Sections Edition 2019

DRAMA, BIOPIC
UNITED KINGDOM, BELGIUM, ITALY AND GERMANY · 2018
LANGUAGES : ENGLISH, ITALIAN AND FRENCH
COLOR · 105 MIN.

The writer Oscar Wilde leaves prison after serving the sentence of forced labor that the authorities imposed two years earlier for homosexual conduct. Victim of the intolerance of the English society of the time, that has dragged him to the economic, physical and psychic ruin, Wilde is exiled to France. Here he will spend the last stage of his life, trying to recover the days of glory, fame and love of good times. But reaching this dream will be impossible.

ANIMATION, DRAMA, BIOPIC
SPAIN, NETHERLANDS, GERMANY· 2018
LANGUAGES: SPANISH, FRENCH
COLOR · 80 MIN

After surprising the world with his irreverent El perro andaluz, in 1930 Luis Buñuel premiered La edad de oro in Paris. But after a few days the authorities forbid the film. Buñuel's career is in danger. The director loses the favor of his patron, his attempts to work in the United States are unsuccessful and when in 1932 he is offered to film a documentary about the Extremaduran region of Las Hurdes, he has no money. A friend, the sculptor Ramón Acín, promises that he will pay the film if he wins the lottery. Months later, it happens and Acín keeps his word. It is the starting point of the shooting of this legendary documentary.

THRILLER, DRAMA
ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, FRANCE, HOLLAND, GERMANY· 2018
LANGUAGES: SPANISH
COLOR · 109 MIN

Set in Argentina during the mid-1970s, Benjamín Naishtat's hypnotic drama follows a successful lawyer whose picture-perfect life begins to unravel when a private detective comes to his seemingly quiet small town and starts asking questions

ANIMATION, DRAMA, BIOPIC
GERMANY, AUSTRIA, CZECH REPUBLIC · 2019
LANGUAGES: GERMAN
COLOR · 187 MIN

Biography of the writer Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), in which fiction is mixed with documentary. It shows a writer full of doubts about his work and the world around him, and whose personality is outlined through the characters of their environment.

DRAMA
SPAIN · 2018
LANGUAGES: SPANISH
COLOR · 90 MIN.

On March 3rd 1976, after several months of strikes, thousands of workers gathered in assembly crowd the church of San Francisco in the working district of Zaramaga, in Vitoria. The Spanish government is concerned that this assembly movement can extend to the whole country. So the police charges against the demonstrators and causes the death of 5 people. Begoña, a young middle-class girl, lives the facts in first person. Neither she, nor the city, nor the country will be the same again. Based on real events.

DRAMA
INDIA, FRANCE · 2018
LANGUAGES: HINDI, ENGLISH, MARATHI
COLOR · 99 MIN

Ratna works as a domestic helper for Ashwin, a man from a wealthy family. Although Ashwin seems to have everything, Ratna realizes that he has abandoned his dreams. However, Ratna, who seems to have nothing, is full of hope and struggles determinedly by their aspirations. When these two worlds collide, the barriers that separate Ratna and Ashwin seem insurmountable.

COMEDY ROMANTIC, BIOPIC
FRANCE, BELGIUM· 2018
LLANGUAGES: FRENCH
COLOR · 110 MIN

Paris, 1897. Edmond Rostand is a promising playwright. But everything he has written has been a failure and now he suffers a total creative paralysis. Thanks to his admirer, he meets the best actor of the moment, who insists on playing his next work.

DRAMA
SPAIN • 2019
LANGUAGES: CATALAN
COLOR  

Pep, a 13-year-old boy, is in love with a girl from his grandparents village, Sara Amat. One summer night Sara disappears without a trace. After a few hours, Pep finds her hiding in his room.

HISTORICAL DRAMA, BIOPIC
FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM, SPAIN, SAUDI ARABIA · 2019
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
COLOR · 109 MIN

The young Faisal is the first member of the Saudi royalty to visit London. He must negotiate the support of the United Kingdom with the most prominent political figures of his time, such as Lord Curzon and Wiston Churchill.

HISTORICAL DRAMA, THRILLER
GERMANY· 2018
LANGUAGES: GERMAN, ENGLISH
COLOR · 120 MIN

Balloon is a German thriller that deals with the crossing of the inner German border in 1979 of the families Strelzyk and Wetzel from the GDR to West Germany with a homemade hot-air balloon.

