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Ricardo Steinberg (Buenos Aires, 1950) is a Spanish sound technician, teacher and producer of Argentinean origin. Established in Spain, he has been part of Producciones El Escorpión and has worked as sound producer for directors Alejandro Amenábar, José Luis Cuerda, Adolfo Aristarain, Gonzalo Suárez, Carlos Saura, Pedro Almodóvar, Felipe Vega, Víctor Erice, Álex de la Iglesia, Mateo Gil, or Agustín Díaz Yanes. He later founded Foro Sonoro Producciones, with which he produced the short film 'Dime que yo' by Mateo Gil (Goya for best fiction short film, 2010). For his merit he was nominated in 1988 for the Goya for best sound with Daniel Goldstein for 'Remando al viento' and 'Pasodoble', but was not awarded. However, he was awarded in 1996 for 'Thesis', 2001 for 'The Others' and 2004 for 'The Sea Inside', all of them by Amenábar. In 2011 he co-directed the short film 'Mein liebe', nominated for the Goya for best fiction short film. He is also a professor of sound at the Escuela de Cinematografía y Audiovisual de Madrid (ECAM) and a member of the board of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences).

About Joaquín Murieta , from Valparaíso, who arrived in California in the 1850's during the Gold Rush , transforming himself into a legendary assailant and representative of the protest against the extreme exploitation conditions that characterized mining of the time.


Filmmaker Victor Erice follows Spanish artist Antonio Lopez in his painstaking attempt to paint the image of a tree.

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.

A sex doll called Lucy wakes up in the bedroom of a doll brothel. She lives with Mina, another doll. Together they watch TV: their window to the real world. They imagine themselves living far away. After a while, Lucy wants to escape. But Mina doesn’t want to leave. Lucy has to choose between freedom and the doll she is in love with.

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.

Impelled by a spirit which still preserves a patina of idealism, Alfredo arrives to Madrid with the intention to create "a performance that is free, straight from the heart, capable of making people feel alive". His concept of what acting should be begins beyond the stage, out in the streets face to face with the public. Outdoors, in any town square, in a park or in the city's most commercial street, Alfredo and his troupe November start the show; demons to provoke passers-by, displays of social conscience, actions taken to the extreme to put the forces of law and order on full alert. There are no limits, no censorship; only ideas which are always valid so long as the public ceases to be the public and becomes part of the show swept by surprise, fear, tears or laughter. Theater as life, life as theater… there is no longer any difference.

El Bola is a 12-year-old boy raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he avoids becoming close to classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school changes his attitude towards his classmates and friendship.

The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.

The usually absent father of a chubby kid shows up to take him on a road trip.

Two salesmen arrive at an old woman's house to offer her a great deal.

After having a nearly fatal drug overdose, 19-year-old Argentine Martin is sent to Madrid, where his film director father lives with his new, younger lover, Alicia, and his bisexual actor friend, Dante.
