Mauro Herce

Waiting for answers that don’t seem to come, Sica stares at the waves crashing against the coastal rocks. Her father, a fisherman, drowned in the sea. In an isolated corner of the world, Sica doesn’t lose hope. Even if she needs to go against the current.

Samsara is the Buddhist cycle of death and reincarnation. From the temples of Laos, alongside with teenage monks, we will accompany a soul in its transit from one body to another through the bardo. The words of the "Tibetan Book of the Dead" will be our guide to avoid getting lost in the afterlife. A luminous and sonorous journey that will lead us to reincarnate on the beaches of Zanzibar, where groups of women work in seaweed farms.

An American filmmaker arrives in the Argentinian pampa to film Matadero: a founding narrative of class struggle where a group of laborers slaughter their bosses like cattle. It is 1974, the violent persecution of the left has just begun in Argentina, and the young actors in the film are on the verge of taking a leap into full time clandestine militancy.

Àlex and Nico decide to spend their last day together in a river pool far away from their village and say goodbye to the summer they have lived.

Mãe de Caliban e prisioneira de Ariel, Sycorax permanece fora do palco em A Tempestade de Shakespeare, rejeitada por Prospero como uma “feiticeira maligna.” Aqui ela se torna o sujeito central, enquanto um diretor tenta dar um rosto e uma voz a esta personagem silenciosa.

Final do século XIX. Pedro chega à Terra do Fogo para fotografar o casamento de um latifundiário. Ao fotografar a beleza da noiva, Pedro trai o poder dominante e é forçado a participar de uma nova sociedade que está sendo construída em torno do genocídio do povo Selknam.

O terceiro longa-metragem do galego Enciso encara o fascismo de frente. O filme transcorre nas sombras do regime de Franco, com um roteiro baseado em textos de diversos escritores espanhóis e um enredo desencadeado pelo retorno do misterioso Anxo (interpretado por Misha Bies Golas) à sua aldeia após desaparecer durante a Guerra Civil Espanhola. As pessoas ao seu redor descrevem aquela época, suas memórias e suas vidas ulteriores com a escolha entre submissão e resistência ecoando nas palavras de cada orador. A cinematografia de Mauro Herce transmite a luz e força de espíritos individuais enquanto a escuridão paira sobre suas cabeças.

O terceiro longa-metragem do galego Enciso encara o fascismo de frente. O filme transcorre nas sombras do regime de Franco, com um roteiro baseado em textos de diversos escritores espanhóis e um enredo desencadeado pelo retorno do misterioso Anxo (interpretado por Misha Bies Golas) à sua aldeia após desaparecer durante a Guerra Civil Espanhola. As pessoas ao seu redor descrevem aquela época, suas memórias e suas vidas ulteriores com a escolha entre submissão e resistência ecoando nas palavras de cada orador. A cinematografia de Mauro Herce transmite a luz e força de espíritos individuais enquanto a escuridão paira sobre suas cabeças.

Amador Coro foi condenado por ter provocado um incêndio. Quando sai da prisão, não tem ninguém à sua espera. Regressa à sua aldeia, aninhada nas montanhas da Galiza, onde vive a mãe, Benedicta, e as suas três vacas. A vida deles decorre lentamente, ao ritmo tranquilo da natureza. Até ao dia em que um fogo vem devastar a região.

Men of different ages converge in an indeterminate room. We do not know much about them, whether it is day or night. Only some signs spread out along the footage will allow us to know something about their circumstance.

This is not another standard biopic about Frida Kahlo. “Two Fridas” is a poetic film, based on the relation between the Mexican painter and the Costa Rican nurse Judith, who took care of Frida during the final years of her life.

'Wandering Star' starts with a text about the punk band Los Fiambres, which made just one cult record in 1984: El lado oscuro del R & R (The Dark Side of Rock & Roll). Gracia follows Los Fiambres vocalist Rober Perdut more than thirty years later. He meets a photographer for a photo session in a bus station, is looking for drugs and loses someone named Roni (Rober’s surname does not coincidentally mean ‘disappeared, lost’). Rober sniffs coke from a Johnny Cash CD and is sailed to an island. In other scenes, we follow the photographer, who sometimes disappears mysteriously.

Huelva, Spain, an isolated region lost in time. The grass, the sand and the sky are the same that those foreigners saw in the spring of 1895, when they crossed the sea from a distant country to mark the unspoiled terrain and extract its wealth, when the tower was new, when people could climb to the top of the highest dune and imagine that the city of Tartessos was still there, in the distance, almost invisible in the morning brume.

Huelva, Spain, an isolated region lost in time. The grass, the sand and the sky are the same that those foreigners saw in the spring of 1895, when they crossed the sea from a distant country to mark the unspoiled terrain and extract its wealth, when the tower was new, when people could climb to the top of the highest dune and imagine that the city of Tartessos was still there, in the distance, almost invisible in the morning brume.

