Alice narrates her reflections on art as we immerse ourselves in a liminal journey.
Leo, Unai and Josepet are three boys growing up in La Ribera, in the heart of the Ebro Delta (Catalonia). During one of their last summers before adolescence, we witness their friendship and the small adventures that fill their days. Among rice fields, mud and swims, a sincere portrait emerges of a radically free childhood and of a rural world slowly fading away.
1957. As a farewell to her lover Teresa, la Zurda and her friends organise one of their usual weekend camping trips deep in the forest. Stolen time for rest, play and illicit pleasures, far from the repressive gaze of Franco’s dictatorship.
The tide sweeps Bárbara to a cove in the Serra de Tramuntana, where she awakens with a new mission: to reach the Valley of the Moon and help Juan Garaizabal forge a steel sculpture born of the landscape and the flesh.
An enigmatic man journeys back in time to find his younger self, seemingly to revisit the nostalgia of trading cards. An exploration of identity, mental health and the erosion of childhood innocence, Trading Cards is a dark fantasy animated film about the weight of living with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
A married couple and their daughter struggle with the child’s behavioral issues. The birth of a baby in the household disrupts an already fragile balance, pushing their shared life into disconcerting and darker directions.
The director’s midlife crisis catches up with her in the summer, on the beach of Empúries, in the Catalan coast, just a few meters from the Greco-Roman archaeological site. Observing the excavated and yet-to-be-excavated terrain leads her to discover that time can be a very relative thing.
"If it keeps starting over, it must be forever", says the white moth. But a gentle whisper breathes in each dawn, "one day, all days will be gone".
Ploo blends attributes of vector graphics and screen display technology with the human condition.
