A Film in the Theatre

Daniel and Alexandra. A beach day. An accident… A nightmare.

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.

Martín returns from vacation and discovers that his lifelong neighbor, Jesús, has completely changed. Intrigued and with the disapproval of his roommate, he decides to investigate what has happened to him. How far will his curiosity take him?

In a dark, abandoned mansion deep in the forest, an aging vampire filmmaker lives in communal seclusion with his five disciples. On the night of his birthday, he reveals his final wish: to film the one moment he has never dared to face — the sunrise —.

Three people are trapped in their daily lives looking into the past, only one of them learns to look into the future. When a dream dies and the heart cries Shahradoba is the word they whisper under their breath.

David-Isaías, a charismatic but decadent hoax artist, becomes obsessed with impressing legendary filmmaker Mr. Welles after a drunken romantic encounter with Miss Hayworth, the director's wife. To this end, he visits Welles' studio with his latest creation: The Gizmo, a mysterious brass tube that promises to photograph thoughts.

Dani, a poor 15-year-old boy, hates women, loves the gym and cryptocurrencies, and, despite his family, idolizes Leonidas, a controversial social media guru who constantly promises methods to become a millionaire, win over the girl of your dreams, and, most importantly, get out of San Blas.

A film composed of archival material and excerpts from an interview conducted in 1999 for the unfinished film “The True Story of Madame L.” After a decade out of the public eye, a group of film students manages to interview the woman who was once the most famous psychic on the Spanish scene. The political fortune teller, the snake charmer, the master of ceremonies, the ultimate charlatan: Madame Lola.

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.

San Millán de la Cogolla welcomes the visit of an artist who has been given carte blanche to develop and exhibit his new project, which will take place in what seems to be the last days of the village.

A group of neighbours has been evicted from the communal housing where they had lived all their lives. They decide to take revenge on the speculator responsible for the injustice.

From a rooftop, a camera films the El Pozo train station in Madrid on 11 March. It awaits the arrival of one of the four trains that took part in the 11M terrorist attacks, at the same place where it exploded in that Thursday of 2004.