BAJO LAS ESTRELLAS UNDER THE STARS
[en] Benito learns that his brother Lalo willsoon marry. Knowing the bride-to-be, he decides to step in, but finds himselfup against Nines’s daughter, Ainara, with whom he ends up forging a peculiarfriendship. When things take a turn for the worst in this peculiar family,Benito decides for the first time in his life to take control.
• Director: Félix Viscarret
• Producción • Production: Spain, 2007
• Duración • Duration: 108 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: AlbertoSan Juan, Emma Suárez, Julián Villagrán
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• Best Lead Actor (Alberto San Juan); Best Screenplay,Adapted
• Goya Awards, 2008
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• En español con subtítulos en inglés • In Spanish with English subtitles
CONCURSANTE • THE CONTESTANT
[en] Martin’s life is turned upside down when he wins almost 4 million dollars in prizes from a quiz show. But his life becomes a roller-coaster ride when his girlfriend starts spending the cash value of the prizes at the same rate he is frantically trying to sell them.
• Director: Rodrigo Cortés
• Producción • Production: Spain, 2007
• Duración • Duration: 88 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Cheta Lera, Miyam Gallego, Fernado Cayo, Myriam de Maetzu
• Critics Award, Silver Biznaga
• Nominated Golden Biznaga
• Málaga Spanish Film Festival, 2008
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• En español con subtítulos en inglés • In Spanish with English subtitles
EL ORFANATO THE ORPHANAGE
[en] Laura returns to the orphanage where shespent the best years of her childhood to discover that it has acquired ahaunted, unhappy air. She then sets out to learn what happened at the orphanageafter she left, plunging headlong into a netherworld where the dead reach outto the living.
• Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
• Producción • Production: Spain, Mexico; 2007
• Duración • Duration: 105 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: BelénRueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla
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• Best Screenplay,Best New Director, five other awards and seven nominations (including BestFilm)
• Goya Awards, 2008
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• En español con subtítulos en inglés • In Spanish with English subtitles
EL POLLO, EL PEZ Y EL CANGREJO REAL • THE CHICKEN, THE FISH AND THE KING CRAB
[en] Jesús Almagro was a happy man when he won Spain’s National Award for Best Cook 2007. His next challenge was to compete for the World Championship, the Bocuse d’Or. He thought he was up to the challenge, that preparing was just a matter of time and skills. But he was definitively not ready for what lay ahead
• Director: José Luis López-Linares
• Producción • Production: Spain; 2008
• Duración • Duration: 86 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: Jesús Almagro, Juan María Arzak, Alberto Chicote, Felix
Guerrero, Padero Larumbe
• En español con subtítulos en inglés • In Spanish with English subtitles
EL VIOLÍN
[en] Don Plutarco, his son Genaro and grandson Lucio make a humble living as traveling musicians. They also collect supplies and ammunition for the guerrilla movement that has arisen in response to the tyrannical regime.
• Director: Francisco Vargas
• Producción • Production: Mexico, 2007
• Duración • Duration: 98 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: Ángel Tavira, Gerardo Taracena, Dagoberto Gama, Mario
• Garibaldo, Fermín Martínez
Best Actor (Ángel Tavira)
• En español con subtítulos en inglés • In Spanish with English subtitles
FADOS
[en] After more than two years research on the Fado, Carlos Saura makes an important change in his approach to musical films. In Fados, the plot and the images work to reflect the origins of this organic port music in a unique, original way.
• Director: Carlos Saura
• Producción • Production: Spain, Portugal; 2007
• Duración • Duration: 90 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: Chico Buarque de Hollanda, Camané, Carlos do Carmo, Lila Downs, Cesária Évora, Toni Garrido
• Best Documentary - Cinema Writers Circle Awards, 2008
• Nominated Best Documentary - Goya Awards, 2008
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• En portugués con subtítulos en inglés • In Portuguese with English subtitle
FUERA DE CARTA CHEF’S SPECIAL
[en] Maxi thinks his life is perfect. Then,unexpectedly, the children from his sham marriage turn up on his doorstep and ahandsome ex-football player from Argentina moves in next door, making himreevaluate his own morals and values.
