Sections Edition 2021

DRAMA
UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES, ARAB EMIRATES · 2020
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
COLOR · 115 MIN. 

New York, 1971. After his celebrated days as one of the most revered photojournalists of World War II, W. Eugene Smith feels disconnected from society and his career. Life magazine sends him to the Japanese coastal city of Minamata, whose population has been devastated by mercury poisoning, the result of decades of industrial neglect. Smith immerses himself in the community and his images give the disaster a tearing human dimension.

DRAMA, BIOPIC
ITALY · 2021
LANGUAGES: ITALIAN
COLOR · 106 MIN

Italy, 1936. Giovanni Comini has just been promoted to Federal. He is the youngest in the country and is transferred to Rome for a delicate mission: he must watch the writer Gabriele D'Annunzio and make sure that he does not give any problems. D'Annunzio, a nationally recognized poet, is increasingly uneasy, and Benito Mussolini fears it could hurt the alliance with Nazi Germany.

HISTORICAL DRAMA
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC· 2020
LANGUAGES: SPANISH, ENGLISH
COLOR · 113 MIN. 

1965, Dominican Republic. In a brothel by the sea, the lives of a group of prostitutes change radically when a revolutionary putsch erupts and they begin to realize that they can have a new life and maybe even find love. But everything changes when the US military enters the country, represses the revolution and takes the brothel as a military base: the girls will have to face the dilemma of sleeping with the enemy or protecting their dignity at all costs. 

DOCUMENTARY
GERMANY · 2020
LANGUAGES: GERMAN, ENGLISH, KOREAN
COLOR · 101 MIN. 

When Peter Wohlleben published his book “The Hidden Life of Trees” in 2015, he quickly entered the bestseller lists. The ranger wrote vividly about his experience on how trees can communicate with each other, a thesis that is explored in the documentary.

DRAMA, BIOPIC
UNITED STATES · 2020
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
COLOR · 110 MIN.

New York, 1953. Welsh poet Dylan Thomas is on tour. The poetry lectures he offers and which captivate the public must save him from ruin, after a life of excesses. But these are the poet's last days. One day, at the White Horse Tavern, he drinks 18 double whiskeys. His fantasies, his memories and an uncertain present merge into a wild and surreal farewell to the world.

COMEDY, DRAMA
FRANCE · 2020
LANGUAGES: FRENCH, ARABIC, HEBREW
COLOR · 104 MIN. 

Patience Portefeux is a Franco-Arab judicial interpreter specializing in wiretapping for the narcotics department. During an investigation she discovers that one of the traffickers is none other than the son of the devoted nurse who takes care of his mother. She decides to cover it up and she soon heads a huge network. His fellow police officers give the nickname "Mama Maria" to the unknown newcomer to the world of drugs.

DRAMA
FRANCE, BELGIUM· 2020
LANGUAGES: FRENCH, KIRUNDI, SWAHILI
COLOR · 111 MIN. 

Gabriel is 10 years old and lives in a comfortable expat neighborhood in Burundi, his "little country". Gabriel is a normal, happy and carefree boy who lives daily adventures with his friends and his little sister. Suddenly, in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda erupted, endangering both his family and his innocence.

DRAMA
ESPAÑA · 2021
IDIOMAS: ESPAÑOL
COLOR · 80 MIN

Laura, a psychologist from the service of attention to women who suffer gender violence, a few weeks ago she was harassed by the husband of one of her patients. In this situation, she must deal with a couple who have never been in such a center: Eva and Pablo. Due to a series of misunderstandings he has received a complaint, but he forcefully affirms that he is not an abuser.

DRAMA
PORTUGAL · 2021
LANGUAGES: PORTUGUESE, ENGLISH
COLOR · 115 MIN. 

Years after her son’s disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after a kidnapping that justice cannot resolve, as she moves into a universe that wants to force her to mourn a child she believes is still alive. Based on real events.

DRAMA
CANADA, IRELAND · 2020
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
COLOR · 101 MIN.

