Benjamin Thiel

Au XVIe siècle, l'Espagne vit dans la crainte de l'Inquisition qui surveille les faits et gestes de la population et réprime toute forme d'hérésie. Un homme, Ruy de Mendoza, se retrouve chargé d'enquêter sur une série de meurtres sanglants qui terrorise le peuple et inquiète les puissants. Des nobles, tous de haut rang, sont retrouvés sauvagements assassinés en compagnie de leur suite. Mendoza retrouve des lettres incrustées dans la chair des victimes et constate la disparition de certains corps. Ses recherches l'amènent à mettre au jour un complot qui menace le pouvoir en place. Devant les menaces qui le visent lui et sa famille, Mendoza doit se montrer prudent...

Falling in love with your best friend is not easy. Avoiding the subject and feeding the fantasy is something which will take its toll. Knowing you are crossing a red line is not always a reason to stop. Sometimes, it's necessary to meet a harsh reality in order to believe it. Gentzane, a young girl settled in her inner world, justifies each one of her actions to be around the person she loves.

A lively geologist working as an intern at the Prehistory and Paleontological Museum of Orce in Granada meets a badly hurt shepherd. This chance encounter plants the seed of Historia de pastores, an adventurous film that finds a perfect mixture between the old and the new. Dwelling equally on orality and charged silence, suggestion and contemplation, Jaime Puertas Castillo builds an engaging narrative of rural life in the south of Spain – punctuated by extraneous elements plus some powerful, surprising twists.

Maitemina is about a trumpet player who, in the middle of the San Fermin festivities, feels ignored by the thousands of people around him. No one seems to pay any attention to him except for another boy who quickly gets lost in the tide of people flooding the city. Finding him is then an almost impossible job, and he will only meet him again in his dreams.