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A conversation about the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) and his perdurance in contemporary Spanish cinema.

Election night. Aimar, leader of the left-wing Basque nationalist movement, returns home more tired than ever. Itziar awaits him, exhausted. At the entrance, the remnants of a protest by the radical youth of their own party. Aimar has to make a decision: Does he want to continue dedicating his life to the nationalist cause, even in the worst of times?

A group of neighbors has been evicted from the communal housing where they had lived all their lives. They decide to take revenge on the speculator responsible for the injustice. Led by Lázaro, the oldest neighbor and a man of strong convictions, their aim is making him pay for the consequences of his greed and send a message to the rest of the world.

Young Eva makes her decision to stay in Madrid for the month of August an act of faith. She needs to feel things differently and think of summer as a time of opportunity. On days of festivities and verbenas, while events and encounters take place, Eva will discover that she still has time, that an opportunity can still be given.

Carmen is a gypsy teenager, destined to live a life that is repeated every generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. But one day she meets Lola, an uncommon gypsy who dreams about going to university, does graffiti and is very different. Carmen quickly develops a complicity with Lola and discovers a world that, inevitably, leads them to be rejected by their families.

In a dark, abandoned mansion deep in the forest, an aging vampire filmmaker lives in communal seclusion with his five disciples. On the night of his birthday, he reveals his final wish: to film the one moment he has never dared to face — the sunrise —.

About to release her new album and to clean up her image after several controversies on social networks, the hitmaker pop star Alicia Galicia will have to spend a day with one of her biggest fans: Lucía, a 17-year-old girl anchored in her preadolescence who has won a contest to meet her for a day.

Musa goes to the Registry Office to verify his identity, but discovers that there is no trace of him in the system: he does not exist. This raises suspicions among the officials and they convince Musa to plunge into a Kafkaesque process where he will have to go to a judge.

About an androgynous preteen boy, who sits while peeing and has fantasies about aliens with his deformed and badly handicapped teenage neighbor, while his macho brother rapes her, playing Mario Bro's.

A sex doll called Lucy wakes up in the bedroom of a doll brothel. She lives with Mina, another doll. Together they watch TV: their window to the real world. They imagine themselves living far away. After a while, Lucy wants to escape. But Mina doesn’t want to leave. Lucy has to choose between freedom and the doll she is in love with.

Carmen, a woman haunted by family tragedy, drives at night after a long day of work. To fight sleep, she decides to stop in a gas station to rest. There, she meets a shadow of her past who could explain her present.

In a militarized, post-apocalyptic world, ravaged by an infection that turns people into beasts, one child defies all obstacles to find his mother. He has one question to ask in the midst of all this doom: does she still remember him?

Lucía just moved to a new appartment in the suburbs of Madrid, there she will try to start over, until she receives a very particular visit...

A boy and a girl who have just met transport a corpse on request to the north of Mexico. When the police discover them at a routine check, they are forced to flee. Forced to team up, they will abandon their secrecy and mistrust while trying to assert his only heritage: a dead man who they only know is worth money if they manage to take him to his destination.

Jesús, a devout Christian, leads the women’s choir at his local parish. A few days before the Christmas celebration, he experiences a revelation: he has discovered that there is no paradise. Feeling deceived, he decides to prepare a speech to tell everyone that the afterlife does not exist.

Alberto and Isa, a young couple, have met up with their friend Martin to spend a day bicycling around the mountains. Martin wanders in search of Graellsia Isabellae, a rare species of butterfly that for the moment is evading him.