Goya Candidates 2021

Desperate and confused, Alicia will do the impossible to keep her son from prison after he's convicted of trying to murder his ex-wife.

Santiago, a man in his 40's works as a cowboy, lives in the outsides of remote village in Beni. His past is unclear, rumors say that he's a fugitive, an assassin or a bandit. A work offer of driving a 2000 cattle herd to the Santa Clara ranch that is really far comes one day. Is a well-paid job offer, and he's the only one that can do it, he needs the money, but going to Santa Clara will force him to leave his past behind or finally take revenge from those who forced him to the exile.

A private investigator in Chile hires someone to work as a mole at a retirement home where a client of his suspects the caretakers of elder abuse.

An author recalls life with his father, a university professor who fought against oppression and social inequality in Colombia in the seventies.

Selva (13) lives in a coastal town in the Caribbean. After the sudden disappearance of her only motherly figure, she is left to take care of her grandfather who doesn't want to live. Between shadows and wild games, she must decide if she will help her grandfather die, even though that means going through her last moments of childhood alone.

In the border town of Malpaso: Braulio works with his grandfather while his twin, Candido, remains secluded due to his albinism. After their grandfather passes, Braulio will look after Candido, who dreams of the return of their father.

Bogotá 1840. Ten years after General Antonio José de Sucre - Grand Marshal of Ayacucho- was murdered in the Berruecos jungle, Colombia. The inquiry into his death is reopened, Captain Alejandro Godoy take charge as prosecutor. Several political motives mean that the case must definitively be drawn to a close. Godoy discovers that a large part of the documentation produced during the original inquiry has been destroyed. With his own life in danger, Godoy discovers a highly intricate plot that put an end to Sucre's life.

An aging paranoid war criminal, protected by his faithful wife, faces death while being haunted by the ghosts of his past.

In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.

Cebaldo, an indigenous dule from Panama, is a fishermen's assistant in a town in northern Portugal who suffers of nostalgia. In his loneliness, memories takes him away from his daily routine, immersing in a journey back to his village in Guna Yala, where a botanical doctor confronts him with the impossibility of returning to the past.

In 1978, Paraguay lives a dictatorship and, clandestinely, two men bury corpses. But one day they find a man who is still breathing. They have to kill him, but they never killed anyone before.

Three intrepid photographers return to indigenous communities on the peruvian highlands carrying some powerful photos captured 25 years ago. They begin a quest to find the characters in them. Photographers and photographed will reunite and will bring back obscure memories and brave tales of an uneven war, waged by a terrorist group.

Portugal, 1917: 17-year-old Zacarias volunteers for the army to fight against the Germans in World War I. Instead of France, however, he ends up in Mozambique, where the harshness of the jungle awaits him rather than glorious battles.

The death of their father causes three dysfunctional siblings to fight over their beloved childhood home.