25th Goya Awards  - BEST FILM NOMINEES

 BALADA TRISTE DE TROMPETA - 14 NOMINATIONS--SYNOPSIS :The circus monkeys scream wildly inside their cages while, outside, men kill and die in another circus: The Spanish Civil War. The stupid clown, recruited forcefully by the Militia, ends up carrying out a bloodbath with a machete against the National soldiers while still wearing his clown costume.Many years later, during Franco´s time Javier, son of the clown in the Militia, finds work as the sad clown in a circus where he meets an outlandish cast of strange characters such as the Human Cannonball, the Elephant Tamer or a quarrelsome couple of dog trainers, He also crosses paths for the fist time with SergioThis is the beginning of the story in which Javier and Sergio, two terrifyingly disfigured clowns pushed by rage, desperation and lust, battle to the death hoping to win the love of the most beautiful and cruel woman in the circus.--OFFICIAL WEB LINK  : http://www.baladatristedetrompeta.com/ PA NEGRE – (BLACK BREAD)---13 NOMINATIONS--SYNOPSIS: In the hard years of after war in rural Catalunya, Andreu, a child belonging to the losers side, finds in the woods the corps of a men and his son. Authorities want to charge his father with this murders but him, to help, tries to find out who the real responsible are. In this Andreu develops a deep moral  conscience against the grown ups´world fed by lies. To survive he betrayes his own roots and he ends up finding the monster that in him lives.---OFICIAL WEB LINK: http://www.panegre.com/index_cast.html 

TAMBIEN LA LLUVIA –(EVEN THE RAIN)

11 NOMINATIONS (SPANISH ACADEMY SELECTION FOR THE OSCARS)-- SYNOPSIS: Sebastian, sensitive and idealistic, has decided to make a film about of the world´s greatest icon: Christopher Columbus. But he doesn´t want to portray the typical vision of the brilliant sailor on a divined mission from God to “save souls”. He wants to show other things Columbus set in motion: the obsession with gold, the slave trade and the terrible violence perpetrated against the Indians who resisted.The film also gives voice to Bartolomé de las Casas and Antonio Montesinos, the first radical priest who risks everything in defense of the Indians and asks “are they not men?” The film also pits Columbus against Hatuey, the first Indian leader ever burned on a cross to set an example for those who opposed the Christians.Costa, Sebastian´s friend and the film´s producer, couldn´t care less about the film´s content. He´s not worried about what happened yesterday, never mind 500 years ago. He just wants the film finished on time and within budget. Sebastian may think Costa´s plan is insane but it´s the only way they can make such a complicated film with so little money: shoot in Bolivia, the cheapest country in South America with the highest population of indigenous people.--OFICIAL WEB LINK: http://www.tambienlalluvia.com/en/ ----BURIED--10 NOMINATIONS--SYNOPSIS: Paul is a U.S. contractor working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap. --WEB LINK : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462758/