Known for Acting
With the Cold War about to break out in Afghanistan, young, lifelong friends Suraya and Sima must question their life choices and moral principles when they get involved in opposite sides of the conflict.
Pilar is an ordinary woman who lives immersed in a routine that has never been questioned: work, family and housework. Therefore, when she is unexpectedly told that she is being fired, she enters into a deep identity crisis. Despite everything, she refuses to give up and clings to what she thinks she has left: her role as a mother of two teenagers, but, unfortunately, her children no longer need her as before. In this personal situation, she is moved by the generational clash regarding the young women in her family, who, like a mirror, reflects her longing for a life that she has never lived.
Barcelona, Spain, in the late sixties. Eugenio, a young jeweler who has fallen in love with Conchita, a singer, to the point of learning to play the guitar to accompany her in her performances, will first have to learn to overcome his stage fright.
The existential quest of a young woman, Flippa, within the eternal “heterosexual knot”. In search of her sister Furia, she finds her in Sardinia in a community of mother witches.
A medium-length film that accompanies all 7 tracks of the album “Pink Honey Rain” by The Bird Yellow. The story, full of visual metaphors, elegant choreographies and an astonishing imaginary, takes place during the farewell party between two people. A bittersweet “so long” that brings a necessary distance and marks both an end and a beginning.
Through different genres (such as romantic comedy, drama or even fantasy), this show takes a look through the viewpoint of five different filmmakers at the unusual context that the coronavirus quarantine provides.
Seven twentysomethings and three cats confine themselves in an industrial warehouse while trying to get away from the vices of the traditional family. The mysterious trauma of one cat seems like a premonition of the conflict to come.
El Mort Viu portraits the Gifra family: the father, Joan, unmotivated and unemployed, a passionate follower of Saint Rabuci; Marc, the ever-angry older brother, a hard-working yet embittered man who has taken the reigns of the family; and the problematic younger son Llàtzer, a NEET parasite that feeds on the decline of his family and the birth of a monster settling in a very peculiar town, between dramedy and fantasy, through the filter of Spanish tradition of very dark humor.
In the summer heat of Catalonia, Pol and Bàrbara are lying down on a bed. An invisible wall that words won't break is pulling them apart. Old wounds take time to heal...
Merche rents his only son's room to Günther, a german youngster. She'll start to see him as a possibility to refill some empty spaces in her life.