MATAHARIS

Spain
Director: Iciar Bollain.
Cast: Najwa Nimri, Tristán Ulloa, María Vázquez, Diego Martín, Nuria González, Antonio de la Torre.

Inés, Eva and Carmen are private detectives and often go beyond the frontier of other people’s intimacy. Nobody has prepared them, however, to face up to their own secrets. In their work, the three will have to cross the thin line that protects the public from the private domain and, above all, will have to do everything they can to solve rather more than their own respective cases. Fourth feature film by the director of Hola, ¿estás sola? (Hi, Are you Alone)  (1995), Flores de otro mundo (1999) and Te doy mis ojos (Take my Eyes)  (2003).

SIETE MESAS DE BILLAR FRANCÉS

Spain
Director: Gracia Querejeta.
Cast: Maribel Verdú, Blanca Portillo, Jesús Castejón, Víctor Valdivia, Lorena Vindell, Raul Arévalo.

Angela and her son Guille travel to the big city following the sudden illness of Leo, her father and the boy’s grandfather. When they arrive on a warm summer morning, Leo has just died. Charo, Leo’s lover, puts Angela in the picture regarding the failure of her father’s business: a billiard hall with seven tables. Charo thinks the only solution is to sell up. Soon after, Angela hears that her husband has disappeared in strange circumstances. Angela decides to make a go of things and rebuild her life, and the first thing she does is invest her savings in getting the billiard hall back on the road. Fifth feature film by the director of Una estación de paso (1992), El último viaje de Robert Rylands (Robert Rylands’ Last Journey) (1996), Cuando vuelvas a mi lado (1999) and Héctor (2004).

CASUAL DAY

Spain
Director: Max Lemcke.
Cast: Juan Diego, Javier Ríos, Luis Tosar, Estíbaliz Gabilondo, Alberto San Juan, Alex Angulo, Arturo Vals, Secun de la Rosa, Malena Alterio, Marta Etura.

'Casual Day' is a business practice imported from the United States. Some companies take advantage of Friday to take a trip out to the country and organise activities that reduce stress levels, and improve relationships among their employees and the company’s performance. Ruy has always lived as he likes. He is a clever guy but is faced with a dilemma. José Antonio, his girlfriend’s father, has got him a good job in his company and wants him to be his successor. At twenty-five years of age, he finds himself caught without having taken any decision himself. He would like to say no to the job, to José Antonio, Inés (his girlfriend) and the farce of Casual Day. But it is not easy to say no. What could be a simple step, a weekend in the countryside, will end up deciding the rest of his life... The second feature film by the director of Mundo fantástico.

COSMOS

Spain
Director: Diego Fandos.
Cast: Oihana Maritorena, Xabier Elorriaga, Ramón Barea.

Soon after being set free, Iñaki sees a news item on TV that moves him: a cosmonaut has been 'forgotten' in the MIR space station because his country has disappeared. Iñaki understands him perfectly and thinks he has to do everything he can to help him return as soon as possible. First feature film by the Navarrese director Diego Fandos, author of the shorts Hospital Krev, La estrella and Game Over.

LA TORRE DE SUSO

Spain
Director: Tom Fernández.
Cast: Javier Cámara, Gonzalo de Castro, César Vea, José Luis Alcobendas, Malena Alterio, Mariana Cordero, Funny Gautier, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba.

Cundo returns home after ten years away. The reason: the death of his best friend, Suso. Cundo’s aim is to get drunk with his other old mates and raise a toast to Suso, give the impression that things are going great for him and then get out again quickly. However, things are not going so well for him and Suso will need more than a good night’s drinking. The first feature film by the director Tom Fernández from Asturias, screenwriter for the TV series 7 vidas.

LUCIO

Spain
Directors: Aitor Arregi and Jose Mari Goenaga.
Documentary. 

There always have been a good number of anarchists in the world, and there still are. Many of them have had to rob shops and banks or get into the world of contraband to survive. Those who have discussed strategies with Che Guevara or have helped Eldridge Cleaver –the leader of the Black Panthers– are the minority. But only one has been able to put the most powerful bank in the world on the rack through the large-scale falsification of traveller’s cheques and still turn up for work every day as a bricklayer on a building site: Lucio Urtubia, from Cascante (Navarre). Lucio now lives in Paris, having retired. A documentary by the directors from Gipuzkoa Jose Mari Goenaga (director of award-winning shorts such as Tercero B and Sintonía) and Aitor Arregi (co-director of the full-length cartoons Glup and Cristóbal Molón)

QUERIDA BAMAKO

Spain
Directors: Omer Oke and Txarli Llorente.
Cast: Djédjé Apali, Esther Vallés, Gorsy Edu..

Moussa is a young man from Burkina Faso. He lives in the small village where he was born with his parents, family and wife Fatima. He prefers to call her “Bamako”, however, because that is where he met her, in the capital of Mali before they got married and had their first child, Mamadou. The fields yield just enough to eat, but that precarious balance has failed recently due to a long drought. Driven by the responsibility to help his family, and after asking the elders of his village for their opinion, Moussa decides to emigrate to Europe.

FADOS

Spain-Portugal
Director: Carlos Saura.
Cast: Mariza, Camané, Carlos Do Carmo, Lila Downs, Caetano Veloso, Miguel Poveda, Chico Buarque, Lura, Toni Garrido.

After Flamenco (1995) and Tango (1998) –nominated for an Oscar for the best foreign film-, Carlos Saura completed his modern urban song trilogy in 2005 with Fados.
After more than two years researching the Fado, Carlos Saura takes a leap forward to the musical genre. While Saura based his vision on dance in his previous musical films Iberia, Flamenco, and Tango..., in Fados he combines dialogue and images to reflect the birth of the musical genre that was born in the poor port neighbourhoods of Lisbon. It is a synthesis of all the musical forms that emerged at the end of the 19th century.