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Set during the peak of Cold War paranoia, the first film from the director of The Incredibles tells the story of a kid who establishes a close friendship with a giant robot that fell from space.
Pablo spends autumn among second-hand books, illegal cell phones, parties, cocaine, and wrong calls. His ex-girlfriend, Mariana, enjoys the winter while splitting her days between college exams, dealers of hard drugs, random meetings with couples she is friend’s with, and a new boyfriend.
A small film crew moves through Asturias in search of the places where the main ambushes against the Republican Guerrilla (1937-1952) took place. In that trip, they meet several people willing to share with them their memories of that time.
A documentary about emblematic independent filmmaker Raúl Perrone, who lives in the area of greater Buenos Aires mentioned in the title.
Reinaldo is a teenage boy who recently escaped from a penitentiary unit and sets on a journey back home to Havana. Nostalgia, rum, and his sense of humor are the only travel mates he has, until he meets Marga.
This documentary goes through the story of several women who come across each other in a funny meeting point: the roller derby track, a sport they’re passionate about and invites them to put all their strength on the skates.
In 1969 Argentine filmmaker Hugo Santiago directed Invasión, his opera prima, written by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, and later settled in France. This film documents his return to Buenos Aires in 2013 to shoot his latest film, Le ciel du centaure.
After a sudden blackout in the prison, Tila’s dead body hangs before the eyes of some surprised guards. A journalist becomes obsessed with shedding light on one of the most macabre and sordid stories ever recorded on Chilean police history.
Every summer night, in some Spanish towns, locals and tourists come together in parks to experience an outdoors 35mm screening. People work restlessly to make this possible in long days that can very well be their last.
After being the sole witness to a domestic fight that ended up with a murder, Patrascu decides to keep quiet and move on with his life, until the possible killer starts to get close to his wife and son.
A filmmaker arrives in Chiloé –one of the largest islands in the Chilean coast– and plans his next film. Between auditions and location scouting, he makes his way through the stories he spies on, while observing the links and tensions that float in the air.
The setting of post-industrial Asturias is also an emotional desert in which a pre-retired miner with a gambling problem is constantly avoiding creditors. Chased by a ruthless police officer, he will be forced to run a sinister errand that will change his life.
The protagonists of this documentary are Latin American women living in Madrid and working as maids, what allows them to send money to their families, with which they communicate via Skype. Meanwhile, they dream about returning to their native lands.