SUN 06 SEPT
The Muse ART GALLERY
269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR




A Night Of Spanish Films


6 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Dream of Alexandria
Cecilia Orueta, Chema Conesa Documentary 19 mins 12. Spain
A photographer travels to Alexandria in search of the city described by Lawrence Durrell in The Alexandria Quartet. In its streets she encounters two ghosts: the literary city and the real one, trapped between its past and its present. He discovers that neither in literature nor in real life is there a single truth.

THE FREEZER
Raúl de la Fuente Calle, Amaia Remirez Documentary. 20 mins 15. Spain.
In the devastated lands of the Madre de Dios mining exploitation in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon, a girl manages to escape the mafia holding her hostage. After escaping, she begins her search for justice, which will lead her to share her case with the entire nation, attracting the attention of politicians, prosecutors, judges, and police office.

SUGAR
Carlos Gómez Trigo y Pablo Arreba. Drama / Fiction. 13 mins 15. Spain.
At 20, Marta leads a double life: she combines university with the world of sugar daddies. On her last date with Javi, a 45-year-old businessman, the apparent connection between them challenges the rules she has imposed on herself.

PREDATOR
Javier Fesser Drama 7 mins 15. Spain.
Two friends are traveling through a lonely place when their car suffers a tragic breakdown.

Ana's diary
Chris Martos Drama 19 mins 12 Spain.
Ana opens her eyes in a hospital after two weeks in a coma caused by a type of cancer. Disoriented, she will have to decide whether to undergo an experimental therapy that will allow her to start a new life, forgetting her memories, or to remain anchored in the dream she believes she has lived while she was in a coma.

La mort
Jesús Martínez Nota. Fiction (Comedy). 13 mins 12A Spain
When dying is a way of life.

Lady in Red (Lady in Red)
Tomás Rojo & Santiago Rindel, Spain, 11 mins 15 Romantic Drama
One rainy autumn night, Lucía discovers Alejo working as a waiter in a Madrid
restaurant. Her memory flashes back to the seemingly chance encounter they had
long ago on a remote beach in Ibiza. Now...she needs to heal old wounds.

Quemar al padre (Father on Fire) –
Rafa Piqueras, Spain, 15 mins 15 Drama/ Comedy
If life already feels too big for Javier, let alone death—his father’s death, in particular.
Even more when, to carry out his father’s last wishes, he must face the most atrocious opposition: his mother. Clearing the unfinished business quietly may seem tempting, but the fallout from dodging it will blow up in his face when he least expects it.

LIKE COCKROACHES IN SUMMER.  
Evaristo Cucas 15 mins 15, Spain, Venezuela, France
In a Spanish village where the mine has closed, three women wait at the station for the departure of the last man. Encarnación, Sebastiana and Jacinta, trapped in their own fears and repressed desires, see their world disrupted by Carmen’s arrival, who will confront them with their hidden truths and their own freedom.

Ne Me Quitte Pas
Karim Huu Do Drama 18 mins 15. Spain,Switzerland
1962. Matthias, a former soldier stationed in the Belgian Congo, goes into exile on an island in the Mediterranean Sea with his beloved Awa, a young Congolese woman he met during his deployment in Africa. Awa dreams of a better life, a life free from persecution. Matthias hopes to escape his past and, maybe, build a future.

THE SAME ONE
Virgina Curia Animation. 10 mins 15 Spain.
Ten years after high school, Mar and Álex meet again. What begins as an innocent conversation about the past soon takes a different turn: Mar reminds him of the intimate image he manipulated and shared. For Álex, it was just a teenage joke. For Mar, it was an assault with consequences she still carries.

Epiphany
Chiqui Carabante Drama 23 mins 12A Spain.
A night between a father and a son they changes their life’s.

Un Hombre de Verdad (A Real Man) –
Liteo Pedregal, Spain, 82 mins 15 Drama
At seventy and after his wife’s death, Guillermo dismantles his machismo guided by four
women.




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