Lazos
tells one of those stories in which two people, being able to choose to try to be happy separately, decide to be unhappy together. This Italian melodrama, told in two parts, is balanced by a magic box that acts as a puzzle and as a symbol.
Sevillanas de Brooklyn
is the last film by Vicente Villanueva, director and screenwriter always attached to the neighborhood from his beginnings in short film, who has composed his best film around the interpretive force of Carolina Yuste.
El club del unemployment, the
sixth film by David Marqués, has something that distinguishes it for the better from its predecessors: a photograph of Guillem Oliver with colors and texture much more attractive than those usual exercises filled with light, in the style of too many television series.
The consequences
focuses on the affective triangle between a mother, her teenage daughter and the grandfather, three characters facing a personal and geographical ambush that will force them to unmask themselves.
Finally,
Calamity,
an animated film proposal with a classic and simple appearance, but thanks to a color palette as elegant as it is sophisticated, it turns its 96 minutes into an amazing visual feast.
The films have been reviewed by Elsa Fernández-Santos and Javier Ocaña.
Ties
Aldo and Ana are about to separate when he confesses that he has been unfaithful, but their children and the ties that bind them end up binding them in a whirlwind of resentment.
Brooklyn Sevillanas
In order to avoid eviction, Ana's mother decides to bring Ariel Brooklyn, an African-American student from a wealthy family, into her house in exchange for 700 euros.
They will all have to live under the same roof.
The unemployment club
Four friends meet every day in a bar to drink beers and to criticize and rant against everyone.
They all share that they belong to a club with millions of people: unemployment.
The consequences
A trip to a family island from which mother and grandfather fled years ago.
An island that opens a wound that has never been closed.
Calamity
Calamity is based on one of the few female myths of the conquest of the West, the pioneer Martha Jane Canary-Burke, a fierce drinker who came to be known as Calamity Jane for her talents as a horseman and explorer.