andalusia, spain

The Endless Trench

Thu, 31 Oct 2019

A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.

The Wait

Fri, 15 Dec 2023

Eladio, hunting estate keeper, takes a bribe from a veteran hunter. Weeks later, his whole life falls apart. What looked like the opportunity of a lifetime, turns into a macabre descent to hell when he finds out that his misfortune might not be entirely by chance.

Toro

Fri, 22 Apr 2016

Toro (Spanish for "Bull") is a young con man and the right hand of Romano, a powerful mob boss in Torremolinos, Málaga (Andalusia, south to Spain). After Toro decides to leave Romano to get a life free of crime, his last sting fails, resulting one of his brothers dead and he sent to jail. Five years later, Romano realizes that López, Toro's older brother, is robbing him money from his tourism business and he orders to kidnap Diana, López's little daughter, until this one get back the money. Without options, López visits Toro, now a touristic driver with the third grade prison close to get the parole, who only wants to be free to marry his girlfriend Estrella. When Toro accepts to help López and both meet Romano looking for a solution, Toro ends attacking Romano's men and fleeing with Diana, trying to escape from Romano's revenge. But Romano starts a ruthless searching for they three, meanwhile Toro counts the hours to back the prison according to the third grade...

The Ornament of the World

Tue, 19 Nov 2019

Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this documentary retraces the 800-year period in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences, revealing what made this rare and fruitful collaboration possible, and what ultimately tore it apart.

Weeping for a Bandit

Mon, 31 Aug 1964

José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits.

Las llaves de la memoria

Tue, 11 Oct 2016

La Lola se va a los puertos

Tue, 30 Dec 1947

San Fernando Island, Cádiz, Spain, 1860. Lola embarks for Sanlúcar de Barrameda to go to the estate of Don Diego, a rich landowner who is in love with her.

The Trail Left by Time

Wed, 29 Nov 2023

Antonio, in what seems to be his last days of life, remembers a Holy Week from his childhood, in a remote village in Cordoba. Seven days that made him the man he is, and the child he cries to become again. A letter from an adult mind, in memory of the past.

Mr. Rosbif y el secreto de la tortillita de camarones

Sat, 25 Nov 2017

Mr. Rosbif is an internationally renowned English chef. In order to take the most famous international recipes to his restaurant in London, he travels the world like an explorer. During a summer he arrives in Cádiz with the intention of finding the unspeakable flavor of the shrimp omelettes so famous in the area.

Mi arma

Sun, 10 Nov 2019

A young drag queen from Andalusia exposes the difficulties of adding aspects of her homeland culture to her artistic expression.

Felipe González, la infancia de un líder

Tue, 01 Jan 2008

The documentary Felipe González approaches some of the most important facets and stages of the Andalusian politician's life, before becoming President of the Government of Spain: his early years, his high school studies at the school of the Claretian Fathers in Seville, his years in the Catholic Action University Youth and the Catholic Workers' Youth, his entry into the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

Rocío

Tue, 01 Jul 1980

The film shows the genesis of the El Rocío pilgrimage and unveils the economic, socio-political and religious reasons and interests that nurture the phenomenon.

Rachí

Sun, 21 Apr 2024

Olimpo, Andalucía

Fri, 27 Jan 2023

In a 'neo-quinqui' Andalusia plagued by superheroes and villains, the paths of a couple with superhuman strength and a criminal organization with highly developed technology collide spectacularly.

Agent Kelly

Sat, 18 Sep 2021

Experimental thriller about a female assassin who avenged the killing of a friend and now becomes the hunted.

Southern Border

Wed, 01 Jan 2003

On the border, the line as principle of property and belonging reaches an extreme dimension where it physically defines the sphere of its relations. Those who transgress it reconstruct these imaginary lines on a daily basis, redefining the traditional geography and occupying the non-spaces where others live in a temporary form of existence. These others, the non-citizens, are phantasmtic, exchangeable parts of a flexible market. Made invisible, they are permanently controlled persons. Under the pretext of a greater civilian security, they are kept clear from the public spaces reserved for the citizens with rights and pushed into non-public spaces, which are run by state and military surveillance, multinational operations servicing a European market and non-governmental organisations.

El paisaje del olivar

Fri, 26 Apr 2024

The landscape of the olive grove is the protagonist of the Mediterranean territory and is shown in this documentary at ground level and from a bird's eye view, in different unique locations of the Iberian Peninsula. From the Somontano de Barbastro in Aragón, to the south of Andalusia, with a sea of ​​olive trees, in the mountain ranges or in the fertile plains and riverbanks. A humanized territory that, for centuries, has been sculpting history and this, not only giving a characteristic identity to our landscape, but also outlining the gastronomic tradition and culture of the Mediterranean.

Libertad negra

Sat, 23 Apr 2016

Mi cielo de Andalucía

Tue, 19 May 1942

Rafaelillo, a young upper-class Andalusian man and medical student in Madrid, has not told his parents the whole truth about the kind of life he leads in the capital. Once home, he will have to face the consequences of his many lies… (Film produced in Argentina by the Spanish company Filmófono, after the forced exile of most of its members since 1937.)

De Despeñaperros Pa' Bajo

Wed, 26 Jun 2024

Rafael was the outlandish mayor of a small Andalusian village until his absent-minded eccentricities caused him to draw in the village elections. Now he has a clear objective: to win in the second elections. His best idea is to organise and star in a documentary to brag about 'his people'. Through these cameras we will get to know one of the crazy traditions of the village. But also, the criticism and laughter that his dubious management arouses, and the irrefutable prudence of Victoria, his competitor. All these problems will explode back at him... literally.