Late 1990s. Joanna, a young woman who dreams of being a great writer, gets a job at one of New York's leading literary agencies as an assistant director. Among other tasks, Joanna has to answer the numerous letters sent by fans of one of the firm's writers, the legendary J.D. Salinger, author of "The Catcher in the Rye." Joanna will give her answers a very personal character.

DRAMA, HISTÒRIC
DINAMARCA · 2020
IDIOMES: DANÈS, ANGLÈS
COLOR · 115 MIN.

Henrik Kauffmann is the Danish ambassador to Washington in 1939. At the start of the World War II the situation is critical, especially after German troops invade and occupy Denmark. At this point, Kauffmann makes a crucial decision in history: to declare himself the only true representative of a free Denmark in opposition to the Nazis. Based on real events.

DRAMA
IRAN, FRANCE, GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, LUXEMBOURG, LEBANON · 2019
LANGUAGES: PERSIAN
COLOR · 89 MIN.

Maryam accidentally kills her husband Nasser and is sentenced to death. The only person who can save her is Mona, Nasser's daughter. All Mona has to do is appear on a popular live TV show and forgive her. But forgiving can be especially difficult as they try to relive the past.

DRAMA
SPAIN, ARGENTINA · 2020
LANGUAGES: SPANISH
COLOR · 85 MIN. 

Antonio, the director of a major newspaper, has to choose his successor. Maca, a woman who is committed to cooperation between members of the company and not to verticality at work, will compete against the other deputy director, Vargas, a manipulative journalist. The night in which Antonio explains to Maca the selection process to him, both remain locked up in the newspaper by a strong storm. During this night they will talk in depth, discuss and reveal transcendental issues of life, journalism, love, death and sex.

THRILLER, HISTORICAL DRAMA
SPAIN, ARGENTINA, URUGUAY · 2020
LANGUAGES: SPANISH
COLOR · 102 MIN. 

In the turbulent Montevideo of 1972, as the country fell headlong into the precipice of the dictatorship, Diego and Leonardo, two writers of a well-known television comedy show, struggled to maintain their integrity under pressure from their superiors so that they lower the tone of their scathing political satires and avoid offending the high military who are seizing control of the country.

DRAMA, BIOPIC 
COLOMBIA · 2020
LANGUAGES: SPANISH, ITALIAN, ENGLISH.
COLOR · 136 MIN. 

Doctor Héctor Abad Gómez, a charismatic social leader and family man, was a important human rights activist, in the polarized and violent Medellín of the 1970s. He spent the last years of his life, until the very night he fell murder, in defense of human rights. What we forget will be the loving, patient and detailed reconstruction of his life, through the memory of a city and a family.

DRAMA
JAPAN · 2020
LANGUAGES: JAPANESE
COLOR · 115 MIN. 

1940, Japan. The night before the outbreak of World War II, local merchant Yusaku Fukuhara leaves his wife Satoko at home and travels to Manchuria with his nephew. There he accidentally witnesses a barbaric act and decides to take action to reveal it to the world. After an initial misunderstanding, his wife discovers her husband's true intentions and decides to protect him unconditionally. Who can be trusted?

DOCUMENTARY
ITALY· 2020
LANGUAGES: ITALIAN
COLOR · 100 MIN. 

Paolo Conte. Via con me tells of an eclectic and, in some ways, mysterious character, through almost fifty years of history, not just musical. A sort of ideal itinerary, a mix of words, verses and music that take pictures of our imagination through the songs, concerts, friends and reflections of the great artist from Asti. The film goes into the labyrinth of his songs, even those written for the most diverse interpreters, as well as into the labyrinth of his passions (jazz and enigmas, painting, law, cinema). There are many artists, images and contributions that accompany us in a continuous discovery between the known and the unheard-of, among the stories, verses and songs of that extraordinary elsewhere that is the world of Paolo Conte.

DRAMA
AUSTRALIA, UNITED STATES · 2020
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
COLOR · 95 MIN. 

