Alain Hernández

Checkmates

Candela, the headmistress of an elite school, after a traumatic divorce, returns to her old high school to lead a group of rebellious students through chess. There she will learn that in chess, and in life, it doesn't matter if you are a king or a pawn, because everyone ends up in the same box.

Deviant

Javier skips Christmas eve family dinner for a date made on a kinky dating app. Instead of a romp with a nubile young woman, he is held captive by a depraved middle aged man and his mean-spirited cookie craving mother.

Paris 70

Jan's life suddenly changed after his mother Angela started to succumb to Alzheimer's. He's in charge of taking care of her, which tests his commitment and resistance. Is there a way for Jan to ensure that his mother does not suffer?

El sistema

Alain has been summoned to resolve a complaint he has filed against the public administration. He believes he is right and his rights protect him, so he feels confident. However, his conversation with the official reveals to him the extent to which he lives enslaved by a system that is more concerned with directing his thoughts than protecting his free will.

El cerro de los dioses

A reimagining of the myth of Faust, in which a documentary director and her producer investigate a number of celebrities.

The Influence

After moving back to her family home to care for her dying mother, a nurse haunted by her childhood memories must struggle with an evil force in the house.

Why do people lie?

Javi and his mother are in front of the hospital with a suitcase for staying there for a few days. She’s just suffered a mild schizophrenia episode, but she feels good and she doesn’t want to go in. Javi wants her to enter the hospital voluntarily. Two people with a common enemy, but with opposing goals. Who will win?

7 Reasons to Run Away (from Society)

The family, the tenant, the wedding, the businessman, the neighbors, the poor child and the run over. 7 black comedy stories of a dysfunctional society.

The Photographer of Mauthausen

Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.

Solo

After falling off a cliff and suffering substantial injures, for 48 long hours a young surfer must face a merciless nature and his own physical and mental agony to try to survive.

Holy Goalie

A young priest coaches a team of uncoordinated monks in order to win a soccer tournament and save their monastery from being turned into a hotel.

Getaway Plan

A thief expert with blowtorch is hired by a group of the Russian mob for a bank assault.

The Promise

Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.

73'

A woman is kidnapped by an ex-con after he has committed a mysterious robbery.

The One-Eyed King

David, a riot policeman who caused Nacho, a protester, to lose an eye during a demonstration, meets him at a dinner party.

Palm Trees in the Snow

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.

Spanish Affair 2

Amaia after breaking up with Rafa, falls in love with a Catalonian. Koldo, her father, goes to Sevilla to persuade Rafa to go to Catalonia and take Amaia's heart back.

Rooftops

During the economic crisis ravaging Spain during 2010, Leo and his friends enjoy a convenient charging situation unemployment insurance. In his thirty discouraged by the working environment, spend their days visiting different city rooftops randomly chosen to spend the hours doing nothing. Amid the current apathy and evasion, Leo discover that perhaps never before stopped to think about what he really want. The relationship with his girlfriend Ana and her best friend Mario mark the beat of its evolution to the point where he have to decide whether to continue the same old life, or change follow his instincts and take own initiative.

Biutiful

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.