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.
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.
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...
Emilio is a dull guy with a dull life. He only enjoys doing monologues as an amateur comedian on the stage of the same place where he started some time ago. But, at 40 years old, his dream of making it as a comedian has not come true. Unlike Carla, who is a famous comedian with her own TV show. One night, Emilio paints Carla some mustaches on one of the posters advertising her show. A few nights later, Carla shows up at the place where Emilio is performing.
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.
A conversation about the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) and his perdurance in contemporary Spanish cinema.
It's a journey in a dead place, the need of finding a home. Get trough the grief to understand it.
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.
A sex doll called Lucy wakes up in the bedroom of a doll brothel. She lives with Mina, another doll. Together they watch TV: their window to the real world. They imagine themselves living far away. After a while, Lucy wants to escape. But Mina doesn’t want to leave. Lucy has to choose between freedom and the doll she is in love with.
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.
In a militarized, post-apocalyptic world, ravaged by an infection that turns people into beasts, one child defies all obstacles to find his mother. He has one question to ask in the midst of all this doom: does she still remember him?
Spain. Faced with the progressive aging of the population and the dire economic situation, the Administration launches an assisted euthanasia campaign aimed at so-called -unproductive beings-. Keen to get their hands on the amount of money set for the substitution of the old man, the Arevalo family will try to get rid of Granddad unaware that he has plans of his own.
Laura meets Carlos at a party. They dance, drink and have fun on a night that will be hard to forget.
Laura, a fanciful 16-year old teenager is in love with her young and attractive Religion teacher and will experience an excessive spiritual awakening that will lead her to lose her mind.
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.
Gloria is adjusting the traditional chulapa dress for her granddaughter Isa. The teenager has grown, and the dress no longer fits her. Although Gloria stopped attending the San Isidro festivities years ago, as she makes the first stitch to alter her granddaughter’s dress, she realizes that she will never wear it again.
Alberto and Isa, a young couple, have met up with their friend Martin to spend a day bicycling around the mountains. Martin wanders in search of Graellsia Isabellae, a rare species of butterfly that for the moment is evading him.
