El Colchón Films

A timid and sensitive man quits his 9-5 job to pursue his dream of becoming a watercolor painter. However, his neighbors and love will not agree with his new endeavor.

Silvia, a beautiful 45-year-old widow, is obsessed with having a child and finds in attractive but naive Mercedes the perfect candidate to bear it. Silvia kindly offers her a job and a room in her house, and then manipulates her into seducing a young man named Jaime. They soon fall in love and Mercedes becomes pregnant. Silvia will do anything in her power to keep the baby, even if it means leaving a couple of bodies behind.

When Adriana, the mother, becomes convinced that a perfect family consists of only two children, the arrival of a new baby, Tomas, turns their world upside down. Ignoring Tomas entirely, the family is plunged into a surreal struggle where every member must fight for their place.

Life is a gift, life grants you gifts, but everyone has, within him, the seed of his own downfall: his gold tooth. In the end comes tragedy: an everlasting toothache.

A young artist is abandoned by his lover, who leaves her mattress as the only trace of her life with him. The mattress becomes an obsession.

A current of thought unites the three episodes in a coherent way, embodied with few elements, and that makes of space, time, and movement, purely cinematographic modes of expression. Voice is not needed. Yes there are sounds, music, but not human voices, as in primitive cinema. There are faces, slow or fast movements, despair, fatality, a barely glimpsed horror, desire and fear of freedom. There is also love, perhaps as an illusion, rather than as a reality.

Marvin, an actor in cheap television commercials, is secretly in love with the beautiful Jenny and attributes his rejection to his very short stature. Depressed, he wanders through a park where a Harlequin encourages him to take control of his destiny with a magic pill.

In the square and tidy universe of an unconventional family, Mother is the guardian of order and Junior the distorting agent.
 A house where everything that doesn't fit, goes to waste.

It has been days since Sebastian could sleep and tonight will be no exception. This solitary young man has found himself trapped in a strange game of seduction that started some time ago, back in the days when he could sleep.