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Madrid at the end of Summer 2017. The legendary Spanish journalist Rosa Maria Mateo plays a woman that runs away from home. A story about love, chance encounters and memory.

Luana plays between trains and swings while she waits for her father on the other side.

Sammuel Dubrovnik, a member of the elite explosives quad, recounts anecdotes of his life while giving an interview for a local TV station. Given the actual state of vigilance and terror, one realizes that anyone can be observing everything at any given time.

It's late in an idyllic spot. After hours of climbing, Javier decides to call Mariona to share his latest achievement with her. He knows that, after what happened, it will not be an easy call. What he does not know yet is that it will behis last one. A short film based on real events.

Two friends. A dress for their university graduation, which is just around the corner. One of them has something to say. She's bursting to say it.

Alice is under the dining table, curled up in the shadows, alone and with a big kitchen knife in her hands. At her side, a few meters away, i the lifeless body of Michael, her father. Next to the corpse,on the floor, a cellphone starts ringing: There's still hope...

A couple will see their relationship tested by the use of new technologies

Jon and Sofia are a stable couple. One day, Sofia decides to end the relationship. Jon is destroyed. They are both customers at Rafael´s Bar where Beatriz starts working. Jon strikes up a friendship with Beatriz.She begins falling in love. When everything seems to fall into place, Sofia shows up once again and Jon has to make a decision.

Routine and red sausage have led Mauricio to lose things he took for granted. In an act of illogical desperation, he visits a carnival fortune-teller to try and tie up the lose ends he left along the way. With the help of her crystal ball, the fortune-teller shows him an alternate reality.

Sometimes, everyday moments can turn into nightmares.

I wouldn't have expected that you that you were tailor-made to my bathtub.

Yvonne Blake is one of the most important costume designer in the history of cinema. She has lived in Spain since the 1970s and despite her long career, she is known for designing the Superman costume for the cinema. This short documentary delves into the magic that has sparked his work for the films of Richard Donner and Richard Lester dedicated

Julio Pinedo, a black peasant, who was born and grew up in Bolivia, is a legitimate descendant of a monarch of an African tribe. Despite being the only recognized monarch descendant in Latin America, he is not the king that many could conceive.

Jaime, the most successful writer of his generation, is working on his last book. Jaime is happy with his life, proud of the character of himself he has built over the years. One day, his literary agent announces that his books don?t belong to him, that his ideas and his words belong to another. That he has lost everything, even his soul?

Vanessa is the perfect candidate for the job, but...

Isabel is around 70 years old. She lives alone in her small apartment. Her son has serious debt problems. He can't work because he is serving time in jail, and is only released on few weekends. Isabel starts a daring, resolute endeavour to find a job. As obstacles arise and her frustration increases, she ends up making a bold, surprising decision.

LOCKE is a young executive who drives back home. While driving through the northern mountains, Locke is involved in a curious incident that finishes with Locke with a broken leg and lost in the middle of the deep forest. Wounded and tired, LOCKE is rescued by JOTA, a mysterious hunter who lives alone in an isolated cabin in the middle of the forest. The film explores the growing of the peculiar personal relationship between LOCKE and JOTA, unveiling the hidden intimate facets of both characters for reaching the final climax.

One night, one date, one lamps store... 'ilumira' is a love story, which its lights and shades, because everything depends on the eye of the beholder.

Alvar y Jimena, two brothers, live isolated from the world in a lost valley. Their rutine will be disrupted the day they saved a stranger in the woods. They offered her a roof and some food, but the enigmatic young girl hide something. At least that's what they think.

This world has always seemed to me to be somewhat strange, somewhat alien to all of my emotions?. Tesa Arranz, a key figure in the 1980s Madrid scene and the lead singer of the Zombies, has painted over 500 portraits of outer-space creatures.

A woman. Three men. A cooking recipe. A perfectly clear situation. Can you see it? Do you want to see it?

A dinner with friends. An innocent game. An unexpected end

A discussion reveals impossible desires that contradict the ideologies of Alex and his visitors. The situation becomes unbearable when the young boy is again alone with his desires and his perception distorts the world around.

In a coal mine in Spain, our gaze focuses on the hypnotic cadence of work revealing the continous movement of the machinery devouring workers: the very last gestures of the mythical mining labor slowly disappearing. Perhaps it is one of the last active coal mines in Europe. We do not know, but the miners are still trying to salvage the unstoppable.

