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In a peripheral neighbourhood, where the rural and urban worlds meet, the houses of the first migrants who arrived after the post-war period coexist with the new blocks of the dormitory city, where the latest wave of migration is concentrated. This humble corner is now an authentic global village. Good Valley Stories is a sum of constructs, of social, generational and identity, urban and ecological conflicts, but it is also a calm and humanistic look at today’s world.
Good Valley Stories

Octavio and Adela were born on the same day, April 14th, 1931. During the following 8 decades, their lives will intertwine through intense encounters and misunderstandings in 8 episodes. A passionate love story between a brave and fighting woman and a man confronted with his contradictions. They will have to face coming from families on opposing sides of a country slowly heading towards a Civil War, along with the history of Spain and Europe as a background.
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Spain, 1975. Franco's death opens the door to the possibility of uncensored cinema. After two years of relaxed censorship, it is abolished in 1977, and the “S” rating is created to protect viewers from films that may “offend their sensibilities.”
Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada “S”

After 15 years together, Ale and Alex choose an unconventional way to part ways: by hosting a party to celebrate their separation. Their unexpected decision leaves friends and family confused, forcing everyone to confront their own views on love, relationships, and new beginnings in this bittersweet, heartfelt story.
The Other Way Around

A Woman anxiously awaits a man’s call to feel desired. A Woman and Another Woman- who could be many others, or even the same one—cross paths in the bathroom of a bar that could be like so many others.
The Other Woman

In the middle of summer, five women rehearse a play in an old mill, isolated from the world.
The Girls Are Alright

Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story.
Song Without a Name

After the loss of their mother, a dysfunctional family is pressed to re-examine their lives. As father and children come to terms with their own existence, this journey turns into a tender and subtle meditation on grief.
The Erection of Toribio Bardelli

Antonio left home and moved to Madrid eight years ago. Emma was the one who stayed. At Easter week in Écija (Sevilla), during the night of The Christ of Silence, Antonio and Emma visit the places where they used to go. They try to recognize each other, but they can’t. The only possible way is the one that was already chosen
Where the Silence Passes

One night. One city. Madrid. Five conversations. Nine characters. They tell personal stories, invented stories, also an old story that goes on from conversation to conversation, a story from an old Japanese film.
Las Tierras del Cielo

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Madreselva

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Un país extraño

Here is the love story of Sebas and Andrea, first-time university students, in the 1958-1959 academic year. Here is how social class and ideology become insurmountable obstacles?... Here is architecture marking, inadvertently, the dotted line that ends up dictating its emotion.
Emotional Architecture 1959

Set in the year 2065 and tells the story of a man who enters an old holographic booth, intending to take a nap, but accidentally activating the resident sexual hologram.
Polvotron 500
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Cenizas

In 1887, an expedition from the Philippines arrived in Madrid to participate in the Philippines Exposition, a colonial and ethnographical fair held in Retiro Park. A reflection on the implications of such colonial events.
A Summer in Madrid

In 1989, José Luis and Luz María, a young couple living in Galicia who have just had a daughter, get divorced. José Luis films the entire separation process with his camera. In 2019, their daughter Paula, who has been living in France with her girlfriend Joy for ten years, separates. Paula, like her father, has been recording their love story and its end all this time. This documentary uses intimate archive footage to initiate a dialogue between two separations thirty years apart and attempts to answer the question: What remains when love ends?