Etiqueta: Suicide
-
Signed with a Tissue Paper (Firmado con un klínex)
From reality to fiction, from peacefulness to violence. A detective with the pseudonym ¨Lefty¨ investigates the incomprehensible wave of female suicides, where the wives of artists and politicians alike are among the victims of this deadly epidemic. An Italian and a French man argue the night before their national soccer teams pay for the world…
-
The House of Bernarda Alba (La casa de Bernarda Alba) (Film)
8 years of mourning that explodes with the passion of two lovers. After her second husband’s death, matriarch Bernarda Alba imposes an eight-year rigorous and asphyxiating mourning period on her household and prohibits her five daughters from any form of relationship. When Angustias, the eldest daughter, inherits a large sum of money from her…
-
Tension at the threshold (La tensión del umbral)
The danger is to try to understand. Argentina, 2008. The investigation of a suicide will cause an endless spiral of violence. A woman commits suicide in the middle of the street city center, daylight, after an argument with a mysterious man who all the witnesses seem to know. The police decide not to investigate the…
-
Three Minutes of Color (Tres minutos de color)
Life knows nothing about death. Coque Brox is a police inspector, chief of the Disappearances Group of the Barcelona National Police. It’s been a while now that his life is a disaster. The loss of his seven-year-old son meant the rejection of his family, so now he has to share an apartment with a…
-
The Man With No Eyes (El hombre sin ojos) – Original Project
When parents leave their children alone, the Man with No Eyes comes after them. Mónica and her son Daniel have just moved into a new neighbourhood, where Monica works as a teacher. Daniel doesn’t do well with change and feels disturbed when he realizes that the children in his class behave in strange ways.…
-
Eggs and Love (Huevos con amor)
This is the story of Carmela, who decides to end up her life, tired of her manipulative family and their emotional blackmail, trying to take advantage of her. While deciding on what to do, Carmela starts to recall her childhood, with her mother Juanita, eccentric and selfish; her father Paco, a frustrated cook and then a…
-
Suicides Ltd. (Suicidios S.A) – Original Project
On the same morning, Paloma, a divorced woman with three children, becomes orphaned, unemployed and in charge of her sister, who is in her twenties. Thus, she has no choice but to rethink her life, and, without hesitation, decides to set up her own company: "Suicides Ltd", a kind of illegal and crazy consultancy where…
-
My mother married me or Elena’s whims (Me casó mi madre o las veleidades de Elena)
My mother married me or Elena's whims relates the story of Elena, a young woman who doubts between two marriage candidates: Agustín, who is deeply in love with her and threatens her with killing himself if she does not love him back, and Javier, her boyfriend, an officer of the diplomatic corps. THEMES: Love…
-
Morning Transit (Tránsito de madrugada)
This is the story of a couple that meet on a bridge, one step away from suicide. After this encounter, they fall in love with each other. Many years after that, the same couple sees life from another point of view, thinking about their lives from the perspective of an elderly couple. THEMES: Love,…
-
Visiting hour (Hora de visita)
Julia arrives to the hospital to visit her daughter María, interned after trying to commit suicide due to a wrong family and social environment. The story is developed as a monologue given that the daughter can only express herself through signs. Meanwhile, the mother tries to give her daughter a new desire to live on. …
