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Maspalomas

Maspalomas

Maspalomas

Maspalomas

Maspalomas

Vicente, now 76 years old, came out of the closet and left his wife and daughter when he was 50. He has spent the last 25 years living happily with his partner in Maspalomas (Gran Canaria). However, everything is turned upside down when Vicente suffers a stroke that leaves him in a coma.

Emergency Exit

Emergency Exit

Emergency Exit

Emergency Exit

Emergency Exit

An actress reflecting on her career (Marisa Paredes), a disoriented anthropologist (Naomi Kawase), and two legendary divas (Arielle Dombasle / Myriam Mézières) travel with other strangers through surreal landscapes in a mysterious vehicle from which they seem unable to disembark easily. Along the journey, they speculate about their identities while Desire, Eros, takes form and seduces them.

La Cena

La Cena

The Dinner

La Cena

The Dinner

Two weeks after the end of the Civil War, Franco hosts a celebratory dinner at the Hotel Palace. A young lieutenant, a meticulous maître, and a group of Republican prisoners skilled in cooking must prepare a spectacular banquet in record time. Everything seems to be going smoothly… until something more than a menu is cooking in the kitchen: an escape is on the way.

Core Program

A carefully-honed selection of some of the most exciting recent Spanish films

Los Domingos

Los Domingos

Sundays

Los Domingos

Sundays

Los domingos follows Ainara, a bright and idealistic 17-year-old who shocks her family when, instead of choosing a university degree, she announces her desire to enter a cloistered convent.

Los Tigres

Los Tigres

The Tigers

Los Tigres

The Tigers

In Los Tigres, acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Alberto Rodríguez returns with a gripping and atmospheric thriller that plunges audiences into the hidden depths of the sea and the human spirit.

Las delicias del jardín

Las delicias del jardín

The Delights of the Garden

Las delicias del jardín

The Delights of the Garden

Fermín, a veteran painter at the twilight of his career, has begun to feel his hand tremble. On the brink of financial ruin, he is forced to move into the studio he shares with his friend Javier de Juan in an old garage. There, his son Pablo, also a painter returns from a long trip to India to live with him. Their opposing perspectives on art and life quickly bring them into conflict. Pepa, Pablo’s mother and Fermín’s ex, proposes a solution: they enter a competition to reinterpret The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, which could help resolve their financial troubles.

Golpes

Golpes

Golpes

Golpes

Golpes

A two-time Goya winner as Alberto Rodríguez’s lead screenwriter, and following his acclaimed directorial debut with the series El hijo zurdo (2023), Rafael Cobos makes his feature film debut with Golpes, a highly personal revival of the 1980s cine quinqui tradition, set in Seville.

La Cena

La Cena

The Dinner

La Cena

The Dinner

Two weeks after the end of the Civil War, Franco hosts a celebratory dinner at the Hotel Palace. A young lieutenant, a meticulous maître, and a group of Republican prisoners skilled in cooking must prepare a spectacular banquet in record time. Everything seems to be going smoothly… until something more than a menu is cooking in the kitchen: an escape is on the way.

Mi Amiga Eva

Mi Amiga Eva

My Friend Eva

Mi Amiga Eva

My Friend Eva

Eva is about to turn 50, has been married for over twenty years, and has two teenage children. During a business trip to Rome, she realizes she wants to fall in love again before it’s “too late.”

Latin Pride

Homo Argentum

Homo Argentum

Homo Sapiens?

Homo Argentum

Homo Sapiens?

A riotous and sharply perceptive anthology comedy from the acclaimed Argentine duo Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, Homo Sapiens? (original title Homo Argentum) unfolds across sixteen distinct episodes, each led by Guillermo Francella in a remarkable display of comic range and character work.

La Mujer de la Fila

La Mujer de la Fila

The Women in the Line

La Mujer de la Fila

The Women in the Line

Andrea is a middle-class woman whose life collapses when her son Gustavo is unjustly imprisoned. Overnight, her routine transforms into an endless wait outside the prison, where she must stand in line alongside other women who carry the same pain.

Music on screen

Flores Para Antonio

Flores Para Antonio

Flowers to Antonio

Flores Para Antonio

Flowers to Antonio

Alba Flores, internationally recognized for her role in La casa de papel, embarks on a deeply personal journey in Flores para Antonio, a moving documentary that explores the life and legacy of her father, the legendary musician Antonio Flores.

Serás Farruquito

Serás Farruquito

Serás Farruquito

Serás Farruquito is a powerful and intimate portrait of Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known worldwide as Farruquito, at a decisive moment in his life and career.

Song of Songs

Song of Songs

Song of Songs

Song of Songs

Song of Songs

Song of Songs

At the end of his life, Victor Gulien reflects on the film he wanted to make about the most beautiful and darkest thing he knows: love, but he never finished the film. The Song of Songs is the enigmatic book in the Bible in which a young woman and a young man write each other passionate love letters, without ever finding each other.

Spain Meets Portugal

Una Quinta Portuguesa

Una Quinta Portuguesa

The Portuguese House

Una Quinta Portuguesa

The Portuguese House

The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Lost and adrift, he assumes the identity of another man to work as a gardener at a Portuguese estate, where he unexpectedly befriends the owner and begins a new life that isn’t truly his.

Spanish Cinema Without Fear

A special film selection which presents Spanish works that defy tradition and have the courage to experiment

Emergency Exit

Emergency Exit

Emergency Exit

Emergency Exit

Emergency Exit

An actress reflecting on her career (Marisa Paredes), a disoriented anthropologist (Naomi Kawase), and two legendary divas (Arielle Dombasle / Myriam Mézières) travel with other strangers through surreal landscapes in a mysterious vehicle from which they seem unable to disembark easily. Along the journey, they speculate about their identities while Desire, Eros, takes form and seduces them.

Ciudad Sin Sueño

Ciudad Sin Sueño

Sleepless City

Ciudad Sin Sueño

Sleepless City

Toni is 15 years old and lives in Cañada Real, the largest informal settlement in Europe, on the outskirts of Madrid. Proud to belong to his family of scrap collectors, he spends his days alongside his grandfather, whom he admires and follows everywhere. But demolition machines are approaching the plot where he lives, threatening to wipe out everything they know. His grandfather refuses to leave, no matter the cost. In those dark nights without electricity, the legends of his childhood begin to feel more real than ever.

Balearic

Balearic

Balearic

In Balearic, Ion de Sosa transforms the sun-drenched Mediterranean landscape into a stage of moral horror, where indolence becomes the most insidious form of violence. Following four adolescents as they trespass into the garden of a luxury villa, the film exposes the invisible walls of privilege and the quiet cruelty of a complacent society. Under the glaring sun, laughter and celebrations mask a systemic apathy: the real monster is not mythical but structural, thriving in the distance between comfort and conscience.

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