Jesús Garay

The pornstar Sophie Evans has disappeared. Everything points to her husband Yago, a porn film director with the air of an artist. A film thriller within a film, meta-cinema raised to the nth degree with faces from the X-film industry.

An allegory of political oppression under Franco, with a plot alternating between narrative sequences and dream-like moments styled after the Spanish avant garde. Padrós employs a range of musical forms including opera, scores, and choreography to underscore a plot featuring a group of dropouts living in a junkyard who try to re-integrate with "The System" as represented by a party.

A humorously distorted version of the life of Shirley Temple, and described by its director as a terrorist musical. Shirley Temple sets off for the Emerald City to tell the Wizard that she is upset that Judy Garland has been selected for the role of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. On this trip she is accompanied by a group of characters who make reference to a fragmented, bipolar society. The film was begun as Franco was ill and completed after his death, and makes reference to the oppression of Spain during this period.

While his parents are away for the summer, 16-year-old Dani invites his best friend, the irrepressible Nico, to stay for the holidays. Jealously rears its head when Nico appears more interested in the local girls than in Dani. Hot summer nights and too many joints lead to experimentation which neither boy can talk about, a situation complicated by the appearance of the older and openly gay Julián, a published writer and old friend of Dani’s father.

Victor finds his wife, Virginia, in bed with another man. Virginia is dead, and the two men decide to lie so as not to tarnish the memory of the deceased. The lover will disappear, and Victor will declare that Virginia died by his side. But the game of falsehoods will become complicated. Nothing will go as planned, and a new woman will appear who will make both of them lose their heads.

A portrait of the Spanish painter José Pérez Ocaña (1947-83), who used transvestism and performances as his calling card.

An adaptation of the short story collection by Pere Calders.

A sensuous and ethereal story of two young women falling in love for the first time. Young, beautiful Àsia lies in a coma, her mother and boyfriend keeping constant vigil by her side. In flashback we see what led up to her accident, her life studying architecture at university, the somewhat overbearing relationship she has with her mother and her passionless relationship with Nathaniel.

Marga, a well-known television presenter, organizes a dinner with old friends from boarding school to which he has not seen for 30 years. But the meeting hidden other motives. Marga projects an old super 8 film shot where they can guess the murderer of a friend by one of the dinner guests. After a night of surprises and serious accusations, the truth comes out.

In the thirties, the modern industrial technologies applied to wars create a new situation: the mass destruction and indiscriminate instant, affecting both civilians and combatants. Barcelona was the first city bombed from the air, after the tragic bombing of Gernika. Between 16 and 18 March 1938, Barcelona was bombarded continuously day and night for three days, thousands of people lost their homes and in 1300 died (including 118 children). Events beyond the specific case of Barcelona, were decisive in establishing the foundations of the fateful World War II and the bombing of Dresden, Cologne, London, Hiroshima, Nagasaki ...

This is the story of three homosexuals who decide to spend the summer together at the cottage that the parents of one of them have in Santander. The film shows naturally a series of attitudes then considered shocking and even unnatural.

This is the story of three homosexuals who decide to spend the summer together at the cottage that the parents of one of them have in Santander. The film shows naturally a series of attitudes then considered shocking and even unnatural.

A man is released from an asylum. He lost his memory and is in search for a woman he might have killed.

A man is released from an asylum. He lost his memory and is in search for a woman he might have killed.

A Turkish consul travels to a Soviet city in the worst times of Stalinism. There, he falls in love with his secretary, a fervent communist.

A Turkish consul travels to a Soviet city in the worst times of Stalinism. There, he falls in love with his secretary, a fervent communist.

An adaptation of the short story collection by Pere Calders.

An adaptation of the short story collection by Pere Calders.