Etiqueta: Overcoming
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The comedy of Carla and Luisa (La comedia de Carla y Luisa)
Carla and Luisa are two professional independent women who theoretically have the same opportunities as men. However, the male characters try their best to limit their opportunities. This makes the protagonists unable to find happiness and balance in their lives. It will be the friendship between the two of them that allows them to survive…
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The last somersault (La última pirueta)
A peculiar little circus is bankrupt and in the process of seizure when a new recruit shows up: Flofli, the clown, coming from France where he is a very renowned character. All the circus’ hopes fall on his shoulders. But the adventures and difficulties to keep going will not be few, with a romantic love…
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Odds and Nines que (Pares y Nines)
Federico, computer technician, and Roberto, high school teacher, are friends and share a flat, a past and a complicated present. Both were married to Carmela, and now both fight for the same woman: Nines, their neighbor. This situation leads to a series of misunderstandings that complicate the plot, treated with great sense of humor. THEMES: Friendship,…
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In the dark heart of the forest (En el oscuro corazón del bosque)
Three cats (the old male and female cat, and the blue cat) are together in the barrack they have lived in for a while and are witness to the emptying of the house made by the owners. Facing the building’s demolition, the cats talk about their future, their memories and their ambitions. THEMES: Nostalgia, Economic…
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At the enemy’s mercy (En manos del enemigo)
The story narrates the fortuitous encounter between two men: Checa, a Russian man living in Spain for a long time, and Mustafa, an illegal newcomer. Their interest will be discovered as well as their pasts, their origins and the reasons they came to Spain. THEMES: Immigration, Immigrant Life, Poverty, Drugs, Friendship, Solidarity, Survival, Exclusion …
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Almost a fairy tale (Casi un cuento de hadas)
The action is set in an 18th century royal court, where the kings and their two twin daughters live. One of the twins is Leticia, beautiful but dumb; the other, Laura, ugly but intelligent. When ungraceful and hunchback Prince Riquet arrives, the situation turns around. Riquet wants to conquer Leticia’s heart. Will she find love…
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My Gloria (Gloria mía)
¿Can you escape from the past? When Jose Centella is about to die, he tells the story of his life to a friend. His story begins after abandoning his home town as he travels to the Colombian jungle. There, he joins the guerrillas and the story takes us to its hidden camps. We will witness armed…
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Indian Summer
Daniel, a forty-year-old writer with two written novels, has become a Spanish literature doctorate teacher in Chicago. During his stay there, he tries to write a new novel. Loneliness and a strange relationship push him to attempt swapping reality with the fiction in his novel in which he pours his personality and his wishes that,…
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The Stranded Mermaid (La sirena varada)
The Stranded Mermaid is a work that delves into one of the most coveted aspirations for man: escaping reality. It narrates the madness of a group of people who decide to abandon themselves to live in a world of dreams, where common sense ceases to exist. Here is when the main character of the work…
