Candela Peña

A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his 17th birthday as he runs to seek an actress's autograph. She goes to Barcelona to find the lad's father, a transvestite named Lola who does not know he has a child. First she finds her friend, Agrado, also a transvestite; through him she meets Rosa, a young nun bound for El Salvador, and by happenstance, becomes the personal assistant of Huma Rojo, the actress her son admired... (imdb)

In Franco's puritanical Spain of 1973, a struggling encyclopedia salesman named Alfredo and his wife Carmen change their fortunes overnight when they agree to make their own Super 8 erotic 'educational' films to be sold in Scandinavia. (First Run Features)

Take My Eyes tackles the difficult subject of domestic violence, but like "Days of Wine and Roses" and "Drugstore Cowboy," it broadens (and never dilutes) its cautionary tale with humor, lyricism, and a shattered love story. (New Yorker Films)

Director and screenwriter Fernando León de Aranoa gives us a moving yet sobering tale of two young prostitutes in Madrid. (IFC Films)

Tito is an unemployed actor that spend hits days acting in his brother's bar, waiting for his opportunity; meanwhile, his wife teaches in an illegal vegetarian cook school and his mother, very possessive, tries to protect him from his wife (typical mother-in-law). One day, arrives to the bar a very well-known (but drug-addict) cinema director, that watches Tito and decides to use him in his next film. (imdb)

An ETA member is preparing a terrorist attack when he meets a girl and his priorities shift.

The young nobleman Calisto falls in love with Melibea, the daughter of a rich merchant. Calisto's servant Sempronio suggests they get the sorceress Celestina to further the romance. However Calisto's other servant Parmeno is suspicious of Celestina, as he knows about her tricks. After Celestina convinces Melibea of Calisto's love and arranges a brief clandestine meeting between them, Calisto gives Celestina a valuable chain of gold...

In Madrid, a petty thief who cannot adjust to life outside of jail puts together a theater troupe her friends -- a prostitute, a gypsy, and a Colombian immigrant -- in an attempt to make a go at a relatively straight life.

A screenplay based on a real love story falls casually in the hands of Elizabeth, a teacher of interpretation. (Filmaffinity)

A couple reunites after 5 years of not seeing each other and after going through some tragic incidents in their past in their lives. She stayed in Spain while he moved to Germany. Two ways of facing the current economic crisis: she preferred the idealism of staying and struggling to change the situation, and he left everything behind, a more lucid and logical point of view. When they both feel that the past is no longer important, it suddenly comes back. (mubi.com)

Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain. Making stop in Madrid they search for inducement, work and independence. (Volker Boehm)

Through five stories, the movie addresses sex and love: Paco and Ana are a marriage looking for reactivate the passion of their sexual relations, long time unsatisfied; Jose Luis tries to recover the affections of his wife Paloma, sit down on a wheelchair after an accident which has limited her mobility; Mª Candelaria and Antonio are a marriage trying by all way to be parents, but she has the trouble that no get an orgasm when make love with him; Álex try to satisfy Natalia's fantasies, while (imdb)

Regardless of whether we choose so or not, our physical bodies determine how we relate to society. "Skins" tells the story of people with such extreme deformities that they are forced to either shut themselves away from society, or band together for survival. They struggle to find their place in a society that only understands normal physical forms, a society that excludes and that mistreats the different. (adapted from eduardocasanova.es)

Luci, Mari and Graci are sisters. They form a comic animation group called "Las tres Gracias". This film relates the special relation each one has with men.

In El Hierro, the most remote island of the Canary Archipelago, a murder has occurred. Candela, an experienced judge with a strong character, must instruct the case as she takes up her position in a destination where she doesn't fit in. The island, an abrupt and changing landscape, is the home of a small community with singular traditions, where nobody enters or leaves unnoticed and where secrets are hard to keep. The murderer is surely one of the islanders. (...) (imdb)

Carlos is a businessman who gets a request to intercede on behalf a US engineer in the oil industry who's been kidnapped. (imdb)

Rosa is about to turn 45 and realises that she's always lived her life to serve everyone else. So she decides to leave it all behind and take charge of her life and fulfil her dream of starting her own business. (imdb)

After two parents report that their 12-year-old daughter Asunta is missing, the investigation soon turns against them. Inspired by true events. (imdb)

The coming-of-age story of a town boy in search of his own identity. (imdb)