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The Prologue will transport the viewer to a spring night in Madrid at the end of 1929. Manolo, a somewhat cantankerous detective, comes home after a hard day of work. The night seems to pass like any other until Manolo crosses with a puppy, Paquita. At first, the detective does not seem very interested in making a new friend ... but soon he will change his mind and accept Paquita at home.
Melita is a human journey to find a new home, but also an inner journey to find out what does it mean to be human. In 2026, the world is collapsing due to climate change. Anaaya, an Inuit brilliant female scientist, is appointed to find a planet that humans can inhabit. Melita, an advanced AI, is sent to help her on the task. Together, they will embark on a journey against time and preconceptions to save humanity from extinction.
It has been three years since the catastrophic events at the Jurassic World theme park. Dinosaurs have overtaken the turbulent Isla Nublar, but the threat of a natural disaster erupting looms eerily over the island. Follow Blue, a highly intelligent Velociraptor, on her quest for survival, as she scours for food and water, searches for signs of life, and fights against some of the island’s most threatening predators and the foreseeable destruction of Isla Nublar. Experience your connection to her extraordinary sensorial abilities and awareness, and become part of her journey as she faces threats of epic proportions.
The story of Henry, a hedgehog with a most tricky problem: He loves to hug.
After years of work, the protagonist manages to create a time machine. On his first voyage the machine fails and begins to leap into the future uncontrollably. After traveling through different eras, he manages to send a message back to his time from the future. He has discovered something we should all know.
A little girl is chosen to discover the invisible Dakar.
Campfire Creepers invites viewers to join the fire circle at a summer camp called Camp Coyote as a group of kids take turns telling spooky tales. Inspired by cult classics like Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt, every episode of Campfire Creepers is a wild ride that will have you laughing and screaming in equal measure.
Step into the POV of a Russian cosmonaut in this pulse-pounding true story of a historic and near-disastrous 1965 space mission.
Ray is modern fairytale about Lucy, a young girl with mighty dreams, and a nosy beam of light called Ray who comes to play with her. One night, Lucy wakes up to a strange light creature called Ray. While trying to understand each other through a whimsical dance of light, they find themselves trapped in a dilemma of trust. Should she keep Ray forever?
'Cadavre exquis' invites to a visual, acoustic and odorous ballad through the wandering of a one eyed dog. In the maze of Old Hanoi narrow streets, daily life and legend mingle on the syncopated rhythm of Hat Xam, the Vietnamese blues.
Fifteen-year-old Liis joins a group of teenagers for an unusual hunting game in the forest. Hoping to fit in with them, she's opportunely paired with the boy she likes. The wild nature surrounding her awakens the strength to confront her feelings yet conflicting emotions surface as the game unfolds.
A village and its mountainous lands with past and present rites, in which legends and green oaks cohabit. From life to death, from childhood to adulthood. A cycle that starts with vultures and their rituals.
Ewa takes her daughter to their lake house to prepare her birthday party. Julka brings along her boyfriend. The mother disapproves of his presence and wants him to leave. However, the hardest battle she will have to fight is the one with herself.
In the oldest fun park of Beirut, four young female friends go on a Ferris Wheel ride. During this claustrophobic open-air journey, they touch on intimate subjects, from the best use of three centimetres to Joanna's recent breakup. However, Suzie’s breakup advice leads to an unexpected confession.
Bogdan and Rose are an old couple. They have been living together in one room, working at the same school's canteen, but they don’t speak to each other. Their live is filled with silence and daily reciprocal malice.
On 20th of December, 1989, a few days after Ceausescu's bloody repression in Timisoara, a father’s quiet evening turns to sheer ordeal as he finds out that his little son has mailed a wish letter to Santa. As the kid understood, his father’s desire was to see Ceausescu dead.
Andi really wants a phone to watch 5 minutes of free porn, and doesn't notice his brother is saying goodbye.
Summer day in Zagreb. It's boring and hot. Miro is lonely. Andrea needs love. The two of them don't know each other, but they're using the same dating app. Could this be their lucky day?
Marthe has to face a dragon, edit a bride and avoid blows. Because today Simon is turning 6, and she decided to organize everything for his birthday party. But Marthe is tired...
In a veritable firework display of digital self-portraits, hundreds of quaint, embarrassing and dreadfully disturbing selfies were arranged in a unique short film composition. Single photos, artistically reworked, consolidate to form a ghastly grin that outshines the abyss of human existence.
