Nuria Mencía

The thirteen survivors of a catastrophe by a tunnel's collapse tries to balance their experience trapped along 15 days inside it with their day-by-day outside it.

How happy and proud they are those two ladies back in Oporto! Thanks to them, their bright nephew can study medicine in Lisbon and may already have become a doctor. Little do they know, not only Vasco wastes all his time drinking, dancing and picking up girls but he has just failed his final exam! And in that same day, he receives an email from the two aunts announcing their visit to Lisbon! Will he be able to make them believe he is such a good student as they think?

After the structural collapse at a construction site, Paulo loses his job because he denounces the situation to the authorities.

싱글맘 아델라와 과부 안토니아. 두 여성을 둘러싼 사건과 비극은 독립적인 내러티브로 전개되지만, 서로가 서로를 보충하는 역할을 한다. 야망과 두려움, 소통의 부재에 대한 은 외로움에 대한 강렬한 탐구를 보여준다. 다섯 개의 장으로 구성되어 있는 이 영화는 두 여자의 고독을 집요하고 지독하게 그리고 있다. 싱글맘인 아델라는 더 나은 삶을 위해 마드리드로 떠나 이네스라는 룸메이트를 만나게 된다. 아델라의 희망은 버스 폭탄 테러로 인해 무너지고 그녀는 고향으로 돌아간다. 이네스의 어머니이자, 세 딸을 키우는 과부 안토니아는 심각한 질병에 걸린 딸 하나를 돌보는 한편, 또 다른 딸의 금전적인 요구를 해결해야 한다. 감독은 인간의 여인들의 고통스러운 문제의 해결을 기나긴 침묵과 고독을 통해 회피한다. 화면을 분할하는 편집은 같은 화면 안에 있지만 서로의 아픔을 위해 아무것도 하지 않는, 할 수 없는 인간의 어쩔 수 없는 고독의 근원에 대해서 처절하게 말해주고 있다.

Two speleologists, Esteban and Pedro, travel to a mountainous area located in northern Spain, near a small village, to study a newly discovered cave and determine if it is of scientific interest, while Gabi, Esteban's wife, awaits their return on a lonely road at the foot of the mountain.

During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is in a country of war and when her husband is send on a military mission she starts to fight loneliness. Over time she finds out more about her husband and Mozambique than she would have imagined in her peaceful European home. Racism, violence, injustice and fatalism make life unbearable...

Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross directly. Nevertheless, he watches her from a distance, seeing all her movements without her knowledge. But their lives finally meet when he is invited onto her news program. From there, a romance begins which coincides with the desire of two beings who finally find a reason to seek love once again.