Third Week

In the early 2000s filmmaker Raul Ruiz followed painter Jean Miotte to different locations (New York, France, Germany).

The concern of a group of people to avoid the sale of the Barcelona pension where they live is altered by the appearance of Dabashree, an Indian woman, and her 8-year-old son. The mysterious mission that Dabashree takes to Barcelona will awaken the curiosity of the inhabitants of the inn until an unexpected event will cause the woman to reveal her secret.

This film documents the untold adventures of the African-Americans who went to the Spanish Civil War, in the thirties, to fight for the civil rights that were denied to them in their home country.

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

A young man from Barcelona (Marc) arrives to Venice and confronts his father (Paco), who has not seen since he was two years old. This sudden encounter with his forgotten son both shocks and pleases Paco. Marc, filled with long repressed resentments, discovers in Paco a welcoming individual. The emotions seem to move towards a feeling of connection and understanding between father and son. But Paco's semi-lies, his complex and opaque past, his unclear present, quickly transforms the encounter into a muddy pool of emotional uncertaintie.