Spanish

Synopsis
The Okanagan Valley is marketed as a destination of leisure, recreation and wealth. Behind this facade is a largely invisible labour force, comprised of temporary migrant workers from the Global South.Read More »

Simon transports illegal immigrants to New York, leaving them to their fate. He is discovered by the coastguard and Andrés, a young sailor, saves his life. When he falls for a young protegée of Simon conflict erupts.Read More »

A drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years.Read More »

This Spanish Giallo/ thriller was distributed in the United States as Death Haunts Mónica, an apt enough title until one realizes how much else is haunting the poor broad. Murder, mayhem, kinky Sapphic encounters, and risqué bathing behavior are just a few of the elements in Ramon Fernandez’s off-the-wall romp, which features no fewer than three European beauties.Read More »

A taxi driver meets Marlene, a girl from the provinces who´s lost in a brothel. He immediately decides to protect her and let´s her stay in his house. Slowly his fatherly instincts give way to a strange hidden passion. Finally he gives up living in the trunk of his taxi while Marlene states that she wants to live with him forever.
El zapato chino is the first long feature by Christian Sanchez. It was made during the Pinochet dictatorship and tries to capture the surreal and confusing atmosphere of that period. It was realized i in a clandestine way, but it is said that Pinochet himself wanted to see the film after it´s completion.Read More »

Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.Read More »

Nacho Vigalondo’s time-travel thriller opens with Hector, a married commoner, living in the Spanish countryside, spying on a beautiful woman undressing in the woods near his property. Being a time traveller, he finds her assaulted and he, in turn, is attacked by a weird man whose head is swathed in pink bandages. A total disquieting mansion was thus created on the top of a hill. Fleeing, Hector encounters a scientific facility where a scientist persuades him to hide in a time machine. Travelling back in time just a few hours, he observes himself.

All of them pieces of an unpredictable jigsaw puzzle where terror, drama and suspense will lead to an unthinkable sort of crime. Who’s the murderer? Who’s the victim?Read More »

Maria, forced to marry a bandit, escapes into the woods with El Toro, fleeing her fate. Rosario, in love with a murdered general, watches her grave at the foot of a volcano.Read More »

A tangled five-way lesbian dramedy. A moral tale that happens in the bathrooms, the beds and the streets of Barcelona. A film that starts when Zaida returns to the city after a breakup.Read More »