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El Cid

  Spain is overrun by the Moors and the country’s only hope rests in a heroic knight known as El Cid (Charlton Heston). He knows a divided Spain cannot stand Read More

Volver

  Raimunda, her daughter Paula and her sister Sole travel from Madrid to the windy and superstitious village of Alcanfor de las Infantas to visit the grave of their mother Read More

The Official Story

  Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez is a high school history professor and a well-to-do housewife in Buenos Aires, circa 1983, after the fall of the “junta militar” that had taken Read More

Perder es cuestión de método

  When a dead body is found close to Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, journalist Victor Silampa rushes to the scene. By his side is Emir Estupiñan, who eagerly abandons his dull Read More

Pedro Páramo

  A rancher comes to Comala looking for his father, because on her deathbed his mother asked him to avenge her complete abandonment.  Highly symbolic and allegorical, this drama takes Read More

What the Eye Doesn’t See

  The film ties six stories during the days when the “vladivideos” (tapes where Vladimiro Montesinos, the Peruvian’s president councellor, is recorded while he was buying opposite politics) have appeared Read More

Nine Queens

  Early one morning, Marcos observes Juan successfully pulling off a bill-changing scam on a cashier, and then getting caught as he attempts to pull the same trick on the Read More

Nostalgia for the Light

  A documentary about two different searches conducted in the Chilean Atacama Desert: one by astronomers looking for answers about the history of the cosmos, and one by women looking Read More

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

  Pepas’s lover, Iván, leaves her and she tries to contact him to find out why he’s left. In her search for Iván, she confronts his wife and son, who Read More

The Clan

  The Puccios…? A model family! They are few, those that could match them. The father? A dignified man, (honest) storekeeper by trade, who cares about his five children, going Read More