Ramón je již 30 let upoután na lůžko a jeho rodina se o něj stará. Jediný pohled na svět mu umožňuje pouze okno v jeho ložnici. Dívá se na moře, na které se často plavil a na kterém utrpěl úraz, který zkrátil jeho mládí. Od té doby má jediné přání - důstojně ukončit svůj život. Jeho svět je však převrácen naruby příchodem dvou žen: Julie, právničky, která mu pomáhá v jeho úsilí legálně ukončit svůj život; a Rose, žena z vesnice, která se ho snaží přesvědčit, že život za to stojí žít až do konce. Obě ženy jsou zaujaty Ramónovou poutavou osobností a jsou nuceny se samy sebe ptát po důvodech, které ovládaly jejich životy až potud. Ramón ví, že pouze jedna z nich, která ho skutečně miluje, mu pomůže podstoupit tu poslední cestu. Pravdivý životní příběh Španěla Ramona Sampedra, který 30 let vedl kampaň za právo na euthanasii a za právo na svou vlastní smrt. (oficiální text distributora)
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.
Šéf drogového kartelu je propuštěn z vězení. Netuší, že se dostal do rukou pomstychtivého pečovatele, kterému tragicky zasáhl do života.
Time seems to stand still in a village in the Galician coast. Everybody there is paralyzed although we can still hear their voices: they talk about ghosts, about witches, about monsters. Three women arrive in the village to find Rubio, a sailor who has recently disappeared in the sea.
Ulises, who suffers from a marked psychomotor disorder, is cared for by his brother. One day he leaves the family home and decides to bury himself alive. His brother, desperate, finds him and convinces him to return, but he no longer knows what to do to protect him. One morning, a peddler knocks on the door and they invite him to spend the night at home. The next day Ulises decides to go with him. After traveling for a while, he offers his heart to the vendor.
Galicia, northern Spain, January 2, 1921. The steamship Santa Isabel, sailing towards Argentina with more than two hundred emigrants on board, sinks off the coast of Sálvora Island. Three island women, María, Josefa and Cipriana, who have bravely set sail aboard a fragile skiff to save the shipwrecked, are treated as heroes by the cynical authorities; but León, an inquisitive and tenacious Argentinean journalist, starts asking uncomfortable questions.
An unnamed passer-by is forced to trace a circular route inside an abandoned tram station, facing loss and time. The broken walls act as a channel, transmitting fragmentary, blurred and analogical memories.
In a near future affected by global warming, biologist Amelia arrives to a remote archipelago on a recon task. All alone, her only companion is the voice of Mission Control in her ear. All seems well, but as time passes, tensions rise and they start to argue.
'9 waves' is an independent film, produced almost entirely by crowdfunding, approaching the issue of identity in the contemporary world. It tells the story of a man (played by Dario Merlini) who forgets his memories by drinking water from a fountain at the border between Galicia and Portugal. Thus begins a journey that will take him to iconic sites - Couto Mixto, Antela, Ourense-, to engage with different stories and special situations, before finding his way towards his real identity.
Luzía visits the eight stages of the 'pilgrimage' that the intellectuals Otero Pedrayo, Vicente Risco and Ben-Cho-Shey hiked from Ourense to San Andrés de Teixido in 1927; the story of the journey was published in the book ‘Pelerinaxes I’ (Pilgrimages I). She carries out this journey in order to finish up an audiovisual project about Otero Pedrayo’s book started at the University, together with a colleague who passed away in an accident.
There are more neurons in a human brain than particles in the universe. But if we could put one behind another, the only thing we would see would be a small river. An insignificant river and at the same time infinite. Under the streets of A Coruña there is a river that many have forgotten, but that from time to time overflows claiming what once was its course.
The Way of Saint James, northern Spain, 2016. Two brothers, Oliver, the eldest, and Juan Luis, the youngest, a disabled person in a wheelchair, face the hardest challenge they have found so far on their long road of dirt, stones, rain and cold. Everyone says they will not make it, but, fortunately, they are not alone.
Miss Ledyia, daughter of American millionaire Mr. Katson, vacationing in A Toxa (Galicia, Spain), will try to abort an Anarchist assassination plot against the King and Queen of Suavia.
The day before they go their separate ways, three friends get together for one last all-nighter in the city that saw them grow.
Portrait of Costa da Morte (coast region in Galicia, Spain) from an ethnographic and landscape level, exploring also the collective imagination associated with the area. A region marked by strong oceanic feeling dominated by the historical conception of world's end and with tragic shipwrecks. Fragmentary film that approaches to the anthropological from its protagonists: sailors, shellfish, loggers, farmers ... A selection of characters representative of the traditional work carried out in the countryside in the region, allowing us to reflect on the influence of the environment on people.