A group of actors gather in a workshop performance. Its aim is to research, create and develop the drama of a future film. With an unfinished script, a story of love and bullfighting background, the TeatroLab actors with director Gabriel Olivares, we are immersed in the passion for the craft of storytelling from the emotion and truth.

Madrid en David is the result of a productive collaboration between the artists Cálido Lehamo and C.Tangana for this theme inlcuded in the reference Catorce which the first have published last yeart. A film of BRBR Films.

The uniqueness of Antonio is his absolute pitch. Only one in 10,000 people have it. This is the ability to recognize a note just hearing it. Mozart and many great musicians had it. But in another facet Antonio is more common: One in 80 people have autism.

Follows the last day of the campaign of the PNC (New Change Party), the favorite one to win next Spanish general elections, and its charismatic leader, Valentina Garrido.

Even with 95 years old, every day at 10 am, Juan Mariné arrives to his lab in the School of Cinema. A place called The Submarine. Piece by piece perfects his colossal machine whose one goal is to restore the splendor of the opening to the celluloid damaged.

A Christmas tale inspired by a true story.

In the mountains of Brejeira (Portugal), where suicide is very present, old locals coexist with the current waves of foreigners fleeing from the big cities. Each of them lost in their own solitude. For some people this place find their personal paradise. For others, it?s the end of their life.

A portrait of the spanish society and of a culture that has been taken down and it couldn't get up anymore, living generation after generation, the weights put against them.

Although gay marriage was legalized , Mexico ranks second in the world in the rate of murders committed against the LGBT population. Although activists have risked their lives to denounce this fact , impunity surrounding these hate crimes.

A girl lost the last bus back home. In the street, a man tries to steal her bag and in the struggle, he stabs her. Angela is wounded in an alley, hidden behind some garbage cans, just two meters from a busy street. Different characters, the last night owls returning home, pass by without seeing her, immersed in their own parallel stories. As the minutes passed, her anxiety is bigger. Especially when he discovers his only companion is the man who stabbed her.

Uka is a little girl who lives in a grey abandoned factory. While she's painting of of her canvas, she finds a way of changing how she sees the world.

Like every weekend, Jaime returns home afterparty, but this time, it will take a little longer to get...

The Eden Hostel is a humble and dirty place run by an elderly couple. Hanging from the wall of one of its rooms there?s a statue of the Virgin Mary who narrates, from her peculiar point of view, the stories of the various guests who stayed there through the years. One of those stories, the one of Yolanda and Felix, will make a huge impact on her.

May is afraid of the dark and she has a plan to catch it. But she's forgetting a small detail: when night falls, darkness is everywhere...

SALSA is a story about four anonymous people who live in Madrid among 3.166.130 persons. SALSA is about the power of dance able to change their lives. Thanks to SALSA they can meet their own feelings and express themselves to the world. SALSA fills their lives with magic although they aren't always perfect.

Eva, a ten-yeard old, makes a video for the art class in which she speaks about the person she most admire in the world: her grandpa.

Do you belive in eternal life?

Thanks to people who care about preserving certain aspects of folklore, many traditions, such as music, are saved from being forgotten. But, for these songs to come to us, how should they appear? Do they need to evolve like the rest of society or remain intact as the first time they were collected?

Irma is an experimental short film that reflects on the sadness. How we face it, how it affects us, how we personify it, how we live it, how we accept it, how we overcome it. A trip to our inner world of feelings and sensations.

Professional male shot putter throws the 7 kilos 260 grams steel shot an average of 200,000 times in his career . Of these, only about thirty throws are considered perfect.

Life is talking about silly stuff with the people you love.

Inspired by the movies of the French New Wave, Marceline Blurr is the story of a young woman who was born with a vision impairment extremely out of the ordinary. For her the world is a magical place. A big unfinished tableau upon which she finds it not only amusing but absolutely essential to paint.

Lucía goes home for Christmas. When she sees her boyfriend and friends, she finds herself confronted with the reasons for which she left her hometown, and is brought face-to-face with her demons.

1917: Homosexuality is decriminalized in Russia. 1933. Homosexuality becomes a crime again. 1993: Homosexuality is legalized again. 2013: Vladimir Putin supports new legal measures which discriminate against and harass the LGBT population.

