Production
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
Marta must travel to Colombia to take charge of the corpse of his brother Juan, who has been murdered. Once there, she gets involved in a mysterious plot.
Filmmaker Victor Erice follows Spanish artist Antonio Lopez in his painstaking attempt to paint the image of a tree.
Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she decides to find out the reason and in doing so discovers the truth about the relationship between her parents and the true fate of her mother.
Domingo is a bookmaker obsessed with gambling. Martzelina, his wife, has the constant feeling that her husband, always accompanied by Kornelio, is going to meet with misfortune because of gambling.
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A determined teenager must rely on her own wits when her fractured family abandons her.
Gorka has long postponed again and again the answer to the pressing questions that his son Aitor asks about his past. Gorka, a member of ETA political-military until its dissolution in the early eighties, ends joining the guerrillas in Central America. A life experience shared with Maddalen, a nurse and committed Christian, with José, an indigenous guerrilla member, and Andrés a former military, head of the insurrection. An experience that will transform them all.
Two former seminarians meet by chance in adulthood: one has become a dealer, the other a terrorist.
Music and dance nurture the story of a group of people who live in a popular neighborhood. The invasion of North American soldiers to Panama will break the tranquility of the place bringing a wave of violence with them.
Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San Sebastián, owned by his friend Floro, every summer.
In the summer of 1977, a political prisoner, living in exile, recounts the circumstances of his escape to a journalist: in April 76, a group of ETA members planned to escape from prison, but the project fails when, due to a tip-off, the guards discover the tunnel they are digging. The inmates, far from being discouraged, start a second tunnel.
Two Basque brothers and businessmen try to save their family heritage from imminent ruin. They believe they have found the solution in a quick deal: they will exchange the stock of elvers from their small local business for Cuban cigars bought in Cuba. But the charm of Cuban women and the greed of the self-styled businessmen threaten to disrupt everything.
From the experience of the war in Nicaragua in the 80's, the last director of information and analysis of the KGB, Nikolai Leonov, General Cuban intelligence, Fabian Escalante, and the Sandinista intelligence chief, Lenin Cerna, explain the role played in the operations, covert activities and the effects of the crisis in the USSR in the conflict, along with other evidence such as Eden Pastora, Boris Kolomiakov, Juan Jose Ubeda and Vincent Chavez.
King Carlos II of Spain (r. 1665-1700) once sent his brother Luis to lead a military expedition into Albania and conquer that land for the Spaniards. Since Albania was a part of the dowry of Luis' wife, it seemed like a reasonable idea at the time. While that expedition and its final battle is the subject of this historical film, the scale involved can hardly do justice to the concept. The protagonists talk incessantly, and by the time they get down to the final grand battle, it turns out to be a skirmish between several dozen men.
The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.
The entertaining and absurd story of a dilapidated cooking school and its students during a day in which they discover a hidden treasure.
Juán Auzmendi, sacristan of a small Spanish village, decides to emigrate to America in search of new horizons. To pay for the trip, he steals the saving of his parish priest and begins the journey to the city of Pasajes, where he hopes to get on a ship. But Spain is again on the verge of a Civil War and the trip to the coast gets complicated.
It's 8 AM in a summer morning from the 70's. Jon, an ETA member, is being chased by the police in the Old Town of San Sebastian. While he runs, he revises his whole life.
A poet and journalist must take under the role of a Basque army commander during the siege of the Basque Count
