The Rye Horn

The Teacher Who Promised the Sea

Ariadna discovers that her grandfather has been searching for the remains of his father, who disappeared during the Civil War. Determined to help him, she travels to Burgos, where a mass grave is being excavated, and where he could be buried. During her stay there, she will learn the story of Antoni Benaiges, a young teacher from Tarragona who was her grandfather's teacher before the war. Through an innovative pedagogical method, Antoni inspired his students and made them a promise: to take them to see the sea.

Night and Fog

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Paradise Now

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

Bonnarien

Mauricette Bonnarien, a 27-year-old woman, works at the port of Dégrad des Cannes as a dockworker. The rest of the time, she performs slam poetry. Very self-conscious about her surname, given to her ancestor when slavery was abolished, she has begun the administrative process of changing her name. Only her mother knows about it. Now it's time to tell the rest of her family and friends.

Marina, Unplugged