TICKETS ON SALE FROM APRIL 10th, 2024.
TICKETS ON SALE FROM APRIL 10th, 2024.
TICKETS ON SALE FROM APRIL 10th, 2024.
TICKETS ON SALE FROM APRIL 10th, 2024.
The connection between Film, Literature and History constitutes the main theme of the festival and so the films preferred for the Official Selection are fundamentally literary adaptations, productions based on or related to historical events and film biopics about well-known and relevant historical figures. Films in the Official Selection will all be aimed at a wide audience and will compete for the Best Film Award, handed out by the official festival jury.
DRAMA
SPAIN · 2021
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOR · 78 MIN.
After being sexually assaulted, Anna isolates herself in a cabin in the woods, unable to cope with her situation. From then on, she loses her relationship with her boyfriend, friends and family and takes refuge in nature to overcome her trauma. Shame, pain and guilt will accompany her for a few months during which she will be transformed by more than just hatred.
DRAMA
FRANCE · 2021
LANGUAGE: FRENCH, CZECH, ENGLISH
COLOR · 105 MIN.
London, 1987. Philip is a famous american writer living in exile in London. His lover visits him at his office, a shelter for both lovers. There they make love, they fight, they make up and they talk for hours about the women that have marked his life, about sex, antisemitism, literature and staying true to oneself.
DRAMA
FRANCE · 2021
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOR · 130 MIN.
A young man is accused of having raped a young woman. Who is this young man and who is this young woman? Is he guilty or innocent? Is she a victim or simply thirsty for revenge, as the accused claims? The two young protagonists and their families and friends will see their lives, convictions and certainties shattered, but... Is there only one truth?
DRAMA
SPAIN · 2022
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOR ·
Icíar and Fernando are young. They are both going through the most traumatic experience of their short lives: the loss of a parent. But Fernando and Icíar can neither share the pain nor the strategies for dealing with it. They live in different times. Fernando in 1977 in Bilbao faces the kidnapping of his father by ETA. Icíar in 2011 in Navarra faces her mother's fulminating cancer.
THRILLER
SPAIN · 2022
LANGUAGE: CATALAN, SPANISH, GERMAN
COLOR · 116 MIN.
Winter 1943 in the Pyrenees. The echoes of World War II resound in the border village where Sara and Antoni live, a young married couple expecting their first child. The arrival of a family of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution will disrupt life in the valley. Sara must face a difficult decision: obey reason or follow her heart. The past and the secrets that the snow has kept buried for years are about to come to light.
DRAMA
FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM, BELGIUM · 2021
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOR · 103 MIN.
Felix Grandet reigns in his modest home in Saumur, where his wife and daughter Eugénie lead a distraction-free existence. Extraordinarily stingy, he takes a dim view of the suitors who rush to ask for his daughter's hand. Nothing should undermine the colossal fortune he hides from everyone. The sudden arrival of Grandet's nephew, an orphaned and ruined Parisian dandy, will turn the family's life upside down.
THRILLER
VENEZUELA, MEXICO · 2022
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOR · 108 MIN.
In today's Venezuela, Lolo, Cacá, Eli and Alain are a group of upper-class youths that live carefree amidst political and social chaos. Until one day, between drugs, games and love, Eli is brutally murdered. Sixteen years later, as Alain experiences a beautiful romance, the memories return to reveal that the alleged murderer is not who everyone believed.
DOCUMENTARY
UNITED STATES · 2021
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 118 MIN.
Declassified files related to President Kennedy's assassination in a far larger context, aiming to shine more light on what really happened in 1963. Thirty years after acclaimed director Oliver Stone’s first examination of JFK’s assassination, Stone reassesses the horrific event that shaped a generation. Using newly declassified and re-examined footage, Stone presents a case that conspiracy theories about the president’s death are actually “conspiracy facts.” Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland.
DRAMA, HISTORICAL
GERMANY · 2022
LANGUAGE: GERMAN
COLOR · 108 MIN.
On 20 January 1942, leading representatives of the German Nazi regime gathered in a villa in Berlin-Wannsee for a meeting that went down in history as the Wannsee Conference, at which the systematic murder of millions of Jews was decided. Based on the minutes of this meeting, which were recorded by Adolf Eichmann and constitute a key document of the Holocaust.
