Felipe Martín Puertas

Movies

Lute: Forge On or Die
Policía
In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, nicknamed "El Lute", steals some chickens and is condemned to six months in jail. El Lute moves to the slum outskirts of Madrid with his common law wife, Chelo, starting an itinerant life as a peddler of pots and pans and living in a quinqui shantytown. He gradually embarks upon as life of petty criminality, eventually participating in the theft of a jewelry store during which a bystander is killed.
The Little Birds
An elderly couple in Madrid each buy a pet bird. Weirdness abounds
The Telephone Box
Workman #1
A man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.
Un día es un día
(as Felipe Martín Puerta)
La visita que no tocó el timbre
Two brothers who are singles live together without any problems until the day when a friend of them leaves her baby at their flat because she has no time to care for it at the moment. Now the two men find themselves in a completely new situation.
The Girl in Mourning
Otro empleado de pompas fúnebres
Rocio and Raphael are a young couple from a small Spanish town. Rocio must mourn the death of a relative for six months and is forbidden to see Raphael. Very much in love, they are frustrated by the old-fashioned customs of their village. When they can finally see each other, the two plan to soon marry. Unfortunately, the girl's grandfather dies and she must start the process of mourning all over again. This time Raphael begs her to rebel against her family and the villagers, but she refuses for fear of persecution. When Rocio has had enough of putting her own happiness aside, she decides to run away with Raphael in spite of what her family will say. Things do not go as planned, however, when yet another family member passes away.
El camino
A sharp, sly portrait of small-town life dominated by a conservative church seeking to police community morals.
El borracho
Daniel