Juli Cantó

Insurrección

Quimera

A journalist, overwhelmed by problems, contemplates suicide. He then finds a way out of his desperate situation by fleeing to a mountain village haunted by the legend of a bloodthirsty wolf that he, perhaps, can hunt.

Father on Fire

If life already feels too big for Javier, let alone death—his father’s death, in particular. Even more when, to carry out his father’s last wishes, he must face the most atrocious opposition: his mother. Clearing the unfinished business quietly may seem tempting, but the fallout from dodging it will blow up in his face when he least expects it.

Tocant el mar

Arroz y tartana

Manuela de Fora, an elegant woman, widow of Pajares, lives with the sole obsession of marrying well her two daughters from her second marriage, Concha Blanca Jara and Amparo. She also has Juanito, son from her first marriage, but she despises him for wanting to be a merchant, like his father. Who really appreciates the laborious Juanito is his uncle Juan, a man of austere habits that blames his sister Manuela for wasting money to pretend being of high social position.

Las palabras de Vero

Vero has Downs Syndrome. Her mother blames her for her misfortunes, she wants to love her but unconsciously something is stopping her. So, Vero receives more affection from her brother Marcos. Veros integration into normal society comes from her passion for theatre and her participation in a theatre group made up of physically disabled people. To perform, she needs Marcos to recite to her some magic words that give her confidence. Marcos puts all his efforts into overcoming the difficulties that stand in her way while their mother fights to rebuild her life.

4 Angelitos

Dani is a young geriatric assistant who starts his new job in an old nursing home taking care of Marisa, an elderly woman in the last few hours of her life. Dani aims to use the situation to get hold of some of the old woman’s jewels and valuables, and unleash some of his most personal perversions. However, Dani may have chosen the wrong person…

The Pedal Push Car

During Holy Week of 59 in the tragicomic social landscape of Franco's Spain, takes place the sentimental chronicle of a nine years old boy: Pablito. Pablito wants the pedal car he sees in a shop near his home. His family -middle class with bad luck - silently suffers the pressure of the other part of the family- middle class with good luck and best influences. The desire of the car and the hope to get it encourage his parents to take the child, piggy bank in hand, through a strange journey to the colorful and surprisingly familiar world full of lies and blackmail. Pablito emotionally survives in that environment thanks to his ability to get from his imagination the answers that parents and teachers do not give him. And that way, Pablito will create his own happy ending.

Insurrección

Quimera

A journalist, overwhelmed by problems, contemplates suicide. He then finds a way out of his desperate situation by fleeing to a mountain village haunted by the legend of a bloodthirsty wolf that he, perhaps, can hunt.

Father on Fire

If life already feels too big for Javier, let alone death—his father’s death, in particular. Even more when, to carry out his father’s last wishes, he must face the most atrocious opposition: his mother. Clearing the unfinished business quietly may seem tempting, but the fallout from dodging it will blow up in his face when he least expects it.

Tocant el mar

Arroz y tartana

Manuela de Fora, an elegant woman, widow of Pajares, lives with the sole obsession of marrying well her two daughters from her second marriage, Concha Blanca Jara and Amparo. She also has Juanito, son from her first marriage, but she despises him for wanting to be a merchant, like his father. Who really appreciates the laborious Juanito is his uncle Juan, a man of austere habits that blames his sister Manuela for wasting money to pretend being of high social position.

Las palabras de Vero

Vero has Downs Syndrome. Her mother blames her for her misfortunes, she wants to love her but unconsciously something is stopping her. So, Vero receives more affection from her brother Marcos. Veros integration into normal society comes from her passion for theatre and her participation in a theatre group made up of physically disabled people. To perform, she needs Marcos to recite to her some magic words that give her confidence. Marcos puts all his efforts into overcoming the difficulties that stand in her way while their mother fights to rebuild her life.

4 Angelitos

Dani is a young geriatric assistant who starts his new job in an old nursing home taking care of Marisa, an elderly woman in the last few hours of her life. Dani aims to use the situation to get hold of some of the old woman’s jewels and valuables, and unleash some of his most personal perversions. However, Dani may have chosen the wrong person…

The Pedal Push Car

During Holy Week of 59 in the tragicomic social landscape of Franco's Spain, takes place the sentimental chronicle of a nine years old boy: Pablito. Pablito wants the pedal car he sees in a shop near his home. His family -middle class with bad luck - silently suffers the pressure of the other part of the family- middle class with good luck and best influences. The desire of the car and the hope to get it encourage his parents to take the child, piggy bank in hand, through a strange journey to the colorful and surprisingly familiar world full of lies and blackmail. Pablito emotionally survives in that environment thanks to his ability to get from his imagination the answers that parents and teachers do not give him. And that way, Pablito will create his own happy ending.

A Love to Keep

Spain, the era of dictator Franco. Two female teachers are in love, but in those years and in that regime the love is not only forbidden but also a crime. To avoid their child been in prison, the parents of the one teacher, force her to be confined in a clinic for mental diseases, where she is heavily abused, the main treatment been electroshocks. After Franco's fall, and the change of things, she is free to return to her home, under the surveillance of her mother. Her father, more compassionate, helps her escape and find her lover. But the years of been under electroshocks have damaged her health, and make it impossible to live a normal life.

Asunto Reiner

Silvia (Cuca Escribano) is local police in a village close to a luxury development. She lives with her husband, her young daughter and brother Camilo, with Down syndrome. One day a girl disappears from a nomadic village that had settled around the village. Everything seems to point to Camilo as guilty. Shortly afterwards disappears again another girl the same age. Unexpectedly, Camilo is accidentally hit by a car and dies. Convinced of the innocence of his deceased brother, Silvia not stop until you find the real culprit of the crimes.

Rufino

Tenacity and perseverance are qualities of a good bill collector. You can reach any remote place on Earth, even some other planet in the solar system.

The White Village

'L'Alqueria Blanca’ ('The White Village') proposes a journey through time, up to the 1960s, which reflects the life of an inland village, in the Alcoià county. The atmosphere is eminently rural and is marked by the great differences between the two most representative families of the place, the Falcó and the Pedreguer, who star in a series of stories with love above the class difference, envy, jealousy and scandal. It all comes down to some unstoppable advances in society.

Cuéntame cómo pasó

Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.

Historietes medievals