Auch Spanien ist vor Vorurteilen nicht sicher; so legt ein stolzer Baske alles daran, die Hochzeit seiner Tochter mit einem Katalanen zu verhindern.

Seville, Spain, 14th century. A group of black slaves brought from Africa form the Hermandad de los Negros, a Holy Week brotherhood that has survived over the centuries, despite the opposition of the powerful; still active, it is one of the oldest institutions in Europe.

Es ist Karwoche in Sevilla. Die ganze Stadt will die Prozessionen zur Semana genießen. Doch da geschieht das unfassbare. Ein Giftgasanschlag in einer Kirche versetzt die Bevölkerung in Angst und Schrecken. Der Buchautor Simón erhält unterdessen einen mysteriösen Erpresserbrief, der mit dem Anschlag in Verbindung zu stehen scheint. Gemeinsam mit der Reporterin Maria versucht Simón Licht ins Dunkel zu bringen und hinter die Ursache des Anschlages zu kommen. Doch welche Rolle spielt Simóns Mitbewohner Sapo bei der Sache? Ist er für den Anschlag mitverantwortlich? Und was bedeutet das komische Zeichen was Simón immer wieder findet?

A woman in a Catholic brotherhood in the south of Spain tries to be president in a world traditionally reserved to men.

Religious-based images and traditions permeate the lives of all the people who inhabit Seville. Historically, the city's mariquitas ("sissies") have also assimilated them in their childhood and, through them, have been creating their own encounter spaces and their own codes. Nowadays, new dissident identities continue to respond to them: they participate or distance themselves, they continue what exists or transform it. This film looks at these traditions from a perspective always relegated to the margins.

It's the Holy Week, the end of Lent, a popular time for Filipinos to have a vacation. A young couple travels to Baguio to escape the Metro's summer heat. But before they reach the city proper, their jeep breaks down. Fortunately, they find a transient house with a room to spare. The housekeeper is a mysterious fellow, warm but dreadfully awkward. The couple doesn't mind him though and they even make it an adventure to find out more about their host by asking locals what they know about the house and its keeper. Come Good Friday, the day God dies, they will discover that adventures and vacations don't go well together all the time.

Processions during a holy week in Valladolid.

An experimental and iconoclastic journey through the Spanish Holy Week in the late sixties.