My Friends and the Fire

In 2015, in Damascus, the Basateen al-Razi district and its orchards were razed to the ground as punishment for the population's uprising against the regime. Having lost everything, two former residents recall their neighborhood.

An urban train link, the RER B, crosses Paris and its outskirts from north to south. A journey within indistinct spaces known as inner cities and suburbs. Several portraits, all individual pieces that form a whole. We.

A sensitive 13-year-old watches her parents’ marriage unravel and struggles to keep her family together, clinging to the impossible hope that love will never end.

Laser lights, thumping bass and blades on ice. Inside a Montpellier rink, teens gather each week, forging friendships, dissecting crushes and dreaming. With big life changes on the horizon, this kaleidoscopic coming-of-age portrait captures the joy, intensity and fragile magic of youth.

A spring afternoon on the San Cristobal hill, in downtown Santiago de Chile. Four friends and a sound engineer talk about the events seen and experienced during the popular revolt that began in 2019 in Chile. The film brings to the surface certain conversations related to any revolution: hope, disillusionment, fire, torture and police violence, but above all the importance of collective memory.

Agatha has just started University, but she still sees her old school friends, sharing parties, private secrets, trips, jokes and debates. A private world full of memories that she will now have to measure against her new college friends and the changes that she’s begun to discover in herself. The film Agatha’s Friends is the portrait of a group of 20-year-old girls during their first year at University as seen through Agatha’s eyes. From their lives in Barcelona to a trip up the coast to the Costa Brava, where Agatha will feel how the world she built with her childhood friends Carla, Ari and Mar, has begun to change.

Otro Sol is a group of real and invented characters trapped in a film. It is also a purgatory of retired thieves that takes place on the coast of the Atacama Desert. The film is circular and seeks to invent and verify the myth of Alberto Cándia, a Chilean international thief who stole the Cathedral of Cadiz in Andalucia in the late 1980s.

Touched by the grace of speech, two dogs philosophize in a hospital car park, at night. Together, they paint a bleak picture of a humanity in the grip of a grand calamity, crumbling on the way our all too human certainties.

After breaking up with Boris, Lara returns to her hometown Barcelona. There, her friends, lovers and the Catalan traditions of the ’castells’ will change her dreams and desires.

Clara gives birth to her first child. In the chaos of postpartum, she tries to get her life back on track.

April 2022 in France. The presidential election is entering its final round and the atmosphere is tense. Solène, a waitress, drifts through the night. She takes drugs, hurts people’s feelings and increasingly loses her grip.

A rebirth in the middle of the night through the first encounter between Saó and Juliana, where vulnerability and seduction intertwine to pave the way for a promising tomorrow.

August in the French Alps. Young Elisa has just lost her grandfather. On a whim, she steals his ashes and flees into the mountain with his childhood friend, Malek. He alone remembers the path that leads to little Constantine, where Elisa must bring her grandfather.

Foster Wallace already proved in one of his books that narrating a tourist cruise can be much less bland than it seems if we apply a sufficient dose of playfulness. Something similar is achieved by Laura Rius and Carlos Solano in this unusual film, a subtle vindication of the pleasure of storytelling, which transcends not only the banality of its setting, but also the premises of a story that is presented as a documentary and then let itself be carried away by much more unpredictable currents.