Pascal and Pauline are coming back to their parents’ estate. After years of travelling the world, they are no longer in a position to afford the property bills. They confront their childhood friends. Friends coming from less wealthy families and who never left their countryside.

Two graphic designers at work, by mistake, start playing with an empty scanner's possibilities. They venture into assumptions, eventually open up to each other, and let go of the strange images, until they let go of themselves.

A freighter crosses the ocean. The hypnotic rhythm of its gears reveals the continuous movement of machinery devouring its workers: the last gestures of the old sailors’ trade disappearing under the mechanic and impersonal pace of 21st century neo-capitalism. Perhaps it is a boat adrift, or maybe just the last example of an endangered species. Although we don’t know it, the engines are still running, unstoppable.

A freighter crosses the ocean. The hypnotic rhythm of its gears reveals the continuous movement of machinery devouring its workers: the last gestures of the old sailors’ trade disappearing under the mechanic and impersonal pace of 21st century neo-capitalism. Perhaps it is a boat adrift, or maybe just the last example of an endangered species. Although we don’t know it, the engines are still running, unstoppable.

A freighter crosses the ocean. The hypnotic rhythm of its gears reveals the continuous movement of machinery devouring its workers: the last gestures of the old sailors’ trade disappearing under the mechanic and impersonal pace of 21st century neo-capitalism. Perhaps it is a boat adrift, or maybe just the last example of an endangered species. Although we don’t know it, the engines are still running, unstoppable.

A freighter crosses the ocean. The hypnotic rhythm of its gears reveals the continuous movement of machinery devouring its workers: the last gestures of the old sailors’ trade disappearing under the mechanic and impersonal pace of 21st century neo-capitalism. Perhaps it is a boat adrift, or maybe just the last example of an endangered species. Although we don’t know it, the engines are still running, unstoppable.

A freighter crosses the ocean. The hypnotic rhythm of its gears reveals the continuous movement of machinery devouring its workers: the last gestures of the old sailors’ trade disappearing under the mechanic and impersonal pace of 21st century neo-capitalism. Perhaps it is a boat adrift, or maybe just the last example of an endangered species. Although we don’t know it, the engines are still running, unstoppable.

Um xeique muito velho é acompanhado por uma caravana para tentar cumprir seu último desejo: ser enterrado ao lado de seus parentes. O problema é que a companhia precisa atravessar as montanhas marroquinas e os integrantes da caravana se recusam a caminhar pela região, causando um problema para o xeique, que está à beira da morte.

For the sake of love, Vincent has followed Barbara to New York. But she wants nothing more to do with him. Obsessed with the idea of winning her back, he decides to see things through to the bitter end...

Vincent has followed the woman he loves to New York. But they're not getting along anymore. Stubborn, he's going to try to do everything to get her back.

Vincent has followed the woman he loves to New York. But they're not getting along anymore. Stubborn, he's going to try to do everything to get her back.

The story of Kaspar Hauser, who grew up in dark isolation from humanity, it is provided by a Gallician artist with a radical experimental adaptation that aims to be nothing less than a religious message. Black & white 16mm, without the language of reason, eye to eye with the primaeval puzzle. The story of Kaspar Hauser, the German 'wild child' who grew up for 16 years in silence and virtually in the dark in a stable with only a wooden horse as company, remains fascinating, also for filmmakers.

The inhabitants of a small village lost in the woodland between Galicia and Portugal play their own life mixed with dialogues from O bosque, a play by Galician writer Marinhas del Valle. Arraianos portrays a rural community in its obstinate resistance against disappearance.

The inhabitants of a small village lost in the woodland between Galicia and Portugal play their own life mixed with dialogues from O bosque, a play by Galician writer Marinhas del Valle. Arraianos portrays a rural community in its obstinate resistance against disappearance.

The story of salesman Salvador Lozano and his ambiguous relationship with young hostess Inés.

Paris, a pivotal day in the life of Bianca, Thalat and Peter.

Rafael, an old butler of a decadent farmhouse, lives with his landlord in that space. He develops a series of actions and daily routines that resume a life and a glorious family past. These actions and gestures will become the only way of sustaining that home and those lives humbled in memory. With the decline of that environment, Rafael will be underdog of his place and his own story, and will be forced to leave in an uncertain trip, towards the last of his possessions.

Andrés Rabadán was headline news after killing his father with a crossbow. But beyond the chatter of the media, what is the true story of the young man who became known as the “maniac with the crossbow”?

Filmed in the infamous beach of Benidorm, a portrait of summer holidays and free time.

Filmed in the infamous beach of Benidorm, a portrait of summer holidays and free time.