Luis Eduardo Aute

Silvio Rodríguez learned to play guitar secretly during his military service. After 45 years of career, he's still in full musical activity and maintains his commitment to culture through their studio, Ojalá, and initiatives such as "La gira por los barrios", in which Silvio, barely advertised, performs in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods of Havana.

8.5/10

Manila, 1945: a boy looks at the sea from the boardwalk, turning his back on a destroyed city. From a photograph of his childhood, Luis Eduardo Aute glances back to discover what remains in him of those eyes of a child with which he looked at the sea. With the battle of Manila as the setting, a bloody contest that claimed the lives of more than a hundred thousand people, the author remembers the boy who was and how, from that tragic experience, the figure of the basilisk began to stalk him, a being mythological in the form of a winged serpent capable of killing with its eyes, representing the adult world, degradation and death.

"El Gran Gato" is the title of this "documented musical," as cataloged the same director, which includes the participation of singers like Tonino Carotone, Sisa, Kiko Veneno, Luis Eduardo Aute, Los Manolos, Lucrecia and Martyrdom. This manager and colleagues pay tribute to Jack Perez, singer and composer who popularized the rumba and died in 1990 when he was only 40 years. The film alternates between two parts: a documentary with more conversations with family and people who knew Jack Perez, and a second in which the aforementioned musicians interpret the best known songs of the musician.

7/10

Accomplished singer/songwriter and artist turned filmmaker Luis Eduardo Aute combined more than 4,000 of his own drawings with state-of-the-art digital animation techniques for his unique animated movie, A Dog Called Pain. Aute explores the relationships between several eccentric artists and their models in seven black-and-white animated portraits. Aute focuses predominantly, though not exclusively, on great Spanish artists, as he examines the work of Francisco de Goya, Diego Velazquez, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Groucho Marx, and even Woody Allen make brief "cameo" appearances. The film was named for Frieda Kahlo's own pooch, and dogs figure prominently in the episodes. Through his silent (other than the musical score), somewhat static imagery, Aute focuses not on straightforward storytelling, but on capturing some inner truth about the artists, their relationships with their models, and their historical and cultural environments.

7.1/10

Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, running away from the militaries, she has a special way of living her own way. Pedro wants to get back the job as a teacher through an old friend, Bruno Baena, who is the head master of the school. Aurora starts going to Pedro's classes. Pedro will become "El hombre de moda", very soon.

5.3/10

A writer loses his beloved, in the hands of another man, wihtout having expressed his feelings to her.

6/10

Lozana, a young, beautiful and clever woman decides to move to the city after a tragic love story. There, she meets Rampin, a naughty rascal who soon finds out that her wit surpasses his own by a handful. When he falls in love with her, he can't help suffering as he sees how she plays not only with him, but with all of her lovers as well.

4.5/10

After completing his high school studies at the age of twenty-four, Óscar is an immature student, unable to afford alone his return to home during the summer season. Then he manages to convince Carlos, his young math teacher, to accompany him. Already in the family home, Óscar begins to behave in an increasingly unbalanced and irrational way. Meanwhile, his family will endeavor to see him as the reflection of the absent father figure.

5.6/10