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.
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.
A conversation about the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) and his perdurance in contemporary Spanish cinema.
When time seems suspended, young people meet in the forest
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?
On the periphery, the city's waste accumulates to form illegal dumps. In these, a new kind of life has emerged. It hides from the lights of humans, but the city reclaims what is its own. It advances and changes everything in its path. In its flight, the shadows remain in time. The thresholds persist. Gentrification, the death of one city and the rebirth of another.
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.
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.
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.
Before going away to live in Barcelona, Jorge spends his last night with his three best friends in a forest near the town. When everything seems to indicate that it was a bad idea, something happens that none of them could have dreamt of: three older girls are sunbathing half-naked on the other side of the river.
When 10-year-old Nemo's mother suddenly dies, the boy is forced to go live with his maternal uncle's family. They are cordial and treat him well, but his 12-year-old cousin, Iván, begins to tease and tell him stories about the Bogeyman and how he'll come and get him if he doesn't behave. At first young Nemo doesn't believe the stories, insisting that Iván is just making things up...
Election night. Aimar, leader of the left-wing Basque nationalist movement, returns home more tired than ever. Itziar awaits him, exhausted. At the entrance, the remnants of a protest by the radical youth of their own party. Aimar has to make a decision: Does he want to continue dedicating his life to the nationalist cause, even in the worst of times?
Madrid, 2021. The parks are empty. There are regional elections. And final exams. Meanwhile, Pedro, Kiko and Jesús agree to star in a movie.
Ramon takes care of the cemetery. He spends his life among those who have none. His routine is disrupted when he meets Sole, the florist who has come to take charge of the stand on All Saints' Day. With the excuse of buying flowers, Ramón comes again and again to see her, without realizing that something is changing in the cemetery and also in him.
It's a journey in a dead place, the need of finding a home. Get trough the grief to understand it.
Marina finds herself on the previous days of her last piano concert that will change her life forever, continuing her studies in Germany, far away from her actual life. However, what nobody sees, blinded by the scholarship, is that the preassure is killing her and that it will drive her where to what a 17-year-old shouldn’t go.
For some time now, Inma has felt something strange when she is with Manuel, when she sees him open a beer, when he picks up his guitar, when a song plays... One given night, Inma thinks about changing this situation when she looks back. Remembering the moment in which he met Manuel and wanted to be by his side.
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.
Laura meets Carlos at a party. They dance, drink and have fun on a night that will be hard to forget.
In an undefined location, in a indeterminate time, Guzmán, his sentence completed, starts his shift in a gas station. Every night is a repeat of the previous nights, where he begins a succession of routine motions, tasks and habits. And every night, lost women stop at his gas station to ask him for help. Just help? Guzmán will be the one who, much to his regret, enables them to carry on their way to their fates, until his change of shift comes along. Or until he himself says that he cannot take any more.
