Pilar López de Ayala

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An exploration of the movie "The strange case of Angelica" and an understanding Manoel de Oliveira's cinema.

Sidewalls

Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?

Fill Me with Life

An urban drama of love and marginality, drugs and falls into the abyss. This is where Josetxo San Mateo's long-distance survey begins when David, a chic who lives on the street for vocation, begins to see María. One day she decided to approach her and enter a poem that she wrote for her: Báilame el agua. She doesn't hesitate to follow him. It's not easy to live on the street: bad companies, drugs, delinquency, including prostitution, become road workers.

El molino

It tells the story of Mayte, an engineer who returns to a small town, with only 12 inhabitants, to carry out an important project. Her visit coincides with the valley's annual event. There she reunites with Jaime, her childhood love.

In the City of Sylvia

A man returns to a city to try to track down a woman he met six years earlier.

The 13 Roses

True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed without even a trace of evidence of any wrong doing.

The Strange Case of Angelica

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From that moment, he will be haunted by Angélica day and night.

Obaba

A rural drama set in Obaba, a mythical region in northern Spain, where a young filmmaker struggled to capture the feel of the area, which in turn leads to a wealth of self-discovery.

By My Side Again

When three estranged sisters, Gloria, Ana and Lidia, meet up again on the death of their mother, Adela, they find themselves obeying her somewhat eccentric last wishes. Though their mother has spent the last 30 years without uttering a single word, she has left very clear written instructions of what she wants done after her death.

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