"Sergi Belbel's Caresses, recently filmed, is a disturbing picture of contemporary society against a background of urban alienation. In Juan Mayorga's The Scorched Garden a group of inmates locked up in a mental hospital since the Spanish Civil War unveil their histories and madnesses. Offering a rare glimpse of the immigrant experience in Spain, David Planell's Bazaar shows undercurrents of racism beginning to surface in the course of a hilarious attempt to get an accident video shown on a You've Been Framed style TV programme. In Antonio Onetti's one-act Bleeding Heart, set in contemporary Seville, a naive, middle-aged transvestite encounters a petty thief nicknamed 'sour face.' Lluisa Cunille's Roundabout is a study of obsession and delusion. And in Paloma Pedrero's Wolf Kisses a young woman returns to her rural village home to await her Parisian lover despite the hostility of the villagers.".
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