Later in the Clearing

A thoughtful exploration of gypsy culture, an intimate portrait of flamenco guitar player Yerai Cortés and a healing family exorcism through music. Antón Álvarez (aka C. Tangana) makes his filmmaking debut with this documentary.

A conversation about the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) and his perdurance in contemporary Spanish cinema.

An early 20th-century sultan is introduced to the cinematograph with the help of a former operator for the Lumiere brothers.

In south-eastern Spain, there is a wall separating two worlds: a healthy world, and a sick world, once deemed contagious. The sanatorium of Les Fontilles used to be a sanctuary for people suffering from leprosy. Callisto Mc Nulty criss-crosses this border seeking out witnesses from the past and present, who through their stories become the keepers of a disappearing world.

Three strangers attend a cardiac arrest. The one in place doesn’t know, the one who knows is not there; the third, wish he wasn’t.

An oracle in the Paris of May ’68 and the back of a stranger in a Madrid nightclub in the early 1990s. Interwoven stories bound by a gentle attraction, as though desire permeated everything and the only law was that of necessity.

1962. Matthias, a former soldier stationed in the Belgian Congo, goes into exile on a Mediterranean island with his beloved Awa, a young Congolese woman he met during his deployment in Africa. Awa dreams of a better life, free from persecution. Matthias hopes to escape his past and, perhaps, build a future.

At the end of the day, Europa Park closes its doors. A mysterious dreamy air surrounds each of its corners. Inside there are only the two workers left in charge of cleaning the Fontana di Trevi.

Dr. Bryan Strange seeks to reduce the emotional impact of traumatic memories, which prevent some people from continuing to live normally. Following the experiment this reflection was born; about the ability to retain and remember the past as a fundamental part in the construction of our identity.