8:19' is a smart gallery of characters living, unknowingly, their last 8 minutes and 19 seconds in absolutely rutinary situations, letting time go by, delaying decisions, postponing meetings and pleasures. Characters who think there is a future to be reached. Like everyone.
Marquise
Galicia, northern Spain, January 2, 1921. The steamship Santa Isabel, sailing towards Argentina with more than two hundred emigrants on board, sinks off the coast of Sálvora Island. Three island women, María, Josefa and Cipriana, who have bravely set sail aboard a fragile skiff to save the shipwrecked, are treated as heroes by the cynical authorities; but León, an inquisitive and tenacious Argentinean journalist, starts asking uncomfortable questions.
Agente de policía
Ana and Erik, two people apparently with opposite lives meet at a sex chat one day. She is an adult woman with a resolved life but has an existential crisis. He is a teenager with a whole life ahead of him with many unknowns.
Álvaro
Julia is saying goodbye to the last visitors who have come to the house after the sudden death of her husband. When it seems that finally has a moment of intimacy, Susan knocks on the door. Despite Julia's refusal to let her pass, Susana rebukes her, arguing that she has the right to say goodbye to her husband.
Le policier espagnol
A high-profile burglar reconciles with his two daughters (half-siblings) to help him retaliate against his ex-partner who betrayed him.
Juan
Pello, a bank branch manager, is arrested on charges of embezzlement. Abandoned by his superior (who got him involved in the heist), Pello escapes from the court room and goes on the run. With no papers, no money and no family or friends he can trust, he changes identity so that he can stay undercover for a time. By chance he ends up hiding in a building that has been occupied by a group of people evicted from their homes who are fighting his bank. Pello gains their trust, all the time planning to steal money from them to pay for false documentation so that he can escape abroad and start a new life.
Cano
Madrid, summer 2011. Economic crisis. 15-M movement and 1.5 million pilgrims waiting for the Pope’s arrival live side by side in a Madrid that’s hotter and more chaotic than ever. In this context, detectives Velarde and Alfaro must find what seems to be a serial killer. Their against-the-clock hunt will make them realise something they’d never imagined: neither of them are so very different from the killer.
José
Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian.
Lord Asparros
O filme “Inácio de Loyola” é um drama histórico que tem início em Pamplona, Espanha, em 1521, quando o capitão Loyola, a serviço do vice-rei Navarro, assume o comando de um exército de 300 soldados na batalha de Pamplona, contra 12 mil soldados do exército francês. Derrotado e ferido em combate, Inácio é obrigado a ficar por meses em recuperação e, para preencher seu tempo, passa a dedicar-se à leitura da vida de Jesus e dos santos. A partir de então, toma a maior decisão de sua vida: colocá-la a serviço de Deus, com as armas da fé, da humildade e da prática de exercícios espirituais.
In October 1983, members of ETA Lasa and Zabala disappear in Bayonne. Twelve years later, their bodies, tortured and buried in quicklime by the GAL (Anti-Terrorist Liberation Groups) are identified. Then begins a process in which the lawyer for the two families (Unax Ugalde) and his assistant try to justice and that the murderers sit on the dock.
Iñaki landaburu
Mary is married to Ernest, a successful businessman who devotes all his time managing the business he inherited from his family. Therefore, he spends little time with Mary, to the extent that she suspects he has a mistress. Isabel is married to Adolfo, Doctor of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM graduated, best friend of Ernesto. Patricia is passionate about esotericism; she believes in past life regressions. Isabel and Patricia are concerned about the marital status of Mary and to distract her, convince her to do a regression through hypnosis, the problem is when the hypnotist can not make her come back and they find Mary speaking a strange language, claiming to be a Basque princess of the XIV century.
A romantic thriller about a construction worker in hiding for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend works as a maid.
Gonzalo de Córdoba
Itália, século XV. Rodrigo Borgia é um maquinador astuto. Por trinta anos ele trabalhou na Igreja Católica Romana e agora foi eleito papa pelo Colégio de Cardeais. Borgia não tem motivos religiosos, é tudo uma questão de poder para ele. Com seu poder papal, ele inicia um reinado de terror, eliminando rivais. Uma nova era vai começar para a família Borgia, ele pensa, e seus quatro filhos são os peões mais importantes. Sua linda filha Lucrécia e o filho passivo Jofré se casam para estreitar os laços com famílias rivais. O mesmo vale para Juan, que também foi nomeado capitão do exército do Vaticano. O primogênito de Rodrigo, Cesare, agora é cardeal. Ele não gosta de tudo. Como o lutador nato da família, ele se vê mais adequado à posição de Juan. Cesare fica cada vez mais insatisfeito como cardeal e cada vez mais agitado com a família. Então Juan morre repentinamente após uma agressão.