Alice is together with Johannes, but his love is suffocating and she doesn’t fit into the tiny pigeonhole the relationship has set out for her. During one rebellious summer evening a stolen strap-on is used to challenge the constricting norms that have limited her.
A story which follows the borders that have silently grown between a man and a woman. Interior, emotional borders. The ones which separate us before any other.
All his life, Justin managed to escape his own story. But his past catches up with him when he finds a box full of old family VHS tapes. A film that begins as an homage to his deceased father develops into an attempt to no longer be a stranger to his own mother.
A female Lyft driver navigates the night shift in New York City while waiting to hear life-or-death news from her family in Syria.
A short experimental/documental animation made using a recorded conversation between a mother, Joana, and her 3 years old daughter, Alice, who is recovering from kidney cancer. They both talk – in a very open and frank way – about the illness, their present circumstances, struggles and conquers.
On the islands of dry lava nothing moves except the perpetual sea and wind. The salt flat workers are consecrated to them, who, in the art of desalinating the ocean, have become landscape.
What looks like a usual day in a summer family holiday, turns out as something grey when an uncommon game is played on the way back home.
La Cosa Vuestra is a journey towards the most hidden and surrealist side of Sanfermines. Fun and stark reality working on iconographic cannibalism. What have the San Fermín Festivals become and where are they headed?
Oliva talks about the reunion with oneself in a depressive process. It is a search for the lost self-esteem that Oliva makes with the director because it is a self-referential film starring her. Director-actress and character face what they do not like to be.
There are times that we don't look the small details of an image. At the background there are great stories that always go unnoticed.
My mom bought a mobile phone and I decided to use it to record some images together. What she doesn't know is that a movie will come out of those images.
'Patchwork' is the story of Loly, a person who needed a new liver because hers got broken.
Every year, thousands of people coming from Africa try to reach Spain in desperate and dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean. Tariq is a young Moroccan who works for a mafia that organises these illegal journeys. His job is to carry immigrants in a dinghy across the strait and not getting caught. But every trip might be the last one.
Once upon a time there was a town where nobody drank Coca-cola.
A Wolf Man and a Moon Woman meet in a large lake during a warm summer night. The passion arises between them and they immediately begin an idyllic love relationship. However, an unexpected happening will turn their life upside down.
It is early in the morning. A group of young people remains silent in a living room. It has been a very long night and there is nothing left to say.
Armchairs, mattresses, feet, blankets, arms, memories, mops, tubes or plastic dance, twist, fall, fly and break in this emotional choreography in which a man and his army of objects try to defeat a ghost from the past.
You will love me again. I will stay by your side. We will start a family together.
«Don’t ask me about the hidden reason of all dark things, or where the path of fickle time leads us.»
The gloomy dungeon of the Santo Oficio gaol in Logroño (Spain) is packed with prisoners accused of witchcraft. The sound of mystical chanting drifts out through the bars.It is a desperate cry for help that travels through valleys and mountains until it reaches the hamlet of Zugarramurdi.The petty jealousies and scheming actions of its inhabitants, combined with the unthinkable cruelty of the methods used to torture confessions from people, have put an end to the local way of life, one based on the respect for and worship of nature and one that has no place in the new world order the inquisition aims to impose.A young boy wakes up suddenly in the middle of the night with the realisation that time is running out for the women that looked after him so lovingly.The boy goes to the cave where the witches used to celebrate their Black Sabbaths by singing, dancing and worshipping Aberbeltz and invokes the forces of nature to help him rescue the women from their unhappy fate.And so begins a journey against the clock to save, not just the women, but also a world that seems to be nearing its end.
An improbable hero embarks on a crude journey by land, sea and air throughout all the attractions of a planet turned into a massive petrochemical park... and beyond.
An exotic traveler comes from far away to discover the beauty of a supposedly unexplored territory. Instead, he finds himself in the middle of a turbulent conflict. Trapped against his will, he must wait patiently until the storm has passed.
A poetic view into the relationship of immensity, between man and landscape. We contemplate, from the distance, the activity of the skiers on the snowy mountain. The pictorial image and the dark and dreamlike atmosphere transforms the space into something unreal, imprecise, converting it also in a tactile experience
Morning Cowboy is the story of Jose, a regular guy with a regular job. But today he decides that he will dress as a cowboy. Jose will take us into a sensitive story that makes us wonder: Are we living the life that we want to live?
Ben’s life and the LAPD will be upside down as soon as he buys a 1968 Mustang from a local car dealer.