Sam Bloom is a young mother who lives happily with her husband and their three children. One day an accident leaves her paralysed. As she and her family struggle to adjust to their new situation, an unlikely ally appears in their lives in the form of an injured bird, they call Penguin after see the colour of its plumage. The arrival of this animal is a welcome distraction for the Bloom family, which ultimately makes a huge difference to Sam, teaching her how to live again.

DRAMA, ROMANCE
UNITED KINGDOM · 2020
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH, SPANISH
COLOR · 102 MIN.

Anthony and Rosemary are two Irish lovers whose families become embroiled in a feud over a plot that separates their two farms. Adaptation of the musical "Outside Mullingar".

COMEDY
FRANCE · 2020
LANGUAGES: FRENCH
COLOR · 104 MIN. 

Léa, a life lover in her 40s, works in a small shop and is happily married to Marc, a conservative and somewhat insecure salesman. Everything works in perfect harmony in their lives until one night, at a dinner with friends, Léa confesses her intention to write a novel.

COMEDY, DRAMA
FRANCE · 2020
LANGUAGES: FRENCH
COLOR · 105 MIN. 

Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he gathers an unusual group of prisoners to perform Samuel Beckett's famous play "Waiting for Godot." When allowed to take the convicts on tour out of prison, Etienne finally has a chance to prosper.

COMEDY
SPAIN · 2021
LANGUAGES: CATALAN, SPANISH
COLOR · 87 MIN.

Pep Amores, a businessman from Olesa de Montserrat and a lover of cinema, is producing his first film: Paradisos Perduts. The film will tell the story of three friends of his, also businessmen, who share the frustration of never having been music stars, who decide to unite to rekindle their passion. Despite their differences in style, the three managers will form the band Los Renacidos. The road will be full of obstacles both for Pep, who has to finance the filming as much as he can, and for the musicians, who will have to face their doubts and daily lives to reach the big final concert.

COMEDY
FINLAND · 2020
LANGUAGES: FINNISH
COLOR · 92 MIN. 

After hitting her husband with a frying pan over the head and attempting to bury him in the garden, 75-year-old Inkeri realizes that she may spend the rest of her life in prison and sets off on a last crazed trip across Finland with his sisters Sylvi and Raili. With the reunions of the past, the dances until dawn and the handsome hitchhikers discover that it is never too late to live life.

COMEDY
SPAIN · 2021
LANGUAGES: SPANISH
COLOR · 

Satur and Tina are a couple in which she contributes the money and he takes care of the house and the child. The problem is that the boy, Manu, is already 28 years old and is a poor youtuber. Satur will turn his son into "The Ranger of Love", a successful masked youtuber defending romantic love who falls madly in love with Amanda. What Manu doesn't know is that Amanda is polyamorous and has relationships with an affluent couple of doctors, a trans girl and a skydiving monitor.

COMEDY, FANTASY, ROMANTIC
UNITED KINGDOM · 2020
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
COLOR · 95 MIN. 

Charles is a famous neo-noir novel writer who suffers from a creative blockage. To help make him overcome, Ruth, his wife, organizes a meeting with a medium, who ends up summoning Charles's dead first wife, the beautiful and jealous Elvira. To spend all eternity with him, Elvira wants to kill Charles, but Ruth dies. The spirits of Elvira and Ruth come together to turn Charles's life into hell.

THRILLER, DRAMA
SPAIN · 2021
LANGUAGES: CATALAN
COLOR · 40 MIN. (Episodi 1)

Moebius is an investigative thriller that does not include police around a case that affects a student at the high school in La Farga, a seemingly quiet village in inland Catalonia. Mamen, the new math teacher, begins an investigation on her own that will bring to light some secrets long buried in the village.

DRAMA
INDIA · 1964
IDIOMAS:  BENGALI
BLANC I NEGRE · 117 MIN. 

Basat en un relat de Rabindranath Tagore ambientat a finals del segle XIX, quan l'Índia encara era una colònia anglesa. Charu, una dona bengalí d'alta societat que porta una vida desocupada, està casada amb Bhupati. Ell, que ha heretat una fortuna, utilitza els seus diners per publicar un diari polític, i s'enorgulleix que no hagi estat arrossegat per la comoditat i la desidia.

