Campaigning in Barcelona: political activist Ada is the left party’s top candidate and must learn to be glib and authentic at the same time. A balancing act and strenuous effort full of suspense and drive.
A vivid, beautiful and hauntingly animated documentary by and about five women. Their own physicality and a multi-perspective view of femininity play the main roles.
The choreographed glorification of the past by a group of former Foreign Legionnaires in Catalonia who neatly dig their own hole with their talk.
A father, a son, a fishing boat and the polluted coast off Barcelona. The death of a tradition and the disease of civilisation. A short novel with charisma.
A film about football, but without players or a ball! Father and son, estranged for 20 years, experience the World Cup in São Paulo together: two opponents, counterattacks, passes. Beautifully batty.
Slaughtering, ploughing, harvesting grapes and searching for illegal marihuana plants in the cornfield. Being a farmer in Castile: doggedly traditional in the crisis – a warm-hearted observation.
The last will of a fisherman who couldn’t go to sea any more and founded a maritime museum … The old man and the sea.
The sea and its dangers and temptations forms the background of reflection for a poem by Robert Hayward Barlow, contrasting the gay swinging society of the 1920s and 30s with the sad and dark beauty of a nocturnal walk by the water.
The touching portrait of two adolescents in Mexico. At the height of puberty they are forced to replace their parents for their younger siblings while their mother is in prison.
Who is Renata? A charismatic woman behind bars, the femme fatale of a film noir? A lesson about the limits of the depictability of human nature and its secrets.
A house in Budapest, old Mr. István, Mrs.Magdi, who is no spring chicken either, and a touch of farewell.
A winter landscape in Spain, hunters are crossing the field, bare shrubs stand out against the sky. In her atmospheric animation Isabel Herguera gathers a dreamy company of humans and animals around the table, set to the melancholy sound of a guitar.
