Icíar Bollaín — Director (16)

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Friendly Dead (1994)
Los amigos del muerto IMDb TMDB
other title: Los amigos del muerto
Carlos is 50 years old. It has a cake with candles and seven friends to celebrate him. The police have one dead and seven suspected murder. All they have reasons to kill Carlos, and they all are... friends of the deceased.

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En tierra extraña (2014)
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Documental que aborda el caso de los jóvenes emigrantes españoles que, debido a la profunda crisis económica en España, se han ido al extranjero, en este caso a la ciudad de Edimburgo, en busca de un futuro mejor.

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Hi, Are You Alone? (1995)
Hola, ¿estás sola? WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: Hola, ¿estás sola? / 你孤独吗 …
Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain.

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我叫内文卡 (2024)
Soy Nevenka Douban
伊西亚尔·博利亚因 actor: 米蕾娅·奥利奥 / 厄科·奥拉扎巴尔 …
other title: I’m Nevenka / Soy Nevenka
2000 年,24 岁的内文卡-费尔南德斯(Nevenka Fernández)是庞费拉达市议会的一名财政议员,她在感情上和工作上都受到市长的无情迫害。内文卡决定揭发,尽管她知道自己将付出高昂的代价:她的同事父母不支持她,庞费拉达的社会背弃她,媒体对她进行公开审判。 早在 “Metoo ”一词出现之前,她的案件就在西班牙掀起了一场 “#metoo ”运动。这个故事的灵感来源于真实事件,主人公首次因性骚扰和工作场所骚扰将一位有影响力、受欢迎的政治家送上法庭,从而成为先驱。

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Flowers from Another World (2002)
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other title: 异国之花 / Flores de otro mundo …
Patricia, a woman from Dominican Republic, needs a home and an economic security that her illegal status in Madrid does not provide her. Milady, twenty, born in Havana and dying to travel the world. Marirosi has a job, a home, and the most complete solitude... just like Alfonso, Damián and Carmelo, men from the St. Eulalia, a village lacking both marrying women and future. A bachelors' party forces the encounter between them and the beginning of this bittersweet story of sharing a living.

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The Olive Tree (2016)
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other title: 橄榄树 / El olivo …
Alma’s family has been producing quality olive oil in the Baix Maestrat area of Spain’s Castellón for generations. Yet changing pressures in the industry have made their traditional practices economically untenable, and the family is now in the mass-production poultry business. Alma’s grandfather has not spoken in years. Sadness envelopes him, and he no longer wants to eat. His sons—Alma’s father and uncle—are impatient with him, but Alma understands her grandfather. She realizes he has been grieving for a thousand-year-old olive tree that the family has uprooted and sold to pay some debts. (A sadly common reality in Castellón at present.) Unable to bear the idea that her grandfather could die without seeing this terrible wrong corrected, Alma undertakes a quixotic mission to locate the tree and return it to the family orchard, so that her grandfather may have peace in his final days.

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Maixabel (2021)
Maixabel Douban
伊西亚尔·博利亚因 actor: 路易斯·托萨尔 / 布兰卡·波蒂略 …
other title: 迈沙贝尔
11 years after her husband was killed by the Basque group ETA, Maixabel Lasa agrees to a request to meet one of the assassins who is in prison, in an attempt to find some kind of restorative justice.

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Kathmandu Lullaby (2012)
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other title: 加德满都,天空之镜 / Katmandú, un espejo en el cielo …
Kathmandu, Nepal, early 1990s. Laia, a young teacher from Catalonia, Spain, works at a local school in the slums of the city where poverty reigns. Her personal path, besieged by a harsh sum of indescribable social conditions, will be a struggle against a nefarious educational system, but a journey of self-discovery as well.