12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here María Trénor’s ¿Dónde estabas tú? challenges the viewer to reflect on the universal reality of violence against women, whether subtle or brutal. The interviews resulting in the three stories that make up this film were conducted in Mozambique and the Philippines. 2020; […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Esfinge urbana, the most experimental work in María Lorenzo’s extensive filmography, is a composition based on Valencian urban art, as documented in various neighborhoods between 2018 and 2019 and connected through animation like the frames of a film. 2020; Spanish with English […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here F.F.G. Un retrato is a short film dedicated to Fernán-Gómez by critic and filmmaker Jesús García de Dueñas. Through a montage of diverse images, the renowned actor and director reveals his motivations, his reflections on his work, and his philosophy of life. […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Manicomio, Fernán-Gómez’ directorial debut, reworks several stories from different sources about the world of inmates in psychiatric institutions. When the protagonist, Carlos, visits his girlfriend at the hospital where she works, the director of the facility introduces him to his niece, who […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Based on an actual event known as “the crime of Mazarrón,” El extraño viaje is a dark drama whose bizarre events entangle three siblings in a small provincial town near Madrid, as well as members of a band who come in from […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here A timid young boy growing up in a small Spanish town starts school for the first time, and with the nurturing and guidance of a kind teacher, a world of possibilities begins to open up for him. As the school year comes […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Set in the 1920s, Pedro Olea’s Un hombre llamado Flor de Otoño introduces one of the first homosexual characters in Spanish cinema, in an award-winning performance by José Sacristán. Lluís de Serracant is a young lawyer from a bourgeois Catalan family who leads a […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here On the top floor of a Buenos Aires hospital, an aging Spanish hitman who has spent half his life in Argentina realizes that he is dying. Escaping with a supply of morphine, he sets out on a journey north to nowhere, accompanied by a […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours( Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Adolfo Aristarain’s Un lugar en el mundo follows the experiences of adolescent Ernesto and his parents, who, after years of exile during Argentina’s “Dirty War,” have moved to a small village in a remote valley to put their ideals into practice running a school, […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here María Silvia Esteve’s Silvia attempts to make sense of a personal history steeped in violence and denial, experimenting with blurred images of the Argentine filmmaker’s parents and the inconsistent memories of her sisters. It is a portrait of the bond between a mother and […]
