From Spain

13 films
Flamenco, siesta, corrida, or maybe sangria sipped in the evening after a sunny day on the beach. There are quite a few associations, but we promise that these videos will show you completely new, unknown faces of this popular vacation destination.

  • Air (Aire)

    dir. Ricardo Íscar
    dok2022

    For the protagonist, breathing therapy and anti-stress techniques become a starting point for a life change. He enters the world of freediving, i.e. diving while breadth-holding. Risking his life, he starts practicing holding his breath for increasingly longer periods of time. Where is the boundary of his capabilities?

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  • El Drogas

    dir. Natxo Leuza
    dok2022

    Natxo Leuza’s music documentary can be best described using the words transformation, counterculture and music. The director allows the eponymous protagonist to take the audience on a journey through the underground world of the political transformation era in Spain. One of its symbols was El Drogas, the icon of the 1980s music counterculture.

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  • Fauna

    dir. Pau Faus
    dok2023

    The world of ‘Fauna’ is a reality of contrasts and contradictions. In Barcelona’s suburbs, two apparently unrelated stories are taking place – one in nature, while the other one – behind closed doors of a scientific lab. Can these worlds remain independent of each other?

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  • In My Skin (En Mi Piel)

    dir. Sándor M. Salas
    dok2023

    Lace, taffeta and subtle elegant adornments. Wide sleeves, frills, deep necklines and long colourful earrings. Canes, crutches and wheelchairs. This hypnotic dance show is a flamenco performance created by persons with disabilities who feel free and fulfilled while dancing.

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      Online edition of the 63rd KFF
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      From 2 to 18.06KFF VOD

  • La Singla

    dir. Paloma Zapata
    dok2023

    As a teenager, she was a great discovery in the flamenco world, not only because this Roma girl from the outskirts of Barcelona was deaf. Due to her exceptionally passionate expression she became a star of Europe’s stages, and then she disappeared for fifty years. Today. a contemporary dancer walks in the footsteps of La Singla.

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    Awards:Special Mention
      Online edition of the 63rd KFF
    • VOD
      From 2 to 18.06KFF VOD

  • Nocturna

    dir. Víctor Maldonado, Adrià Garcia
    anim2007

    In eponymous Nocturna, there is an old orphanage. A little boy lives in it. Tim is terrified of darkness. At night, he is protected from it by the light of the stars. One day Tim notices that his favourite star is gone. What is worse, more of his night companions soon begin to disappear. The boy decides to find out what is going on.

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  • The Biological Invasions. The Case of Ovis Orientalis Musimon on the Island of Tenerife: « The Last Mouflon» (Las invasiones biológicas. El caso del Ovis orientalis musimon en la isla de Tenerife: «El último muflón»)

    dir. Omar Al Abdul Razzak, Shira Ukrainitz
    anim2023

    The mouflon, wild sheep with beautiful curved antlers, were brought to the island as an attraction. Nevertheless, they should not be admired but killed. One animal becomes separated from the herd – will it manage to survive? Based on real events, the animation documents the harm done to the species in Tenerife.

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  • The Bus (El bus)

    dir. Sandra Reina
    dok2022

    Have you ever thought who the people riding with you on the bus are? Where are they going? What are they dreaming about or what plans do they have for the weekend? Sandra Reina decided to check it. The Spanish director took a camera on her suburban journey and turned it on to give voice to other passengers.

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  • The First Woman (La primera mujer)

    dir. Miguel Eek
    dok2022

    Eva is a woman in her forties. We meet her when she is a long-term patient of a psychiatric hospital. She is looking forward to the day when she will be able to leave the facility. As she repeatedly states, she dreams of ‘going at large’ and ‘being a normal person’. Yet what is a ‘normal life’ for her?

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  • The Sower of Stars (El sembrador de estrellas)

    dir. Lois Patiño
    fab2022

    Distant lights draw the city. Shining ships arrive with sleeping people and the night turns liquid. The stars’ sower wakes them up and they travel through the city, talking about this and that, while saying goodbye to everything.

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  • The Time after the Rain (El temps després de la pluja)

    dir. Júlia Girós, Pol Picas, Nina Solà
    dok2021

    Young Mohamed Dih, who in Seville, returns to his birthplace – a refugee camp in Western Sahara. Time flows differently here: the times of the day are marked by calls to prayer and the seasons – by the rainfall. When a torrential downpour destroys his family’s home, the protagonist stays in the camp for longer to help to rebuild it.

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  • The Walls Can Talk (Las paredes hablan)

    dir. Carlos Saura
    dok2022

    The documentary ‘Walls Can Talk’ is the last work of Carlos Saura. It is a cinematographic reflection of a mature artist on the role of art in human life from the pre-historic times until the present. Confronting cave paintings with the latest representations of urban art, the director is looking for an answer to the question about the nature of art.

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  • Two Breaths (Bi arnas)

    dir. Jon Mikel Fernandez Elorz
    dok2022

    The film uncompromisingly depicts actions of government officials, which took place behind the closed doors of Basque prisons. Iratxe Sorzabal and Nekane Txapartegi are women who were subjected to torture. Now they talk about their experiences. Their terrifying stories and those of many other female prisoners are confirmed by a forensic doctor.

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