Pablo Llorca

A musician famous in the 80s thanks to a song, the personification of so many Spanish pop musicians; his best friend, an apparently famous painter, and the crossovers between two worlds where differentiating between truth and illusion doesn’t matter: that is the storyline of 'The Journey to Kyoto'. What begins as a tragicomedy about a musician clinging to a distant past where he tasted glory, ends up being a precise metaphor for our day, where we all have the same pretensions of living an old success.

3 settings evoked in a stylised manner: a city with a harbour; a man killing young women and his rituals. The Legend of the Bridge of the Sighs at Venice; the parties and the rituals. A sailor viewing sights from his boat.

Alfonso, who comes from a wealthy family, is retired and living in the country where he cultivates an organic allotment. The birth of his grandson turns his life around and he decides to instill in the boy a love for manual work. Seven years pass and things are not turning out as he had planned. The film looks at the current trend among urbanites for retiring to the country and at environmental ideology, but also at belonging to one’s origins, both family and social, which Alfonso is trying to reject by means of a particular struggle.

Five girls and boys periodically publish a cultural magazine, a kind of guide to the city's leisure activities. Each one is in charge of an area, from literature to cinema. And they live varied stories, both among themselves and with other people outside the group.

Take that tacky look of 60's TV programmes, add some dashes of colour and humour to the pervading aseptic white, mix in some footage that would be happy in a horror film, wait... and you'll have a homemade dish that, though its made using absolutely genuine recipes, leaves a very special taste in the mouth.

Toño works as a local policeman in his town. He is clumsy and his neighbors laugh at him, so he asks his old teacher at the academy for help. What he finds is a town full of tensions, with a day laborers' strike that doesn't help.

A musician famous in the 80s thanks to a song, the personification of so many Spanish pop musicians; his best friend, an apparently famous painter, and the crossovers between two worlds where differentiating between truth and illusion doesn’t matter: that is the storyline of 'The Journey to Kyoto'. What begins as a tragicomedy about a musician clinging to a distant past where he tasted glory, ends up being a precise metaphor for our day, where we all have the same pretensions of living an old success.

A musician famous in the 80s thanks to a song, the personification of so many Spanish pop musicians; his best friend, an apparently famous painter, and the crossovers between two worlds where differentiating between truth and illusion doesn’t matter: that is the storyline of 'The Journey to Kyoto'. What begins as a tragicomedy about a musician clinging to a distant past where he tasted glory, ends up being a precise metaphor for our day, where we all have the same pretensions of living an old success.

3 settings evoked in a stylised manner: a city with a harbour; a man killing young women and his rituals. The Legend of the Bridge of the Sighs at Venice; the parties and the rituals. A sailor viewing sights from his boat.

3 settings evoked in a stylised manner: a city with a harbour; a man killing young women and his rituals. The Legend of the Bridge of the Sighs at Venice; the parties and the rituals. A sailor viewing sights from his boat.

Alfonso, who comes from a wealthy family, is retired and living in the country where he cultivates an organic allotment. The birth of his grandson turns his life around and he decides to instill in the boy a love for manual work. Seven years pass and things are not turning out as he had planned. The film looks at the current trend among urbanites for retiring to the country and at environmental ideology, but also at belonging to one’s origins, both family and social, which Alfonso is trying to reject by means of a particular struggle.

Five girls and boys periodically publish a cultural magazine, a kind of guide to the city's leisure activities. Each one is in charge of an area, from literature to cinema. And they live varied stories, both among themselves and with other people outside the group.

Five girls and boys periodically publish a cultural magazine, a kind of guide to the city's leisure activities. Each one is in charge of an area, from literature to cinema. And they live varied stories, both among themselves and with other people outside the group.

Take that tacky look of 60's TV programmes, add some dashes of colour and humour to the pervading aseptic white, mix in some footage that would be happy in a horror film, wait... and you'll have a homemade dish that, though its made using absolutely genuine recipes, leaves a very special taste in the mouth.

Take that tacky look of 60's TV programmes, add some dashes of colour and humour to the pervading aseptic white, mix in some footage that would be happy in a horror film, wait... and you'll have a homemade dish that, though its made using absolutely genuine recipes, leaves a very special taste in the mouth.

Toño works as a local policeman in his town. He is clumsy and his neighbors laugh at him, so he asks his old teacher at the academy for help. What he finds is a town full of tensions, with a day laborers' strike that doesn't help.

Rosa starts to go out with her neighbour at the boarding house, a Turkish soldier and a writer called Iskander. Some months later, the two get married and move out to live together in Iskander’s hometown on the Mediterranean coast. In this place, Rosa begins to learn many things about life, but her suspicions are also aroused.

Rosa starts to go out with her neighbour at the boarding house, a Turkish soldier and a writer called Iskander. Some months later, the two get married and move out to live together in Iskander’s hometown on the Mediterranean coast. In this place, Rosa begins to learn many things about life, but her suspicions are also aroused.

A music teacher on strike and a man devoted to watching TVE’s historical series; the latter’s wife, a young Mexican woman who works as a cleaner, and her daughter, the teacher’s pupil; another group of people doing their best to make a living... They all live in Madrid where their paths cross constantly against the background of Spain in crisis.

Sartorius returns to his hometown in search of his wife, after spending fifteen years imprisoned in a concentration camp. On the train, he meets Beatriz and Bruno, a newlywed couple, and together they head to the mansion of an eccentric architect, where the former prisoner is supposed to meet his wife; but things don't go as planned...

