Young Eva makes her decision to stay in Madrid for the month of August an act of faith. She needs to feel things differently and think of summer as a time of opportunity. On days of festivities and verbenas, while events and encounters take place, Eva will discover that she still has time, that an opportunity can still be given.
Carmen is a gypsy teenager, destined to live a life that is repeated every generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. But one day she meets Lola, an uncommon gypsy who dreams about going to university, does graffiti and is very different. Carmen quickly develops a complicity with Lola and discovers a world that, inevitably, leads them to be rejected by their families.
In a militarized, post-apocalyptic world, ravaged by an infection that turns people into beasts, one child defies all obstacles to find his mother. He has one question to ask in the midst of all this doom: does she still remember him?
A conversation about the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) and his perdurance in contemporary Spanish cinema.
It's summer. A girl goes into the sea, looks back and smiles at her friend, who is recording an Instagram story. On the same beach, a fully clothed woman looks around not knowing what to do and decides to leave. A webcam records her movements. This is a film that, through personal stories, delves into the issues of self-perception, fear and the relationship with our body.
About an androgynous preteen boy, who sits while peeing and has fantasies about aliens with his deformed and badly handicapped teenage neighbor, while his macho brother rapes her, playing Mario Bro's.
Alicia wants to record her father's birthday. The camcorder inadvertently catches him crying, and in anger, he tears up the videotape. By destroying it, he disappears from reality. Alicia, her sister, and her mother have to cooperate by reconstructing the tape to bring him back, exposing a major wound in their relationship.
Emilio is a dull guy with a dull life. He only enjoys doing monologues as an amateur comedian on the stage of the same place where he started some time ago. But, at 40 years old, his dream of making it as a comedian has not come true. Unlike Carla, who is a famous comedian with her own TV show. One night, Emilio paints Carla some mustaches on one of the posters advertising her show. A few nights later, Carla shows up at the place where Emilio is performing.
Lucas comes home for Easter. As every year, the celebration takes place around the throne of the Magdalena, patron saint of the town, where both blessed and atheists coexist with tradition. Every season a young woman is in charge of dressing the figure, this year's is a complete stranger to him. The girl and the image have a particular relationship, a strange interest grows in Lucas.
A sex doll called Lucy wakes up in the bedroom of a doll brothel. She lives with Mina, another doll. Together they watch TV: their window to the real world. They imagine themselves living far away. After a while, Lucy wants to escape. But Mina doesn’t want to leave. Lucy has to choose between freedom and the doll she is in love with.
Laura meets Carlos at a party. They dance, drink and have fun on a night that will be hard to forget.
A boy and a girl who have just met transport a corpse on request to the north of Mexico. When the police discover them at a routine check, they are forced to flee. Forced to team up, they will abandon their secrecy and mistrust while trying to assert his only heritage: a dead man who they only know is worth money if they manage to take him to his destination.
