Pragda collection includes films by such notable directors as Julio Medem, Oliver Stone, Fernando Trueba, Carles Bosh and many others. We have a reputation for distributing daring independent non-fiction films and short fictions from Spanish speaking countries. We work with institutions that include high quality and educational media in their programs. This includes media arts centers, museums, galleries, colleges and universities, as well as other agencies.
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TITLE
CRONICA D’UNA MIRADA: CLANDESTINE FILMMAKING IN FRANCO’S SPAIN, 1960 - 1975
DIRECTOR
Manuel Barrios
LANGUAGE
Spanish/ Catalan with Spanish or English subtitles
RUNNING TIME / YEAR
620 min. / 2004 |
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SYNOPSIS:
This award-winning, 6-part documentary uncovers the little-known history of a clandestine group of anti-Franco filmmakers operating under total secrecy in ‘60s and ‘70s Spain. Their saga, nearly lost to oblivion along with their films, provides crucial witness to the end of the Franco era while simultaneously revealing a bold and formally innovative period in Spanish Cinema.
Prominently featured in the series are interviews with the pillars of Independent Spanish Cinema, including Pere Portabella, Llorenc Soler, Manuel Esteban, Antoni Padros, Carles Barba, and others.
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TITLE
ME TOO
(Yo, también)
DIRECTOR
Álvaro Pastor & Antonio Naharro
LANGUAGE
Spanish
RUNNING TIME / YEAR
103 min. / 2009 |
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SYNOPSIS:
With: Pablo Pineda, Lola Dueñas
Daniel (Pablo Pineda) and Nuria (Lola Dueñas) work together and they’re friends. Daniel is in love with Nuria, but she’s reluctant to go any further. Will Nuria eventually fall in love with Daniel? Me Too would be a conventional “boy-meets-girl” story if wasn’t for the fact that Daniel has Down Syndrome. Touching, funny and sexy, this unconventional romantic comedy, directed by debutants Pastor and Naharro, talks openly about the desires and sexual needs of people with disabilities in a way not seen before on screen. Won two Goyas (Spanish Academy Awards): Best Actress (Lola Dueñas) and Best Original Song.
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TITLE
MY GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE
(La casa de mi Abuela)
DIRECTOR
Adán Aliaga
LANGUAGE
Spanish and Valencian with English subtitles.
RUNNING TIME / YEAR
80 min. / 2005 |
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SYNOPSIS:
How does a pop duet work out for impulsive and irreverent six-year-old Marina and 75-year-old Marita? Mischievous Marina plays to the camera, ignoring the chiding of her aged grandmother, Marita. Marita’s crumbling house was built by her long-dead husband. She moved in when they married, over 53 years ago, and nothing much has changed since. Now her home is under threat; the neighborhood is being torn down, being replaced with charmless apartments.
This film is available for public screenings. Request a quote: info@pragda.com
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TITLE
STIGMATA
(Estigmas)
DIRECTOR
Adán Aliaga
LANGUAGE
Spanish
RUNNING TIME / YEAR
98 min. / 2009 |
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SYNOPSIS:
With: Manuel Martínez, Marieta Orozco, Núria Casas and Marta Carbonell.
Stigmata is the story of Bruno, a rough man, strong and alcohol addicted. Bruno simply aims to be a normal person, but his fate is already written.One day wakes up and his hands start bleeding. This is a trip to redemption through suffering, pain and death. From now on he has to live with these new stigmas.
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TITLE
THE BASQUE BALL- SKIN AGAINST STONE
(La Pelota Vasca - La Piel Contra la Piedra)
DIRECTOR
Julio Medem
LANGUAGE
Spanish and Basque with English subtitles
RUNNING TIME / YEAR
115 min. / 2003 |
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SYNOPSIS:
“With over 100 interviews and reels upon reels of archive footage, La Pelota Vasca is an incisive documentary on Spain, ETA, and the Basque region.” - Jamie Russell, BBC Radio
This film is available for public screenings. Request a quote: info@pragda.com
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TITLE
THE ISLAND INSIDE
(LA ISLA INTERIOR)
DIRECTOR
Dunia Ayaso and Felix Sabroso
LANGUAGE
Spanish
RUNNING TIME / YEAR
93 min. / 2009 |
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SYNOPSIS:
With: Candela Peña, Alberto San Juan, Cristina Marcos, Geraldine Chaplin and Antonio de la Torre.
Three siblings on the run from themselves. Martin (Alberto San Juan) wants to leave home and become a writer in Paris. Gracia (Cristina Marcos) wants to put some reality back into the fictional world that her life has become. Coral (Candela Peña) just wants to be loved. The sudden death of their father forces them to leave the inner island which isolates them from their loved ones, from their dreams … and from being themselves.
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TITLE
THREE DAYS WITH THE FAMILY
(Tres dies amb la família)
DIRECTOR
Mar Coll
LANGUAGE
Catalan and Spanish
RUNNING TIME / YEAR
86 min. / 2009 |
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SYNOPSIS:
With: Nausicaa Bonnín, Eduard Fernández, Francesc Orella, Ramon Fontseré, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu
One of the most impressive Spanish debut features of the last years, Three days with the family tells the story of Léa (Nausicaa Bonnín), a 21-year-old girl who returns home to attend her grandfather’s funeral. In this semi-autobiographical film, 28-years-old Catalan director Mar Coll proffers an observant study of rituals of grief in a bourgeois household where little can be aired openly and hypocrisy rules. Goya (Spanish Academy Award) to the Best New Director (Mar Coll).
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