Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (Spain): 2

The Spanish biographical drama film, The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018), directed by Mar Targarona, is set in 1943 during the height of World War II. Life in the Mauthausen camp is a merciless and cruel existence for its inmates, including soldiers who fought and lost in the Spanish Civil War. These men were exiled from Spain by General Franco after his victory, considered ‘no man’s land’ and gifted to the Third Reich as free labor. Against this backdrop of eternal horror and brutality inflicted by Nazis and Kapos (violent inmate guards), a young man named Francesc Boix struggles to survive as a ...

The Invisible Guest (2016) is a Spanish mystery thriller film directed and co-written by Oriol Paulo. Businessman Adrián Doria is out on bail after being arrested for the murder of his lover, Laura Vidal. His lawyer, Félix Leiva, hires attorney Virginia Goodman to assist with his case. After finding out that the prosecutor has a witness who will testify in front of a judge within three hours, Virginia visits Adrián at his apartment and encourages him to tell her everything. Adrián reveals that he and Laura had been blackmailed into going to a rural hotel with €100,000. However, upon arriving, he was knocked unconscious ...