Name: Don Pepe Popi
Genre: Short, Comedy, Drama
Released: 2012-12-16
Duration: 16 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Elisabet Gelabert, Xavi Daura, Esteban Navarro

Spanish-language cinema across Spain and Latin America is united by its engagement with history, cultural identity, and social transformation. In Spain, films often balance artistic experimentation with popular genres while reflecting on memory, politics, and family. In Latin America, cinema has been deeply tied to questions of colonial legacy, resistance, and community resilience, ranging from intimate dramas to bold political allegories.

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The Venga Monjas face a terrible creative challenge: to make a video in honor of a woman's deceased daughter. As a starting point they only have a character the girl had drawn. And a name: Don Pepe Popi.

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