read More »
Spain 1930s. A troupe of performers travel from city to city entertaining audiences and earning a living. The cast includes a magician, a ventriloquist, muscle men, dancers, singers and a full orchestra. The star of the show is Carmen Soler (Trini Alonso) a celebrated singer, now way past her prime, who refuses to retire gracefully and defends her stardom ruthlessly. On her shadow lives and works Ana Marques (Sara Montiel) a younger singer who dreams of the big time and patiently waits for her break.Read More »
Violence and delinquency are Fanny’s only way of life. An ex-cop known as “el Gallego” was expelled from the police force because of his irregular methods, particularly for cruelly abusing Fanny. They’re looking for one another, both with the idea of murder. However, a feeling that is very different from hatred begins to occupy their respective minds. When they meet, they won’t know how to react.Read More »
Named after legendary flamenco singer Camarón de la Isla’s groundbreaking record album (which, in turn, was inspired by the works of Andalusian poet, Federico García Lorca), Isaki Lacuesta’s The Legend of Time melds the improvised encounters of Johan van der Keuken’s ethnographic documentaries with the quotidian intimacy of Mercedes Álvarez’s El cielo gira to create a understated, yet meticulously observed meditation on grief, identity, and self-expression. Composed of two, self-contained chapters capture the disparate lives of figurative outsiders from Camarón’s ancestral hometown of San Fernando, Cádiz – a gypsy boy, Isra who decides to honor his father’s memory by refraining from singing during the family’s self-imposed period of mourning, and a young Japanese woman, Makiko who leaves her ailing father behind in order to follow in the footsteps of Camarón and learn cante by immersing herself in the culture – the film is also a lucid and thoughtful essay into the inalterable nature of change, resonance, and connectedness.Read More »
As Neves is a mountain village where everyone knows each other. The night of the Carnival, the teenagers of the village throw a party where they get high on mushrooms for the first time. The next day, they wake up to the village completely snowed in by a snowstorm and the news that Paula, one of the girls who went to the party the previous night, has disappeared. The village is getting cut off, the Internet is no longer working and it is urgent to find her. The investigation following Paula’s case will cause a deep change in the villagers’ lives and their relationship with the world.Read More »
Synopsis
On holiday in Catalonia, Pol and Bàrbara share a house with friends. The pair does what pairs do amidst the heat of summer and alongside the body of another. But something is wrong, and is instantly noticeable.Barbara and Pol spend a few days on holiday with a group of friends in a house surrounded by nature. They want to have a good time and find a peaceful space where they can enjoy their intimacy. With the support of Pol, in the midst of nature, between tears and laughter, Barbara will heal old wounds and redefine her sexuality.Read More »
During a summer in a village house linked to beekeeping, an eight-year-old and her mother experience revelations that will change their lives forever.Read More »
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Waiting for Sancho is an ontological investigation into a place where cinema becomes something more than cinema. Filmed in high-definition colour over five days in the Canary Islands of Fuerteventura and Tenerife, Waiting for Sancho is a kind of experimental “making of” the critically acclaimed El cant dels ocells (Birdsong_/_Le chant des oiseaux). A particular take on the Biblical story of The Three Kings en route to the baby Jesus, El cant dels ocells premiered at the Quinzaine des Realisateurs at Cannes 2008Read More »