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
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.
The premiere will be followed by a Q&A with director Lluis Miñarro
Rise your glass of vermouth and enjoy DJ live session at the celebratory vermut party around the Premiere in collaboration with Aquí no hay vermut
El Desencanto
The Disenchantment
El Desencanto
The Disenchantment
Fifty years after its release in Spain, Jaime Chávarri’s landmark documentary remains a touchstone of Spanish cinema. Centered on the enigmatic Panero family, the film portrays poet Leopoldo María Panero, his mother Felicidad Blanc, and his brothers Juan Luis and Michi as they reflect on memory, ambition, and failure.
El Desencanto inaugurates the section EL FUTURO YA NO ESTÁ AQUÍ: Celebrating 50 Years of El Desencanto, presented within the section Spanish Cinema Without Fear. The film offers audiences a historical anchor to explore the enduring themes of disillusionment, societal fracture, and inherited failure that resonate in contemporary Spanish cinema.
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.
Level
Level
Level
Level
Split between Usquert in the north of the Netherlands and Miera in northern Spain, the film traces two very different terrains and two intimate journeys: Anna grieving her father in a flat, open land below sea level, and Carlos building a new life with their newborn son in a mountainous valley steeped in history.
Level is a meditation on landscapes, memory, and the quiet persistence of life amid irrevocable change.
Balearic
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 teenagers 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.