SHORTFILM, DRAMA 
SPAIN · 2020
LANGUAGES: SPANISH
COLOR · 41 MIN.

A woman, a phone, the end of a love story. One floor and filming equipment. The protagonist, now an actress, will fight to fill the void left by the end of love. And he will end up discovering that much worse than the suffering of feeling abandoned is the certainty of not having lived fully.

FANTASTIC, DRAMA
FRANCE · 1946
LANGUAGES: FRENCH
COLOR ·  90 MIN.

A long time ago, a nearly bankrupt shipowner lived with his son and three daughters, the selfish Félicie and Adélaïde and the sweet Bella. One stormy afternoon his father finds refuge in a mysterious castle. But by taking a rose from the garden for Bella, he unleashes the ire of the owner of the place, a creature half man, half beast. To save her father's life, Bella offers herself as a bargaining chip and moves to live in the castle. However, the beast is revealed less horrible than she appears, falling in love with the young woman.

DRAMA HISTÓRICO
ESTADOS UNIDOS · 2021
IDIOMAS: ESPAÑOL
COLOR · 118 MIN. 

Un antic pres polític cubà es troba a Miami amb el guardià que el va torturar anys enrere en una presó cubana castrista. Mentre posa en marxa un pla per a venjar-se, aquest descobriment li porta a recordar els abusos soferts pels presos polítics.

ADVENTURES, DRAMA
DENMARK, UNITED KINGDOM · 2009
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
COLOR · 93 MIN. 

Middle Ages,10th century. An enigmatic warrior of extraordinary strength, who has been enslaved for years, kills his master and manages to escape with the help of a child. After enlisting in a Viking ship, he embarks on a journey that leads him to an unknown land, where pain and blood reign.

DRAMA
JAPAN · 1950
LANGUAGES: JAPANESE
BLACK & WHITE · 88 MIN. 

Japan, 12th century. In Kyoto, under the gates of the ruined Rashomon Temple, a woodcutter, a Buddhist priest and a pilgrim take shelter from the torrential rain. The three discuss the trial of a bandit, accused of having killed a feudal lord and raping his wife. The details of the crime are narrated from the point of view of the bandit, the woman, the feudal lord and the woodcutter, the only witness to the events.

DRAMA, WAR FILM
JAPAN · 1956
LANGUAGES: JAPANESE, ENGLISH, BURMESE
BLACK & WHITE · 116 MIN. 

Year 1945. The Japanese are about to sign peace in Burma. A Japanese soldier who plays the harp, is horrified by the death and destruction that surround him. After the conflict, he decides to return to the place converted into a monk with the definite intention of burying the deceased.

ANIMATION FILM, FANTASY
JAPAN · 2006
LANGUAGES: JAPANESE
COLOR · 90 MIN.

Psychiatrist Atsuko Chiba has developed a revolutionary method of therapy called PT, a prototype experimental machine through which it is possible to enter the minds of patients to treat their anxieties. But one of the PT models is stolen from Dra's lab. Atsuko and they begin to use it to invade the minds of their creators, destroying their personalities while they sleep.

ACTION FILM, COMEDY
JAPAN · 2003
LANGUAGES: JAPANESE
COLOR · 116 MIN.

Zatoichi is a blind nomad who makes a living by giving massages and playing dice. Behind his humble appearance hides a swordsman of almost superhuman speed and precision. Fate leads Zatoichi to a town controlled by a tyrannical feudal lord. Zatoichi decides to take sides and puts all his skills at the service of the citizens. But a samurai with a power equal to his, protects the feudal lord.

DRAMA
JAPAN · 2010
LANGUAGES: JAPANESE
COLOR · 133 MIN.

When Toru Watanabe casually listens to the Beatles' Norwegian Wood, melancholy and nostalgia take him back to his past as a student in late 1960's Tokyo. Toru remembers the unstable and mysterious Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend from the adolescence.

