Empar Ferrer

Bestezuelas

In present day Spain, between the fixed races at the greyhound track, in a world of outsiders, a love triangle begins between Perla, Fabio and Lillo. A thriller about stolen money pulls us through this story about our three characters learning to start again.

Volaverunt

The story revolves around Goya's womanising and the mysterious death of the Duchess of Alba at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Centuries, at a time when Madrid was wobbling through a difficult time and setting the scene for the following Prim vs Crown uprising.

Rancour

When Chelo Zamora, middling singer, agreed to spend the summer working in restaurants in the Valencian beach Cullera, could not imagine being reunited with Toni, a guy who shares a dark past. Moved by his desire for revenge, Chelo attempt to ruin his life: get him to break with his girlfriend Esther, who loses his job and returning the police on her trail.

Visanteta, estáte quieta

Just when normalcy seemed to have returned to the Valencian town of Favara with Visanteta's marriage, tragedy strucks and she's widowed. To avoid the wrath of Saint Barbara after Visanteta's honor is threatened, they seek her a husband, but none lasts for long.

The God of Wood

Yao and Moroccan Rachid arrive illegally in Valencia, Spain, and separate. Yao sells pirated DVDs in the street and wanders disconsolately around the barrio until he glimpses divorcee Maria Luisa working in her boutique. High-strung and irritable, Maria lives with her gay son, Rober, who, like many other things in life, is a disappointment to her. Rachid, meanwhile, is doing just fine working as a hairstylist in a beauty salon; Rober is hopelessly in love with him. When Yao starts sleeping in Rober's flat, a confrontation between him and Maria suddenly becomes inevitable, and when it comes, what could have been an embarrassment is actually handled with grace.

Carmela

After the Spanish Civil War, Carmela joins the militias alongside thousands of other women. Her struggle is twofold: to confront fascism and defend the freedoms won during the Second Republic. In combat, a homemade grenade amputates the hand with which she had held her ideals and her weapon in defense of her rights.

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.

The Other Side

Suspected of murder, fifteen year-old Ramón Fortuna is held in a detention centre. He feels as if he has woken from a dream, a dream lived in Vallecas, a working-class neighborhood in Madrid. His childhood is over. His mother and sister have dedicated their lives to him; now, although convinced of his innocence, they are powerless. His lawyer Marcelo - another son of El Barrio - is reluctant to take the case, happier to sever all ties with his secret past and a love long lost.

Bestezuelas

In present day Spain, between the fixed races at the greyhound track, in a world of outsiders, a love triangle begins between Perla, Fabio and Lillo. A thriller about stolen money pulls us through this story about our three characters learning to start again.

Volaverunt

The story revolves around Goya's womanising and the mysterious death of the Duchess of Alba at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Centuries, at a time when Madrid was wobbling through a difficult time and setting the scene for the following Prim vs Crown uprising.

Rancour

When Chelo Zamora, middling singer, agreed to spend the summer working in restaurants in the Valencian beach Cullera, could not imagine being reunited with Toni, a guy who shares a dark past. Moved by his desire for revenge, Chelo attempt to ruin his life: get him to break with his girlfriend Esther, who loses his job and returning the police on her trail.

Visanteta, estáte quieta

Just when normalcy seemed to have returned to the Valencian town of Favara with Visanteta's marriage, tragedy strucks and she's widowed. To avoid the wrath of Saint Barbara after Visanteta's honor is threatened, they seek her a husband, but none lasts for long.

The God of Wood

Yao and Moroccan Rachid arrive illegally in Valencia, Spain, and separate. Yao sells pirated DVDs in the street and wanders disconsolately around the barrio until he glimpses divorcee Maria Luisa working in her boutique. High-strung and irritable, Maria lives with her gay son, Rober, who, like many other things in life, is a disappointment to her. Rachid, meanwhile, is doing just fine working as a hairstylist in a beauty salon; Rober is hopelessly in love with him. When Yao starts sleeping in Rober's flat, a confrontation between him and Maria suddenly becomes inevitable, and when it comes, what could have been an embarrassment is actually handled with grace.

Carmela

After the Spanish Civil War, Carmela joins the militias alongside thousands of other women. Her struggle is twofold: to confront fascism and defend the freedoms won during the Second Republic. In combat, a homemade grenade amputates the hand with which she had held her ideals and her weapon in defense of her rights.

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.

The Other Side

Suspected of murder, fifteen year-old Ramón Fortuna is held in a detention centre. He feels as if he has woken from a dream, a dream lived in Vallecas, a working-class neighborhood in Madrid. His childhood is over. His mother and sister have dedicated their lives to him; now, although convinced of his innocence, they are powerless. His lawyer Marcelo - another son of El Barrio - is reluctant to take the case, happier to sever all ties with his secret past and a love long lost.

Caution to the Wind

Juan, a young man from the provinces, meets a singer from a small band. Thanks to her, he discovers sex, but the experience shocks him so much that he is committed, labeled insane, to a mental asylum run by nuns.

Salted Water

A young Cuban named Olga arrives in Spain with a scholarship convinced that she has landed the chance of a lifetime. Deciding to stay, she eventually becomes an illegal immigrant, suffering the brunt of marginalization and, unable to return home, having to get by as she can. Mari Jo is a young girl from a poor Valencian suburb, born into a family with nothing but problems. Fate has marked her life as she too becomes an outcast. Both end up working illegally in a furniture factory where they earn three times less than the minimum legal salary.