THRILLER, MISTERY
FRANCE · 2022
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOR · 89 MIN.
In 1950s Paris, the body of a beautiful young woman dressed in an elegant evening gown is found in the middle of a square. The famous Inspector Jules Maigret investigates the case, but finds it impossible to identify the victim, because absolutely no one seems to have known or remembered her. In the course of his investigations, Maigret's path crosses that of Betty, a young criminal who bears a striking resemblance to the victim. All this awakens in Maigret the memory of another, much older and more intimate disappearance.
DRAMA
CANADA · 2021
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOR · 158 MIN.
Maria Chapdelaine, a 16-year-old woman, lives with her family on a land near the Péribonka River in rural Québec in early 1900. True pioneers, the Chapdelaine family struggles to push back the forest. In a home where even physical exhaustion cannot diminish the warmth of family life, Maria finds herself faced with a deep dilemma. François Paradis, a free-spirited fur trapper and logger, promises Maria to return in spring to marry her, while Lorenzo Surprenant arrives at the farm offering a comfortable existence in an American city.
DRAMA, BIOPIC
UNITED KINGDOM · 2021
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 111 MIN.
England, 1888. Louis Wain is an unusual artist and inventor whose great achievements attract the major publications of the time. As he tries to combine his creativity with caring for his five little sisters and his mother, two events will change his future: meeting Emily, who will be the love of his life; and adopting Peter, the pet that will inspirle his art. The incredible love story of a world famous hero.
COMEDY, DRAMA
UNITED KINGDOM · 2021
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 102 MIN.
The true story of Maurice Flitcroft, a family man and crane operator in a small English town, who sees his job in danger due to the country's economic instability. After watching a televised golf match, Maurice falls in love with the game and decides to participate in the most important tournament in the world, the British Open. A master plan with only one problem: Maurice has never played golf in his life.
DRAMA
INDONESIA, FRANCE, SINGAPORE, AUSTRALIA · 2021
LANGUAGE: INDONESIAN
COLOR · 95 MIN.
Yuni is an Indonesian teenage girl who realizes that when her dreams get bigger, the world around her gets smaller. She is about to finish high school and have a big dream, she thinks everything is possible. Then one day she got proposed by a man she barely knows. Yuni rejects the proposal. Shortly afterwards, she does not accept another proposal either. The girl still believes in her dreams. But a superstition says that refusing more than two marriage proposals brings bad luck. And one day she receives a third proposal...
DOCUMENTARY
ITALY, BELGIUM, THE NETHERLANDS, JAPAN · 2021
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, ITALIAN
COLOR · 150 MIN.
Portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, two-time Oscar winner and author of more than five hundred scores. The documentary presents the Maestro through a long interview conducted by Tornatore and with testimonies from artists and directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Bellocchio, Dario Argento, the Taviani brothers, Carlo Verdone, Barry Levinson, Roland Joffé, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Bruce Springsteen, Hans Zimmer and Pat Metheny. The film, which includes abundant archival footage, also sets out to reveal Morricone's lesser-known side.
DOCUMENTARY
UNITED STATES · 2021
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 94 MIN.
For decades, legendary producer Jeremy Thomas has driven from England to the Cannes Film Festival. This time he is joined by Mark Cousins, author of The History of cinema: An Odyssey. In an intimate and visual five-day road movie through rural France, they remember some of the films produced by Thomas. Those are among the most acclaimed and controversial films of all times, such as Bernardo Bertolucci's The last emperor, which won 9 Oscar awards, including Best Picture, or David Cronenberg's Crash, which caused a scandal in Cannes. During the trip, images of films produced by Thomas are shown along with statements from some of the stars who have worked with him, such as Tilda Swinton and Debra Winger.
THRILLER
SPAIN · 2022
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOR · 103 MIN.
