La Bola Negra

Spain, 1932. A young man awaits to see if he has secured membership to the local casino. In 1937, a young nationalist soldier guards a republican prisoner. And in 2017, an unexpected document is inherited by an historian from his grandfather.

Revelling in the tension between the real and the imagined, this sweeping Spanish epic spans generations to explore queer identity, legacy and desire with equal measures.

'This country has too many love stories buried in its fields.' writes García Lorca. His unfinished love stories are an act of reclamation, recovering emotional truth from the relentless tide of history.

In a real feat of collaboration, the trypditch film was directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, from a screenplay they co-wrote with Alberto Conejero.