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Four filmmakers working in the region of Galicia (in the northwest of Spain) follow and portray on the screen Galician artists working in disciplines of different nature. The result is four pieces around the creative process of these artists. Lois Patiño film their parents working on their paintings in their studio in Vigo, Jaione Camborda films dancer Janet Novás rehearsing for one of her pieces, Xisela Franco follows film director Margarita Ledo revisiting the location of her latest film Nation and Alfonso Zarauza reflects on the relationship between actress-director by putting together the work of Melania Cruz in two of their collaborations.
Ana waits at home for her boyfriend Marcos, who is returning home after a long business trip. A violent argument breaks out between them when Marcos realizes that Ana has not taken care of his favorite plant: a small variegated Monstera.
Coast of Almeria, Spain. When Neneta, who lives in a van, is abandoned by her partner, she decides to return with her baby to her hometown in Galicia.
This is the story of TORO. The agonizing recreation of a bullfight seen from the sole perspective of a bull.
Sebastián remembers the last night he spent with a girl in the rain.
Sira and Pepe return to Galicia after spending a decade in Berlin. They buy a house in a small, near-uninhabited village where their peculiar neighbour will insinuate herself into their lives.
A film director prepares to shoot a documentary about the urban miracle of Pontevedra but, in the midst of filming, he realizes that he knows little about the city and that, moreover, he is not very interested in the subject. He enters a creative crisis and realizes that he prefers to make a fiction. Although he is not clear about what, he calls his usual actresses and involves them in the project. They quickly notice that this is not going anywhere and rebel against the direction of the director. As a result of that rebellion, they end up filming something else which is, ultimately, Pontevedra Hora Cero
The director reflects on his relationship with the actors and actresses he has worked with since filming his first short film, noting that they are almost always the same people due to the relationship of trust and mutual generosity that is required. Made from images from the films Ons and Melancholia.
A couple retreat to an Atlantic island to rebuild their relationship, strained by changes through the years. In this strange landscape a lighthouse seems to exert power, and a strange woman appears on the beach after almost drowning.
Celestino is a young anarchist who goes to the Plaza de los Cuatro Gatos every moonlit night to watch Katiuska dance, but that night he asks her to dance for him because at dawn he will have to do something very important.
Piece of Zarauza where he speaks of Santiago from a cultural, architectural, human and existential point of view.
Marta Lado and Ledicia were reluctantly discussing the situation of actresses in Galician cinema in a café when the handsome director Alfonso Zarauza, whom they had been criticizing, burst in and sat down next to them.
Cuba, 1958. Rodolfo is 20 years old and dreams of becoming a movie director. His father is a persecuted member of the revolutionary movement and the family is obliged to flee Havana, taking refuge in a boring village.
