LO QUE SÉ DE LOLA / CE QUE JE SAIS DE LOLA
Spain-France
Director: Javier Rebollo
Actors: Michaël Abiteboul, Lola Dueñas, Carmen Machi.

León is a solitary man with no job or friends. He cares for his elderly mother until she dies. To relieve his loneliness, he likes to rifle through his neighbours’ mail, listen in on conversations and watch the coming and going of passengers at different stations. One day a noisy Spanish girl called Lola moves into the area, drawing his full attention. This Spanish-French co-production marks the feature film directorial debut of the Madrileño Javier Rebollo, also director of the shorts En medio de ninguna parte (1997), El equipaje abierto (1999), El preciso orden de las cosas (2001) segment of the film Diminutos del calvario, and En camas separadas (2003). All of these films star the actress Lola Dueñas, who similarly heads the line-up of Lo que sé de Lola. This movie will compete for the Altadis-New Directors Award and for the Montblanc Award for New Screenwriters.

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VETE DE MÍ
Spain
Director: Víctor García León
Cast: Juan Diego, Juan Diego Botto, Cristina Plazas, Rosa María Sardá.

Santiago has never played the leading part in anything... not in theatre, not in the cinema... and not even in his own life. But he never dreamt that having his 30-something-year-old son to stay for a few days would change things so radically...
Vete de mí is a "family" masked ball of encounters and disencounters between the people of the same egoistical sort: a compulsive liar who finally tips the scales of the already fragile mental balance of his surrounding relations and a supporting actor gone to seed who suddenly discovers he's living a lie... A satirical, bitter comedy on turning 50, losing your job, meeting your son and wishing for the exact opposite...

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LAS VIDAS DE CELIA
Spain-Mexico
Director: Antonio Chavarrías
Cast: Najwa Nimri, Luis Tosar, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Alex Casanovas, Aida Folch

After a night out on the town, Celia fails in her attempt to kill herself on the train tracks. Her life will never be the same again. Nearby on the very same night, a teenager is raped and murdered. A policeman, Miguel Angel, who is going through a personal crisis, will start to investigate the case. The investigation will lead him to Celia and Agustín, her husband, and to Carmen and Angela, Celia's two sisters.

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MÁS ALLÁ DEL ESPEJO
Spain
Director: Joaquín Jordá

Joaquín Jordá made this documentary with the testimonies of people who had suffered the same cerebral dysfunction as the one he himself had recovered from, demonstrating the extreme fragility of the human brain. Más allá del espejo is the last in one of Spanish cinema’s most original filmographies, the work of Joaquín Jordá in his research of the border between documentary and fiction, of his own experience as cinematographic material. The Catalonian filmmaker’s work includes the movies Dante no es únicamente severo (1967), Numax presenta… (1979), El encargo de cazador (1990), Un cos al bosc/Cuerpo en el bosque, (A Body in the Woods, 1996), Mones com la Becky/Monos como Becky (Monkeys Like Becky, 1999), De nens/De niños (2003), screened as part of the Zabaltegi Special Section, and Veinte años no es nada (2004).

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BOSQUE DE SOMBRAS / THE BACKWOODS
Spain-UK-France
Director: Koldo Serra
Cast: Gary Oldman, Virginie Ledoyen, Paddy Considine, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón.

Northern Spain in the late 70s, the hottest summer in years. Norman and Lucy are an English couple not precisely going through their best moment. A holiday with friends Paul and Isabel would seem to be the solution. Far from London, what sets out as an idyllic weekend of nature and sport in the farmhouse recently bought by Paul doesn’t end as expected. Their cultural shock with the locals, headed by Paco, and their sudden encounter with an abandoned house unleashes growing violence between them. The director from Bilbao, Koldo Serra, makes his feature film debut with an international cast, after having made several shorts including El tren de la bruja (2003), winner among many other awards of the Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Gold at Sitges.

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LA DISTANCIA
Spain
Director: Iñaki Dorronsoro
Cast: Miguel Ángel Silvestre, José Coronado, Federico Luppi, Belén López

A promising boxer lands in jail after attempting to rob a tobacconist’s shop. In prison, a corrupt cop forces him to murder another prisoner. Getting out, he strikes up a relation with the dead man’s widow, a prostitute in a club, who is also hustled by the police. A film noir set around boxing, corruption and human relations. Directorial debut by the filmmaker Iñaki Dorronsoro, also author of the medium-length El ojo del fotógrafo (1993).

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KUTSIDAZU BIDEA, IXABEL
Spain
Directors: Fernando Bernués, Mireia Gabilondo.
Cast: Mikel Losada, Ainere Tolosa, Iñake Irastorza, Mireia Gabilondo.

A youngster from San Sebastian decides to spend the summer in a remote mountain farmhouse to improve his Basque. At the farmhouse, he discovers that the Basque spoken by the inhabitants has little in common with his classroom studies. He also discovers the surprises, pleasures and downsides of life in the country. Entirely filmed in Basque, this is the movie version of the enormously successful novel by Josean Sagistizabal and first feature by Fernando Bernués and Mireia Gabilondo.

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53 DÍAS DE INVIERNO
Spain
Director: Judith Colell.
Cast: Mercedes Sampietro, Alex Brendemühl, Aina Clotet, Silvia Munt.

A young cello player has an affair with her music teacher, a man much older than her. A supermarket security guard loses his job for stealing a piece of jewellery as a gift for his wife. Following a year off work, a teacher returns to her job, trembling at the idea of facing her students. Three tales side-by-side in this second feature film from Judith Colell, director of Nosotras (2000).

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