DRAMA, THRILLER
FRANCE, BELGIUM· 2018
LANGUGES: FRENCH
COLOR · 110 MIN

Since Nora attended the trial of Jacques Viguier, accused of the murder of his wife, she is convinced of his innocence. For fear of a judicial error, she convinces a lawyer to defend him in his second trial.

DRAMA
UNITED KINGDOM  · 2018
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
COLOR · 106 MIN

Doctor Jean meets the mother of one of her patients, with whom she initiates a friendship that will become a secret romantic adventure.

DRAMA, BIOPIC
ARGENTINA, ITALY · 2018
LANGUAGES: SPANISH, ITALIAN
COLOR · 100 MIN

Soledad is a young middle class Argentinian woman who in 1997 embarks on a trip to Europe to get away from the comforts offered by the conservative familiar environment. In Italy she comes in contact with anarchists of the squatter movement in Turin and her life changes forever.

HISTORICAL DRAMA
UNITED KINGDOM · 2018
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 154 MIN

The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.

DOCUMENTARY FILM
UNITED KINGDOM · 2018
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 115 MIN

The exclusive access to hundreds of drawings and paintings by Orson Welles himself allows the viewer of this documentary a particular immersion in the universe of the legendary director of Citizen Kane (1941).

THRILLER, DRAMA
AUSTRALIA, UNITED STATES, INDIA · 2018
LANGUAGE : ENGLISH , HINDU, PUNJABI
COLOR · 125 MIN

Bombay, 2008. A commando of armed terrorists attacks the Taj Mahal Palace, one of the most luxurious hotels in the city. A group of workers and hotel guests will try to survive the terrorist violence.

ADVENTURE, THRILLER, HISTORICAL
FRANCE· 2018
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOR · 110 MIN

Under the reign of Napoleon, François Vidocq is considered a legend in the Parisian underworld. Now Vidocq will help the police to fight the criminals in exchange for his freedom.

BIOPIC, DRAMA
UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE· 2018
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH , RUSSIAN, FRENCH
COLOR · 127 MIN

Rudolf Nureyev is a soviet dancer who travels from the URSS to Paris with a prestigious ballet company. Nevertheless, Nureyev starts to enjoy the pleasures of the capitalist way of life. 

COMEDY
FRANCE, UNITED STATES , BELGIUM, SINGAPORE, INDIA · 2018
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 92 MIN

An astute street fakir from India travels to Paris to fulfill the wish of his deceased mother. There he discovers an Ikea store and, to spend the night, hides in a closet of this establishment. But the furniture is sent abroad with him inside and the fakir starts a trip around the world that will allow him to meet a lot of extravagant people and live all kinds of adventures.

DRAMA, COMEDY, MYSTERY
FRANCE,  BELGIUM· 2019
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOR · 100 MIN

In a strange library that collects unpublished manuscripts that no company has wanted to publish, a young editor discovers a masterly novel. Its author is someone named Henri Pick, a cook who died two years earlier. According to the widow, Pick never read a book and the only thing he wrote in his life was the shopping list. When the novel becomes a bestseller, a skeptical and obstinate literary critic joins Pick's daughter to decipher the mystery: did Henri Pick have a secret life?

COMEDY
ITALY · 2017
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR · 98 MIN

Giovanni works for a prestigious international group that aims to urbanize the peripheries of Italian cities. Monica works as a cashier in a supermarket in one of the most populated suburbs of Rome. Two opposing worlds condemned to understand each other when they discover that their teenage children have fallen in love. The disagreement between Giovanni and Monica will be inevitable.

COMEDY
UNITED STATES, SPAIN· 2018
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 98 MIN

Connor, a young American, obsessed with Spain, returns home to find that his mother has died and his girlfriend cheats on him with his brother. His therapist gives him a magical ring with which he is able to travel anywhere in the world, with only one condition: do not visit the same place twice.

