Etiqueta: Tragedy
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Nothing, Nobody (Nada, Nadie)
The voices of the Mexico City Earthquake. After the Mexico City earthquakes of September 19th and 20th, 1985, nothing and nobody would ever be the same again. Panic, desperation, anger, impotence, horror, rescues, solidarity, death, the megalopolis completely destroyed. While a child would get out, unharmed, from under huge debris, somewhere else someone would take…
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151 Stabs (151 cuchilladas)
“I don’t believe in justice. Life will make him pay.” The story of a famous crime that was left unpunished. On April 27th, 2013, Miguel Ángel Domínguez and his eight-year-old daughter María were brutally murdered in their house in Almonte (Huelva, southern Spain) Someone entered their house and stabbed them 151 times. The little girl got…
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The Laws of Relativity Applied to Sexual Relations (Las leyes de la relatividad aplicadas a las relaciones sexuales)
It’s all relative. Nothing is true. Whenever there are two people, everything automatically becomes relative. This dark humor tragicomedy tells four simultaneous urban stories of young people facing infidelity, death, love, loneliness, and well-meaning erotic homicide. Seven characters cross paths throughout these stories: a woman who talks to the wife of the man…
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Crystal Tigers (Tigres de cristal)
A disturbing story about friendship, forgiveness and revenge. In the late 70s, Víctor Yagüe and Juanpe Zamora were more than just classmates. Their friendship, full of trust and games, of happiness and fear, went beyond the school walls and expanded through the streets of the Ciudad Satélite in Catalonia. Until December 15th, 1978. Until…
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Just (Justo) (TV Series / Film)
True justice must be cold, implacable, dispassionate. Until now. True justice must be cold, implacable, dispassionate. Each generation must have thirty six Justs. The Tzadik are anonymous people who, according to the Jewish tradition, keep the balance between Good and Evil on the face of the Earth. 70-year-old Justo Ledesma is one of them.…
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The Faces of the Tiger (Las caras del tigre)
A scientific investigation into the greatest mystery of mankind: the origin of man. Matilde Gil is a technician at the Ajorca S.A insurance company. She receives an assignment to investigate the causes and circumstances surrounding a tragic accident in the mountains of Madrid between a passenger bus and a tanker truck loaded with propylene. Among…
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Hashtag
Perfection implies such a painful cost. Eric is a young guy who happens to have everything: two perfect parents, a mansion in the most exclusive neighbourhood of LA, and an excellent education. On the contrary, Chava seems to have lost everything but his will to live. He is hospitalised for several months due to…
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Sense of duty (Sentido del deber)
An impressive play with laconic characters that interact in a quite tragic dimension. It analyzes and explores deeply the theme that takes part in building the world´s routine, of the distinction between the good and bad, of the allowed and the forbidden, the violence against women. THEMES: Domestic Abuse, Violence, Social Relations, Gender Roles,…
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Queen Juana (Reina Juana)
The plot starts with the confession of Juana I of Castilla with the father Francisco de Borja the night before she dies. From there, the monarch goes out to the most important moments of her life, while in her speech takes the viewer to travel over the History of Spain. In this great flashback the…
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Car (Auto)
Not everything is what it seems to be A husband, a wife, a sister-in-law and a hitchhiker are sit in the waiting room of a courthouse to testify about an uneventful weekend in the field. While they are waiting in that room, the four protagonists try to join versions of what happened. As the talks…
