Juan José Ballesta

EntreLobos (AmongWolves) tells the remarkable story of a poor country boy named Marcos, who at the age of 7 is handed over to his father's employer, a rich landowner, who in turn delivers him to a life of labor with a hermetic goatherd in an isolated valley. (imdb)

Steal. That's the only thing he knows how to do; it's all that his mother taught him before she disappeared forever, handcuffed to a policeman, on the platform of a subway station. He has just left the orphanage and is completely alone. He tries to find his place in this world, but 'just a matter of time before the boy gives in to the call of his own nature.

An old man is haunted by a supposed witch he knew as a boy. (Netflix.com)

It is summertime in a blue-collar, marginal district of a city in the South of Spain. Tano, a teenager currently serving a sentence in a juvenile reform center, is given a 48-hour leave to attend his brother's wedding. (imdb)

Growing up together. All emotions pass the revue. Friendship and hope survive all. (imdb)

Based on a true story, "Song for a Raggy Boy" is the story of one man's courage to stand up and fight against the tough fascist regime in a boys Irish Reformatory School in 1939. (imdb)

Carol, a twelve-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment... (imdb)

A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old girl. In the neighbourhood an old freedom-fighter pits himself against bad types, a pretty cinema-ticket girl takes to the streets at night and a young anarchist dedicates himself to telling tall stories. Far away, in Shanghai, a hero of the Republic meets a beautiful femme fatal with oriental eyes. Reality and fiction become fused in an embrace. (imdb)

Mañas's film vividly brings viewers into a world of fathers and sons in which perception doesn't always match reality. (Film Movement)