Mr. Almandoz has won numerous international awards for his films. In Amuak a fisherman knows how to hook each fish. Now he's looking to hook the impossible catch...
Angela wakes with a jump from a peaceful sleep. After work, she goes to a park to relax, but there even sitting down is a problem. ?El Aire Que Respiro? is about Angela?s obsession with once again achieving that uninterrupted sleep, with distancing herself from simple everyday, absurd and totality unstimulating reality.
Born in Eibar, Spain, in 1958, Sara Bilbatua is one of the best-known casting directors in Spain. Among others, she worked with Pedro Almodòvar on his feature films Talk to Her and All About My Mother. El aire que respiro is her debut as a short film director and screenwriter.
Los Ojos de Alicia opens on a bound woman secured in a locked white room, and that is pretty much where the action remains, the only explanation being the narrative from a small television.
The TV has an interesting effect, not only is it driving the main character along through the story, but it is also pushing the audience along with her. Through this technique we really find that we connect with the character and feel part of her situation.
The whole premise in which the character finds herself is very well crafted and written, with strong twists and revelations which are fantastically executed.
He works at night. She works during the day. They have been trying to have a baby for more than three months, and still nothing has happened.
The city taxi drivers have followed a course on kindness. If you do not make the grade, you will not arrive at your destination.
The film opens with a man leaving his residence on the phone to his mother, easing her by letting her know he knows when to take his tablets. This turns out to be the most normal occurrence he experiences that day, as a taxi abruptly yet efficiently pulls up in front of him.
A young woman’s sexual awakening is interrupted by a disturbing alien implant. Through pain and confusion she discovers her new nature, finding the way to achieve lost harmony.
It's not a question of long conversations, of long years of living together. Sometimes, in a place where people pass each other by, in only a few minutes, you may find yourself connecting with.
At the wedding of Antonio, the eldest of a five-sibling family, his father has a heart-attack. The wedding is interrupted and the whole family goes to the hospital, where all the traumas and miseries appear during a tense night wait.