Gloss (2022)

Alan Smithee

'Alan Smithee' is a film about a boy growing up. It delves into the darker side of what 'growing up' sometimes means: growing into your flaws, inevitably being met with the errors of your parents, and the necessity to make room for the pain. While Alan is surrounded by what is thought to be the American ideal, all the material comforts that should equate happiness, he learns that sometimes all we are is lost in the woods.

Stray Dogs

Set within the dark world of organized crime, two friends in the same gang must make a choice. Loyalty as brothers will be tested all on one eventful night.

Out

Ran, a seventeen year old teenager lies to his parents and leaves home for pointless wandering. He is thrown within his childhood realm, witnessing his world undermined by a secret just discovered about his father's homosexuality.

Days Before the Death of Nicky

Behind the wheel of her little car, Nicky seems to be on a mission. Roads pass by but the ideas in her head remain unfathomable. A meal, the discovery of a rifle, chance encounters: the mystery remains unsolved.

The Head Vanishes

Jacqueline has lost her mind a bit, but whatever, for her trip to the seaside, she has decided to take the train by herself, like a big girl!

What the Brides Do

The couple, Mariam (Marta Hazas) and Ale (Juan Caballero), are going to try an old sexual fantasy to solve their sexual problems: making a threesome with a stranger. An unknown person, Él (Sergio Mur) is the key piece of an erotic triangle where nothing goes as planned. Erotic drama, a story where feelings and sex mingle to form a web of emotions where not everything is what it seems.

Café Paraíso

Gallo rehearses his heroic resignation, with which he hopes to regain his youth, his dignity and even a love.

The Bread

A newly-baked bun in a bakery tries to avoid getting eaten.

Sopaipillas Pasadas

Lucía, looking to get ahead with her son, Álvaro, begins to sell his failed sopaipillas to drunken men at a Pool Bar in his area.

What Happens In Cap Vermell

What Happens In Cap Vermell is a story of love and heartbreak, of human relationships, of chance encounters and exceptional characters. A succession of moments linked together that all occur in one place, Cap Vermell, a heavenly, incomparable backdrop where anything can happen.

The Necrophile

A story of a very ordinary man who just happens to be necrophile. (He is also like to eat cockroaches.) Problems begins when his pretty orphan cousin came to live with him...

Away with Me

A spontaneous holiday romance in Nice turns sour when there is a clash of intentions and expectations between the two men.

Pinky Promise

Barely fifteen years old, Miranda has become pregnant during her first sexual intercourse. After talking to Luisa, they will share an afternoon of complicity and empathy that will end with the promise to keep a secret.

The Promise

The impossibility of guide her three daughters in life and the constant failed promise to be a good mother frustrate and imprison Susana more and more. Ana and Clara, her older daughters, decide to release her from her burden.

Expiation

A father in search of how to help his sick daughter.

Spaceless

Kan and Tul are aspiring actors who meet at an audition. From there on, another story unfolds, and both find themselves battling their own feelings.

Vigilantes

Two brothers define themselves as vigilantes and try to protect their property.

Not That Kind of Guy

Léto, a young trans and gay man, lives in a small, social housing apartment near Tours. During the day, he kills boredom on his phone from the ticket booth of a movie theater on its last legs. But where he's looking for feelings, he's only offered sex. So at night, he flees disillusionment by heading for the stars. The roof of his high-rise building is like his moped: a refuge, an escape. However, one morning, the parking lot of an ice rink becomes the setting for a life-changing encounter when he comes face to face with Hamza, a solitary employee with an enigmatic charm. The emotional disturbance is immediate. With all due respect to the scoundrels!

Kitbull

An unlikely connection sparks between two creatures: a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull. Together, they experience friendship for the first time.

Float

A father discovers that his son floats, which makes him different from other kids. To keep them both safe from the judgement of the world, Dad hides, covers, and grounds him. But when his son's ability becomes public, Dad must decide whether to run and hide or to accept his son as he is.

VALUE

Casual encounter or not? When a young man meets an old man, the generation conflict between them leads to unusual events.

Pounds of Matter

A kaleidoscopic perspective into one woman's experience with self-dissolution and urban alienation.

Shackled

Held captive by a circus, Malu is frantically rescued from her shackles by her husband. As she waits anxiously in the darkness for her chance to escape, a disturbing truth she's hidden away seeps back in.

He Was a Friend of Him

After failing to commit his first murder, an aspiring serial killer decides that the most rational way to get started is to kill a friend who totally trusts you. This is how a lonely mentally unstable guy meets a naive next-door boy.

Andromeda

In a near future when androids are the new working class, one 'Andromeda' will be the breakthrough for human-level artificial intelligence. Through the love and care of a child, this android is given the gift of a heart and the promise that one day she will become real. But her transformation is dangerous, and there are those who will do anything to have her destroyed.

Run Away

Juan, a young Latin American student, is forced to run away after witnessing the enforced disappearance of his best friends in Mexico.

Funeral

Zacarías reunites with his ex-girlfriend to go to the funeral of a mutual friend.

Jaguar

After a concert, Jaguar and Javier go to collect a delivery, but they don't have in mind that this will put their friendship to the test.

Bound for Greatness

Darren, who lives with Aspergers, has gone throughout his life not truly connecting with anyone. Seeking the comforting sounds of crashing waves one blustery day, he happens upon a girl nursing a broken bird. She needs him…

Annie

Annie wakes up in the middle of an abandoned quarry without knowing how, or why, has she got there. As she incorporates herself, she begins to understand her complicated situation.

Salmon

Transformed into a salmon, an Indigenous street artist travels through decayed urban landscapes to the forests of long ago, in this sublime mixed animation.

Daniel

Spooky stuff is afoot in a French school. All of a sudden, 10-year-old Daniel finds himself alone with Marthe – their encounter is both tender and troubling, and it seems to take place in a sort of vacuum. In Marine Atlan’s dream-like feature film debut, children dance tango timelessly, recite poems and do the drill for an imaginary terrorist attack.

Private Photos

A sweet couple invite a third person over for the night, who brings a lustful energy to spice things up.

From Here to There

After ten years, Jae and Him reconnect at a wedding, rekindling old feelings during a long drive home. But is the distance between them enough to heal their past?

Kindil

During a beach excursion, Nfissa, a young mother, is violently sexually harassed and drowned by a group of young men after she absent-mindedly swims into their midst. Nobody seems to witness her disappearance. Anxiety and fear grow among her family, especially as, on the same beach, bathers suddenly start dying en masse.

Touch

When a single mom, facing eviction, is offered a night’s work, she unsuccessfully seeks a babysitter for her two small children. Desperate, she reaches out to the last person she wants to ask for a favour.

A World for Raúl

When thirteen-year-old Raúl is asked to entertain the local landowner's son, a game of power and pride starts between the two boys.

A Normal Guy

Daniel got lucky tonight: this time he is not going home alone again. But is that enough to pull him out of his reality?