Galician wird u.a. in Portugal und Spanien gesprochen und 86 Filme (zwischen 1989 und 2024) mit dieser Sprache wurden bislang erfasst. Die meisten dieser Filme wurden in Spanien (70) gedreht. Besonders beliebte Genres für Galician Filme sind Drama (39), Dokumentation (26) und Komödie (8). Zu den bekanntesten & erfolgreichsten Filmen zählen Wie Wilde Tiere (2022), Furi, der tapfere Maulwurf (2001), Spirit of the Forest (2008), You All Are Captains (2010) und A Esmorga (2014).
Antoine (DENIS MÉNOCHET) und Olga (MARINA FOÏS) haben den Neuanfang gewagt. Das Ehepaar kehrte Frankreich den Rücken zu und fand in einer kleinen Gemeinde im Landesinneren Galiziens eine neue Heimat. Dort arbeiten sie hart, bestellen ihr Fleckchen Land und leben von dem, was sie erwirtschaften. Doch so sehr sich Antoine und Olga auch bemühen, die Einheimischen begegnen ihnen meist mit Argwohn und Ablehnung: Zu tief ist der Graben zwischen den ortsansässigen Bauern, die dem Kreislauf von schwerer Arbeit und Perspektivlosigkeit entkommen wollen, und den beiden Aussteigern, die sich für ein Leben im Einklang mit der Natur einsetzen.
Der schüchterne Furi macht sich auf die Suche nach seiner verschwundenen Maulwurfsfreundin Linda. Seine Freude, die Katze Morrina, die Maus Piorno und das Glühwürmchen Luci, begleiten ihn. Hinter der Entführung steckt der rücksichtslose Herr A'Plenty, der die Felle der Waldtiere für seine Frau will. Doch Furi und seine Freunde finden einen Weg, Linda zu befreien...
The Spirit of the Forest is a fun-filled, action-packed adventure that takes you into a spectacular world beyond your imagination! The evil Mrs. D’Abondo wants to help a powerful businessman build a highway through the middle of the forest, a diabolical plan that forces the forest creatures to flee. To stop Mrs. D’Abondo and save their homes, Furi leads his friends in a daring mission to keep the forest alive.
A European director is making a film with children from a social center in Tangiers. Because of his methods, his relationship with the children during shooting degenerates and transforms the evolution of the project.
This is a tense and intense 24-hour account of three men's lives, three befuddled mates that walk through live in chaos, through repressed and misleading sex, while closing doors and throwing the keys away, as if they wished to leave everything behind, walking towards their own perdition.
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One morning, the body of a sailor is found lying on the beach, washed in by the tide.. With no witnesses or any sign of the dead man’s boat, Inspector Leo Caldas begins immersing himself in the town’s seafaring atmosphere as he endeavours to shed light on the crime. He finds himself among men and women who prefer not to reveal their suspicions to him. But a sudden discovery sets him off in an unexpected direction.
Dengue is a shy, innocent and passionate boy. Without realizing it, he becomes victim of a plot to extort his father. The cause is Candela who lures him into fall in love with her.
Portrait of Costa da Morte (coast region in Galicia, Spain) from an ethnographic and landscape level, exploring also the collective imagination associated with the area. A region marked by strong oceanic feeling dominated by the historical conception of world's end and with tragic shipwrecks. Fragmentary film that approaches to the anthropological from its protagonists: sailors, shellfish, loggers, farmers ... A selection of characters representative of the traditional work carried out in the countryside in the region, allowing us to reflect on the influence of the environment on people.
Luzía visits the eight stages of the 'pilgrimage' that the intellectuals Otero Pedrayo, Vicente Risco and Ben-Cho-Shey hiked from Ourense to San Andrés de Teixido in 1927; the story of the journey was published in the book ‘Pelerinaxes I’ (Pilgrimages I). She carries out this journey in order to finish up an audiovisual project about Otero Pedrayo’s book started at the University, together with a colleague who passed away in an accident.
