Juan Antonio Quintana

Madrid, 1993. Two old friends down on their luck kidnap a college girl and demand ransom from her family.

A fragmented view of contemporary Spain, drawing conclusions about the persistence of the human condition, strangeness, and the chaos within relationships.

Once I saw a documentary in which people spoke of what happens to you just before he died: they say that when you receive when you feel that your life passes before your eyes at full speed. This is what happened to me, because the buttons.

With a prestigious job and a loving family, Emilio (José Coronado) has the kind of life someone would kill for. But beneath it all is a horrible lie. Emilio's wife, Ágata (Adriana Ozores), becomes suspicious when Emilio picks up a guest pass to enter the Bank of Spain -- where, ostensibly, he works as an economist. But the house of cards starts crashing down when Emilio meets a needy college student, Rosana (Marta Etura), and begins an affair that proves disastrous.

Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardians of a sacred secret: Ricardo, her husband, their father, hides in the house, trying to avoid the brutal political persecution of the victors, who hunt, as if they were wild animals, and imprison or execute, those who have lost the bloody and tragic struggle…

Christopher Columbus, on his deathbed, tries to understand and digest the possible consequences of his determining role as navigator, discoverer, colonizer, and exporter of the Catholic faith.

A destitute and unemployed Arturo is desperate to find a place to stay. He gets more than he bargained for when he enters a program that asks students to stay with and look after senior citizens.

Palencia, Spain, late 1990s. While Gema and Toribio, who live in their own cloud of precarious happiness, always smile stupidly as if they have to apologize for something they have not actually done, their little son Martín suffers, every day at school, an unbearable ordeal, tragic but also comical, that they, a peer of daydreaming simpletons, are unaware of.

Spanisch horror short from 1963.