• Director: Nacho G. Velilla
• Producción • Production: Spain, 2008
• Duración • Duration: 111 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: JavierCámara, Lola Dueñas, Fernando Tejero, Benjamín Vicuña
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• Audience Award:Best Film, Best Actor (Javier Cámara)
• Málaga SpanishFilm Festival, 2008
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• En español con subtítulos en inglés • In Spanish with English subtitles
LA CAJA • THE WOODEN BOX
[en] In a fishing village in the Canary Islands, the hated don Lucio dies and his wife has asks her neighbor Isabel to keep vigil over the body. All the neighbors visit him to settle old scores. Rest in peace, Don Lucio... if you can.
• Director: Juan Carlos Falcón
• Producción • Production: Spain, 2006
• Duración • Duration: 96 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: Ángela Molina, Elvira Mínguez, Antonia San Juan, Vladimir Cruz, María Galiana
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• Audience Award
• Las Palmas Film Festival, 2007
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• En español con subtítulos en inglés • In Spanish with English subtitles
LA TORRE DE SUSO • SUSO'S TOWER
[en] Cundo returns home after a ten-year absence, on the news of the death of his best friend, Suso. He pretends that everything in his life is hunky-dory, planning to leave the scene as quickly as he had come. But Cundo actually isn’t doing so well and Suso won’t be content with a simple toast to his life.
• Director: Tom Fernández
• Producción • Production: Spain, 2007
• Duración • Duration: 95 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: Javier Cámara, Gonzalo de Castro, César Vea, José Luis Alcobendas, Malena Alterio
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• Nominated Best New Director (Tom Fernández) and two other nominations
• Goya Awards, 2008
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• En español con subtítulos en inglés • In Spanish with English subtitle
LO MEJOR DE MÍ THE BEST OF ME
[en] When Raquel was a little girl, she couldnot understand why everyone talked constantly about love. When Raquel moves inwith Tomas, she will have to ask herself what she could be willing to do forlove, discovering how beautiful, and at the same how difficult, it is to trulylove someone.
• Director: Roser Aguilar
• Producción • Production: Spain, 2008
• Duración • Duration: 85 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: MariánÁlvarez, Juan Sanz, Lluís Homar, Alberto Jiménez, Marieta Orozco
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• Best Actress(Marián Álvarez)
• Locarno International Film Festival, 2007
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• En español con subtítulos en inglés • In Spanish with English subtitles
LOS CRÍMENES DE OXFORD THE OXFORD MURDERS
[en] The murdered corpse of an old lady is discovered by two men who meet for the first time, on the site of the first in a series of murders, all announced by the perpetrator by strange symbols. Professor and student join forces to try and crack the code, revealing an elaborate puzzle where nothing is as it seems
• Director: Álex de la Iglesia
• Producción • Production: Spain, France; 2008
• Duración • Duration: 107 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling, Julie Cox, Burn Gorman
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• En inglés con subtítulos en español • In English with Spanish subtitles
LUZ SILENCIOSA • SILENT LIGHT (pictured, above)
[en] Johan, married to Esther, with seven sons from her, has been having a passionate love affair with Marianne for 2 years. He confesses to his friend, Zacaris and to his father, a preacher, who sees it as the devil’s work. Nevertheless, both of them support him, pity him. And envy him.
• Director: Carlos Reygadas
• Producción • Production: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany; 2007
• Duración • Duration: 127 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: Cornelio Wall, Maria Pankratz, Miriam Toews, Peter Wall, Jacobo Klassen, Elizabeth Fehr
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• Jury Prize
• Cannes Film Festival, 2007
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• En alemán con subtítulos en Inglés • In German with English subtitles
MATAHARIS
[en] Private detectives Inés, Eva and Carmen find that they have to cross the thin line between public and private matters, bringing their own issues to light in order to solve more than just their professional cases.
