Amy Fajardo

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“Ramón y Cajal: drawings on the retina” is a documentary about the Nobel Prize winner that explores, from a contemporary perspective, his fascination with images as a bridge between the reality of the physical world and that created in the brain, with a new integrative approach to his artistic and scientific facets and his legacy, told through the experiences and points of view of researchers, artists, historians, family members, and other experts who consider Cajal a visionary who transcended his own science. In one of the laboratories, a machine answers Cajal's last question: how are images formed in the brain?

During the summer holidays, a documentary-maker and his 12 year-old son stay at an abandoned hotel in Lisbon: an empty hotel like the one in the film The Shining.

Marga, a widow trapped in monotony, is surprised when her granddaughter sets her up on a date through an app, pretending to be her. Despite her initial resistance, Marga meets Agapito, a talkative man who loves salsa, but the night does not go as she expected, since at a certain age relationships have their own rhythm.

Alba, an elderly woman living with her daughter, is unhappy with the way her daughter’s partner treats her. When she finds herself alone with him, she will have to decide how far she is willing to go in order to save her most loved one from a life of suffering.

Nahid is a young woman of Nigerian origin who works in a hotel as a chambermaid. In the same hotel is staying Adele, a European actress who due to a filming is living a season in Spain. Nahid will gradually become involved in Adele’s intimacy until the encounter between them becomes inevitable.