the blue banana

  In Melilla, a Spanish enclave surrounded by Morocco , hundreds of African refugees try to climb a barbed wire to enter "Europe". Mateo, a Spanish guard witnesses his colleague Javi strike down one of them who falls down dead, . Meanwhile , in distant Cameroon, the killing of an elephant reserve`s star elephant by poachers is inadvertently witnessed by seven year old Adu and his elder sister Alika.The forest guards along with their Spanish external advisor Gonzalo , arrive too late to find the elephant`s carcass and Adu`s abandoned bicycle. How the seemingly unconnected stories of Adu , Gonzalo and Mateo intersect forms the plot of the movie - Adu. Adu and his sister Alika , having lost their mother to the vengeful poachers , decide to undertake an arduous journey to Spain to join their father. They travel from Cameroon to Senegal , where their aunt pays a human trafficker to put them on a flight to Spain. They are cheated by the trafficker and asked to travel as stowaways i...

  Somewhere in the Balkans around 1995 , a group of Aid workers seek high and low to get a rope to haul out a corpse that has been deliberately flung into a well. This forms the skeleton for  the story of A Perfect Day .While this is strictly not a foreign language film , it is the English movie debut of Spanish director , Fernando de Leon de Aronoa .                                                          While the plot sounds quite simple , it slowly meanders into various sub plots that eventually connect back to the main plot. Mambru , the protagonist , is an NGO aid worker working in a conflict zone in the Balkans. His team comprises of B - a wild middling character , Sophie - a fresher and a local interpreter Damir. They are soon joined by Katya , an assessment expert who is an ex flame of Mambru`s and Nikola , young teenag...

 A gripping crime thriller that doesn't lag and manages to maintain its pace throughout - that's "The Invisible Guest" or   " Contratiempo" , as it was originally named in Spanish , for you. The story and screenplay are quite slick,enough to inspire  remakes in Italian , Hindi and Telugu.The film comes highly recommended with a 8.1 /10 rating on IMDb. Adrian Doria , a successful businessman , is out on bail for the murder of his lover Laura in a rural hotel  Adrian`s lawyer Felix  hires a very prestigious defense attorney, Virginia Goodman ,  to fight his case. Virginia turns up at Adrian`s door one morning and informs him that the prosecutor has found a witness who will testify soon , and so Adrian has to tell his story completely and quickly.Thus , the story begins. First ...why was Adrian framed for the murder of Laura. According to Adrian , he and his lover Laura had been blackmailed into coming to the hotel with  100,000 Euros. But he is knoc...

                                                       This is a beautiful movie which blends two distinct strains  - a wildlife conservationist's work with Orcas ( or Killer whales as they are commonly referred to ) and  a mother`s desperate bid to provide relief to her autistic child which makes her travel thousands of miles from Spain to Argentina . Set against the backdrop of the  coastline of the vast Patagonian desert, the movie has got some breathtaking visuals which are very  different from the ones we are commonly accustomed to. The film  first introduces us to Beto , the protagonist of the movie , who is a Orca watcher living in a cabin in a remote isolated location .He is a loner and is totally dedicated to the Orcas and has developed a special relationship with them. He often goes into the sea to play and swim wi...