Young Eva makes her decision to stay in Madrid for the month of August an act of faith. She needs to feel things differently and think of summer as a time of opportunity. On days of festivities and verbenas, while events and encounters take place, Eva will discover that she still has time, that an opportunity can still be given.
Carmen is a gypsy teenager, destined to live a life that is repeated every generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. But one day she meets Lola, an uncommon gypsy who dreams about going to university, does graffiti and is very different. Carmen quickly develops a complicity with Lola and discovers a world that, inevitably, leads them to be rejected by their families.
A boy and a girl who have just met transport a corpse on request to the north of Mexico. When the police discover them at a routine check, they are forced to flee. Forced to team up, they will abandon their secrecy and mistrust while trying to assert his only heritage: a dead man who they only know is worth money if they manage to take him to his destination.
On the periphery, the city's waste accumulates to form illegal dumps. In these, a new kind of life has emerged. It hides from the lights of humans, but the city reclaims what is its own. It advances and changes everything in its path. In its flight, the shadows remain in time. The thresholds persist. Gentrification, the death of one city and the rebirth of another.
It's a journey in a dead place, the need of finding a home. Get trough the grief to understand it.
A conversation about the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) and his perdurance in contemporary Spanish cinema.
Two brothers with opposite personalities will have to live with a fearsome gangrenous disease which spreads through the village where they have lived since their childhood. Everything changes when one of them begins to think that, perhaps, fleeing from the village is an effective way rather than his own survival.
The world evolves thanks to ambitious people who have a goal. That is the reason, Toni thinks, why human beings were born, and anyone with a conformist attitude does not deserve to live.
When 10-year-old Nemo's mother suddenly dies, the boy is forced to go live with his maternal uncle's family. They are cordial and treat him well, but his 12-year-old cousin, Iván, begins to tease and tell him stories about the Bogeyman and how he'll come and get him if he doesn't behave. At first young Nemo doesn't believe the stories, insisting that Iván is just making things up...
When time seems suspended, young people meet in the forest
About to release her new album and to clean up her image after several controversies on social networks, the hitmaker pop star Alicia Galicia will have to spend a day with one of her biggest fans: Lucía, a 17-year-old girl anchored in her preadolescence who has won a contest to meet her for a day.
Madrid, 1980. When Sole sees Nano come in, bloody and beaten, she already knows what to do. In an improvised infirmary, she tries to mend his son’s wounds. But Nano is getting old, and his body doesn’t heal like it used to. At his mother’s pleas, Nano offers a deal: he will retire from boxing if she, for the first time, watches one of his fights.
Julia has just received the test result. The cancer has spread and she doesn't have much time. She goes with her sister to a spiritual retreat looking for peace and quiet. However, something unexpected happens.
Although he works in a nice nursery, surrounded by plants and making bouquets, the real aspiration of Jorge is to become a mortician. However, as he goes through the simulations at his thanatopraxy school, he wonders if he will really be able to face reality when the time comes to see a deceased person.
Lucas comes home for Easter. As every year, the celebration takes place around the throne of the Magdalena, patron saint of the town, where both blessed and atheists coexist with tradition. Every season a young woman is in charge of dressing the figure, this year's is a complete stranger to him. The girl and the image have a particular relationship, a strange interest grows in Lucas.