COMEDY, DRAMA
FRANCE· 2018
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOR · 105 MIN

Lola has two brothers, Benoit, who is getting married for the third time, and Pierre, who is late for the wedding. Excuses, reproaches, fights, fights ... everyone lives life in their own way. Benoit is going to be a father without being prepared. Lola has just met Zoher, while finishing the divorce proceedings. And regarding Pierre, his professional problems are complicated. Everything seems to distance these three siblings, although in reality they are inseparable.

THRILLER, DRAMA
SPAIN • 2019
LANGUAGES: CATALAN AND SPANISH
COLOR • 70 MIN

Eli is a lawyer from upper class who is pregnant at her thirties. On the same day the Oral Hearing of a media trial has taking place, her father, a renowned lawyer from Barcelona, disappears.

DRAMA
SPAIN, FRANCE • 2019
LANGUAGES: CATALAN, FRENCH
COLOR • 85 MIN

A 17-year-old girl spends the Christmas holidays in Senegal with her brother and father. Tired of planned trips and the ceremonious actions of the hotel employees, she opens the door to the staff area and discovers a world that allows her to develop close and complex relationships.

DOCUMENTARY FILM 
SPAIN • 2019
LANGUAGES: CATALAN, SPANISH, ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, JAPANASE
COLOR • 104 MIN

The many faces of the polyhedron that Barcelona has become are portrayed in this documentary. A false sequence shot with the most advanced technologies that offers an unusual tour on the streets, squares, bars and markets of a city that is, at the same time, conventional and transgressive, exquisite and shameless, elegant and rogue. A flight through the most touristic Barcelona, ​​with spectacular images of Santa Maria del Mar, the Sagrada Familia, the Pedrera, the Camp Nou or the Plaça del Rei, and also by the real Barcelona of the assembly line of the Nissan factory, the Alba synchrotron, la Mina or the Food Bank.

MUSICAL
UNITED KINGDOM · 1975
LANGUAGE: ENGLIH
COLOR · 111 MIN

Tommy is a 5-year-old boy who lives with his mother, Nora, and stepfather, Frank. His father, presumed dead in the war, returns home unexpectedly. And, with the child as an involuntary witness, Frank kills Tommy's father. Nora and Frank ask him to forget everything. But the experience suffered in Tommy causes a psychological trauma that leaves him deaf, dumb and blind. Nobody can cure him. But over time, Tommy develops an amazing ability as a pinball player, which his mother and Frank try to take advantage of. Tommy becomes a famous star, a cult figure idolized by the masses.

COMEDY, DRAMA
UNITED STATES · 2018
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 85 MIN

Stevie is a 13-year-old boy in Los Angeles in the mid-90s who feels bored and disgusted with the life he leads. He has a whole summer ahead and the company of his divorced mother and his older brother, with whom he often fights, is not very encouraging. But he meets a group of skateboarders and, when he befriends them, he opens the doors of a new and attractive world. Stevie will have fun like never before, but he will also experience the disappointments of getting older. And he will not be the same young man who started that summer.

DOCUMENTARY
UNITED KINGDOM · 2018
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR

Documentary about HandMade Films, the independent British production company founded by George Harrison. The life of Brian, the mythical film of Monty Python of 1975, was the springboard for the film adventure of Harrison and HandMade Films, with which exbeatle would eventually produce other cult titles, such as The Heroes of Time, by Terry Gilliam, Withnail & I, by Bruce Robinson, or Mona Lisa, by Neil Jordan.

DOCUMENTARY FILM
FRANCE• 2019
LANGUAGES: FRENCH, ENGLISH
COLOR / WHITE AND BLACK• 110 MIN

The posthumous film by Agnès Varda, the great pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, a documentary about her artistic career and her way of understanding cinema. Varda herself reviews her filmography and her life from a division into two parts: the analogue period (1954-2000), when it was proposed to change the idea of ​​cinema and fiction documentaries, and the second stage (2000-2018) , when he discovered digital technology as another weapon with which to explain the world.

DRAMA, THRILLER
FRANCE, BELGIUM · 2018
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOR · 110 MIN

Justo Gil, a young man full of ambitions, arrives to the prosperous and promising Barcelona of the 60s with nothing in his pockets and ready to become a successful man. In his career towards the top, he will meet Carme Román, a young aspiring actress with whom he will initiate a love story, and Mateo Moreno, police officer of the feared Social Brigade who will introduce him into a dark network of espionage and delations.