Inspector Manuel Bianquetti is forced to accept a transfer to the police station in Cadiz. His initial peace of mind is shattered by the discovery of the body of a young woman who reminds him of a past that torments him. Despite the opposition of his superiors, Bianquetti sets out on a solitary crusade to catch the culprit, following evidence that could be the fruit of his imagination. His neighbour, a fragile nurse harassed by her ex-partner, seems to be the only person on his side.
DRAMA
SPAIN · 2022
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOR · 87 MIN.
Frederick Sálomon, a war photojournalist who gained international fame for capturing the image of a young girl being blown up by a bomb blast, returns twenty years later to the country where he took the famous picture. He is returning to collect an award, as many believe his controversial photo has been instrumental in efforts to bring peace to the troubled country. But Hanna, a local journalist accompanying him, disagrees. In fact, she wants to kill him.
DRAMA, ROMANCE
FRANCE · 2021
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOR · 95 MIN.
A man who maintains a passionate relationship with the famous writer Marguerite Duras, 38 years older, needs to talk. He is fascinated by her and yet he feels he can't go on. In an attempt to put into words the intensity of his love, he opens up and describes it with great clarity. A reproduction of the conversation transcribed and published by Michèle Manceaux between her and Yann Andréa, in which she dissects the intricate relationship that he had with the French writer Marguerite Duras.
DRAMA
SPAIN · 2022
LANGUAGE: CATALAN
COLOR · 127 MIN.
In Barcelona, Carlota is desperately searching for Marc, her teenage son who has run away from home without a trace. Thousands of kilometers away, Sinjar, the region on the border between Iraq and Syria, lives under the threat of war. There, Hadia is forced to live as a slave with three of her children in the service of a family. Arjin, on the other hand, manages to escape captivity and, in her attempt to return home, ends up joining the Kurdish militias. Three women separated from their loved ones, how far are they willing to go to get them back?
DRAMA, BIOPIC
RUSSIA · 2021
LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN
COLOR · 145 MIN.
Some sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title. Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary showdown in the history of chess: the 1978 match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a former mentor an defector to the West. In this battle between two outstanding chess players, a duel of personalities under immense psychological pressure, the stakes are incomprehensibly high.
A selection of comedies from around the world. Preferred films for this section are those which are aimed at a wide audience. The name of the section pays homage to the neighbourhood of Gracia in Barcelona, where the Verdi Cinemas and festival headquarters are located.
COMEDY
SPAIN · 2022
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOR · 109 MIN.
José Luis has just been dumped at the altar, and as if this were not enough, Mari Carmen, his insistent mother, has insisted on accompanying him to the honeymoon with the excuse of not losing the money. Every minute they spend in Mauricio, José Luis feels more unhappy and unsuccessful, while Mari Carmen is having the time of her life, living all the experiences she had always wanted and revealing herself as the wonderful woman she really is.
BIOPIC, COMEDY, DRAMA
UNITED KINGDOM · 2020
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 96 MIN.
In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Francisco de Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government invested more in the care of the elderly. What happened next became a legendary event.
COMEDY
FRANCE · 2022
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOR · 94 MIN.
Cathy is a strict 40-year-old chef. Just as she is about to fulfil her dream of opening her own gourmet restaurant, a setback causes nothing to go as planned. With serious financial difficulties behind her, Cathy reluctantly accepts a job in the cafeteria of a centre for young immigrants. Gradually, Cathy's skills and passion for cooking begin to change the lives of the boys, who also have a lot to teach her.
COMEDY, DRAMA
UNITED STATES · 2021
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 130 MIN.
Mikey Saber is a porn star, fallen in disgrace, who returns to his hometown, Texas, even though no one really wants him back.
COMEDY
NORWAY · 2021
LANGUAGE: NORWEGIAN, URDU
COLOR · 93 MIN.
Johan is an eccentric and maladjusted inhabitant of a small Norwegian village. Orphan since he was a child and fond of explosions, Johan tries to conquer the heart of his neighbour Solvor, whom he accidentally blew up as a child.
COMEDY
SPAIN · 2022
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOR · 100 MIN.
Four couples receive an invitation to spend a weekend at the hotel where they got married. What they don't know is that the host wants to blackmail them. And much less that, the next day, a dead man will be found.