Ephemeral loves, days of summer freedom and the drift across Europe

Ephemeral loves, days of summer freedom and the drift across Europe

Arturo is a music enthusiast, although his skills as a guitarist are lesser. Urgently incorporated into a band, he is soon fired, although he will remain linked to it as a manager... or so he thinks. As the band grows in popularity, his link with it will diminish.

The owner of a pastry shop in decline celebrates winning a prize in the pools in a brothel and dies. With the money, his widow and three daughters relaunch the business and turn it into one of the centers of social life in the neighborhood (with excellent pastries).

The owner of a pastry shop in decline celebrates winning a prize in the pools in a brothel and dies. With the money, his widow and three daughters relaunch the business and turn it into one of the centers of social life in the neighborhood (with excellent pastries).

Eight years after the interrail described in Orange Color Days, this film presents another trip with a similar starting point: a Finnish girl is asked to do the train trip that a woman took forty years ago, repeating the same actions. At first everything seems pleasant and inconsequential. But the journey takes a turn when she meets Ziad, a Syrian who must reach southern Spain to identify the body of his drowned brother.

Eight years after the interrail described in Orange Color Days, this film presents another trip with a similar starting point: a Finnish girl is asked to do the train trip that a woman took forty years ago, repeating the same actions. At first everything seems pleasant and inconsequential. But the journey takes a turn when she meets Ziad, a Syrian who must reach southern Spain to identify the body of his drowned brother.

The flash of socialism that once lit Spain.

The flash of socialism that once lit Spain.

Rosa’s calm existence is disrupted by the arrival of the charming adventurer Ivan. Blinded by unconditional and self-destructive love for him, she leaves everything behind to follow him to the end.

The Devil talks only through an image and tell his stories to an imprisoned writer.

The Devil talks only through an image and tell his stories to an imprisoned writer.

The Devil talks only through an image and tell his stories to an imprisoned writer.

Two friends come to Spain to do a trip around the country. One is Spanish; he left Madrid five years ago, at the beginning of the crisis, in order to live in Berlin. The other is a Finnish, and he was in the country only once, when he was eight years ago. During some weeks around Christmas 2013, they take a ride, taking notes of the things they see and the big changes happened in all these past years: economic crisis, huge unemployment, the battle for social services, the unfinished residential states scattered for the whole country, many changes in how people live, the generational gap, etc.

A catalan couple, with a daughter, suffers a strange accident in a road in Andalucía. The woman and the daughter die. Her family starts an investigation but it seems that the husband does not remember much.

A catalan couple, with a daughter, suffers a strange accident in a road in Andalucía. The woman and the daughter die. Her family starts an investigation but it seems that the husband does not remember much.

A sequel to País de todo a 100 (Country of Everything at 100).

A Taylor comes to town looking for top-quality leather. From his apartment window, he watches the comings and goings of the other inhabitants. He grows obsessed with a woman who is also desired by the rich, powerful owner of the building. The rivalry between the two men leads to a series of events culminating in a dramatic ending.

Hannibal comes out worse from every exchange he makes throughout the day, or at least that’s what he thinks. But as Dr. Pangloss (or in this case the technical drawing teacher) would say, nature tends towards balance.

Hannibal comes out worse from every exchange he makes throughout the day, or at least that’s what he thinks. But as Dr. Pangloss (or in this case the technical drawing teacher) would say, nature tends towards balance.

The story of German born brother and sister Lidia and Ernst Hahn, whose lives spanned many of the major upheavals of the 20th century: from the Soviet Revolution and the Spanish Civil War to the Second World War and Pinochet’s coup d’état. All of which is recounted in the oral testimony of Jacinto Vaello Hahn, who was their son and nephew, respectively.

The story of German born brother and sister Lidia and Ernst Hahn, whose lives spanned many of the major upheavals of the 20th century: from the Soviet Revolution and the Spanish Civil War to the Second World War and Pinochet’s coup d’état. All of which is recounted in the oral testimony of Jacinto Vaello Hahn, who was their son and nephew, respectively.

The legendary Mario Gas and his daughter Miranda star in this humanist comedy by Pablo Llorca, an immersion in a working class area of Madrid, its neighborhood life and its community ties, on the fringes of the haste of the big city. Along with Elena, a photographer for a magazine, we end up in La Fortuna, where Elena takes Ana after helping her when she feels unwell after a marathon. There, in the bar, we’ll get to know Ana’s world, her father, a likable sponger, and her long-suffering mother, and we’ll accompany her on her road to independence.

In the summer of 1996 Pablo Llorca did a long interview with Guillermo Pérez Villalta on the subject of water and the Mediterranean. They were five hours of recording, faded away immediately due to humidity problems and that had never been seen before. Recovered twenty-five years later, this is the result, where the painter's words are matched by images chosen by the filmmaker, in a descriptive relationship as well as a complementary reading.

Jaime is the director of a company that organizes sporting events. He has a mistress, Belén, whom he repeatedly tells that he is going to leave his wife. But he has a problem: the owner of the company is his father-in-law. In the meantime, José Antonio starts working as a doorman in the building where Jaime lives with his family, and where Belén also lives. Jaime, who is the president of the residents' association, recognizes him as one of the policemen who, thirty years before, gave him a beating in a police station (during the Transition Jaime was an activist in a left wing group).

Acta de primavera enters a public school in Madrid through the people who make it their daily world: students, teachers, and staff. Their perspectives form a collective portrait of school life, inviting us to listen closely to the experience of belonging to—and shaping—a shared institution.