Etiqueta: Tragedy
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Caracol Beach (Film)
Walking towards tragedy, to the beat of Caribbean trova. Beto Milanés is a Cuban exiled soldier living in Florida, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after surviving an ambush in Angola 18 years before. The memory of this massacre drives him to madness and obsession, triggering a dangerous crisis. Meanwhile, a series of events…
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Moss (Musgo) (Film)
Man’s best friend will be the last to lose hope. Moss is a dog who, not understanding why wars happen, has witnessed how his home and the family he lived with disappears in a second when a bomb drops and destroys everything. Among the rubble, he searches unsuccessfully for his two kids, Janinka and…
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Ophelia and the glass dream (Ophelia y el sueño de cristal)
An intimate portrait about the different forms of love. Helena has an uncommon hobby: defying gravity and mastering heights. Ever since she became aware that she carries the Huntington's gene, which could awaken a serious disease at any minute, she spends countless hours a day at the rock-climbing gym, because climbing is the only…
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Thinks you wrote on fire (Cosas que escribiste sobre el fuego)
Some people aren’t meant to stay, they are meant to teach you something. When María Gaudet starts high school, everyone knows her name. Her family has been in the newspaper headlines as the victim of a domestic violence case: her son’s brutal attack left her in a coma and he was put in jail.…
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This Emptiness that Boils (Este vacío que hierve)
Secrets are hidden underground. The story takes place in 2030, Karina is a twenty-five-year-old physicist who is currently working on a new theory of universal gravitation. She lives in the south of Mexico City with her grandmother Rebeca. One night, her grandmother, while drunk, mistakes Karina for a ghost from her past, and reveals…
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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…
