Etiqueta: Society
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I’m Working On It Saga (Saga Estoy en ello)
I’m working on it | I’m still working on it | Players come and go, but sisters stay | I saw it first | Too handsome | My boyfriend, a virus, and the mother who gave birth to me Life is like a rollercoaster, it has good times as well as bad, but with…
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Tostonazo
The hidden creativity and joy of a provincial city. The protagonist doesn’t have a name, he could be your friend, your cousin or even yourself, but we will call him Tostonazo. He is a young guy who doesn’t have a job and who is barely making a living in the city. Tostonazo does not…
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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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A Guy With a Bag Over His Head (Un tío con una bolsa en la cabeza)
A corrupt mayor close to death. The oxygen dwindles as the minutes pass. “I would have bet any of my deaths that the one I would have would not have been this one. I could have imagined a stroke, an intestinal perforation, or my liver or pancreas bursting suddenly without giving me much…
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The Millions (Los millones)
Even winning the lottery can be a complicated job. Madrid, 1980s. Francisco is a peculiar man: he is seventeen years old, works as a waiter in a neighborhood bar, and is a member of the GRAPO – a Spanish small armed clandestine action group aiming for the formation of a Spanish Republican state…
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When it is Winter in the North Sea (Cuando es invierno en el mar del norte)
A corpse on the beach. A suspect from a family settled in a former insane asylum. Antonio Trigo's corpse appears on the beach of the small island of Or, in the north of Spain, with no apparent explanation. Mysteriously, the body has a hole in the heart. The police think the culprit is…
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Supersaurus (Supersaurio)
The best portrait of the millennial generation. "I was born in the '90s and grew up in the 2000s. I've survived a lot of horrible things: low-rise pants, Kate Winslet's supposed chubbiness, ultra-thin eyebrows. I will survive this, too." Meryem, a Canarian from a Moroccan family, is 25 years old, drinks too…
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Blessed Art Thou (Bendita tú eres)
A nun expelled from the convent for being transgender. Angela is a nun who has spent more than thirty years cloistered in a convent. One night, after having prayed in her room, an accident causes the rest of the sisters to discover a secret she had been keeping for decades: she is trans. …
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The Clouds (Las nubes) (Film)
Reason breeds madness. THEMES: Voyage, Society, Social Class, Changes, Psychiatry, Overcoming, Ambition, Obstacles. GENRE: Dramedy. PITCH: In present-day Paris, Pichón Garay receives a hard disk with a manuscript -he does not know if it is real or fictitious- of a 19-year-old psychiatrist who, at the beginning of the 19th century, embarked on…
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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…
