Etiqueta: Real facts
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Varvara
A whale’s logbook. This adventure of a whale-lady on her long journey across the Pacific Ocean is inspired by a true story. In 2015 scientists measured the journey of a female of the majestic grey whale species. They called her Varvara. She swam a distance of 22,500 kilometres, the longest migration route undertaken by any…
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The Elites’ Game Saga (Saga El juego de las élites)
The Elites’ Game | The Elites’ Sentence | The Elites’ Birth What’s the price you’re willing to pay to be part of the elite? Bernardo is a brilliant Law and Economics student at an elite university in Madrid. Much like hundreds of other talented young people of his generation, he seeks to build a…
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For the Love of Art (Por amor al arte)
The perfect crime does exist. He committed it. Juan Manuel Candela Sapieha, also known as ‘El Sapo’, is a Spanish criminal known for his skills in concealment and disguise. For the Love of Art is the true story of the infamous crime which put this man in the spotlight: the robbery of more than…
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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…
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Love Stories in War Fields (Historias de amor en campos de guerra)
Is love stronger than war? The stories of women who share a common denominator: the same war. Six extraordinary women who, for various reasons, ended up being victims of an armed conflict from which they thought they could never escape, and who, in the midst of this drama, lived intense and memorable love stories.…
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Kafka and the Traveling Doll (Kafka y la muñeca viajera)
A little girl loses her doll and Kafka convinces her that it’s on vacation. A year before his death, Franz Kafka lived a very unusual experience. Strolling through Steglitz Park in Berlin, he found a little girl crying inconsolably: she had lost her doll. To reassure the little girl, the author of The…
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Rey
Based on the true story of a boy who runs away from home and is adopted by a pack of stray dogs. Based on a true story, Rey is about a boy who was raised by stray dogs. Rey has many problems at home. He must face the hostile environment in which he…
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I Stopped Uttering Your Name: The Forbidden Life of Carmen Díez de Rivera (Dejé de pronunciar tu nombre: La vida prohibida de Carmen Díez de Rivera)
The muse of the Spanish transition to democracy. The beautiful Carmen Díez de Rivera was a cultured and intelligent woman like few others. Nicknamed "the muse of the Spanish Transition to democracy" by Francisco Umbral, she was the illegitimate daughter of the politician Serrano Suñer and the aristocrat Sonsoles de Icaza, a…
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The Desert and it’s Seed (El desierto y su semilla) (Film)
What does the skin hide? A cab ride to the hospital: Eligia's face is disintegrating from the acid thrown at her by her ex-husband while they were signing the divorce papers. Mario, her 22-year-old son, tries to wipe the acid off Eligia's face, but his own fingers burn. What follows is a failed attempt…