A no competitive section dedicated to films of special interest, which enrich the festival programme yet do not meet the topics of the Official Selection. An opportunity for other types of films, although always with the festival's general aim in mind.
DRAMA
UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES · 2022
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 125 MIN.
From award-winning creator Julian Fellowes comes a cinematic event. The highly anticipated return to the big screen of the worldwide phenomenon reunites its iconic cast to embark on an exclusive journey to the South of France, where the mystery of the villa recently inherited by the dowager countess will be unravelled.
DOCUMENTARY
SPAIN · 2020
LANGUAGE: CATALAN
COLOR, BLACK & WHITE · 60 MIN.
In Barcelona in the 1970s, a can with the label "Fiestas del Pilar" sleeps among the immense number of negatives kept in the Fotofilm film development laboratory. It is a false title. A code among connoisseurs that hides a clandestine film. It is not the only one. There are many more. Footage shot with borrowed cameras and underground dust, which hunts for a change of mentality that generates deep tensions. Through raw, no-frills material, following the thread of the person who shot it, the story of the democratic conquest is filled with nuances.
DRAMA
SPAIN · 1984
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOR · 103 MIN.
On the summer of 1936 (July 18th), the Spanish Civil War breaks out. In the city of Madrid, a family formed by Mr. Luis, his wife Dolores, and their sons, Manolita and Luisito, share the everyday nature of the war with the maid and the building’s neighbours. Luisito, although he has failed, wants his father to buy him a bicycle. But the situation will make the purchase to be postponed. And the delay, just as the war, will last a lot more than expected.
DRAMA
BHUTAN · 2019
LANGUAGE: DZONGKA
COLOR · 109 MIN.
Ugyen, a young teacher from modern Bhutan eludes his duties while planning to go to Australia to become a singer. As a reprimand, his superiors send him to the most remote school in the world, in a village called Lunana. There he finds no electricity, no textbooks, not even a blackboard. Though poor, the villagers warmly welcome their new teacher, but he faces the daunting task of teaching the village children without any materials.
DRAMA
SPAIN · 2022
LANGUAGE: CATALAN, SPANISH
COLOR · 100 MIN.
As the town prepares to celebrate its annual holiday, Blanca is working hard to make the first paella she has ever made in her life perfect. She has managed to reunite her lifelong friends after years of not seeing each other. They are all in their thirties and feel that youth is slipping away from them, trapped in job insecurity, disenchantment and a continuous starting over. The paella goes on until nightfall, between revelations of secrets, reproaches and misunderstandings. But now more than ever, the five friends will need each other to get ahead.
DRAMA, HISTORICAL
SPAIN · 2021
LANGUAGE: CATALAN
COLOR · 90 MIN.
Sabaté lives in France in exile, but since the end of the civil war, he has never stopped making incursions into Spain to try to overthrow fascism by the only method he knows and considers effective: direct action. Christmas 1959, Sabaté is forty-four years old, sick, tired and depressed. His comrades in the struggle have all died and so have his brothers, which weighs on his conscience. However, he could not abandon the cause and, disobeying all advice, he decided to go down to Spain, crossing the border on foot, as he had always done. Sabaté soon sees that things in Spain have changed, that people are not always willing to help him and that the police is one step ahead.
The film directors Alberto Rodríguez and Jaime Rosales will present the first images of their latest works, “Girasoles Silvestres” and “Modelo 77” respectively.
MODELO 77
Manuel is a young accountant sentenced to an excessive 20-year sentence for embezzling the equivalent of 1,200 euros. Helped by his cellmate Pino, Manuel will become the leader of a movement that will unite all prisons in a fight for freedom and change prison laws and society forever.
GIRASOLES SILVESTRES
Julia, a 22-year-old mother of two kids, falls in love with Oscar, a troubled boy with whom she begins a relationship. As they spend time together, Julia begins to question whether Oscar is the person she really needs by her side, which will lead her on a personal journey in search of happiness for herself and her family.
A selection of quality documentaries, filmed in high definition, about some of the greatest painters in history. In collaboration with some of the world's most renowned museums and galleries, these productions offer a cinematographic immersion into the works of essential artists.
