Maximum Shame

The tavern where the action takes place is the waiting-room of Hell, the first door through which the inhabitants from the other side of the mirror will return.

Three wild, strange, odd, surreal, underground stories: "Metaminds & Metabodies", "Morfing" and "Welcome to Spain". Introduced by Arantxa Peña.

A hypnagogic ode to the end of the world.

In Ancient Times, the classic hero returned home and was rewarded with Glory. Nowadays, a trap awaits the returning hero: he is convinced failure is unavoidable.

Exasperated and megalomaniac director Carlos Atanes, takes the charge of produce a pilot program for the television, but his interests walks on another way: he wants to leave the audiovisual world definitively, by the most drastic way: hang himself by the neck. Intrepid journalist Diana forces him to fight against his own ghosts. So, both of them live an exciting underground adventure in Barcelona cinema's drains, peopled by the most raved and bizarre characters: rude and wretched producers, revenger and freakish actresses, survival actors, hyper-violent technicians who goes in front of camera...

Augustine of Hippo dreams of time paradoxes and spiritual decadence of a civilization, which could as much be that of the 4th Century A.D. as our own.

A man named Alucinio drifts on the Antarctic desert amid a winter storm. He has been betrayed -in dreams- by the woman he loves. When he is about to freeze to death is rescued by a poulterer who will introduce him to the secrets of pornophilosophy. Meanwhile, in Boston, the crazy artist Gropius Cantor and his little sect are getting tear the structure of reality. The space begins to twist on itself with unpredictable consequences for the future of the characters and all mankind. A story full of lechery, sarcasm, extravagance, impossible geometries, discovery of existence's hidden sides and a pinch of Magick.

Tony, the owner of a small fantastic film video shop, has found out that at times reality can defy science-fiction. The time has come to embark on a trip to a place nobody has ever been to before.

A strange love-story between a mad butcher and a young prostitute, they both inserted in a paradoxical Time structure, like Escher engravings.

In France, a near and probable future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the order... But her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the principles of the Doctrine.

5 short films, from 5 directors and 4 different countries on the theme of the Alter-Ego. The "Alter Ego Film Project" is inspired by the spirit of Maya Deren and her way of making films. Between double personality, secret identity, doppelgänger and impossible love we have discovered several unconventional stories halfway between narrative and experimental.

A bizarre "ménage à quatre" where everyone is half alive.

A ghostly journey guided by the voice of Erzsébet Báthory, the infamous Blood Countess of Transylvania. At the beginning of the 17th century, Countess Báthory was accused of torturing and murdering more than 600 maidens. Trialed and convicted, she was imprisoned in Čachtice, her own castle, where she remained for four years until her dead in 1614. Only in a diary could she express the words she would have spoken in her defense at a trial at which she never appeared.

Returning to your roots, to your family's house, can sometimes not be so good if the tranquility of your town is increasingly overtaken by surprises. A recorded theatre performance.

A woman finds a tape recorded in her adolescence and, from that moment on, lives in permanent conflict with her other self from the past.

A medium-length movie written and directed by Carlos Atanes in 2003 about Thelema, the abbey founded by Aleister Crowley in Cefalu (Sicily).