David Trueba

The story of Cuban refugees who risked their lives in homemade rafts to reach the United States, and what life is like for those who succeed.

Carolo and Benito are two losers with a loose screw who share their passion for cinema. They've written a script for Benito to direct and Carolo to act, but they also need a leading actress so they approach their muse, Amanda Castro, a famous star whose career is starting to go downhill because of her drug problems and bitter character. She takes them for whackos (which indeed they are a bit) and refuses to listen to them... (imdb)

A novelist who has abandoned her writing career tracks down the details of a true story from the last days of the Spanish Civil War. The writer and Falangist Rafael S. Mazas faced a firing squad along with other prisoners, but managed to escape into the woods. A Republican soldier found him but allowed him to escape. The novelist pieces together the fragments of the story and comes to realise that her search for the truth is a personal quest of self-discovery.

On a hot summer day in Madrid during a significant year of social and political transition in Spain, Miguel, a revered older journalist, meets with a beautiful young student, Ángela, in a café. She wants to interview him for a project. He, with sexual intentions, suggests they go to his friend's studio nearby. Somehow they end up locked in a bathroom together, naked, with no rescue in sight. (sundance.org)

This humorous movie charts the life of a 14 year old (Tristan) as he deals with some major issues in his life (Written by (imdb)

An interview with Fernando Fernán Gómez.

Spain, 1966, a high-school English/Latin teacher, Antonio, drives to Almeria in hopes of meeting his hero, John Lennon. Along the way, Antonio picks up two runaways. The movie title, Living is Easy With Eyes Closed, comes from a line in Lennon's song Strawberry Fields Forever which he wrote while filming How I Won the War in Almeria. (imdb)

Samuel and Eva, a young couple, move to Madrid when he finds out work in a newspaper as photograph. She plays the viola, and although Samuel doesn't knows, She's waiting for a baby. (IDMB)

The story of Colombian professor, activist and politician Héctor Abad Gómez, told from the perspective of his son Héctor Abad Faciolince.

This drama about immigration into Europe is set in the city of Melilla, a Spanish possession in Africa on the border with Morocco.

At the end of the 60s, Eugenio is a young jeweler who falls in love with Conchita, creating a musical duet. When she leaves music, he starts as a comedian and becomes one of the greatest comedians in Spain. (imdb)

Alberto lives with his parents and his brother Roberto. Alberto is a romantic guy, and doesn't find a girl for his own. He knew he was in love as soon as he saw Maria. His brother told him he would help with her, but things get difficult when Roberto also likes Maria.