Friendship

CURL POWER follows a team of teenage girls as they pursue their unusual dream of becoming Canadian National Curling Champions, and seek out their own paths amid the legacies of their world champion mothers. This intimate and imaginative coming-of-age documentary tells a story of angst and ecstasy, following the funny and tender evolution of five best friends as they reckon with their bodies, minds, and the great...

The incredible story of a friendship that has survived pirates, tribes and above all, the cultural difference. For the past decade, Spanish filmmaker Paula Palacios has been following Ali, a young man who fled the war in Somalia at the age of 14. Their meeting in a prison in Ukraine in 2012 turns Ali's life upside down, but also Paula's. Shot in Ukraine, the USA, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, often by Ali himself, this film is both a coming-of-age story in an uncertain world and an exploration of...

Juan is 26 years old and has terminal cancer. He is confined in the hospital but he’s tired of feeling sick. So, one night, he decides to escape, with the help of his friend, Marta. Juan wishes to spend a normal night, like any other. He wants to drink with his friends, play table soccer, some darts, smoke a joint while the sun goes down but most importantly he wants to feel that everything else doesn’t exist… He wants to feel the time go by, no rush, just being with the ones he loves the...

Spain is made up of people who are very different in their origins, history, dialects, way of life, work, cultural and gastronomic tastes, even in their character, ideas and values. In these differences, there is something that unites and brings us all together: the passion for the...

Three friends face a world marked by corruption, each caught in her own battle. Valeria, a DJ, drowns her pain in parties and excesses after an irreparable loss. Ana, a journalist, fights to maintain her integrity in a sensationalist television channel. Encarna delves into politics, uncovering a corrupt and sexist system. As they fall and become disillusioned, they find in their friendship the strength to resist and reinvent themselves. A story of love, struggle and sisterhood in a hostile...

Roc (13) and Sara (14) have arranged to meet through an app. Although they have previously discussed all they’ll be doing, they both feel nervous and unsure on how to proceed. Under pressure to lose their virginity, Roc and Sara meet at an abandoned farm on the outskirts of the city. They have decided to stop being children and become...

Two friends meet one more night on the roof of the 29th. Life passes over them as they talk about their neighborhood, friendship, the passing of time and betrayal. Reflections aloud from two young people who have never been asked their...

Lara and Roque, two queer and isolated teenagers in the Spanish countryside, face the end of a bitter-sweet...

Balika tells the story of Dipendra and Sushmita, two teenagers living in an orphanage in Kathmandu. The protagonists, like all his friends, were abandoned by their...

Celia is 44 years old and she doesn't want to celebrate it to avoid thinking about what it means to have reached that age without a partner or children. She has invited her friends to dinner at her house, but she has told them that it is not a birthday party, but a Christmas dinner where she will offer them her famous eggnog for dessert, a recipe she learned when she lived in New York. The friends don't keep the deal and show up for the date with a strange birthday gift that will provoke a...

Pablo, a common young guy, meets his friend Nestor at dawn. They are both waiting for the van that will pick them up. Meanwhile, Pablo’s mother doesn’t stop calling him to come...

Nono is the only inhabitant of planet Pano. He lives happily and spends his days taking care of his small and beloved planet. One day, the unexpected visit of Be2 will alter everything and will have a big impact on Nono. Despite their obvious differences, both will find a way to communicate and, therefore, live together in...

After 3 years in Syria fighting against Islamic State, Arges Artiaga visits UK to join his former brothers in arms in the funeral of one of his best friends. He's 43 and his life has to change: either he forgets about the war or he comes back again to the...

Fly is the story of a bird that has a deformed wing that prevents it from migrating. Abandoned by his flock, he sinks in despair. Everything changes the day Pio-Pio appears. This defenseless chick gives him joy and a sense of purpose in life. Until one day destiny makes him do things that he would't even do for himself, such as...

A group of friends in their thirties are struck by the death of Sam, the youngest of them all. After the funeral they must fulfill his last wish: a peculiar game that will bring to the table fears, desires, prejudices and hidden...

Three women meet every Thursday for a morning walk before going to work. It is the occasion to tell each other what worries and happens to them. Despite their differences and disagreements, there is something that unites these protagonists: the age and the burden they feel knowing they are halfway through their lifes. They are united by the sad sensation, that the passing of the years has displaced them in a space where they feel out of place and almost...

