Nieve de Medina

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

2001: men without jobs, in the port city of Vigo. Six men worked in a shipyard, now shuttered. They pass the time at La Naval, a bar opened by one of them after the yard closed. They face their futures in makeshift ways: Rico has his bar and a sharp 15-year-old daughter, Reina has become a watchman and a moralizer, Lino fills out job applications, Amador drinks heavily and talks of his wife's return... (imdb)

When the single mother nurse Gloria has financial difficulties, her colleague and friend Dr. Ana Torres invites her to move with her six year-old daughter Vicky to her old big house where she runs a gynecologic clinic. In return, Gloria would assist Ana in her clinic in the afternoons. Sooner Gloria finds that Ana dedicates to abortion in her clinic, and also that she is lesbian and has a crush on her. (imdb)

During a financial crisis in the 60s, two spanish men decide to emigrate to Switzerland. Having found work, their families follow as well. Six years later, the kid having learned swiss-german and adapted to Swiss live, one family decides to return to Spain. The movie depicts humorously and sometimes sadly the story of not only two lives but of millions of people who did the same thing. (Nunacsesabe)

In a small village in south-eastern Spain a popular old belief claims that some women are predestined to disappear with each flood where a storm threatens to cause the river in the village that runs through it to overflow again (imdb).