The event, which is a collaboration between the Spanish Embassy and Uránia, will feature a variety of themes, genres and styles, from true stories to emotional relationship dramas and comedies to absurd ghost stories. The audience will also get a taste of the cultural and linguistic diversity of Spain's regions, from Galicia to Castile and Catalonia to the Basque Country.

The film week opens with one of the biggest Spanish film successes of the past year, Integral. The political thriller, nominated for 13 Goya Awards and shared the award for best film, is based on true events: its protagonist is a Spanish policewoman who, at the age of barely twenty, infiltrated the then-active terrorist organization ETA in the early 1990s.

Three other works in the program also deal with real-life cases. One of them is Bus 47, which tells the story of a Barcelona bus driver who hijacked the vehicle entrusted to him to prove that the city government was lying when it claimed that buses could not go up the hills of the Torre Baró neighborhood, and thereby awakened the working-class population of the area to self-awareness.

The thriller Marco was based on the story of Enric Marco, who deceived the Spanish public for years: he made everyone, including his family, believe that he was a survivor of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, and was even elected president of the Amical de Mauthausen, which preserves the memory of the Holocaust.

The musical biopic Blue Star commemorates the late Spanish rock musician Mauricio Aznar, who died young, by recounting his inspiring journey through Latin America as he tried to overcome his addiction through the friendship and wisdom of an elderly Argentine musician.

Two films will be screened before their premieres during the film week. One is the final film in the Golden Bear-winning Carla Simón family trilogy (Summer 1993, Alcarrás), Pilgrimage, which is the story of a Galician journey: its protagonist is a young girl who, with the help of her mother's diary, tries to decipher what happened to her parents, whom she barely remembers.

The other film to be screened before its premiere is Rooms Opening Together, Cesc Gay's new film, in which fifty-year-old Eva realizes that she longs for a new love, so she leaves her family behind and starts a new life. The program also includes Spain's current Oscar nominee, Dancing in the Desert, in which a father and his son set off on a journey to find his missing daughter in the Moroccan sand sea.

Among the works that talk about the closest family and love bonds is The Story of Us, which is an adaptation of Isaac Rosa's novel and tells the story of the development of a couple's relationship from an unusual perspective.

The program also includes the satire Everyone Agrees, which is already running in cinemas, which takes place at a heated residents' meeting in a Madrid apartment building, and Eva Libertad's family drama The Deaf, which tells the story of a deaf mother and a hearing father becoming parents and the development of their relationship.

The series of films with a surreal perspective is supplemented by the satirical rural story Still Life with Ghosts, which offers a glimpse into the world of a small Castilian village, woven with beliefs, with a character of part-Hungarian origin, Bianca Kovácc, who is a popular comedian in Spain.

The Escape is a black comedy, produced under the supervision of executive producer Martin Scorsese, in which a broken young man wants to go to prison at all costs to be free from the burden of any further decisions.

The film week closes with the sci-fi film Whale, which is about a ruthless female assassin whose abilities come from another world inhabited by sea monsters - the announcement says.

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