HE is an ACTOR, SHE is an ACTRESS… But this… It’s not important to the story.

What was a normal routine for Camille (Rosa Puga) ends up becoming an anxious situation that will unearth previously overcome feelings.

Antonio has a mission to undertake. And it might be his last.

Madrid. February 6th 1992. Plaza de la Cruz Verde. 8 a.m. 11 people live together in the same building. What type of consciousness do they have regarding that their life could end in any moment? A portrait of the little things that fill up our days, it’s subtle and inappreciable evolution, until one day it ends without us noticing.

A new hairdresser styles an old client.

Anna wakes up one day with an old concern. There is something in her life that doesn’t work. Unable to continue with the daily routine, she goes out. She spends the day walking through the streets, reflecting and observing the people. Everything she sees leads her to make a decision.

Paco is followed by a female dog to ending sheltering. Among them a strong bond is created. However, the rest of the farm staff often complains of certain behaviors of the animal, so the oPaco is the maintainer of the stables in a farmhouse. One day he is followed by a dog to which he ends up giving shelter. A strong bond is created between them. However, the other staff of the farm often complains about certain behaviors of the animal. The Landlord forces him to choose between: Bed, shelter, food and work on their property, or the dog owner forces Mr. Paco to choose from: bed, shelter, food and work in his properties, or the female dog.

Twenty years and more than a thousand concerts after, The Monkey Rumbers split up. They haven´t been able to make a living with music, and their relationships, illusions and needs are not the same they used to be. The night of the last concert, in the audience, there´s someone special.

Where would you go if you could go anywhere? Nowhereland it's a trip through the imagination of a young couple who dreams to escape and share their privacy far away from the world that they are living.

Between pain and nothingness, I chose pain... Andrés suffers chronic pain. It's difficult to get used to, but never is too late to restart. Everything starts one night, during a walk.

Petanque, parchisi and preventing exercises end for Aurelio when his friends begin to disappear under strange circunstances. Something is wrong. They are here.

Does life, perhaps, consist in being in the right place at the right time? Could it consist in interpreting and following the signs?

Claudia has a very special relationship with his daughter Elia. They share a fantasy world that appears when Claudia tells a story to her daughter. In that world, they are Stela and Zina, a queen and a princess expelled from his kingdom.

In 1991, Rate, a man from Orihuela, buys a camera for the first time and starts recording his surroundings. For three months, he relentlessly looks for a real story that hasn't been filmed before. Rate will find out about life's drama through his wild eye.

As the cinemas of the city are closing their doors, the relationship between Leandro and his son Martin is extinguishing. Leandro will try to redeem his past errors on time and bring out all the inner rage that has driven Martin to a grey life, in order to make him recover his imagination, dream again and find a light.

A mother waits awake for her daughter on a Saturday´s night. When she arrives, they will hold a conversation that will lead to an unexpected revelation.

You have to be vigilant. Someone wants to harm you. Spain in 2052 is an abandoned construction site and gunshots echo on empty walls. It is the year 2052, on Earth, in Spain, and the final days of almost everything. The city is a string of abandoned construction sites. Everyday there are fewer people and not all of them are human. A sheep costs four and a half million pesetas and you have to spend a lot of bullets to pay for one.

Diego is decided to marry Sarah. But when he walks out his house with the intention of asking her to marry him, a pigeon shits on his shoulder but, what do a giant pigeon and zombie alien do in this plot?

Javier Gorrigaramendi was the first big who broke Ana´s heart. Sixteen years later he appears. Ana Teenager doesn´t want to open the door. What does Ana Adult want?

Young members of the Arab LGBT community have to live clandestinely. They feel frustrated after the Arab Spring, so will be the moment of a Pink Spring?

The story of a man who has not forgotten his first love, always present in his dreams.

Actress Mary Fornell (Lola Marcelli) has its last performance of Lysistrata. Locked in her dressing room, without letting his character, does not want to pick a prize to deliver the same night. His girlfriend and makeup artist, Silvia (Cuca Escribano), tries to convince her to go to the gala.

Everything can recommend, at any time and who we want. We live in timesin which advertising is fully integrated into our daily routine. Jesus, the Ad Man, our cormorant, is an antihero caught in this game.

