Pablo Llorca

Five girls and boys periodically publish a cultural magazine, a kind of guide to the city's leisure activities. Each one is in charge of an area, from literature to cinema. And they live varied stories, both among themselves and with other people outside the group.

A musician famous in the 80s thanks to a song, the personification of so many Spanish pop musicians; his best friend, an apparently famous painter, and the crossovers between two worlds where differentiating between truth and illusion doesn’t matter: that is the storyline of 'The Journey to Kyoto'. What begins as a tragicomedy about a musician clinging to a distant past where he tasted glory, ends up being a precise metaphor for our day, where we all have the same pretensions of living an old success.

3 settings evoked in a stylised manner: a city with a harbour; a man killing young women and his rituals. The Legend of the Bridge of the Sighs at Venice; the parties and the rituals. A sailor viewing sights from his boat.

Rosa starts to go out with her neighbour at the boarding house, a Turkish soldier and a writer called Iskander. Some months later, the two get married and move out to live together in Iskander’s hometown on the Mediterranean coast. In this place, Rosa begins to learn many things about life, but her suspicions are also aroused.

A music teacher on strike and a man devoted to watching TVE’s historical series; the latter’s wife, a young Mexican woman who works as a cleaner, and her daughter, the teacher’s pupil; another group of people doing their best to make a living... They all live in Madrid where their paths cross constantly against the background of Spain in crisis.

Toño works as a local policeman in his town. He is clumsy and his neighbors laugh at him, so he asks his old teacher at the academy for help. What he finds is a town full of tensions, with a day laborers' strike that doesn't help.

Take that tacky look of 60's TV programmes, add some dashes of colour and humour to the pervading aseptic white, mix in some footage that would be happy in a horror film, wait... and you'll have a homemade dish that, though its made using absolutely genuine recipes, leaves a very special taste in the mouth.

Two friends come to Spain to do a trip around the country. One is Spanish; he left Madrid five years ago, at the beginning of the crisis, in order to live in Berlin. The other is a Finnish, and he was in the country only once, when he was eight years ago. During some weeks around Christmas 2013, they take a ride, taking notes of the things they see and the big changes happened in all these past years: economic crisis, huge unemployment, the battle for social services, the unfinished residential states scattered for the whole country, many changes in how people live, the generational gap, etc.