Substitute Happiness

One of the oldest pilgrimages known to European Christianity is the pilgrimage to El Rocío, where prayers are said to the benevolent Blanca Paloma. Year after year, pilgrimage trains of more than a million believers set out to visit the small, remote andalusian village, which is normally inhabited by less than a thousand souls. In this film, the story of shy infatuation developing between two young people is little more than García Pelayo’s pretext to shooting this event in each and every detail. - Viennale

An employee at a private school is promoted and beyond that she has the strength to attack her dead husband for not being a man when he was traveling with her in a bus.

Santiago and Amelia Luisa share life in their marriage and also the responsibility of running a nail salon. The daily life of the salon (and of the couple) will be strangely shaken when a new client asks for manicure services.

A wandering man drifts through La Plata's train station, becoming a lens through which we experience various scenes and moments from the Argentine city's daily life.

Pablo and Florencia work on Florida Street, the economic and tourist epicentre of Buenos Aires. Economic difficulties affect their life together. Pablo, in order to survive, begins to clandestinely smuggle dollars in the street. Taking advantage of the imminence of a currency crisis they will try to strike the blow that will take them out from the street once and for all.

A woman who suffered a serious incident with a violent tennis player -in other video of herself- now dates a shy, insecure jazz musician from Ramos Mejía, but she feels stronger and more glad with everything.

The maximum nonsense of life plays with the feelings of the owner and the employees of a tennis complex.

Winning Streak is the astonishing story of a group of young down-and-outs who are presented with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; to change their luck and set off on the adventure of their lives. Thanks to an infallible method based on the roulette wheel’s imperfection, their lifestyle is about to become better than their wildest dreams, as they set out to break the banks at casinos around the world.

In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to extremes, and an antiquarian falls for a young man.

Miguel is in love with Rosa, a special woman. The relationship did not work at all and decide to break. Rosa then falls for a Sevillian painter who has returned after forty years of exile.

"Nueve Sevillas" is a heterodox psycho-geographical profile of the new flamenco in Seville. Nine characters coexist with the great flamenco artists of today.

An unconventional cinematic work in which, through many narrative layers that intertwine, the director offers us a very particular view on a subject that is still taboo in society and arts.

The actors, actresses, characters and horses that star in this film configure unexplored territory, perhaps that undetermined space in which the city of Jerez builds a new image for flamenco.

Fede, a young bicycle delivery guy, leads a simple and carefree life, traveling around the city daily to deliver orders. One day, in the midst of his routine, he's assigned a delivery to a luxurious house where he meets Josefina, a girl from a wealthy family and surrounded by comforts. From their first encounter, a spark of attraction arises between them, despite belonging to completely different worlds.

Filmmakers Isaki Lacuesta, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, Gonzalo García Pelayo, Alba Sotorra, and photographers Isabel Muñoz, Castro Prieto, Díaz Burgos, and Ana Palacios explore their fears and how they affect their creative process, speaking directly to the camera, alone with the viewer.

Nacha, a secondary character in 'Copla', narrates the real interiorities of the Luis-Lola couple in their love crisis with the arrival of Manuel. The story unfolds differently from what happened in 'Copla', because Luis comes to the conclusion that he loves that Lola is loved by Manuel. Everything happens during the preparation and filming of 'Copla'.