Three different worlds coming to an end: a house growing empty, and an elder couple in the last stage of their lives.

Two elderly strangers manage to break the barriers of loneliness and establish a somewhat absurd and surreal dialectic on certain concepts of our welfare state.

Susana and Miguel find a bug in the office... Is it a bug, a spider, a rat, or what is it? What starts as curiosity will take the worst of them.

Noe visits Madrid to have a romantic weekend with Carlos. However, the City has other plans for her.

A poor family on the day of their eviction, reality show allows a live issue its history. But what seemed a dream to save the home becomes a horrible nightmare.

Waiting is a tale of oppositions. Day and night. Passion and lust entwined with pain and heartbreak. The beginning, the end. It's a reflection of different moments within a relationship. The protagonist waits in desperation tormenting her thoughts as the minutes tick by and her partner fails to return.

5 years ago we formed a collective to make films. We stopped being individuals to become lacasinegra. On July 2011, in the midst of the “indignados” movement in Spain, we were invited to spend a few days in Geneva. Being so far away from everything we cared for, and feeling overwhelmed by the situation we were living, we wound up defying ourselves with a titanic, perhaps absurd challenge: To film everything. Absolutely everything. Pas à Genève is the hallucinated tale of what we lived those days.

A group of young people dance and drink at a house. The atmosphere is festive and cheerful. Socialist victory in the general elections of 1982 seems recent. The night is full of euphoria and celebration. The attempt of coup d’etat made in 1981 appears to be quite far away. We could say that in Spain, in 1982, everything was future. However, the future also looks closer at enormous speed, like a black hole that devours everything in its path.

Three days left to the end of the zombies. Mario Sanz, the son of the scientist who is responsible for the zombies creation, has been disappeared for many years. The bombs will destroy the whole world. Only a few humans will survive the holocaust which will start the Afterzombies world. Will Mario be one of them? Afterzombies is a double project consisting of this short film and a webseries of upcoming release.

Waiting for closing time, Carmen and Lola are watching a science-fiction movie in the pub where they work. Lola, the most naïve of the two, fantasizes about how to meet a time traveller and a great idea comes up: they should write a letter to a time traveller! Right now! A while later, the pub door opens and… Will Lola and Carmen discover their future?

Berta, a little girl, wants to know why his brother doesn´t want to play with her anymore and hires the most incredible private couple of detectives imaginable: a plasticine dog called MORTANDO MALONE and a huge 3 meter tall blue tiger called BIG BLUE CAT.

Iris and Jon talk about their past relationships. Iris’ comments on a statement made by Jon steer conversation towards an awkward mood anchored on unstable ground.

You are born, you grow and then you go bowling

Samuel has surprised his girlfriend with a trip to a country house, but she did not make any grace. Discussed. Samuel is about to hit her, but decides to leave the house to breathe. The images of his childhood are mixed with those of his present: the same cottage, the memory of a violent episode...

But is there anything in particular that you don’t like?

After several years of isolation in an underground base, the dweller started to perceive interferences from an unknown outside world. Images sipped in as damp patches. Minutes stopped. And repeated themselves, continuously, to reach the same point again.

1860, John an ex-gunman tortured by his past, lives apart from society along with his son, trying to keep him apart from the violent world that grows around them. But his past is searching for him and it will not rest until hunt him and settle an old debt.

A homeless man and his girlfriend, who has been abducted by aliens, are the protagonists of this science fiction story that reminds us of the importance of faith to get overcome obstacles.

A child with a perfect life suffers a repetitive nightmare where he can´t recognize neither his parents nor his own life.

Rubén leaves Ana on Christmas Day. Joyfull Christmas Carrolls sound while he picks up his stuff and confess a few nasty things that he did. But still something left, a christmas present that Ana can´t even imagine.

The clock rings but our man is already awake and smiling. At his near eighty, he suits up, takes a chair, table, dishes, wine and flowers…. And starts a long way to go to his date.

FEMEI is a short documentary which investigates how these new European women see the world and themselves. Through the use of testimonials from women representing different age groups and social classes, we are allowed a glimpse into their daily struggles and their hopes and expectations for the future.

The dead men get up of his tombs.The whole city runs to entrenching All? Not, all not. A lady smiles in his house and takes his car to the cemetery …