• Director: Iciar Bollain
• Producción • Production: Spain, 2007
• Duración • Duration: 95 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: Najwa Nimri, Tristán Ulloa, María Vázquez, Diego Martín, Nuria González
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• En español con subtítulos en inglés • In Spanish with English subtitles
MIGUEL Y WILLIAM • MIGUEL & WILLIAM
[en] Leonor leaves London to marry a rich, widowed duke in Castile, also leaving her lover, William Shakespeare, a promising playwright. In Spain, she meets Miguel de Cervantes, a man of letters who has lost faith in his talent. Shakespeare arrives to prevent the marriage between his beloved and the duke and so Leonor sees the chance to bring together the talents of the two writers to create a unique work.
• Director: Inés París
• Producción • Production: Spain, 2007
• Duración • Duration: 102 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: Elena Ayana, Juan Luis Galiardo, Will Kemp, Geraldine Chaplin
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• Audience Award
• Peñíscola Comedy Film Festival, 2007
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• En español con subtítulos en inglés • In Spanish with English subtitles
NOCTURNA
[en] Tim leaves the orphanage he calls home to find out why the stars have disappeared from the sky. He embarks on an exciting journey where he encounters the denizens of Nocturna, a parallel world that comes to life as we lie asleep, with a mission to find Moka, keeper of the night, to plead him to return the stars to the night sky.
• Director: Adriá García, Víctor Maldonado
• Producción • Production: Spain; 2007
• Duración • Duration: 80 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: Imanol Arias, Natalia Rodríguez, Carlos Sobera
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• Best Animation Film
• Goya Awards, 2008
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• En inglés con subtítulos en español • In English with Spanish subtitles
SIETE MESAS DE BILLARFRANCÉS SEVEN BILLIARD TABLES
[en] Angela is faced with what’s left of the family business, a hall with seven billiard tables: Despite this, the death ofher father, and the sudden and mysterious disappearance of her husband, she resolves to get on and rebuild her life and to get the seven tables back ontheir feet.
• Director: Gracia Querejeta
• Producción • Production: Spain, 2007
• Duración • Duration: 116 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: Maribel Verdú, Blanca Portillo, Jesús Repartoejón, Víctor Valdivia, Enrique Villén
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• Best Film; Best Actress (Maribel Verdú); 7 other nominations Cinema Writers Circle, Spain, 2008
• Best Lead Actress; Best Supporting Actress (Amparo Baró); 8 other nominations, Goya Awards
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• En español con subtítulos en inglés • In Spanish with English subtitles
TODOS ESTAMOS INVITADOS
[en] Josu Jon is injured in a clash with the Civil Guard, losing his memory. He is treated in a prison hospital, where he awaits judgment. The inmates help him remember that he is actually a gudari, and that he will soon return to the struggle if he manages to get out of prison.
• Director: Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
• Producción • Production: Spain;2007
• Duración • Duration: 95 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: Óscar Jaenada, José Coronado, Vanessa Incontrada, Iñaki Miramón
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• Silver Biznaga,Best Supporting Actor (Óscar Jaenada)
• Málaga Spanish Film Festival, 2008
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• En español con subtítulos en inglés • In Spanish with English subtitles
YO SOY LA JUANI • MY NAME IS JUANI
[en] Juani leaves her boyfriend to do what she couldn’t have done while she was with him. Sick of having to take it all in, she decides to go on with her life and to find success. She’s going to be an actress and no one can stop her. After all, she’s Juani and Juani is number one.
• Director: Bigas Luna
• Producción • Production: Spain; 2006
• Duración • Duration: 100 minutes
• Reparto • Cast: Verónica Echegui, Dani Martín, Laya Martí, Gorka Lasaosa, José Chaves
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• Best Actress (Verónica Echegui)
• Barcelona Film Award , 2006
• En español con subtítulos en inglés • In Spanish with English subtitles
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