DOCUMENTARY
ITALY · 2020
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN, ENGLISH
COLOR · 90 MIN.
From Salvador Dalí to Andy Warhol, from David LaChapelle to Jeff Koons and Lady Gaga, no one seems to be immune to the eternal fascination for Botticelli and his works. A journey through the Master's art on display in the open-air museum that is Florence: an unprecedented itinerary to discover the artist who invented a new model of beauty, overcoming the barrier of centuries to inspire contemporary art. Dreamlike recreations, captivating images of the city and footage of astonishing works of art are interwoven with the voices of art scholars from around the world who narrate the splendour and contradictions of Lorenzo de Medici's Florence. Botticelli claimed to be the inventor of the ideal Beauty, which found its ultimate expression in works such as The Allegory of Spring and The Birth of Venus.
DOCUMENTARY
ITALY · 2022
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR · 90 MIN.
To celebrate the centenary of Modigliani's death, this documentary explores the life and work of Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), an avant-garde painter who became a classic contemporary artist loved and imitated around the world. Born in Livorno, Tuscany, he lived a short and tormented life, narrated here from an original point of view, that of his young common-law wife, Jeanne Hébuterne, who committed suicide two days after his death. Jeanne, along with the aspiring Russian poet Anna Achmatova, and the English journalist Beatrice Hastings were the women whose faces became icons of his art. The action of the documentary takes in the Albertina Museum in Vienna, the City Museum in Livorno, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the great museums and art collections of Paris.
DOCUMENTARY
ITALY · 2021
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 100 MIN.
After Jesus Christ, Napoleon is the most famous man in history. Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of his death, this documentary explores the complex relationship between Napoleon, culture and art. It looks at the language he used to build a new imperial iconography and a new architectural style, in a reconstruction that will also reflect on the relationship between power and image through art, as well as looking at the regimes of the 20th century and the world today. A unique tour from the Accademia di Brera in Milan to the Louvre in Paris in the company of leading art history experts and Jeremy Irons, who conveys his fascination to the audience.
Section dedicated to Asian cinema in collaboration with CineAsia and the Foundation Institut Confuci of Barcelona that offers eight proposals from different periods and genres that show the union between Chinese literature and cinema, highlighting the biggest blockbuster in the history of China and a documentary dedicated to one of the best known literary figures of the Asian giant.
ACTION, DRAMA, HISTORICAL
CHINA · 2021
LANGUAGE: MANDARIN
COLOR · 176 MIN.
71 years ago, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army entered North Korea. China entered North Korea. In extremely cold In extreme cold conditions, the troops on the Eastern Front held on with fearless spirit and iron will, as they fought courageously against the enemy at Lake Changjin. The battle was a turning point in the Korean War. the Korean War.
WAR
CHINA · 2022
LANGUAGE: MANDARIN
COLOR · 153 MIN.
Sequel to "The Battle at Lake Changjin " that focuses on the soldiers of the Chinese Army Volunteer Corps on a crucial new mission to defeat American troops in the Korean War conflict.
DRAMA
CHINA · 2020
LANGUAGE: MANDARIN
COLOR · 104 MIN.
A convict is sent to a labour camp in China’s desolated northwest, during the country’s Cultural Revolution. Using his intelligence, and with the sole purpose of seeing his daughter, who has been filmed in a movie, he manages to escape and flees to the cinema in a nearby town. There he hopes to find the film and get his hands on it. However, there he comes across a homeless woman who is desperate to get hold of the same film reel and manages to steal it. Curiously, this enigmatic object, which they both crave for very different reasons, will become the root of an unexpected friendship.
DOCUMENTARY
SPAIN · 2020
LANGUAGE: SPANISH, MANDARIN, ENGLISH, RUSSIAN
BLACK & WHITE · 86 MIN.
In the 1970s, Chinese writer and traveller Sanmao lived a passionate love story with Spanish diver José María Quero. They travelled to the Spanish Sahara where Sanmao captured her daily experiences in the book Tales of the Sahara, a best-selling phenomenon in Taiwan and China. Sanmao became an icon of independent womanhood and the protagonist of a life of legend, mixing love, adventure, literature and tragedy.
