Confined Spaces

They were frightened. Suddenly the sea became calm.

Bordeaux, France, 1828. Spanish painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes dies in his French exile on April 16th and is buried in the local cemetery. Nobody, not even his only living son, Javier, claims his body. In 1888, after years of paperwork, the Spanish consul Pereyra finally obtains permission to exhume Goya's remains with the purpose to bury them in Spain. When the crypt is opened, the gravediggers make a discovery as macabre as it is stunning…

The Spanish family Gabarre-Mendoza is celebrating a birthday, when it is interrupted by a police inspection. In ‘La Cañada Real’, a shanty town just outside Madrid, the inhabitants are forced to leave their illegal homes. Each member of the family struggles in their own way with their unstable position.

The “Duque de Alba” is the last adult movie theatre remaining in Madrid. Rafael, the projectionist, works hard every day in order to make the place tidier. He hand-paints the movie posters himself, he puts flowers and houseplants around, he fits out the entrance… Even though pornography is mostly consumed online, the theatre works due to a fixed clientele. The “Duque de Alba” is, indeed, more than just an adult movie theatre: it is a shelter, a refuge. Yet Rafael has to face a new problem now: Luisa, the ticket clerk with whom he’s worked with for more than thirty years, the only one who helps him make the theatre a better place, is about to retire.

Léo is dragged to a nudist camping resort by his mother. Like most boys at the age of 12 or 13, being nude in public holds little appeal for Léo, who protests by wearing extra layers. Until he meets a certain special girl, who captures his heart and releases his inhibitions.

Rayco, an 8-year-old boy, and his sister Paula, 14, kill time as they anxiously await crabs arrival in Tenerfe. But their mother has become pregnant by a foreigner and their lives could change before the crab arrives on the island.

Damián, a dowser and family man suffocated by debt, receives an assignment to find water that becomes his last chance to keep his family afloat. On this trip, his six-year-old son Sergio accompanies him by surprise, who challenges him, assuring that he knows where the water is. This search for the occult, almost magical, becomes the fight between the two that finally reveals the death of their daughter. When the water gushes out from the subsoil, flooding everything, father and daughter reunite.

A friendship between Kookoo Rikoo, the only Arab Christian Israeli clown, and a war survivor, a Syrian girl.

Two men at the bar. They work in banking and have sold preferred securities in an undetermined amount. One of them, the general manager, is being harassed at his home. After several days of harassment, he finally has a revelation.