Natalia Mateo

The Teacher's Job

A kidnapping is serious business. But when the kidnappers are school teachers things can get complicated.

Ficciones

Alex doesn't have much work to do at his father's video store. But when the likewise film-loving Fátima enters the shop, his boredom is suddenly over.

(AB)Normal

Inside there's Leo, a lawyer, and Juan, a very short sighted man of fixed ideas. When their paths cross, Juan is getting and argument with Lucio, another member of the gym, about something that nowadays seems to be totally accepted, or perhaps not so much. This conflict, though, doesn't seem to bother Juan, who is used to rely on fight and tension to win his battles. Still, we all keep our secrets, and for Leo and Juan the moment to remove their mask is finally here.

Unbridled

Desperate to keep her husband’s secret, a devoted politician’s wife struggles to stave off threats that could ruin their promising new life.

Veronica

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

Smoking Club (129 normas)

Oscar, a guy in his forties, is passing an existential crisis. He decides to quit his job as a state worker and a relationship with his girlfriend in order to set up a new business: A club for pot enthusiasts. The place is intended to be free of rules, but trouble shows up when those rules begin to be necessary...

Ainhoa

Ainhoa is 8 years old and has left home with her school bag, a Playmobil figure and a secret plan.

Sin respuesta

Lola goes through the pressures of the day but she does her job without giving it too much thought. She works as a telemarketing phone operator for a financial institution. From her tiny cubicle she phones those who owe the company money to remind them that when it comes to payment there are no valid excuses. The telephone allows her to keep enough distance...but one day comes to a head when she is left speechless.

Puerta de Hierro, el exilio de Perón

Shortly before his final return to Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón records his memories of living in exile.

Qué divertido

Father and son walk by the surroundings of the village the father used to live. Many things have changed, he, for example. Now he is too "urban" and so is his son. But they just try to enjoy a day at the country.

Solitary Fragments

Life for Adela, a single mom trying to raise her infant son, and Antonia, a widow with three daughters, are forever altered by the terrorist bombing in Madrid.

Traumalogy

During the wedding of Antonio, the eldest of a family of five brothers, the father suffers a heart attack. The wedding is interrupted and the whole family moves to the hospital, where throughout a tense night of waiting, all the trauma and misery begin to emerge.

Baggage Claim

Terminal Baggage Collection of an airport. Two travelers waiting for their bags, which are slow to exit. They don't know each other, but a bet arises: What will the first case?

Ponys

Three friends at a table with a couple of bottles of liquor. One of them introduces the notion of a "pony", an event in your early childhood that is an embarrassment and that marks you for the rest of your life. From then on, revelations about each are made by the other two in an effort to encover such ponys. A more virulent form of the game of telling a secret about yourself.

Exprés

A woman, sick of self-destructive character from her junkie daughter, decides to change their situation when she stays at the kitchen.

Charisma

Two women discuss about current affairs.