Mario Casas

Faced with constant rejection, an ambitious actor finds himself drawn into a strange venue for one last chance at stardom.

Arjun has recently passed away, and his young wife, Manvi, is distraught. But then, one evening, someone texts her from Arjun's number and asks her to put his cell phone on charge immediately. Is it Arjun? Or is it somebody else? Technology meets horror in this slow-burning urban thriller.

Based on real events, Francesc Boix is a Spaniard inmate in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen in Austria who tries to save the evidences of the horrors committed inside its walls. 1943. With the World War II in the maximum exchange of hostilities, life is too merciless and cruel for the inmates who live in the camp of Mauthausen, where between others they are the soldiers who fought and lost in the Spanish Civil War, exiled from Spain by General Franco after to won the war, considering them as no men's land and gifted to Third Reich as free workforce. In this scenery of eternal horror and brutality caused by the Nazis and the Kapos (violent inmates who work as guards to keep the order), young Francesc Boix tries to survive in the camp working as photographer being Paul Ricken's right-hand, Mauthausen's warden. Boix's daily life taking photos, talking with another inmates as Balbuena and Fonseca and making files of the dead inmates who died in failed escapes changes after to realize in an amateur radio created by them that the Third Reich have loss against Soviet Army in the Battle of Stalingrad. Fearing that Ricken and the rest of the Nazis make disappear all evidences of the happened in the prison in the case they can lost the war, Boix obsesses with to keep all negatives of the photos that they prove the horrors committed by SS officers as Franz Ziereis. But after a first failed attempt of an inmate to escape and publish the photos for that the public eye discover the truth, Boix makes a second plan to elude exhaustive Ricken and Ziereis watching and to keep safe and sound the photos. With time running out and the command to burn everything finally ordered, will can Boix to save the evidences sand and at the same time survive to tell the truth to the world? —Chockys Francesc Boix is a Catalan photographer and a communist militant who fought in the republican front during the Spanish Civil War. Forced into exile, he is captured and sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp during the Second World War. In there he is assigned to the photo lab and unbeknownst to the Nazis he devotes himself to photographing countless scenes that palpably reveal the everyday horrors of a depraved system. With the help of some other Spanish prisoners who are leading the Spanish clandestine resistance, Boix risks his own life while carrying out his own plan: the evasion of numerous negatives which will show the world the appalling atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis inside the camp. The photos that Boix and his inmates managed to save were crucial to sentencing various high-ranking Nazi officers during the Nuremberg trials in 1946, in which Boix was the only Spaniard in attendance. —Domingo Alvarez

A former con man must be back to his old habits to save his older brother and niece from his ex boss and mentor. Toro (Spanish for "Bull") is a young con man and the right hand of Romano, a powerful mob boss in Torremolinos, Málaga (Andalusia, south to Spain). After Toro decides to leave Romano to get a life free of crime, his last sting fails, resulting one of his brothers dead and he sent to jail. Five years later, Romano realizes that López, Toro's older brother, is robbing him money from his tourism business and he orders to kidnap Diana, López's little daughter, until this one get back the money. Without options, López visits Toro, now a touristic driver with the third grade prison close to get the parole, who only wants to be free to marry his girlfriend Estrella. When Toro accepts to help López and both meet Romano looking for a solution, Toro ends attacking Romano's men and fleeing with Diana, trying to escape from Romano's revenge. But Romano starts a ruthless searching for they three, meanwhile Toro counts the hours to back the prison according to the third grade... —Chockys