European Cinema

Carla is alone in her office. She gets a call, it's Raúl, a young guy who passes her cocaine. They've known each other for some years, but they've never exchanged more than two consecutive sentences. Tonight will be the last night that Raúl works as a dealer. He wants to change his life. He's going to Australia, to work as a...

As they do every afternoon Encarna and Rosario meet up to have churros for afternoon snack in their neighbourhood café. However, today is a special day. Today they’ll be changing their usual conversation...

Indira, a Cuban actress, succeeded to flee to USA but her emigration inflicted consequences on her family. In Santa Clara (Cuba) she left 11-years-old son Leandro and other members of her numerous family. Settled now in New Jersey, Indira struggles to adapt to cold weather, different mentality and to a completely new social system. Her "American Dream" turns to be an "American Nightmare", while her son Leandro is waiting in Santa Clara for her to settle so he can come and live with her in...

Thousands of foreign workers support today the most known Italian excellence: agri-food production. A docu-musical shows their daily...

Pemba is a Himalayan Sherpa, however, she has never climbed a mountain; she is a folk singer who fled Nepal years ago due to the civil war in the 1990s, and that now has a new life in Spain. Twenty years later, Pemba decides to return to her hometown, Goli, a tiny village located in the heart of the Himalayas to organize a concert and discover what remains of the paradise where she grew...

The story of the struggle of a small African community against a factory that poisoned their lives with lead, a killer industry operating across Africa in front of the eyes of careless governments and global...

Innocence, sex and lust converge to tell the story of Guille, a teenager who seeks himself through...

Life can be complicated and hard, but the attitude of each one can change...

Raúl, a teenager with cerebral palsy shows his concerns and thoughts through a mime. Among them, David's life, a boy with autism who loves planes and is always carrying with...

Breoghan's Tower is a transversal creation that is born thanks to the diversity of his different artistic expressions: the music of the Symphonic Orchestra of Galicia and of Luar na Lubre - symphonic and folk- the audiovisual scenography in 3D and the creativity of some authors that inspired in the legends of the celtic mythology, melted under the look of a filmmaker with the personality of Jorge...

In the months before the war in Iraq, Abdel and Umayr, two brothers who are very close, will be forced to separate from each other. Months later, with the war in full swing, they will meet again, but neither of them is the...

Every year in Calpe which is located in the south of Spain some of the streets are closed for the week. The street area changes its normal appearance and becomes a cage. All the residents of Calpe and other towns nearby wait for this event to happen all year round. The bull arrives and hundreds of people end up in the cages. But is it really what makes the celebration of “Bous al carrer” that...

Every year in Spain, some 16,000 Fiestas are organized, during which animals are used. Honoring the Holy Virgin and the Patron Saints, and with the blessing of religious and political authorities, entire towns -including children- are involved in celebrations of unbelievable cruelty. 60,000 animals are hence abused each year during these “Fiestas of...

St. Agatha’s Eve is a deep-rooted Basque tradition in which people walk from house to house, accompanied by improvised verse-makers (bertsolaris), singing verses to the beating of long sticks. Building on this celebration, bertsolari Maialen Lujanbio composes a stark denunciation of gender violence. In verse after verse, she condemns the different manifestations of sexist violence and our inability to combat it. Based on these couplets, twenty young artists direct a collective-created piece,...

Patricia is addicted to heroine and she is in...

The Cuba we know is dying, meanwhile thousands of capitalist brands arrive to the country. Fidel, leader of the Revolution is locked by himself in his...

Alina suffers from sleep paralysis and several parasomnias which make her have a high-powered medicine called Orfidal. The project immerses within her mind showing her illness as a gift and trying to teach, from an artistic perspective, and a different point of...

24 hours left for Rawan. She has to decide if she´s leaving her home in Europe to join a war in Syria, if religion is the answer to her loneliness. But in that last day in her hometown, coincidences are going to play an important role that could create doubts on her first...

Marta is a young border guard, who recently arrived but has high expectations for a promotion. She is about to finish her period of practice doing speed controls in a secondary road. When Marta stops a car for speeding, what it seemed just like a penalty ticket will become a blackmailing game. Her complicated financial situation and her upcoming wedding will make her think about being true to its principles or engage in corruption. Temptation can sometimes be very...

