Fernando Tielve

It is 1939, the end of three years of bloody civil war in Spain, and General Franco's right-wing Nationalists are poised to defeat the left-wing Republican forces. A ten-year-old boy named Carlos (Fernando Tielve), the son of a fallen Republican war hero, is left by his tutor in an orphanage in the middle of nowhere. The orphanage is run by a curt but considerate headmistress named Carmen (Marisa Paredes) and a kindly Professor Casares, both of whom are sympathetic to the doomed Republican cause. (imdb)

Set in Argentina during the corrupt military dictatorship of the 1970's, this is the story of a man (Banderas) searching for his wife (Thompson), an outspoken journalist, and his daughter who are among the 30,000 "desaparecidos" (the disappeareds). (Arenas Entertainment)

In 1944 fascist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the center of the labyrinth. He tells her she's a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks. If she fails, she will never prove herself to be the the true princess and will never see her real father, the king, again. (imdb)

Competing at Sundance in January 2009, Dos Santos' second feature film after his debut Glue is a visually striking, bittersweet story of love, loss, identity, sex and friendship set in cosmopolitan East London. Twenty-year-old naïve Spanish Axl comes to London to find his father who had abandoned him as a child. But instead, he finds there an underground squat, or communal dwelling, filled with an assortment of colourful, multi-cultural, free spirited characters... (iiksv.org)

A romantic thriller about a construction worker in hiding for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend works as a maid.

A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old girl. In the neighbourhood an old freedom-fighter pits himself against bad types, a pretty cinema-ticket girl takes to the streets at night and a young anarchist dedicates himself to telling tall stories. Far away, in Shanghai, a hero of the Republic meets a beautiful femme fatal with oriental eyes. Reality and fiction become fused in an embrace. (imdb)

ADRIÁN and ANDREA have been linked from the very moment they were born. A weird optical deformity makes them see the world in an incomplete but complementary way. They both know of each other's existence, since they are treated by the same ophthalmologist, SOPHIE, and have been fantasying from their early days about finding "their other half". (imdb)

Lose Your Head is a psycho thriller about a Spanish party tourist who gets lost in Berlin. The film is inspired by the true story of a young Portuguese man who disappeared some years ago after a night at Berghain (imdb)

Eryka travels to Spain from the African Sahrawi refugee camps where she has been shooting a documentary. On arriving she discovers that her boyfriend, Marc, has vanished hang-gliding over the ocean. She meets David, her boyfriend's roommate and archaeologist co-worker. As they search the coastal area a taboo but intense attraction develops - until Marc reappears, convincing Eryka that she has just woken up from a recurring post-trauma nightmare. (imdb)