Spain

In 1992, when the Olympics and the Expo at last presented Spain as an emerging new democracy, the de-industrialisation policies were met with riots in the southern town of Cartagena. The locals remember those days.Read More »

The co-eds of a Boston college campus are targeted by a mysterious killer who is creating a human jigsaw puzzle from their body parts.Read More »

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Completed a year after his death in 1983, this program presents the definitive biography of Spain’s renowned Surrealist film maker and iconoclast, Luis Buñuel. Using photographs, film excerpts, and numerous interviews with Bunuel, the video chronicles his early friendships with Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca, the stormy reactions to many of his groundbreaking films, and the influence he has had on international cinema. Among those interviewed are directors Federico Fellini, John Huston, and Jose L. Saenz De Heredia; Buñuel’s wife, Jeanne Rucar, and son Juan; actor Francisco Rabal; and Octavio Paz.Read More »

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An escaped prison convict attempts to retrieve a loot hidden years ago in a lonely village. Sinister elders, strange disappearances, spirits, a peculiar priest and even the Archpriest of Santiago will cross their paths in a history of horror.Read More »

Ten-year-old Estrella has a vivid imagination. She loves horror stories and in order to get rid of the fear that the ‘big monsters’ cause her, she makes friends with them. One day, Estrella makes a new friend, a vampire. But could it be that this friend is not merely a product of the girl’s imagination?Read More »

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Pablo and Tina have complicated sexual lives. Pablo writes and directs plays and films; he’s gay and deeply in love with Juan, a young man who won’t reply to Pablo’s affection or letters. Pablo’s sibling Tina is a transsexual, angry at men, raising Ada, and trying to make it as an actress. Pablo takes up with Antonio, a youth who becomes jealous of Pablo’s love for Juan. Antonio seeks out Juan, and violence leads to Pablo’s grief and a temporary loss of memory. When memory returns, he learns that Antonio has taken up with Tina. In horror, he hurries to Tina’s rescue and must face Antonio and his desire.Read More »

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París, 1930. Salvador Dalí y Luis Buñuel son las principales figuras del movimiento surrealista, pero Buñuel ve cómo se le cierran todas las puertas después del escandaloso estreno de La edad de oro, su primera película. Sin embargo, su buen amigo, el escultor Ramón Acín, compra un billete de lotería con la loca promesa de que, si gana, pagará el documental que su amigo quiere rodar sobre Las Hurdes, una de las regiones más pobres y olvidadas de España… Película sobre el rodaje en la región extremeña de Las Hurdes, a cargo del maestro Luis Buñuel, de su película Las Hurdes, tierra sin pan, en 1933. Adapta el cómic homónimo de Fermín Solís.Read More »

Disquieting portrait of loneliness and isolation, concentrating on a middle-aged man (Fernandez de Castro) who has reached a crisis point in his domestic life and tries unsuccessfully to reassemble his past.

The film shared the Berlin festival’s Golden Bear prize.Read More »

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An honest man from the provinces arrives in Madrid for a living, with no more baggage than a little money and plainness. He befriends a street urchin, “The Chirri”, and both live countless urban adventures.Read More »