COMEDY, DRAMA
CHINA • 2016
LANGUAGE: MANDARIN
COLOR • 128 MIN.
Li Xuelian arranges a fake divorce in order to get a second apartment, but her husband unexpectedly remarries. After unsuccessfully appealing to the court and being acused by her husband, Li gets on an absurd ten-year journey to restore her reputation.
DRAMA
TAIWAN, UNITED STATES, HONG KONG, CHINA • 2007
LANGUAGE: MANDARIN, JAPANESE, ENGLISH
COLOR • 157 MIN.
Shanghai, 1942. The city is occupied by the Japanese. Mrs. Mak, a wealthy and sophisticated woman, remembers how it all began in 1938 China. Her real name is not Mak, but Wong Chia Chi. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, her father fled to England and left her in China. While studying at university she met Kuang Yu Min, who had just founded a theatre company to promote patriotism. Wong Chia Chi became the company's first actress. Kuang convinced a group of students to assassinate Mr. Yee, an important collaborator of the Japanese.
DRAMA
CHINA • 1988
LANGUAGE: MANDARIN, JAPANESE
COLOR • 91 MIN.
China, 1930s. A young woman is sent by her father to become the wife of the owner of a sorghum wine cellar, who is ill with leprosy. During the journey she falls in love with one of the escorts. When her husband dies, she is left in charge of the place, tending to bandits, her hard-drinking lover and the invading Japanese army.
ACTION
HONG KONG • 1972
LANGUAGE: MANDARIN, CANTONESE, ENGLISH
COLOR • 106 MIN.
Chen, a young martial arts expert, returns to his school in Shanghai when he finds out that his beloved teacher has been killed. Chen investigates what has happened and discovers that his death is linked to a drug trafficking organisation, a rival school and racial tensions between the city's Chinese and Japanese inhabitants.
A selection of 10 short films by young filmmakers proposed by ESCAC, in which the works of the selected students will compete for the ESCAC Award for Best Short Film.
DRAMA
SPAIN · 2020
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOR · 21 MIN.
For a young boy like Max, summer is sitll that time of the year when worries fade away and the only thing left to do is to enjoy the vacations and free time. But life doesn't understand that and Max will see his summer cut short the moment he realizes that perhaps what he had always idealized is not really the way he had conceived it. He will have to assimilate what it means to see his how his references crack.
DRAMA
SPAIN · 2021
LANGUAGE: SPAIN
COLOR · 20 MIN.
Marcel and his mother live in hiding in an abandoned house, far from society. Faced with boredom, Marcel welcomes a new playmate, opening the doors to the ghosts of the past; the ones his mother has been trying to protect him from all this time.
DRAMA
SPAIN · 2021
LANGUAGE: CATALAN
COLOR · 16 MIN.
Adela is a single mother, hardworking and humble. While she works, her mother takes care of her son. Immersed in her obligations that don't allow her to think about her, she will be forced to open her eyes and face a new reality when, on an early morning, her mother runs away from home and begins to show the first signs of dementia.
DRAMA
SPAIN · 2021
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOR · 18 MIN.
Ale, an 18-year-old boy with no ambition for the future, spends his days lost between alochol, crime and drugs. Due to his turbulent relationship with his mother, he lives practically alone. The only positive reinforcement in his life is his bull terrier, Sasha. One night, Ale goes out for another day of escapism, leaving his dog alone at home.
DRAMA
SPAIN · 2020
LANGUAGE: SPANISH, CATALAN
COLOR · 14 MIN.
Júlia goes back home to celebrate her mother's birthday. When they reunite, after a few days without seeing each other, the appearance of an old conflict makes evident the generational barrier that separates them. In this moment of reunion, Júlia becomes aware that the distance between them is so great that it seems impossible to find a point of return.
DRAMA
SPAIN · 2021
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOR · 12 MIN.
Hashim is a young Moroccan boy who has been arrested by the police. He is part of a group of friends who share life in the neighborhood, as well as its difficulties. His mother, tired of seeing the situation in which her son finds himself, decides to find him a job in a barbershop. Although Hashim will begin to mature, feeling at ease in this new stage, a last adventure proposed by his great friend Sebas will force him to decide.