Comida para gatos

Two inseparable friends, Pepe and Víctor, fall in love the same girl, Patricia. Bibiana, is a woman of career, who meets obliged to choose between the success and the maternity. Sandra, a faithful wife, finally dares to face the infidelity of his husband. Arturo, a homosexual neighbour, shelters a secret. Matilde doubts about the sexuality of her son. A reflection in key of comedy, on the life and his circumstances, where the hopes and dreams converge on a supermarket of neighborhood.

The 13 Roses

True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed without even a trace of evidence of any wrong doing.

Heart of the Warrior

Beldar and Sonja, a pair of thieves, steal a precious gem from the crypt of the Order of the Thousand Eyes, a daring act that will lead to unforeseen consequences.

Don't Blame Karma on What Happens to You for Being an Asshole

The lives of a Madrid-based feather-fashion designer and her whole family's completely tumbles after the appearance of a musician long-lost high school crush who is involved with her model sister.

Psycho Game

Javier is Spanish and is married to Laura, who is Chilean. They have a six year old son, living in Chile and enjoy a prosperous economic position. The three are, at last, on vacation in Spain, because Laura seems to have overcome a problem of claustrophobia that prevented her from traveling. The family moved to a camp, near the home of Javier's parents. There they meet Ignacio, a handsome young man, a friendly neighbor. But not everything is as nice as it seems at first sight.

Bear Cub

Pedro, a gay man with an active social life and big circle of friends, takes in his nephew Bernardo for a couple weeks. When it appears as though it might become a permanent arrangement, however, Pedro turns to his friends for guidance as he and 9-year-old Bernardo begin to forge a household together.

Flowers From Another World

Patricia, a woman from Dominican Republic, needs a home and an economic security that her illegal status in Madrid does not provide her. Milady, twenty, born in Havana and dying to travel the world. Marirosi has a job, a home, and the most complete solitude... just like Alfonso, Damián and Carmelo, men from the St. Eulalia, a village lacking both marrying women and future. A bachelors' party forces the encounter between them and the beginning of this bittersweet story of sharing a living.

Que nos quiten lo bailao

A story of loves, abductions, sultans, eunuchs, dancers, pumpkins, children's cars, parades, barbarians, virgins ... All these elements are the pretext of a cinematographic spectacle, the motive of an authentic Mediterranean party, between the historical parody and the musical magazine.

Nobody's Life

With a prestigious job and a loving family, Emilio (José Coronado) has the kind of life someone would kill for. But beneath it all is a horrible lie. Emilio's wife, Ágata (Adriana Ozores), becomes suspicious when Emilio picks up a guest pass to enter the Bank of Spain -- where, ostensibly, he works as an economist. But the house of cards starts crashing down when Emilio meets a needy college student, Rosana (Marta Etura), and begins an affair that proves disastrous.

El caso de las envenenadas de Valencia

Valencia, 1955. A down-on-her-luck spinster poisons her friend and employers out of envy.

Grandmother and Foreigner

Teresa is a dressmaker. She meets Samir, the greengrocer, who is actually a great tailor who had to emigrate from Pakistan. Enric, in the middle of a pivotal turning point in his life, returns to the village to attend the funeral of his grandma and discovers the relationship she had with Samir.

Las cerezas del cementerio

The Boys of the Sea

Sebas, a lifeguard at a resort swimming pool, Sergio, a fisherman, and Lorenzo openly live out their sexuality. They never thought about labels or sexual classifications, but just want to enjoy the sun, the sea, beer and their bodies. When Sergio goes missing, Lorenzo believes that his own mother might have something to do with it. She is a forewoman at the fish market where Sergio sells his wares and has found out that Lorenzo is having sex with Sergio. But can this be true? Lorenzo’s mother is also looking for Sergio. Everything changes when Lorenzo and Sebas finally find their friend Sergio.

La que se avecina

La que se avecina is a Spanish television comedy created by Alberto Caballero, Laura Caballero and Daniel Deorador. The TV-series focusing around the inhabitants of Mirador de Montepinar, a fictional building located on the outskirts of a big city. Both its storylines and cast are heavily based on Aquí no hay quien viva, which ended when Telecinco bought Miramón Mendi, the series production company. The episodes debuted on the Telecinco network, and were later rerun by the same network as well as cable/satellite channels FactoríaDeFicción and Paramount Comedy. The series debuted in 22 April 2007 and became popular thanks to its funny characters, witty script, use of catchphrases and capacity to integrate and poke fun at contemporary issues; the program presents a caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society. The name of the show involves wordplay, as "vecina" is the Spanish word for neighbour.

The Time in Between

Sira Quiroga is a young Spanish dressmaker engaged to a solid suitor when a suave typewriter salesman upends her life. Spain is being upended by a civil war and the new regime's growing alliances with Nazi Germany. Sira, smart, gutsy and resourceful with a Scarlett O'Hara-like ability to whip up designer duds on a moment's notice, Sira has spunk. Sira gains and loses a small fortune, is dumped by her cad of a lover in Morocco, runs guns to get the cash to start her life anew and becomes couturier to the Nazi wives stationed in Madrid. Urged on by her friend, the real-life British spy Rosalinda Fox, Sira, too, aids the British cause.

No One Could Live Here

A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.

The Countryside

A group of urbanites flee the city for different reasons: existential, economic crisis, need for fresh air, search for peace, inspiration to compose ... The intention of these strangers is to settle in an abandoned town and start their lives from scratch, but when they arrive they discover that there are still some neighbors: rural people with a very different way of seeing life.

Viento del pueblo: Miguel Hernández

The life and tragical death of the young Spanish poet Miguel Hernández.

Vida privada

Surrounded by the profund social and political changes that took place in Barcelona between the end of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship and the Second Republic, the eldest son of a bankrupt aristocràtic family falls into a spyral of decadence. At the same time, his younger brother fights to return to the top at any price and without any scruples.