Known for Acting
Cris and Diego just broke up and agree they want to stay friends. But that gets tricky when they move back in with their parents. The grandparents are eager to treat them like kids again. It doesn't matter that Cris and Diego are over forty years old, or have a five-year-old daughter, Cloe.
Candela, the headmistress of an elite school, after a traumatic divorce, returns to her old high school to lead a group of rebellious students through chess. There she will learn that in chess, and in life, it doesn't matter if you are a king or a pawn, because everyone ends up in the same box.
The story is set during the early 1980s in a small town in rural Spain. El Chiqui is a talented young man about to debut in the local bullring, expected to continue the legacy of his family name. But that is not what he truly wants. His secret relationship with a young man from the town, Nicolás, offers an escape from the village, leaving the family pressures behind.
Nacho, a young man in his mid-thirties, is losing control of his life. In order to finance his various addictions, he has accumulated large debts with dangerous moneylenders. Fearing he no longer has control over himself, he flees to the city, leaving everything behind. There, he meets a woman who is older than him and falls in love with her. Lucia is very supportive of his development into a better and more adult Nacho. As Nacho’s mother is lying on her deathbed, he is forced to return home and face everything he had left behind.
Four people traveling in a van run over a lone woman while she is walking in the dark down a country road. After loading her into the vehicle to take her to the nearest hospital, they notice that she is behaving rather strangely. The occupants of the van soon realise that the time has come to fight for their lives, and together they agree on one very simple rule: "do not sit next to her."
8:19' is a smart gallery of characters living, unknowingly, their last 8 minutes and 19 seconds in absolutely rutinary situations, letting time go by, delaying decisions, postponing meetings and pleasures. Characters who think there is a future to be reached. Like everyone.
María is a thirty-year-old from Madrid who is dissatisfied with her existence and, despite her efforts to make an artistic career a reality, she has no choice but to end up working in a flower shop in her neighbourhood.
With humor, prolific director Víctor Matellano tells the story of one of the most iconic and problematic cult films of Spain's "fantaterror": Los resucitados by Arturo de Bobadilla. A story of ambition, frustration and the everlasting will of the most passionate cinephiles.
The life of Jorge, 12, eldest son of a modest Spanish family of the 90s, turns upside down when the emotional turmoil caused by his sexual awakening is mixed with an accusation against his father, an art teacher, of an alleged sexual harassment of a 16-year-old girl, which disintegrates his family nucleus. His attempts to try to understand and overcome events lead Jorge to a new vision of his father, his family and his own nature.
Julia is saying goodbye to the last visitors who have come to the house after the sudden death of her husband. When it seems that finally has a moment of intimacy, Susan knocks on the door. Despite Julia's refusal to let her pass, Susana rebukes her, arguing that she has the right to say goodbye to her husband.