DRAMA
POLAND· 2019
LANGUAGES: ITALIAN, POLISH, FRENCH
COLOR · 92 MIN

The Jewish-Polish winner of the Nobel Prize, Marie Linde, a free-spirited woman who lives with her family in warm Tuscany, maintains a secret sentimental relationship with an Egyptian owner of a nearby beach hotel. A terrible terrorist attack shakes the foundations of both their lives.

MY VACATION - J.A. Bayona
TREITUM - Javier Ruiz Caldera
THE DOGS OF PAVLOV - Kike Maíllo
THE NATURAL ROUTE - Àlex Pastor
THE LAST POLAROID - Mar Coll
COFFEE TO GO  - Patricia Font

THRILLER
SPAIN · 2019
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOR · 100 MIN

Five years ago, two eleven-year-old girls, Ana and Lucía, disappeared in Monteperdido, a town in the Huesca Pyrenees. After an extensive search, the case was never resolved and the neighbors were marked by the tragedy. Now, one of the girls, Ana, has returned. Two UCO agents specialized in disappearances, Santiago Baín, a lieutenant at the end of his career, and Sara Campos, a young sergeant, will work together with the local Civil Guard in an investigation that will soon be revealed as a labyrinth.

DRAMA
ITALy, SWITZERLAND, FRANCE• 2016
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR • 85 MIN

The film tells three simple stories that intersect today, in relation to a pawnshop in Turin.

DRAMA 
ITALY, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, ALBANIA, KOSOVO · 2015
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR · 90 MIN

Years after declaring herself "virgin sworn" and choosing to live as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to live again as a woman while settling in modern contemporary Milan.

COMEDY
ITALY · 2015
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR · 97 MIN

Over 50 years old, Flavia faces for the first time a single life. It is not easy for her, affected by a pathological insecurity that made her dependent on everyone.

DRAMA
ITALY • 2017
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR • 95 MIN

Anna and Hans, a nurse and her assistant from an old residence for the elderly, are two "children's" souls confined in adult bodies. Trapped in time and space, they move between the rooms and the gardens of what had been an orphanage.

DRAMA
ITALY • 2017
LAGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR • 93 MIN

Rosario is a street vendor of the town fairs. Sharon, her daughter, is beautiful and knows how to sing. And in this universe of infamous life, she is the weapon to try to survive. But success becomes obsession and talent condemns.

DRAMA
ITALY · 2018
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR · 92 MIN

In the 90s, Isabella was 18 years old and was a star. 20 years later, she still sings the same songs in small bars in the city with his son Bruno playing the guitar.

COMEDY
ITALY, BELGIUM· 2017
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR · 93 MIN

Road-movie dedicated to the last years of life of Christa Päffgen, also known as Nico, muse of Warhol and legendary singer of The Velvet Underground.

ROMANTIC COMEDY 
ITALY • 2017
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR • 92 MIN

Claudia and Flavio have loved each other for a long time and with a lot of passion. But everything is over and for her it has not been easy.

COMEDY, DRAMA
ITALIAN • 2014
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR • 92 MIN

The five children of the great Italian actor Saverio Crispo, all of different mothers and nationalities, meet on the tenth anniversary of his death to celebrate his career.

DRAMA
ITALY • 2018
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR • 95 MIN

In the south of Italy, two teenagers, abused and harmed by life, Anna and Basin, flee together in search of a new beginning.

DRAMA
ITALY, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY• 2014
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR • 100 MIN

A small and fierce love story between a father and a daughter. It relates the bond that exists between a family and a territory in deep transformation.

DRAMA
ITALY, FRANCE• 2013
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR • 100 MIN

Irene is a thirty-year-old woman who has decided to help people who have a terminal illness and want to end their agony. One day a man about seventy years old in good health requires her service. 

DOCUMENTARY
ITALY • 2019
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR • 90 MIN

500 years after his death, Leonardo remains as one of the most admired and recognized men in the History of mankind. Artist, architect, humanist, naturalist and military strategist, Leonardo Da Vinci was, above all, a tireless observer in search of new discoveries. With contributions from leading international experts and a group of technicians and engineers, this documentary analyzes Leonardo's works through the modern implications of his work.

