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IT SNOWS IN BENIDORM (2022)
Starring Timothy Spall, Sarita Choudhury, Pedro Casablanc, Carmen MacHi, Ana Torrent, Édgar Vittorino, Leonardo Ortizgris, Ben Temple, Malcolm McCarthy and Miguel Such. Directed by Isabel Coixet.

After being forced to retire from his life-long job at a Manchester bank, Peter, a man of routines and few joys, decides to go to Benidorm to visit his brother Daniel with whom he has little contact. But when he arrives in Benidorm, Daniel seems to have vanished. Peter will then discover that his brother owns the Benidorm Club, where a group of dancers make exotic and burlesque performances. Among them, Alex, a beautiful woman with an enigmatic past, who will steal his heart.

In the search for his brother, Peter will confront dangers involving real estate mafias and unpaid debts. Benidorm will be one more protagonist in this story, a place sometimes beautiful, sometimes dangerous and gloomy that will be the background of a romantic love story in its twilight.

PARALLEL MOTHERS (2022)
Starring Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Rossy De Palma, Julieta Serrano, Arantxa Aranguren, Adelfa Calvo, José Javier Domínguez and Carmen Flores. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatised. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which by chance develops and complications, and changes their lives in a decisive way.

REVIEWS Parallel Mothers - Peak Almodóvar

JULIETA (2016)
Starring Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao, Inma Cuesta, Darío Grandinetti, Michelle Jenner, Pilar Castro, Nathalie Poza, Susi Sánchez and Joaquín Notario. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

Julieta is a teacher of fifty five. She writes a long letter to her daughter, Antía, trying to explain all the things she has kept secret from her over the last 30 years. When she has finished her confession, she doesn’t know where to post the letter. Her daughter abandoned her when she was eighteen and Julieta hasn’t heard from her in the past twelve years. She has searched everywhere, but now realises that Antía has become a total stranger to her.

REVIEWS Julieta - Another strong female drama from Pedro Almodóvar

WILD TALES (2015)
Starring Ricardo Darín, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Érica Rivas, Oscar Martínez, Rita Cortese, Julieta Zylberberg, Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa and César Bordón. Directed by Damián Szifron.

A collection of six darkly funny short films united by a theme of vengeance.

REVIEWS Wild Tales - Deliciously devious

BAD EDUCATION (2005)
Starring Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar, Francisco Maestre, Francisco Boira, Nacho Pérez, Raúl García Forneiro, Javier Cámara and Alberto Ferreiro. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.

ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (2000)
Starring Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penélope Cruz, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Rosa María Sardà, Toni Cantó, Eloy Azorín, Fernando Fernán Gómez and Carlos Lozano. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his birthday as he runs to seek an actress' autograph. Beside herself with grief, she returns to Barcelona to tell the boy's father about the death of the son he never knew he had.