A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.
Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.
Ane is in her mid-forties and delighted when a stunning bouquet of flowers is delivered to her home. But the site manager has no idea who to thank – one thing is for sure; her jealous husband, Ander, is not the unknown cavalier. As these gallantries increase, always on a Thursday and always with an anonymous sender, Ane’s life takes on a new direction. The life of Lourdes is also sent into turmoil by beautiful bouquets of flowers: Since the death of her husband in a traffic accident, flowers have been deposited regularly at the scene. Lourdes’ mother-in-law, Tere, is determined to get to the bottom of the anonymous flowers. Jon Garaño and José Mari Goenaga’s feature film debut pays charming homage to three headstrong women and the power of flowers.
Enric Marco, a Spanish trade unionist, claims to be a survivor of Nazi concentration camps.
Axun, a 70 year old woman, is called from the hospital to take care of her daughter's ex-husband, who was seriously injured in a car accident. To her surprise, the woman who takes care of the other patient in the same hospital room turns out to be Maite, her best friend when teenagers. They have not seen each other for more than 50 years. The hospital visits will show that the close relationship they had when teenagers is still alive. Their relationship was very special fifty years ago but nowadays the same feelings flourish. Where is the thin line that separates friendship from desire?
Often, when Miren goes to order her coffee, someone jumps the queue. But the day she realises that a blouse has been stolen from her shop she decides to put her foot down.
Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian.
It is not a question of long conversations. It is not a question of living together for years. Sometimes, in a place where people pass each other by, in a matter of minutes you can find yourself connecting with someone else.
A woman entrusts her belongings to a stranger while she goes into the sea to take a swim. But when she comes out again, the stranger has disappeared, taking everything with him, including the keys to her house.
There are plenty of anarchists in the world. Many have committed robbery or smuggling for their cause. Fewer have discussed strategies with Che Guevara or saved the skin of Eldridge Cleaver, the leader of the Black Panthers. There is only one who has done all that, and also brought to its knees the most powerful bank on the planet by forging travellers cheques, without missing a single day of work in his construction job. He is Lucio Urtubia, from a tiny village in Navarra in North of Spain. Lucio, 75, now lives in Paris, still raising anarchist hell.
Mentxu and Lourdes Arrieta cannot speak. They cannot control their muscles. Two sisters born with a congenital disorder, labeled "retarded" or "lost" even by those who loved them, with no way to communicate, created a unique language for themselves.
Father lost his wedding ring in the ocean once. Like all the sailors, he’d take it from his finger to put on a neck chain, not to lose the finger as the net went out.
Years after their break-up, Tanya and Josean meet again at a conference on renewable energy. She has a lot to tell him...
In the outskirts of Caracas, in Petare, one of most violents hoods in South America, a woman teaches with "el método Julio" writing and reading.
The Dragon House portrays the confrontation between tradition and modernity which the Kingdom of Bhutan is currently experiencing. This is done by means of two Bhutanese characters: a young Buddhist monk, heir to the local tradition, and the first disc jockey to dare to play House and Techno music in the small Himalayan kingdom.
After a period of time without seeing his mother, Anjel Mari decides to bite the bullet and go and visit her at the nursing home to which she has been admitted. He doesn’t like seeing how his mother has disappeared under the skin of a senile old woman who does not recognise her own children.
An ordinary Saturday in the South of California. Adam, a lower middle class North-American man, sees off his wife and children to carry out his weekly task.
Inaxio Perurena is a young stone-lifter who aims to achieve his most important record: lift the 300 kilos stone. His father, the legendary Iñaki Perurena, was the first man lifting that stone in 1987.
Sent to work, sent to earn a living. This is the reality millions of children must face in Africa nowadays, in spite of their extreme youth.
Ekaitz and Roman meet in a hostel during their holidays and promise a lifetime friendship. But something goes wrong. Either their life is too long, or their promise too weak... but now they will have to come to terms with it.
