Pan’s Labyrinth 6 Feb 2008 Director: Guillermo del Toro Mexico, Spain, USA 2006 119 min Enter Pan’s Labyrinth as Guillermo del Toro leads you into a gothic fairytale of breathtaking originality. Ofelia, a young and imaginative, girl lives in the Fascist Spain of 1944. She travels with her pregnant mother to meet her new stepfather,… Continue reading El Laberinto Del Fauno
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La piel que habito
The Skin I Live In 07 Nov 2012 Director: Pedro Almodóvar Spain 2011 117 min An occasionally disturbing – but nonetheless stunning – film, The Skin I Live In revisits many themes familiar from earlier Almodóvar works: identity, revenge, and overwhelmingly powerful emotions. Running throughout is the idea of dark secrets and revelation. Plastic surgeon… Continue reading La piel que habito
También la Iluvia
Even the Rain 05 Dec 2012 Director: Iciar Bollain Spain 2010 103 min The exploitation of South American natives by Christopher Columbus is the starting point of this thoughtful and intelligent Spanish film-within-a-film-within-a-film. A film crew arrives in Bolivia to tell the story of the early Spanish colonists and their impact on the New World,… Continue reading También la Iluvia
Butterfly Tongue – La Lengua de las mariposas
19 March 2003 Director: José Luis Cuerda Spain 1999 96min Moncho is eight and it is the beginning of an idyllic year for him. He begins school with a wonderful teacher and makes a friend in Roque. His older brother is a saxophonist and takes him on a trip from their Galician town. It would… Continue reading Butterfly Tongue – La Lengua de las mariposas
Robot Dreams
9 October 2024 Director: Pablo Berger Spain, France 2023 102 min Dog lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone so one day he decides to build himself a companion, Robot. Their friendship blossoms and they become inseparable, exploring together the sights and sounds of 1980s New York. But one summer night, Dog, with… Continue reading Robot Dreams
A Fantastic Woman
06 Mar 2019 Director: Sebastián Lelio Chile, Germany, Spain, USA 2017 104 min Chilean director Sebastián Lelio follows up his 2013 festival hit, Gloria, with another luminous and deeply involving portrait of an isolated woman. In A Fantastic Woman, Lelio has created an exquisitely compassionate portrait of the everyday obstacles of transgender existence. Marina is… Continue reading A Fantastic Woman
Julieta
15 Mar 2017 Director: Pedro Almodóvar Spain 2016 99 min Pedro Almodóvar is back on familiar ground with this sombre and ravishing study of grief, guilt and burden. Told over 30 years with two actresses (Emma Suárez and the younger Adriana Ugarte) playing one woman, this is the story of Julieta who is facing family… Continue reading Julieta
The Pearl Button
30 Nov 2016 Director: Patricio Guzmán Chile, France, Spain 2015 82 min Water is the key to life and the central subject of this intensely lyrical documentary essay from Guzmán. Chile’s history is defined by its long indented coastline and Katell Djian’s gliding camera makes the most of massive mountains, volcanoes and glaciers. The fate… Continue reading The Pearl Button
Wild Tales
16 Dec 2015 Director: Damian Szifron Argentina, Spain 2014 122 min Szifrón’s zesty black comedy weaves together six short tales of individuals on the verge of a complete meltdown. Frustrated by petty bureaucracy, incensed by a cheating husband, emboldened by extreme road rage or sickened by a desperately unfair and corrupt society, various individuals decide… Continue reading Wild Tales
Wakolda
04 Mar 2015 Director: Lucia Puenzo Argentina, France, Spain, Norway 2013 93 min Lilith and her family move to Patagonia where her parents are taking control of a lakeside hotel. Coinciding with their arrival in the town is a visiting doctor, Helmut Gregor, from Germany who moves into the hotel while he waits for his… Continue reading Wakolda