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Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.

Seventy-something Don Anselmo, a retired minister, becomes obsessed with owning a motorized wheelchair and fakes infirmity to get it.

Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked 'dramatic' scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument that Johann Sebastian changed the way the world hears thanks to his extraordinary ear for harmony.

A bunch of scoundrels and members of the Spanish youth, who until now have not paid attention more than in the police stations. They are a group of friends who survive as they can in the suburbs of Madrid.

An analysis of the construction mechanism for the magic in dominant narrative cinema though the filming of Count Dracula (1970), a commercial film by Jesús Franco.

A female professor, a writer, and an orchestra conductor -three characters, two couples- attend a grand literary cocktail party. The writer has just won the prize for his book "Warsaw Bridge". The winner answers the journalist's questions one after another, but he is unable to come up with a synthesis of the plot of his book. They will simply have to read it.

A silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s. Experimental.

Absurdist protest movie set in Francoist Spain.

Reflection on the construction of Europe, its cultural identity and its foundations through the complete adaptation of the texts Conversations with Goethe, by J.P. Eckermann, Hitler's Table Talks and Fassbinder uber Fassbinder: Die ungekurzten Interviews (compilation of interviews with the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, which is used as a counterpoint to the first two books).

A woman walks by her home and finally takes a shower - She buy colored fabrics in a trade. A man visiting a post office - Succession of scenic pictures and semi-autonomous fading almost always unexpected. A series of situations or suite, though apparently unrelated, revolve around a thematic development that gives body and drive the story without resorting to the use of an anecdote as plot continuity.

Five former political prisoners gather to discuss about the political situation in Spain under Franco ruling.

An analysis of the effects of globalization on the world, which presents an optimistic argument for the future of the planet. Guided by some radical figures, from Zygmunt Bauman to José Mújica, we travel the world discovering the views of people on work, happiness, the environment, and the economy.

This documentary is the synthesis of the clandestine filming openly political by Pere Portabella and his environment in collaboration with Octavi Pellissa on the script, Manuel Esteban on photography and music by Carles Santos. The film made a panoramic both profound and ironic. Of unquestionable symbolic value. A chronicle of yesterday hastily made from a point of view that only thinks about tomorrow: starting with the Valley of the Fallen and ending at the Palace of Catalan Music, the film features the testimony of most political leaders of that moment having a dialogue between them: Felipe González, Santiago Carrillo, Jordi Pujol - Franco had recently died and democracy was a new word for politics.

The film is based on the suggestions may caused to the viewer by the relationship of images and things that seemingly are isolated, having nothing in common and that emulate the conventions of film and television advertising. The poet Joan Brossa worked on this script and also puts some maliciousness on the gray and oppressive atmosphere of Franco's Spain, which foreshadow the theme more explicitly on Portabella's 'Nocturno 29'.

The film, that took five days to shoot, shows the smelting and casting process of the work known as Puertas Mallorquinas by Joan Miró.

Furniture and objects are removed from Huerta de San Vicente, the home - now museum - of the García-Lorca family in Granada, leaving visitors to move among its empty spaces - thus making the poet's absence ever palpable.

Forty years after the first 'General Report', Pere Portabella now portrays the Spanish and Catalan political present from the perspective of social movements such as the recent 15-M or sovereignty's process in Catalonia as an alternative to the traditional parties. Rather than would a conventional illustrated report or documentary, the film also reflects on the nature of film language.

A film shoot, two individuals, one place. A suprasensory story that gravitates between domination and desire.