Fernando Trueba

After 15 years together, Ale and Alex choose an unconventional way to part ways: by hosting a party to celebrate their separation. Their unexpected decision leaves friends and family confused, forcing everyone to confront their own views on love, relationships, and new beginnings in this bittersweet, heartfelt story.

A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant.

In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country are projected. From that event, the Spanish actor Antonio Resines intends to compile a series of anecdotes to shape the amazing history of Spanish cinema, holding several conversations with prominent figures of the Spanish film industry.

A documentary on Venezuelan filmmaker Margot Benacerraf, who won the Cannes International Critics Prize with her movie Araya in 1959.

Enrique Morente's three sons tell the story of their father: the most revolutionary flamenco in history. Despite criticism from purists, he opened cante jondo to cultured poetry, brought it closer to young university students, explored its Arab roots and paired it with rock and other contemporary sounds. Much of the Spanish music of the last decades is heir to his findings.

Why are we still able, today, to view images that were captured over 125 years ago? As we enter the digital age, audiovisual heritage seems to be a sure and obvious fact. However, much of cinema and our filmed history has been lost forever. Archivists, technicians and filmmakers from different parts of the world explain what audiovisual preservation is and why it is necessary. The documentary is a tribute to all these professionals and their important work.

Winner of the Silver Shell for Best Director for his debut film, Del rosa... al amarillo, Manolo Summers was the great revelation of Spanish cinema. Over time, he became a very popular figure, while criticism of him intensified. Now we will get to know his personality through his own words, as well as what his films tell us about him. And with the help of film critics, directors, professionals, and his family, we will discover Summers the rebel.

In a new land where everyone receives a new name and begins again without a past, Simón takes responsibility for David, a child he met on the crossing to a new life. Driven by an inexplicable conviction, he sets out to find the boy’s mother despite the fact David remembers nothing about her. When he recognizes Inés as the right woman, she accepts the role and an unlikely bond forms between them. While society imposes rules and treats difference as a threat, David resists being shaped and stands for imagination and freedom.

How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has little to do with his own? Since to understand the secrets of an artist it is essential to know the person behind, his family, his friends, his collaborators, as well as prestigious filmmakers and actors trace a collective portrait of a creator as singular as he is universal.

Documentary film about visual effects master Emilio Ruiz del Rio. From his early works on films at 1942, to his last contribution at 2007, Emilio Ruiz talks on his film experiences and traditional trickery, using foreground miniatures, glass shots, and painted cut out miniatures. It shows interviews with some of the professionals he has worked with, like, Rafaela de Laurentiis, Ray Harryhausen, Guillermo del Toro, or Enzo Castellari

A conversation about the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) and his perdurance in contemporary Spanish cinema.

A woman journalist, Zoe, knows better than to go into a story with her mind already made up. But that's exactly what she does when she heads off to Spain to write about its men and their macho take (as she sees it) on relationships. As she tries to prove her thesis, she soon realizes that she doesn't know as much about the male sex as she thought. She also finds herself involved in relationships with the wrong men.

A portrait of film critic Carlos Boyero, one of the most followed and feared figures in Spanish cinema, surrounded by controversy and both love and hate.

The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant artist in her own right.

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Reflections on Spanish cinema, based on seventy interviews with prominent filmmakers, analyzing their work and addressing their views on various general topics such as the industry and the evolution of Spanish cinema, as well as current issues such as the arrival of digital platforms.

Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. His close friends and relatives reveal another facet in which he stood out above all: that of being an excellent conversationalist, capable of hypnotizing and seducing those who listened to him.

Javier Mariscal’s life and work offer a portrait of an entire era: from Franco’s Spain and the transition to democracy to underground comics, the design boom, the digital revolution and economic crisis. Above all, it is the story of a man who conquered the world and lost everything to find himself again. We explore his most iconic works, from his earliest drawings to celebrated collaborations with Nazario, Almodóvar, Barceló and Trueba. We discover his unique lifestyle, personal philosophy and unfiltered thoughts. After more than 50 years in the business, Mariscal still speaks his mind. With nothing to lose, having gone broke several times, he has plenty to say. Through the voices of his siblings, children, former partners, friends and colleagues, we uncover his most intimate, eccentric, wild, adventurous and free-spirited side.

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A look at the Aragonese countryside, star of the movie screen, accompanied by various trades of cinema.