Movies: Juan Diego Botto

A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media....

Arturo , a successful restaurateur, having an affair with his assistant Cristal, tells her that he will reveal the extent of their relationship to his wife Paz. Not long after Cristal starts dreaming of life as a housewife, their plans fall through. ...

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Ana is a woman of thirty-something, goes back to the house where she spent of her childhood during the Argentine dictatorship....

Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father e...

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The film tells in a funny way the ups and downs of a widower who would like to marry again. But his choice to take a young woman as the bride does not conform with what his three daughters want as stepmother. Naturally this will cause all kinds of ir...

Spain, 1958. Miguel and Antonio, single and in their thirties, go on a trip to Ibiza, attracted by the European sexual myth and the illusion of freedom. But on the island nothing will be as they expected....

An account of the life and work of the Spanish poet Luis García Montero; a journey through his experiences, his mentors, his influences and his contact with other artists, both from the literary world and from other disciplines....

In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people....

Adolfo reunites with his old teacher, Father Benito, to confess him the crimes he committed when he was a young boy just to save the soul of the people he loved....

An anthology film with 20 stories on the subject of words, communication, linked to one another over a 400-metre stretch: from Madrid's Lavapiés Square to the Sala Mirador. A journey between theatre and cinema, filmed in a single fixed shot running c...

Dante is a professional thief who makes ends meet through carefully selected, small jobs. His new target is a secluded big house which he thinks is unoccupied. But he's not alone, he will meet a strange couple whose reaction to his intrusion is to as...

During a long summer, the tranquility of a couple and their three children resting in a country house is altered with the arrival of the children's uncle, a character who exerts a curious influence on the boys and a morbid and strange attraction the ...

Cristina has been dreaming of sleeping with Juan Diego Botto for twenty years. He's been dreaming of a fairer world his whole life....

Asier and I grew up in the Basque Country. But one day he disappeared, later I found out he had joined ETA....

Explores Llanos del Caudillo, a town from La Mancha founded in 1955 by the dictator Franco; a discreet and calm attempt to dissect recent Spanish history and to review how some Spaniards deal with the cruel heritage of their past. A reflection on wha...

Santiago, a gray man who works as a supporting actor, changes his attitude towards life when, for a few days, he takes his young son Guillermo into his home....

The life of a young girl who plays with little animals and insects is suddenly changed with the arrival of a film crew and a strange man....

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