Etiqueta: Existential crisis
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Reputations (Las reputaciones)
The wrath of public opinion. A life altered forever. Javier Mallarino is the most influential political caricature artist of the country, a man able to cause the repeal of a law, to disrupt the ruling of a judge, to knock down a town mayor or to seriously threaten the stability of a Ministry, and…
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Taxi
A cab driver´s odyssey through Barcelona in search of hope. They call him Sandino after The Clash album, but his real name is Jose, and he thinks it's time to get his real name back, the one his parents chose and used to curse him. Sandino wanted to be a writer,…
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Bloodline
Does a boy need a father in order to become a good man? Abraham is a 17-year old teenager who is going through a difficult moment in his life. Recently, he has been involved in three fights and has been suspended twice. His grandmother, who is a lesbian, lives with her partner and is…
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The Heart Tastes Bitter (Respirar por la herida)
What would you do? Would you seek revenge? Eduardo Quintana's life stopped making sense 12 years ago, when his wife and daughter were killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Since that day, Eduardo decided to go after the driver seeking revenge. Now that Eduardo is out of prison, he lives a tormented life full…
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Beatriz chose not to get married (Beatriz decidió no casarse)
Beatriz dedicated her entire life to fulfill her only dream: to be a successful and recognized writer. At forty-five years, his long hours of work have been rewarded with the Cervantes Prize for Literature, a prize he won after having a life full of nights in solitude with the only company of wine and music.…
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Three (Tres) (Film)
Rocío, Ángela and Carlota have not seen one another in the last twenty years, concretely, since they finished their studies. Having been inseparable friends until that moment, the future took them to different points. Now they have a common certainty: they feel lonesome. In the course of a long night, they try to find…
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Bitch, cocky and naughty (Puta, pija y perversa) – Original Project
This novel is an ingenious criticism of selfishness and self-deception that incapacitate us to love and to be happy. In it, two plots, in different planes of reality, offer us complementary visions of the same story, Gemma’s, a thirty-year-old with a complicated love life. On the fantastic level, narrated as a traditional tale, Gemma is…
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The Other Wild Garden (El Otro Jardín Salvaje)
This is the story of two women who are in love and end up destroying themselves. Silvia, by being selfish, lying and being a coward, has turned into a monster; Maria, by being innocent, credulous and good, has let Silvia destroy her. Silvia is a lesbian, but she does not want anyone to know, while…
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Project 0 (Proyecto 0) – Original Project
Several decades ago, the existence of Gen 0 was discovered, a strange mutant gene that allows some humans who possess it to develop superhuman abilities. This is what members of "Project 0" have in common, a group of seven supermen of different nationalities who, recruited by Aaron Spellman – a mysterious diplomat – and led…
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40 Years Old (Hombres de 40)
The story narrates the lives of four characters, inheritors of an old neighborhood gym. Their lives will change when a construction company offers them a good price for the old gym, with the purpose of demolishing it and building a new luxury hotel. Then, the characters have to decide between selling the gym and preserving…
