Director: Núria Villazán

Érase un vez Juan Marsé

On the occasion of awarding the Cervantes Prize to the Catalan writer Juan Marsé on 23 April 2009, family members, friends and writers offer a sincere portrait of the best chronicler of life in Barcelona, Catalonia, during the post-war period and the worst days of the General Franco dictatorship, in the forties and fifties, and during the economic development and the hard conquest of freedom, in the sixties and seventies.

Monkeys Like Becky

The first part of this documentary deals with the Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949, one of the first surgeons to apply the technique called lobotomy for the treatment of schizophrenia. The second part deals with the everyday life of people with schizophrenia today: behavior and relationships, and treatment for the disease.

The Great Impatient

In 1951, German Puig founded with a group of young people the Cinemateca de Cuba with the support of the Cinémathèque française and outside the official institutions. At 91, he recalls his struggles against indifference, ignorance and how, when the political confrontation extended to the field of culture, his work and name were erased from the island's history: it is the Revolution that has made him a hero.