Movies: Juan Diego Botto

It’s the late ‘80s in a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Bilbao. A children’s rhythmic gymnastics team has the chance to compete in a tournament in Berlin, but with the girls’ mothers unable to take time off work, it falls to the dads t...

Arturo , a successful restaurateur, having an affair with his assistant Cristal, tells her that he will reveal the extent of their relationship to his wife Paz. Not long after Cristal starts dreaming of life as a housewife, their plans fall through. ...

The story of the recovery of the negatives of thousands of photos taken by three photographers during the Spanish Civil War that were found seventy years later in a suitcase, inside a closet in Mexico City....

The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco"....

In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book character...

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Santiago, a gray man who works as a supporting actor, changes his attitude towards life when, for a few days, he takes his young son Guillermo into his home....

Leo is immediately set adrift by his new found responsibilities as a single parent, a feeling that is made doubly distressing when Dafne, herself understandably confused and heartbroken by her mother's absence, asks for an "artificial" mother to help...

During a long summer, the tranquility of a couple and their three children resting in a country house is altered with the arrival of the children's uncle, a character who exerts a curious influence on the boys and a morbid and strange attraction the ...

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Dante is a professional thief who makes ends meet through carefully selected, small jobs. His new target is a secluded big house which he thinks is unoccupied. But he's not alone, he will meet a strange couple whose reaction to his intrusion is to as...

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Ana is a woman of thirty-something, goes back to the house where she spent of her childhood during the Argentine dictatorship....

Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco resistance. Lucía is attracted to Manual, because of his smile and th...

Asier and I grew up in the Basque Country. But one day he disappeared, later I found out he had joined ETA....

The life of a young girl who plays with little animals and insects is suddenly changed with the arrival of a film crew and a strange man....

The first actor of a theater company on tour in Spain dies in a car accident. A new actor, Jorge Ruiz, is to relieve you. He's handsome, young and revolutionary. His arrival creates tension, jealousy and distrust in the rest of the cast, is-especiall...

Explores Llanos del Caudillo, a town from La Mancha founded in 1955 by the dictator Franco; a discreet and calm attempt to dissect recent Spanish history and to review how some Spaniards deal with the cruel heritage of their past. A reflection on wha...

The film tells in a funny way the ups and downs of a widower who would like to marry again. But his choice to take a young woman as the bride does not conform with what his three daughters want as stepmother. Naturally this will cause all kinds of ir...

This documentary looks at the life of Jordi Dauder through an interview with the actor a few weeks before his death. From her interventions and people who knew him, the play explores the experiences of actor, from his artistic side as from his politi...