Saida Benzal

Fishbone

No One Could Live Here

A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.

Checkmates

Candela, the headmistress of an elite school, after a traumatic divorce, returns to her old high school to lead a group of rebellious students through chess. There she will learn that in chess, and in life, it doesn't matter if you are a king or a pawn, because everyone ends up in the same box.

Pipas

Is there anymore mutual understanding than a bag of sunflower seeds between two girlfriends?

One Way or Another

Former best friends Hache and Belen reunite in Malasana, the hippest neighborhood in Madrid. Hache is freshly single and still mourning the demise of her relationship, while Belen is a struggling actor. As they fumble their way through unexpected setbacks, dating mishaps, and apartment woes, they soon realize that life is better together.

Orson West

A film crew arrives at a border town of Alicante and Murcia to shoot a western. This episode will change the routine of the locals, especially in the case of a group of children. Similarly, the shooting represents a return to his homeland of Sonia, who comes to town to star in the film, recalling a series of stories with no end closed

Letters to Paul Morrissey

Three celluloid letters sent from different parts of the globe to Paul Morrissey, director of Trash, Flesh and Heat, collaborator with Warhol and agent for the Velvet Underground.

Dishonored Bodies

To love Love, devour Love, being devoured by Love. Video creation about the typical loving perversion, what the subject is love; love and not the object.

La vida es sueño

Through illness and death a daughter seeks her mother in a dream world and finds her father in limbo. While she accepts the events of the unstoppable life that she runs over with her own rhythm, she searches for her from the feeling of unreality of mundane life.

Nineteen Forty One

In a year in which Marlene Dietrich was breaking all stereotypes as an actress and as a woman by becoming a US citizen and Orson Welles was presenting the best allegation on the loss of power in his masterpiece Citizen Kane, Europe was drained in an all-out war led by big dictators in which treason, death and violence corrupted all layers of society. Nineteen Forty-one is a tribute to one of the hardest years in the history of the twentieth century.