Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military actions during World War II. In 1947 he was judged and imprisoned, but he escaped less than a year later and found a safe haven in Spain, ruled with an iron hand by General Francisco Franco. What did he do during the many years he spent there?
Inspired by the music and life of Robert Wyatt, “Rock Bottom” is a self-destructive love story between Bob and Alif, a young couple of artists immersed in the creative whirlwind of the early 70s hippie culture. Drugs will turn a passionate summer into a nightmare in a journey through the themes of Wyatt’s music: the euphoria and anguish of artistic creation, the unconscious fascination with drugs, the disenchantment with routine and physical and mental degradation.
The surprising story of Sexy Sadie, a successful English-language Spanish pop-rock band formed in Mallorca in 1992 and disbanded in 2006.
Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The workers of Cine Ciutat, a cooperative cinema that screens auteur films in original version, struggle to keep the business open, despite their own psychological exhaustion, economic difficulties, lack of spectators and aging equipment.
An artist goes beyond the current rush we live in and paints a five hundred square meters wall painting that will inspire a creatively blocked songwriter. A short film that claims the synergetic power of art and culture.
The human being feels generally as fascinated as fearful before death and the inevitable fact of dying. Workers at the cemetery of Palma de Mallorca, in Spain, face this harsh reality every day, so they have found a way to deal with it.
Mila, an eleven-year-old girl, faces her last days of life before the end of the world. At the same time, she struggles to understand what this means and to keep her family together by holding a party for the final moment.
The chronicle of the process, ten long years, that led to the end of ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna), a Basque terrorist gang that perpetrated robberies, kidnappings and murders in Spain and the French Basque Country for more than fifty years. Almost 1,000 people died, but others are still alive to tell the story of how the nightmare finally ended.
An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: his Spanish origin on the isle of Menorca, his childhood in Algiers, his literary career and his constant struggle against the pomposity of French bourgeois intellectuals, his communist commitment, his love for Spain and his opposition to the independence of Algeria, since it would cause the loss of his true home, his definitive estrangement.
In 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono embark on a search for a girl named Kyoko. On April 23rd, they are arrested by the police at a hotel in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
The turbulent story of the Lagun bookstore — located in San Sebastián, in the Basque Country, Spain — is a powerful tale of courage, resistance and struggle; first against the Franco dictatorship, then against the terrorist gang ETA and its numerous and sinister acolytes.
At noon on July 30, 2009, a bomb explodes in a Civil Guard car near the port of the island of Mallorca, killing two agents. The police activate the so-called "Operation Cage": no means of transport can enter or leave the island, including private vessels.
Ben has been training hard for a year in order to participate in an important competition.
Palma, 1999. A widowed and retired man lives an unexpected second youth when he discovers the universe of anonymity offered by Internet chat rooms. With the nickname MOIX and with a personal reality manipulated for convenience, he establishes contact with a young netizen named SUCRE, with whom he will begin a relationship based on less and less innocent conversations. Soon after, expectations take over MOIX and desire transcends his virtual personality: he and SUCRE have fallen in love.
Three friends go to Mallorca for a few days of vacation, but the trip, which promised party and fun, ends up becoming their worst nightmare.
One night in New York, a young Woody Allen meets an old Woody Allen having a drink in a bar. Briefly amazed by this impossible situation, they immediately begin to talk about love, sex, religion and death.
The emotional journey of Margalida Bover, who was the lover of the anarchist militant Salvador Puig Antich, convicted of murder and executed by Franco's regime in 1974.
Andrés, a civil servant living with his invalid mother, feels isolated from his workmates due to a walking disability. His hapiness lies in plotting a sinister scheme.
June, 1816. A French navy frigate ran aground on a sandbar off the coast of Senegal. Attempts to free the board were futile - the crew had no choice but to abandon ship. Since the available boats were not enough to accommodate the entire crew, the team built a raft. It accommodated 147 people: soldiers, sailors, several passengers and officers. The plan was for the boats to tow the raft. But the cable broke and the raft drifted into the open sea. For those who were on the raft, a harsh and cruel struggle for life began.
