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A serious crisis has shaken Spain since the referendum on self-determination and the proclamation of the independence of Catalonia by the government of Carles Puigdemont, bold actions firmly fought by the Spanish government by applying the constitutional article that allows it to place a region under guardianship. While Spain is on the verge of implosion, Europe is holding its breath.
José Rosado, a U.S. citizen of Puerto Rican descent, flies to Madrid from Miami in 2021 for business and dinner with a friend. He stays at the luxurious Hotel Palace. He is married to a man but has an open relationship. After dinner, he decides to go out for drinks in the Chueca neighborhood, where he meets two other men and returns to his room with them. The next day, hotel staff find José Rosado dead in his bed. Natural causes?
On May 4, 2017, the police found a burned car on one of the roads of the Pantano de Foix, near Barcelona. Inside the vehicle they discovered the remains of a charred body. The car belonged to Pedro Rodríguez, an agent of the Guardia Urbana of Barcelona. Officially, he was not listed as missing. When reconstructing his last hours of life, the mossos began to find inconsistencies in the statements of the people closest to the missing man.
Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true events, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is one about love.
Three poets, twenty-four hands, a love song.
After a massive destruction on Earth, a white girl Alba (14) and a black boy Didac (9), are the only survivors on the Earth. They must start a new world. A Second Origin. Population is over. There are only two survivors. Now, our future depends on them.
The cleaning service of a tourist apartment on Camprodon Street in Barcelona calls the police because they have found the body of a woman. The victim is Ana Páez, a young woman with a simple life and full of plans for the future. Nothing that her loved ones explain fits with the initial hypotheses that the investigators had made.
On October 5, 2004, firefighters received a call about a fire in an apartment in the Bellvitge neighborhood of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. Upon discovering the bodies of two women, they quickly alerted the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police), who found the victims bound, gagged, and with multiple stab wounds. They soon determined that the victims were two trainee officers of the National Police Corps who had been murdered.
Suddenly, Clara, Mónica's daughter, falls into a deep coma. With Clara left to die, a mysterious man proposes Monica to make a pact: Clara will be saved if Mónica does something for him.
Abandonados, a case by Carles Porta, revisits one of the most unsettling episodes in recent Spanish history. Forty years after being abandoned at a train station in Barcelona, three siblings embark on an investigation to uncover their identity and their past. Through testimonies, archival material, and a long-term investigation, the work reflects on memory, identity, and the search for truth.