DRAMA
JAPAN · 2015
LANGUAGES: JAPANESE
COLOR · 127 MIN. 

Sachi, Yoshino and Chika are three sisters who live in Kamakura, in their grandmother's house. One day they receive the news of the death of their father, who abandoned them when they were little. At the funeral they meet the daughter her father had thirteen years earlier. The four sisters decide to live together.

FANTASY, THRILLER 
JAPAN · 2019
LANGUAGES: JAPANESE
COLOR · 100 MIN.

While walking through a subway station, the famous writer Yosuke Mikura discovers Barbara, a strange apparently drunk woman who recites poetry. Mikura decides to take her home. Barbara becomes the shadow that accompanies Mikura everywhere. The writer becomes obsessed with knowing the secrets she hides.

DOCUMENTARY
ITALY · 2020
LANGUAGES: ITALIAN
COLOR · 90 MIN.

How did the Impressionists see the world? What relationship did they have with technique, color, light, and the universe of shapes that created reality before their eyes? How was your work received? The film explores the artistic revolution represented by the Impressionist movement, and does so through fifty hidden treasures first exhibited in Rome at the Palazzo Bonaparte on the occasion of the exhibition created and produced by Arthemisia.

DOCUMENTARY
ITALY · 2020
LANGUAGES: ITALIAN
COLOR · 83 MIN.

This documentary explores Pompeii, that city shrouded in mystery that, throughout history, has influenced culture and art, from neoclassicism to contemporary art, through the images and words of the great artists and writers that made it they experienced, visited and imagined: from Pliny the young to Picasso, from Emily Dickinson to Jean Cocteau.

DRAMA
UNITED STATES • 1923 
LANGUAGES: SILENT FILMS
BLACK & WHITE • 81 MIN.

In a small town of the french countryside, Marie St. Clair and Jean Millet are in love despite the disapproval of their fathers. Toguether they decide to escape to Paris, but Jean's father die and he doesn't arrive to the date with Marie, who leaves all alone. One year later, they meet again in Paris, where the young woman has become a rich's man lover.

COMEDY, AVENTURES
UNITED STATES · 1925
LANGUAGES: SILENT MOVIE
BLACK & WHITE · 72 MIN. 

Alaska, 1898. The gold route leads to the snowy peaks of the Great North. Charlot enthusiastically joins the explorers. But in such a hostile environment, he will have to face other fortune seekers over the scarce food available.

COMEDY
UNITED STATES · 1928
LANGUAGES: SILENT MOVIE
BLACK & WHITE · 72 MIN. 

Charlot is a broke, hungry homeless man with a tendency to fall madly in love. Due to a misunderstanding, he is hired in a circus and in the blink of an eye he becomes the main attraction. The public goes crazy with his gaffes. Blinded by the love he feels for the director's daughter, he ignores that she is the star of the show.

COMEDY, DRAMA
UNITED STATES · 1931
LANGUAGES: SILENT MOVIE
BLACK & WHITE · 87 MIN. 

Wandering the streets of the city, Charlot bumps into a blind flower seller, who through a misunderstanding thinks he is a rich man. Moved by her sweetness, Charlot agrees to raise the money necessary to pay for an operation that restores the young woman's sight. To achieve this he will be involved in all kinds of extravagant misadventures.

COMEDY
UNITED STATES • 1936
LANGUAGES: SILENT FILMS
BLACK & WHITE • 87 MIN.

Subdued to the infernal rhythm of chain production at the factory where he works, a worker suffers a nervous breakdown until a series of extravagant incidents lead him to jail. When he leaves, he meets an orphan girl wanted by the police. The man and the girl help each other to face the difficulties of life and the oppressive cogs of industrialization.

COMEDY
UNITED STATES · 1940
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH, ESPERANTO
BLACK & WHITE · 125 MIN. 

A jewish barber, a former combatant of the Great War, come back home after few years recovering of a serious injury in a foreign hospital. When he get home, he realizes that his country is under Hynkel's hands, a fascist dictator in favor of the marginalization of Jews in ghettos. While the barber meets beautiful Hannah, the tyrant makes plans to take over the world.

