Raúl Arévalo

Examines the feeling of entrapment that arises when needs and desires are subjugated to family obligations. It is also an astute exploration of generational politics in Spain, where the young are generally expected to carry on traditions and values. (torontointernationalfilmfestival.ca)

Abel is a therapist who works with obese people. Enrique is an actor, spokesman for weight loss products who loses his job now that he is fat again; he is also wrestling with his sexuality when he begins dating Pilar, the wife of his business partner, after identifying as gay most of his life. Sofia is engaged to Alex, a committed Christian who ignores her sexual needs. She is able to awaken her fiancée's libido, when she begins losing weight she finds he's most attracted to heavy women...

Angela and her young son Guille travel to the big city to see Leo, her father and the boy's grandfather, just to discover that he has just passed away. Charo, his lover, explains the problems suffered by the paternal business: a hall with seven billiard tables. Charo thinks the only way to pay off the debts is to sell it. But Angela decides to put her savings into getting the old place and its seven tables back up on its feet. (imdb)

Filmmaker Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal) travels to Bolivia to shoot a film about the Spanish conquest of America. He and his crew arrive during the tense time of the Cochabamba water crisis. The lines between past and present, fiction and film, become increasingly blurred... (Wikipedia)

In the last years of Franco's dictatorship, two clowns (Carlos Areces and Antonio de la Torre) fight for the love of an attractive trapecist (Carolina Bang).

Ourense, Spain, 1940. Every time that Elena locks the door, she locks her secrets. Her husband Ricardo spend years hidden in his house with his children (Elenita and Lorenzo), trying to dodge persecution. Salvador, a priest confused after battling in the front, returns to seminary in Ourense (imdb)

Diego's fiancée dumped him five days before their planned wedding. What's a guy to do? Show up at the church anyway, hoping she'll change her mind in the last minute? Get wasted and bitch about how much life sucks? Try to win back his first love? All the above? (mubi.com)

A teacher with paranormal abilities helps a group of ghosts graduate high school. (imdb)

8 different moments of relationships using 8 different couples and stories.

When it appears as though the end is in sight, the pilots, flight crew, and passengers of a plane heading to Mexico City look to forget the anguish of the moment and face the greatest danger, which we carry within ourselves. (imdb)

Ever since Venus and Serena Williams started playing in tennis tournaments, they've provoked strong reactions - from awe and admiration to suspicion and resentment. They've been winning championships for over a decade, pushing the limits of longevity in such a demanding sport. How long can they last?

Shot with no budget and camera in hand, "People in places" is a "kaleidoscopic narrative" that runs the comedy, the drama, the social story, horror and surrealism with the common denominator of "irreducible poetry of the human condition against the onslaught of the bizarre and chaotic ".

The Spanish deep South, 1980. Two adolescent sisters dissapear in a remote and forgotten town in the marshland. Two detectives, with deep divisions in their ideology and ways, came to investigate the case. Detectives Juan and Pedro must put aside their differences if they are to successfully discover what happened to them and what else is happening in the town where more girls have dissapear, apparently following something better out of that town.

John is an actor who went to New York to succeed. Years have passed, has not achieved the success they expected, and now life working on what you can earn. One day he comes to visit his cousin, apparently an achiever who has 'everything that one expects to have.'

Manu Aranguren (Ramón Barea) is a Basque politician who is the contact person from the Spanish government in the delicate negotiations with terrorist group ETA. But the dialog, far from a professional and solemn process, is strongly influenced by misunderstandings, errors and chance. Only the personal relationships of the negotiators can save it to get a positive outcome. (snacho)

This is a mad satire about five individuals living in a mental institution. While inside, they come up with a plan to save the global economy and at the same time punish those responsible. The first step is to get out of the institution and on the yacht of the bank president. (Fanny)

Twenty interrelated stories about words and communication that take place in Madrid.

A group of thieves led by El Uruguayo is set to rob a bank in Valencia. Their purpose is to steal as many safety boxes as possible and then flee through a dug tunnel that communicates the building with an abandoned subway station. However, the press officer of the Prime Minister discovers what they are actually after: it's the box 314, where Gonzalo Soriano, a former member of the government who slipped into a coma after a severe accident, left documents with compromising information. (imdb)

A rural couple in crisis, who have a brother and sister with urban problems, and all of them trying to find a solution. (imdb)

A hilarious musical where a family who seems ordinary turns out to be highly dysfunctional. Three women from three generations decide to abandon their homes on the same day; a grandmother who has a relation with her daughter's father in-law, a fed up mother who seeks guidance at a new age retreat and a rebellious daughter. To head it all is the family's distressed patriarch who must hire an eccentric detective to bring them back.

Love, ambition, treason and death clash in a neverending search for a city built with gold.

Ten-year-old Nico receives a threatening letter and now his life is in danger. No one seems to believe him except one person that he doesn't know. (imdb)

Arturo is an unscrupulous art dealer and Renzo his socially-awkward painter and longtime friend. Willing to risk it all, they develop an extreme and ludicrous plan to save themselves. (imdb)

A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him. (imdb)

A fictionalized look into the human tragedy of riot police and police brutality in Spain. (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)

A diverse group of people share a night of sexual self-discovery.

David and Layla, two teenagers who really like "Hombres G" and they like each other too, but everything he does to win her over ends badly. Thirty years later they meet again and realize that the feelings have not completely disappeared. (imdb)

Santo is a drug dealer whose face has never been revealed. Two policemen who go after him, Millán and Cardona, radically opposed, will have to learn to collaborate to solve the case and keep their lives safe. (imdb)

Martha's strained relationship with her mother fractures completely when a misunderstanding drives them apart. Their mutual friend Ingrid sees both sides of the rift. (imdb)

As a result of the financial crisis, a number of displaced families take up permanent residence at a vacation campground north of Madrid. (imdb)