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The House of the Spirits

  The House of the Spirits is a hauntingly romantic epic tale spanning three generations of the Trueba family. At its core is the stormy yet passionate relationship between the Read More

Pascual Duarte

  The first-person narrator-protagonist Pascual Duarte, while awaiting execution in the condemned cell, tells the story of his family life and his homicidal past, culminating in matricide. He claims, amongst Read More

Grandes Personajes a Fondo

  Grandes Personajes a Fondo: Carmen Martín Gaite, Jesús Fernández Santos is a video recording of interviews given to two well-known authors representative of the “fifties generation” in Spain:  Carmen Read More

Soldiers of Salamina

  When the professor and writer Lola Sánchez is assigned to write a column in the newspaper about the Spanish Civil War, she researches and finds for the first time Read More

Under the Same Moon

  Under The Same Moon (La Misma Luna) tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Read More

Talk to Her

  After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco’s girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has Read More

Spain in a Day

  Based on the concept of the film Life in a Day, directed by Kevin Macdonald and produced by Ridley Scott, Spain in a Day brings to life the history Read More

Play

  As Chilean writer-director Alicia Scherson’s debut feature, the psychodrama Play explores the ramifications of an infatuation that threatens to erupt into full-blown obsession. It unfolds in Santiago, Chile, where Read More

The Death of Pinochet

  On December 10, 2006, General Pinochet dies unexpectedly in Santiago’s Military Hospital. For 24 hours, his death reawakens the political divisions that marked Chile’s recent history with death and Read More

Romelia’s Secret

  An elderly woman (Romelia), her daughter and her grandchildren take a few days on holiday to visit a small town outside the city. The town makes Romelia melancholy and Read More