COMEDY, FANTASY
SPAIN · 2021
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOR · 23 MIN.
Spain, 1977. Mari, a 50-year-old housewife dissatisfied with her life, spends her days reading UFO magazines and has a devotion to extraterrestrials. One night she goes to the countryside to go UFO spotting with her group of friends and discovers a heartbreaking revelation about her marriage. Fed up with earthlings, Mari decides to look for love outside of Earth.
HORROR, DRAMA, THRILLER
SPAIN · 2021
LANGUAGE: CATALAN
COLOR · 16 MIN.
A man lives isolated from society in a rural house. Every night he feeds a wild creature that lives in the forest surrounding his house. The man has not spoken to his son for years, and has heard practically nothing from him for a long time. But one day he receives an unexpected call that will force him to rethink his life. If he wants to rebuild his ties with his son, he will have to face his pride and put an end to the wild creature of the forest, which seems to have turned against him.
DRAMA
SPAIN · 2021
LANGUAGE: CATALAN
COLOR · 20 MIN.
Nàdia, an 18-year-old model absorbed by the world of fashion and exhibitionism on social networks, wants to have an operation on a small deformity she has in her ears. An obsession that runs parallel to her father's never-ending cancer.
DRAMA
SPAIN · 2021
LANGUAGE: CATALAN
COLOR · 18 MIN.
Judith is a girl who wants to play with her classmates and do weekend activities with her parents. But both at school and at home she feels left out. Her classmates only let her play if she plays dog, and at home her parents have no time for her. Judith, however, finds friendship and companionship in other friends: small dead animals, found on the street, in the garden or in the schoolyard, which she gives them a home in glass jars under her bed.
A selection of classic, auteur films from throughout the ages, which offers an overview of a specific director's work, an artistic movement, an historic time period or national filmmaking.
DRAMA, WAR FILM
UNITED KINGDOM, JAPAN, NEW ZELAND · 1983
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH, JAPANESE
COLOR · 123 MIN.
During Wold War II, the british officer Jack Celliers enters a Japanese prisoners camp. The camp major, captain Yonoi, believes in values such as discipline, honour and glory. To him, allied soldiers are cowards for surrending to the enemy instead of committing suicide. One of the prisoners, colonel Lawrence, tries to explain to his collegues the Japanese way of thinking, even though he can be considered a traitor for this. Everything changes when Yonoi starts feeling attracted to Celliers.
THRILLER
UNITED KINGDOM · 1984
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH, SPANISH
COLOR · 98 MIN.
Willie Parker, a former English gangster turned into a snitch, has been living for years under a false identity in a remote Spanish village. The gangsters he betrayed descover his location and send two hitmen to kidnap him and take him to Paris. The plan gets complicated when, after Parker's kidnapping, the Spanish police start to chase the criminals.
COMEDY
UNITED KINGDOM · 1985
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 109 MIN.
Albert Einstein is in New York to give a lecture on his latest work. When he goes back to the hotel, he finds Marilyn Monroe in his room. The actress and the scientist talk about topics such as the theory of relativity, sex or politics. The situation gets complicated when senator McCarthy and boxer Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn's ex-husband, enter the room.
DRAMA, HISTORICAL, BIOPIC
UNITED KINGDOM, CHINA, ITALY, FRANCE· 1987
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH, MANDARIN, JAPANESE
COLOR · 163 MIN.
Crowned at the age of 3, Pu Yi is the last emperor of the legendary imperial China. He lives in reclusion in the inaccessible enclosure of the Forbidden City. A few years later, still in his youth, the country begins to crumble. And the communist revolution ends up causing his overthrow. Pu Yi will have to face the outside world for the first time in his life.
DRAMA
UNITED KINGDOM, ITALY · 1990
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, FRENCH, ARABIAN
COLOR · 138 MIN.
1947. A New York couple travels to Africa in serch of new experiences that can revitalize and save their marriage. Accompanied by a rich young travel companion they go into the Sahara Desert. As they escape from themselves and civilization, mysterious events will change their lives forever. While they fight against the suffocating heat of Africa in the middle of a sudden love triangle, each of them will question their beliefs and experiences.