'9 waves' is an independent film, produced almost entirely by crowdfunding, approaching the issue of identity in the contemporary world. It tells the story of a man (played by Dario Merlini) who forgets his memories by drinking water from a fountain at the border between Galicia and Portugal. Thus begins a journey that will take him to iconic sites - Couto Mixto, Antela, Ourense-, to engage with different stories and special situations, before finding his way towards his real identity.
Three moments in the life of a woman during the 20th century in Galician society.
Emilio has an accident. Now he sees life in a different way.
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Carme lives in a mountain village in Galicia with her sick mother and her father Ramón, with whom she hardly speaks. Working in a bakery, she feels the urge to escape from this oppressive atmosphere, but circumstances always seem to stop her. But during the “Rapa das Bestas” weekend – a celebration of the age-old struggle between man and horse – Carme’s older brother, Luís, comes home with his wife María...
Roberto and Miguel have been dating for ten years. A decade of that common life will return to their memories during four days of November. A seemingly strong relationship will start to crumble with each new memory. This increasingly significant life backgroung will show, little by little, the true nature of their shared life. Meanwhile, more than 2000 kilometres apart, in The Two Berlins, a greater relationship is about to change too. In the deep of a relationship lie hidden feelings forged by a common past. Secrets and resentments that the rest of the world can not see, separated by a wall that seems unbeatable. The wall separating Roberto and Miguel was not the only wall that fell down that cold November night.
Among the Galician mountains hides Vilar do Courel, a small village that has been resisting to disappear for decades. Its last three inhabitants are the guardians of a timeless space, which transits its past and looks to its future from an empty, immobile and fragile present. With Branca's arrival from Barcelona, reality begins to transform. At night, memories, dreams of the past and ancient legends guide the characters through magical forests and forgotten paths.
Andrea is a 30-year-old girl who lives a work and love routine that is unexpectedly shattered.
Coast of Almeria, Spain. When Neneta, who lives in a van, is abandoned by her partner, she decides to return with her baby to her hometown in Galicia.
Language and landscape as a gate into a new life. A young Galician filmmaker emigrates to Sweden, where he performs different part-time jobs. His learning of a new language and fascination for the Swedish landscape become a driving force against the difficult life conditions. As he learns about the culture, society and lifestyle, he develops a new identity.
A filmmaker comes back to his grandparents' house to make them a video-portrait. That's what cinema is about, isn't it?
1 - Dogs: Submissive and obedient animals 2 - Hogs: Dirty and wicked animals.
'OS DÍAS AFOGADOS' tells the tragic story of Aceredo and Buscalque, two small villages located in the region of Ourense, Galicia, Spain, flooded after the construction of Lindoso reservoir, in Portugal.
Sonia, the daughter of a prominent publisher, is about to fulfill her lifelong dream of marrying Rosendo, a promising writer with homosexual tendencies, who pines for his fiancee far less than he does for the brand new literary award launched by his future father-in-law. The wedding shindig will bring its share of unexpected surprises. This is a film is part of the DOGME 95 Movement, described as follows: 'the goal of the Dogme collective is to purify film-making by refusing expensive and spectacular special effects, post-production modifications and other gimmicks. The emphasis on purity forces the filmmakers to focus on the actual story and on the actors' performances. Given these restrictions the story and the action of DIAS DE BODA ('WEDDING DAYS') seem much more immediate and the lapses in fluidity of the story can be forgiven - to a point.
The story of Kaspar Hauser, who grew up in dark isolation from humanity, it is provided by a Gallician artist with a radical experimental adaptation that aims to be nothing less than a religious message. Black & white 16mm, without the language of reason, eye to eye with the primaeval puzzle. The story of Kaspar Hauser, the German 'wild child' who grew up for 16 years in silence and virtually in the dark in a stable with only a wooden horse as company, remains fascinating, also for filmmakers.
A Paixon De María Soliña' is a feature film with a historical setting which describes the Tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition through the inquisitorial trial against María Soliña in Galicia (Spain) in the XVII century, accused of witchcraft.
Galician sailors working on a ferry between the Danish city of Romo and the German island of Sylt. One buys a camcorder and start recording their daily lives and that of their peers in countless voyages.
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