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1943. Franco has blocked the path of the Jews fleeing Nazi oppression over the Pyrenees mountains. At the border crossing in a small village, Manel Grau, a civil servant with a Republican past, decides to go against the orders of his superiors and aid the refugees across the border, with the help of Juliana, a fellow inhabitant of the village, and Jérome a French smuggler. Between them, they will start a crusade to help as many Jews as they possibly can. It is then that Manel will find himself embroiled in a dangerous odyssey. One that will awaken in him and his wife, Mercè, old ghosts of the still-recent Spanish Civil War
Thirty years after exile, Francesc Lamban journalist returns to the city where he was born to reunite with an old friend, attorney Ernest Salesa. The event takes place on the beach that saw the end of their relationship, and this fact is not accidental: Salesa has a business at hand transcendental and mysterious and has to convince Lamban to be part of it, at whatever price . While that behave remove ghosts from the past and the terrible memory of a love lost tragically common.
Mauricio is serving time for his political ideals in Barcelona in the 1950s. The only contact he maintains with the outside world are the letters he writes to his partner Helena. These letters are written on the skin of fellow prisoners who are released. One day the messenger who leaves prison has nothing written on his skin. That is the day of Mauricio's execution.
"Ferida arrel MMM" is a collective film around the figure of the Catalan poet Maria Mercè Marçal composed by filmmakers of different generations who deep into her life and work with the intention of reflect the construction of female identity. But isn't just a simple tribute to Mercè, is also a mirror in which the directors experience their own reflection from Marçal views and proposals. A poet, translator, teacher, feminist, intellectual, mother... crossed in the mirror for multiple (re) construct a genealogy of women in pictures. A mirror identified as a woman and artist who talks about motherhood, language, female body, memory, popular tradition, nature, art, lesbian love, disease, death.
Three characters meet on a winter night at a bus stop and attend to the abandonment of a dog. Mila, a teacher who has been a year off after being attacked by one of his students. Celso, security guard, married, father of a child with serious economic problems, about to learn that is going to be father again, but this time with twins. And Valeria, a cello student, with a murky relationship with her family and her love. The three set out on a journey that will take them to confront their fears and frustrations and to make each a decision that will change their lives.
Music brought them together. Aura, first violin and Manuel, the world’s most popular conductor, are the most envied couple in the country. Artists, famous and rich, their relationship hides an unmentionable secret. He mistreats her, something she has hidden for too long. One day, fed up with her silenced hell, Aura decides to take the plunge and ask for help, then what she had always suspected but never dared to confirm happens.
Eight stories about women, adapted from the book "Women" by Isabel-Clara Simó.
Five women directors offer their own very idiosyncratic view of sensuality and eroticism through the five senses of sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing.
Eleven-year-old Elisa (Claudia Pons) lives with her father (Hans Richter) in Spain following the breakup of her parents. Elisa goes to a fair with her father, and meets one of his friends (Jordi Gracia), a successful jeweler. Days later, a change comes over Elisa -- her mother (Lydia Zimmermann) notices she seems distant and withdrawn, and her teacher (Pep Sais) watches as she grows disinterested in her studies and her grades drop dramatically. Fourteen years later, Elisa (now played by Aina Clotet) is a grown woman who suddenly and unexpectedly recalls the traumatic event changed her life when she was a girl...
Anna celebrates her sixth birthday and, as a present, she wants a pet. She chooses Moss, a puppy who has already been abandoned 3 times. Anna falls in love at first sight and promises never to abandon him, but war breaks out and a big explosion separates their lifes. Moss becomes a street dog. He joins a curious gang of stray dogs: Spicy, Alley, Trains and Mint. With them, after some adventures, he arrives at a prison camp. There he meets Lucas, Anna's former teacher. Meanwhile, Anna loses her parents, lives in an orphanage and loses her ability to talk due to a trauma. At the end of the war, Moss and Lucas look for Anna. When they finally find her, Anna recovers her speech and her happiness.