Bolingo. The Forest of Love tells the story of the journey madeby several women from the heart of Africa to North Morocco looking for the “european...

Rosa tries to recall her mother by cooking the pestiños recipe she always prepared, with no success. She has invited her sisters, Beatriz and Isabel, to help her, even though they don’t speak to each other. Neither one knows that the other one is going to be there, and they can’t imagine how much Rosa wants to eat those pestiños...

Carles travels by car with his teenage son, Pol. An unexpected incident will change the course of their...

Irene is a teenager who lives with her mother, Pilar, and her grandma, Mari?a, in a flat in a humble neighborhood. One day, Mari?a begins to behave strangely: she seems much happier than usual, makes a lot of jokes and tells weird stories of youth about rock tours, excesses and groupies... Until she finally declares: “I’m Ringo...

Victoria and Paula speak to a wedding on the outskirt of Bogotá. A pending conversation will make them unleash feelings they believed...

October 30th, 1988. Madrid. Spain. The famous entrepreneur Emiliano Revilla has been kidnapped for 249 days by the terrorist group ETA. María José Sáez, a recent journalist graduate, ex intern in a news agency and unemployed, is the first person to see Revilla...

Madrid, 1960. Carlos, Franco's film screenwriter, read in a magazine that "In ten years, cars will fly" so, he decides to make the first science fiction film in the history of Spanish...

Matthew "Matt" T. Burns better known by his ring name "Sick" Nick Mondo is a retired American professional wrestler. Burns is best known for his appearances with Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW). He was known throughout his career for his willingness to take extremely dangerous bumps, such as being hit with a weed wacker or getting thrown into a table covered with barbed wire. Nowadays, he works on the cinema industry and directs films and short films, where he also acts. He tells us his story from...

This is the story of a trip with a special focus on “La Maestro”, the only guitar designed by Paco de Lucía and created for his friend and luthier Antonio Morales. An isolated Spanish guitar after the sudden dead of the greatest musical genius Spanish. 9 countries, 12 towns, 2 continents, 34,412...

What do you think is the desire of every human being...

After the death of two of her classmates, Julia is incapable of feeling any sort of sadness. Chocked by the suffocating mourning, and by a deep resentment, she will write something that will have dire...

The documentary record of the first edition of the Ketevan World Sacred Music Festival, held in Goa (India) is transformed in these frames into a celebration of what music unites and distinguishes as cultural...

Could a conversation with a stranger change the rest of your days? While sitting on a bench in a park, Bárbara meets...

Creative proccess of the actress Blanca Portillo to prepare the perform as María of Nathareth in the theatre play " María´s...

Think about the metamorphosis is to refer to the idea of process. As if they were butterflies, Laia, Guanyem and the city of Barcelona are transformed during this documentary, changing skin and leaving...

A love tale between a clown about to retire and a young secretary that leaves Liverpool to become an actress in Italy. On the road, she meets a human cannonball man and decides to stay at a circus, considering that staying on an travelling circus is somehow...

Telma decides to travel to Galicia with the intention to give back Desiderio, her father's dog which she inherited after the recent dead of her...

More than 50 years of armed conflict among the FARC, the ELN, paramilitary groups and the Colombian government have left behind eight million victims. During this time, thousands of minors have been part of the armed groups. They are also consider victims because their childhood is always going to be linked to a weapon; the jungle was their home and the battalion, their...

Ainoha and Yon meet in a deserted beach. Both have paused their lives and have escaped to an island far from everything they know. A film like love will grew between them with its own introduction, core and denouement; a summer love they do not want to forget once autumn comes and they return home by their own. To keep the memories of their story alive, Ainhoa and Yon decide to send each other a postcard for a whole year in order to find out if what they have felt in the island lasts or...

At Los Nogales Pacífico (Madrid), a residence for the elderly, a new scientific study is developed involving a group of 20 elders older than 90 in order to increase their physical...

P.I.G.S. tells the story of a brief and evocative encounter between a man who decided to put an end to his life, and a group of survivors from a near death experience. The darkest moment coexists with the joy and the celebration of life for a brief lapse of time, enough to alter the destiny of those...