What does it take for a common person to become a hero? What happens when a few anonymous heroes work together for a common goal?

During world war II Spain declares itself neutral land. But some spanish citizens see that the fight that is held in the continent is also their fight: they dedice to collaborate with the french resistance in network that retrieves information about nazi activities, risking their liberty and lives. This network manages to send some important files to London, but also helps saving many refugies' lives.

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Yesterday the Teatro Principal of San Sebastian has been the venue of the fifth and last projection, in this week dedicated to films, of the documentary El Rey de Canfranc. This french-spanish co-production directed by Manuel Priede and José Antonio Blanco, tells us the life of Alberto Le Lay during a terrible period of the spanish and european history. The year is 1940. Located in the Huesca's Pyrenees, Canfranc and its railway station are a strategic crossing point. Tons of supplies going to Germany are moved there. Alberto Le Lay, a french custom officer, decides to take advantage of his position to help the resistance. He's soon discovered and forced to flee.

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Palmeras en la nieve, the book from spanish writer Luz Gabás, is definitely going to be taken to the screens. That was confirmed yesterday in the San Sebastián ilm Festival. The project has been presented in a press conference held by the director Fernando González Molina, Luz Gabás herself, the producer Mercedes Gamero from Atresmedia Cine and by the actor Mario Casas who's going to play the role of Kilian, one of the main characters in the novel. Some footage from the screen tests has been shown as an advance of the future movie.

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Is the Holy Grail a myth or does it really exists? Has it been hidden in Spain? This is what the french anthropologist Philippe Charlier and the shooting team of Scientifilms from Paris wanted to investigate. They decided to follow the steps of the chalice in our country, in a quest for answers. They'll share their discoveries with us in a new episode of the tv series En quête d'ailleurs which will be soon broadcasted on the french-german channel Arte.

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