One of the most important people in Prudence's life has been missing for a while. She still does not know how to deal with his absence and goes out every night to look for her, when he finds her, he loses her...

A ballerina not very popular at her class practices dance exercises while imagining an idyllic world where she is happy dancing and floating through fantasies about love, movement and...

Tired of loneliness, a middle aged motorcyclist goes to a lesbian party for the first time. There she meets four young queers who share their home and affections. An encounter of generations, a tribute to those who brought us...

Two friends. A dress for their university graduation, which is just around the corner. One of them has something to say. She’s bursting to say...

Ubicada en una remota isla portuguesa, "La cabeza y la mano" es un retrato contemplativo de dos señoras con discapacidades que pasaron décadas viviendo juntas y, a pesar de los desafíos que enfrentaron, encontraron alegría en su independencia y...

At the gates of the peace in Colombia, the young Camila, a FARC`s member, face to a painful memory of her childhood, the day in which her father tried to rape her, in an internal struggle from where she will come out...

One day Steve wakes up and realizes he has bonded with his iPhone: he reproduces the calls without picking it up, his voice mimics the callers, he even reads his emails and does his browsing telepathically. We follow Steve and his friends struggling to block this unusual...

Elías was a documentary filmmaker that fantasized with making a heist film. Flako was the most wanted bank robber in the hard times of the Spanish Crisis. Flako was in jail. Elías was in the street. Some films must be prepared in the...

Veronica and Lucia have known each other since childhood, have stayed for dinner tonight. They drink, they eat, they laugh, they speak and they confess intimate secrets. But sometimes sincerity can be too dangerous a game that does not always end...

Santi and Jota are two guys living in the outskirts of Madrid. Like many others, they have decided not to study or work and they spend their precious time drinking beer cans in the park and talking about the hottest girls in the neighborhood. But Jota seems a little bit worried about...

It’s summer time. Adrián and his friends climb every afternoon at a roof to spy a girl who sunbathes naked. But this afternoon won’t be like the others: today they’ll realize that one of them is more interested in a guy showering in a close...

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

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

Version built for the actress Rosa Novell a macabre tale of the brothers Grimm, like all stories, appeals to our collective...

Oscar and Fon are friends and war reporters. They are kidnapped in a basement, in a foreign country, six thousand kilometers from...

A stopover in Madrid. A pending...

It's a starry night when Oscar sees from his window... a little goldfish jumping on a dirty puddle! Two cats are watching from the shadows. Oscar will help the goldfish through a rampant adventure in a nighty Latin American, with the lack os water as a...

That's life in a village, this cloistered world that produces stories, boredom, friendships necessary, the author tells. During the day, he paints a portrait of the late Clement, his unspoilt room and the videos that remain of...

Wayward is a teen drama, about exploring and challenging boundaries in search for identity. Alex's identity as a tomboy is challenged from within and by her peers. She is 14 years old and her body is undergoing changes, yet she continues to insist on the tomboy...

Juan is a child who doesn’t have any friends. La Nube is a cloud who doesn’t have any cloud friends. They find each other and become friends. However, Juan grows up and gets lost in the grey adult...

Four friends meet to walk their dogs together everyday on London’s Hampstead Heath. They reveal their hopes, dreams and fears in some unusual ways. They are all looking for love but perhaps the perfect man does not exist.... or maybe he goes running on the...

In the deeps of the Vicente Calderón stadium, there is a crypt full of niches where the most faithfullies Atlético de Madrid fans can bury the ashes of their beloved ones. But the stadium will be tear down, and Atlético will play in the new Olympic Stadium. Vicente, a big fan of the team, whose wife is buried in the crypt, will fight against all elements for making possible the move of the crypt to the new...

"A City Without Dreams" takes place between Beirut (Lebanon) and Aleppo (Syria) and talks about the lost dreams of an entire Syrian generation in these two...

In the pond in Franciscu's garden there are still colourful fish swimming about, but there is one which nearly always stays at the bottom. She doesn't come up to the surface like she used to. Anyone who says that fish have no memory has obviously never met Juanita the...