José Varela

Heat Wave

A couple decides to spend the summer with their children and parents in a rented house in the middle of nowhere. Everything goes well until the temperature starts rising dramatically and the mother has a truly horrifying accident.

Cristo

Cristo is an old age pensioner who leads a peaceful, lonely life and whose social circle is limited to the friends and neighbours in his vicinity. However, the confession of his feelings, hidden for years, for his friend and neighbour, David, unleashes a change in their relationship and in their lives.

To er mundo e... ¡mejo!

Episode 2 of the stories of jokes in the street.

Corridas de alegría

Miguel, who escaped from prison two months before finishing his sentence, thinks only of revenge and finding his beloved Diana.

Wind from the East

A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema.

Les Gauloises bleues

The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. There he meets a pretty shop girl with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. It was a foolish choice, for the two cannot get along and constantly fight. Things get worse when the husband resumes his criminal activities and gets caught. The two are about to divorce when the woman gets pregnant. The time comes for their baby to be born and while sitting in the waiting room, the husband reflects upon his past activities, which are revealed via flashback.

Evariste Galois

Galois is practicing shooting in preparation for a duel the very next day. His last night.

Sign of the Lion

An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.

The Eighth Day

Françoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she attends a horse race under pretext of perfecting her taste for elegance and refinement. Georges, a neighbor widower, begins to court her.

Provisional Liberty

Jean-Paul is a Frenchman who yearns to live in communist Czechoslovakia. His wish is granted when, mistaken as a masseur of a French boating team, he manages to elude the democratic authorities long enough to scamper over the Czech border.

Diary of a Pregnant Woman

Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.