Etiqueta: Coming of age
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Ulises 2300
Does being good at something make you passionate about it? In the 1980s, Salomón "Crazy Horse" Narváez, a university professor and a chess lover, takes pride on leading a quiet and peaceful life. One of his main activities is writing a weekly column about the science of sports in a newspaper, with a…
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On the fly (Sobre la marcha)
The rules are there to be broken. And he broke them all. Javier is one of the members of the García-Pelayo clan, a family saga that has become a cult symbol for discovering a method that made all the casinos in Europe and the United States go bankrupt in the 90s. Javier is the…
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The nearly girl
A fun and romantic thriller that explores the singularities of the human spirit. Henry is poet who is addicted to LSD and lives according to his unusual impulses. Megan is a young woman that yearns to be independent from her parents. Megan meets Henry at a poetry reading and they fall in love.…
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Thinks you wrote on fire (Cosas que escribiste sobre el fuego)
Some people aren’t meant to stay, they are meant to teach you something. When María Gaudet starts high school, everyone knows her name. Her family has been in the newspaper headlines as the victim of a domestic violence case: her son’s brutal attack left her in a coma and he was put in jail.…
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The Third Mask (La tercera máscara)
Could you show the world your most intimate mask? A Japanese legend explains how we all have three masks: the one we show to the world, the one we share with our loved ones, and the most intimate one, which hides our true self and is known only to us — the third mask.…
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Roses from Stalin (Las rosas de Stalin)
My name is Svetlana Alliluyeva. I was born on February 28, 1926. My father died in 1953. His name was Joseph Stalin. Stalin’s favorite, his only daughter had a rough awakening at 16 years old. She discovered her mother had died of suicide, not natural causes, and her father was a ruthless dictator. Her first…
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The Adventures of Joselito: The Little Nightingale (Las aventuras de Joselito: El pequeño ruiseñor)
The most important child star of Spanish music and cinema. José Jiménez Fernández, known to the public as Joselito or “The boy with the golden voice” ("El niño de la voz de oro"), was the young prodigy of Spanish music and cinema in the mid-20th century. Raised in a humble family during the…
