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Two football players,meet with an accident and one of them loses a leg ending his football career. The other man plays for his friend and becomes the captain of the team but things change when both of them falls for the same girl.

A fifty five minute documentary about a wealthy family in a fishermen village of northern Spain in the beginning of 20th century; shown trough the film-footage shot by one of the brothers.

When the Spanish Civil War ended, hundreds of republican fighters that didn't surrender or escape to exile, stayed to fight for the 2nd Republic, organized in guerrilla groups, mainly in the mountains of Asturias and Galicia. Through the testimony of several contemporaries, this documentary narrates the resistance of the guerrilleros, and how the people of Asturias endured these years of terror and repression.

A real story with elements of fiction, just like life itself, is that of Bernabé Ruenes Santoveña. This man was sentenced to thirty years in jail after an altercation with an army officer while doing the military service. This conflict forced him to run to the hills in 1946. He first became a "fugao", and later a legendary bandit in Eastern Asturias. In spite of having disappeared in 1952, he became a myth. Shot with non professional actors, except for Fernando Martínez, who plays Bernabé, and with no state aid, this first feature in Asturian has been conceived, written and directed by Pablo Casanueva, a seventeen year old.

The LLumeres iron mine dyes the sea at its feet. The traces of industrial exploitation remain marked in the lives of those who were its neighbors for more than a century. Mine, life and sea.

In the debate on what political-cultural community the border regions must belong to, everyone has a point of view: from the controversial disputes between historians, philologists and politicians to the most dedramatizing opinions of the inhabitants of these regions. All of them speak in Fronteiras about how they perceive the fact that administrative divisions don't always coincide with cultural limits. An approach to the construction of collective identities trough the regions bordering with Galicia in Asturias, León, Zamora and Portugal.