Alejandro Villaplana

A group of film students find themselves trapped in their university (ECAM, Madrid) under suspicious circumstances. With no way to communicate with the outside world, they must find out who is behind it all in order to survive the night.

Toño, an 11 year old boy, takes on the responsibility of caring for his sick sister due to his father's neglectful behavior. When he learns that orphans can have a better life in a shelter, he must choose between letting his sister's condition worsen or becoming a monster himself.

Spain, 1937. In the midst of the Civil War, Helena lives with her mother and her brother Bruno, unrecognizable and covered in bandages after returning from the front. Their strange, dehumanized presence awakens in Helena a restlessness that mingles with blurred memories, changing spaces, and blurring realities.

A group of travelers is trying to cross a lake to survive, but to do so they must face a hermit who lives in a cabin, the only one who can help them.

Emilio is a dull guy with a dull life. He only enjoys doing monologues as an amateur comedian on the stage of the same place where he started some time ago. But, at 40 years old, his dream of making it as a comedian has not come true. Unlike Carla, who is a famous comedian with her own TV show. One night, Emilio paints Carla some mustaches on one of the posters advertising her show. A few nights later, Carla shows up at the place where Emilio is performing.

A masked man plunges into the shadows of a remote darkroom nightclub. Speakers throb as bodies collide to the pulse of industrial music. Amid the crowd, his eyes locks onto a boy with a defiant, hypnotic gaze. To possess him is an all-consuming need—yet this obsession weaves a cage where hunter and prey become prisoners of their own hunger.

Alessandro, a young, idealistic, and romantic film director, crosses paths with Emma, a perfectionist theatre actress whose dream is to perform on stages across Europe. Their fleeting encounter, portrayed through a non-conventional structure reminiscent of *Bohemian Lights*, reveals that love appears when and where we least expect it. We accompany the protagonists on a journey through a timeless Madrid, filled with colorful characters such as: a megalomaniacal and jealous actor named The Interesting Actor; an obscene film producer called Stefano Clemente; and a priest and a nun searching for anisette. These almost phantasmagorical figures compel the two young protagonists to question their ways of believing and loving.

Francisco is a beggar who lives in the Almudena cemetery. One afternoon, while walking among the graves, he meets Julio, another peculiar beggar who claims to be a poet.