Bad Hair Day

It’s winter holidays and fourteen-year-old Ana discovers that the metal plate she has in her arm from an accident she suffered as a child is now receiving a strange message in Morse code.

Raised in a repressive era where sexuality was taboo, they found their understanding of womanhood based on unspoken rules and implicit impositions. Now, their fearless voices incarnate in a single 65-year-old woman, who revisits a kaleidoscopic life of intertwined memories, secrets, and hidden desires.

Shot in real time and set in a city centre. Fio,  a young woman working as a rider is forced to make a dangerous delivery that will put her life at risk during a night filled with urgent personal problems that she must solve through phone calls.  Millions of people make a living as riders around the world, Fio’s story of redemtion is but one of them.

Two Rwandan actors and a Belgian technician are gathered at the former propaganda radio station of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 to rehearse a program that conveys ideas of pacification and hope. But first they will have to overcome the terrible past that unites them.

In 1935, Antoni Benaiges is hired as a teacher in a small, isolated village in Burgos, Spain. There, he establishes an intense relationship with his students, a group of young boys and girls between the ages of six and twelve, to whom he makes a promise: to take them to see the sea for the first time in their lives. 75 years later, the granddaughter of one of those students discovers the wonderful story hidden behind a promise that was never fulfilled.

Lucia lives an uneventful life as an IT specialist in Madrid. When the company goes bankrupt due to embezzlement, she decides to make a radical change in her life and become a taxi driver. In the taxi, she meets a series of colorful people, including Roberta, a theatre producer with whom she forms a great friendship, and Ricardo, a journalist who hits on her at the slightest opportunity. Yet, Lucía secretly hopes that, one day, Braulio, an actor with whom she had a fleeting fling and to whom she owes her obsession with the Turandot aria “Nessun Dorma”, will jump in her taxi and finally become her prince charming. But reality can be stubborn and people might not really be who they seem to be...

Marisol is the national rhythmic gymnastics’ coach. She is methodical, controlling, demanding, and authoritarian. She does not contemplate failure as an option. An emotionally tense and complex movie, about the limits of power and sacrifice, around a woman who, unable to deal with her own painful personal experience, transfers her frustration to the gymnasts.