COMEDY
UNITED STATES • 1957
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
BLACK & WHITE • 124 MIN.

Sophisticated man of the world, Henri Verdoux seduces rich women promising them live happily even after. However, when bells wedding turn off, Monsieur Verdoux kills them to get their fortune. His method is precisely and flawless, but two of his empowered victims, are not going to make him things easy.

DRAMA
UNITED STATES • 1952
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
BLACK & WHITE • 137 MIN.

When coming home one night, the veteran varieties artiste Calvero, discover his neighbour Terry, a young dancer woman, almost dead. Disappointed by her life, the young has tried to suicide herself. Harassed by dreams of a past glory, Calvero embrace Terry under his protection, he takes care of her, he feeds her, and he encourages her to come back to the scenarios, forging a great friendship.

COMEDY, DRAMA
UNITED KINGDOM • 1957
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
BLACK & WHITE • 105 MIN.

Fleeing a revolution in his country, King Shahdov of Estrovia takes refue in New York. Ruined by his prime minister, he agrees to participate in commercials for a living. The King takes under his protection, a kid whose parents are being persecuted by the Anti- American Activities Commiteé. This fact cause unexpected consequencies.

COMEDY
UNITED STATES • 1918 
LANGUAGES: SILENT FILMS
BLACK & WHITE • 37 MIN.

An infantryman in France dreams of becoming a war hero. One day he gets the chance to infiltrate behind enemy lines. With the help of a French girl, he captures the Kaiser and the Prince and becomes a hero.

COMEDY
UNITED STATES· 1918
LANGUAGES: SILENT MOVIE
BLACK & WHITE · 34 MIN. 

Charlot and his faithful dog, his only companion, are broke and struggling to survive on the streets of the city. In a dance hall they meet Edna, a local singer.

COMEDY
UNITED STATES • 1919
LANGUAGES: SILENT FILMS
BLACK & WHITE • 30 MIN.

Treballar en una granja pot ser una cosa molt difícil. Un jove agricultor, que amb prou feines té temps per a qualsevol cosa, està enamorat d'Edna, la filla del veí, i aspira a casar-se amb ella. De sobte apareix la competència.

Work in a farm can be a very difficult thing. A young farmer, who barely has time for anything, is in love with Edna, daughter's neigbour, and he wants to get married with her. Suddenly, appears the competency.

COMEDY
UNITED STATES · 1919
LANGUAGES: SILENT MOVIE
BLACK & WHITE · 18 MIN. 

Members of an extravagant family go out for a drive in their rickety Ford T and end the day by taking a boat trip. The father will soon be in trouble.

COMEDY
UNITED STATES · 1921
LANGUAGES: SILENT MOVIE
BLACK & WHITE · 29 MIN. 

Charlot sneaks into luxurious sports facilities for wealthy golfers. Wherever he appears, chaos breaks out. A woman has a heated argument with her drunken husband, and Charlot meddles in to complicate matters.

COMEDY
UNITED STATES • 1922
LANGUAGES: SILENT FILMS
BLACK & WHITE • 22 MIN.

A bricklayer waits for payday to come and celebrate in grand style. When he gets home, his wife takes his pay. Even so, he manages to steal some of the money and continues with his plans. The night will be memorable.

COMEDY
UNITED STATES • 1923
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
BLACK & WHITE • 47 MIN.

A prisoner escapes from prison, and so that they do not discover him, he decides to put on a reverend suit. By mistake, he ends up in a small town, being appointed as the town's prime minister by Devil's Gulch. Later, they discovered him as a convict and the sheriff transferred him to the border with Mexico.

COMEDY, DRAMA
UNITED STATES · 1921
LANGUAGES: SILENT MOVIE
BLACK & WHITE · 53 MIN. 

Charlot adopts an abandoned baby. It doesn't take long for him to become fond of him and as he grows up he teaches him some essential street survival techniques. Over time the two form a great team to find a life. But one day the sick boy and social services try to take custody of Charlot.