DOCUMENTARY
UK • 2019
LANGAUGE: ENGLISH
COLOR • 85 MIN

Pablo Picasso is one of the greatest artists of History. The first years of his artistic career were fundamental to reach his extraordinary achievements later. The cities of Málaga, Barcelona and Paris played a key role in this stage, in which two periods can be distinguished, blue and pink. The young ladies of Avignon, from 1907, is the most important work, a basic piece of the history of modern painting.

DOCUMENTARY  FILM
ITALY • 2018
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR • 95 MIN

The artistic group of the Secession had in the painters Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt two of their maximum representatives. Dead both in 1918, their work contributed to making Vienna one of the European cultural focuses of the early twentieth century. The public continues to enjoy their legacy, between modernism and expressionism, in the halls of Vienna and New York where it is currently exhibited. Masterpieces on the human anxieties and desires that, turned into pop icons, accompany us daily in posters, cards and calendars.

DOCUMENTARY
ITALY • 2019
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR • 90 MIN

Documentary about the National Prado Museum, on the 200th anniversary of its foundation, conducted by actor Jeremy Irons. A production that explains, through a multitude of masterpieces of painting, the history of the museum and the history of a country. Because a painting is canvas, color, matter and form, but it is also the history of men and women, painters and kings, palaces and queens, wealth and misery, body and soul.

COMEDY, DRAMA
USA • 1925
LANGUAGE: SILENT
WHITE AND BLACK• 95 MIN.

Alaska, 1898. The gold route leads to the snow-capped peaks. Charlot joins the explorers excited. But in such an inhospitable environment, he is faced with other seekers of fortune due to the lack of food. 

COMEDY
UNITED STATES • 1924
SILENT
WHITE AND  BLACK • 45 MIN.

The projectionist of a modest cinema aspires to become a great detective. One night when he falls asleep, he dreams that he enters in the film that is being projected in the room. In the dream is a detective named Sherlock Jr. And he is hired to solve a pearls theft.

COMEDY
UNITED STATES • 1925
SILENT
BLACK AND WHITE • 56 MIN.

James is a ruined stockbroker. But the family lawyer notifies him that his dead grandfather has left him an inheritance of 7 million dollars. Although he has to fulfill a condition to obtain this fortune: he must marry before 7 o'clock on the day he turns 27. 

DRAMA
UNITED STATES • 1952
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
WHITE AND  BLACK • 137 min.

Calvero, who in the past was a music hall star and is now a finished artist, saves a young dancer from a suicide attempt. The girl, convalescent, can barely move. Calvero takes care of her, feeds her and helps her recover her health and self-esteem so that she can return to the stage.

COMEDY, ADVENTURE
UNITED STATES • 1926
LANGUAGE: SILENT
BLACK AND WHITE • 80 MIN

Johnnie is a machinist with two loves: his locomotive, the General, and his girlfriend Annabelle. When the Civil War broke out, Johnnie ran to enlist, but the army rejected him because he considered it more useful with his locomotive than firing at the front. However, Annabelle thinks he is a coward and does not want to see him again until she sees him in uniform.

COMEDY
UNITED STATES • 1940
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
BLACK AND WHITE • 125 MIN.

A Jewish barber ex-soldier of the Great War returns home after years of recovering from a serious injury in a foreign hospital. Upon arriving home, he realizes that the country is in the hands of Adenoid Hynkel, a fascist dictator in favor of the marginalization of Jews in ghettos. While the barber meets the beautiful Hannah, the tyrant elaborates plans to take over the world. 

DOCUMENTARY FILM
UNITES STATES • 2018
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR / BLACK AND WHITE • 102 MIN

Winner of the Best Documentary Award in Venice, this film tells about the life and work of Buster Keaton, the great artist of the Golden Age of silent cinema in Hollywood with Charles Chaplin. The influence of Keaton's films, such as The General (1926), The Hero of the River (1928) or The Modern Sherlock Holmes (1924), goes far beyond comedy and extends throughout the history of cinema to the present.

DRAMA
FRANCE• 1990
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOR • 137 MIN

Cyrano is a brilliant poet and skillful swordsman who expresses his love for the beautiful Roxane through Christian, an attractive soldier who is in love with her.