THRILLER
UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES · 1990
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 97 MIN.
A mysterious woman hires a private detective to prove the innocence of a young man locked up in prison for murder. His investigation uncovers a web of corruption in a Connecticut town. And evidences that the woman who has hired him is not what she pretends to be.
FANTASTIC, DRAMA
CANADA, UNITED KINGDOM, JAPAN · 1991
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, ARABIAN
COLOR · 115 MIN.
An insect exterminator who has overcome his bad life and drug abuse finds out his wife is addicted to the powder he uses to kill insects. One night, during an innocent game, William accidentally shoots his wife dead. With the intention to escape his concerns, he flees to Interzone, a place where reality and fantasy merge.
THRILLER
UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM · 1996
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 101 MIN.
Alex Gates runs, with his stepson Jason, a small imported wine company which supplies most of the milionaires of a select neighbourhood of Miami. For work reasons, one day he meets Gabriela, the maid of a wealthy married couple that own a priceless diamond necklace. Alex decides to still the jewel and escape the city with Gabriela, but destiny has a surprise in store that will completelly change the course of events.
FANTASTIC, DRAMA
CANADA, UNITED KINGDOM · 1996
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 100 MIN.
James Ballard, a prestigious film producer in a personal and professional crisis, suffers a car accident. It also affects Helen, the driver of the other vehicle. Both must spend time in the hospital and begin to feel a strange and powerful mutual attraction. James falls into a dark and perverse world, dominated by danger, sex and death.
DRAMA
UNITED KINGDOM · 1998
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOR · 112 MIN.
After the death of his mother, Bobby, a young man with a disability, is left at the mercy of his stepfather. The man, who wants to take control of the family business, terrorizes him and threatens to lock him up in an asylum. The boy decides to escape through the English countryside. On his journey, in a road accident, he meets Mr. Summers, who shows more interest in a run over rabbit than in the health of the driver involved in the event.
THRILLER
UNITED KINGDOM, SPAIN · 2000
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, SPANISH
COLOR · 89 MIN.
After spending a time in prison, Gal Dove lives now happily retired in a chalet on the Spanish Costa del Sol, with his wive, whom he adores. However, his happiness is blurred by the arrival of Don Logan, an old pal who tries to convince him to return to London for one last big heist.
DRAMA
UNITED KINGDOM, ITALY, FRANCE· 2003
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, FRENCH
COLOR · 115 MIN.
Paris, spring of 1968. Isabelle and her brother Theo decide to invite Matthew, a young North American student, while their parents are on vacation. Surrendering to their youth and desires, they experiment with each other's emotions and sexuality. And they develop a series of increasingly absorbing psychological games.
DRAMA
JAPAN, UNITED KINGDOM · 2011
LANGUAGE: JAPANESE
COLOR · 128 MIN.
Wishing to die with dignity, Hanshiro, a samurai without resources, asks to perform the ritual suicide (Harakiri) at the residence of the Li clan, whose leader is Kageyu, a stubborn warrior. Trying to change his mind, Kageyu tells him the tragic story of Motome, a young ronin who three months earlier had arrived there with the same intentions. Fed up with the beggars, they helped him to practice Sepukku, forcing the young man to commit suicide with a Bamboo sword, since he had had to sell his real ones (the most valuable possession of a samurai) to support his family. Despite the harshness of the story, the samurai insists on the ritual suicide and asks the lord for the support of three assistants. But when the time comes, none of them appears. Curiously, they were the ones who participated in the Harakiri of the young ronin, so the lord of the house suspects the true intentions of the mysterious samurai. These intentions, related to the deceased ronin, will soon be revealed.
COMEDY, DRAMA, FANTASY
UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY, GREECE, FRANCE · 2014
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, FRENCH, ARABIC, TURKISH
COLOR · 123 MIN.
Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangiers, Adam, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his tough and enigmatic lover, Eve, who has no problem aknowledging her status as a vampire. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by the arrival of Ava, her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. As the world crumbles around them, can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them?