SIFF’s New Spanish Cinema festival continues with two more films tonight: Half of Oscar at 7:30 p.m. and Lovestorming at 9:30 p.m.

The Oscar whose halves are in question is a security guard in Almería, which town you’ll remember from being name-checked in the Pogues song “Fiesta”: “I am Francisco Vázquez García  / I am welcome to Almería.” Otherwise, you may not have heard much of it. It’s not the Spain they put on postcards. Oscar is guarding a salt plain, for instance.

Here’s Variety‘s description:

A spare, psychological study of a traumatized security guard holding onto his sanity by a soon-to-be-broken thread, the quietly intriguing “Half of Oscar” is composed of empty spaces and silences behind which lie a terrible tension.

Fair warning: Variety‘s reviewer says that while the film is “undeniably accomplished, visually striking and superbly played by Rodrigo Saenz de Heredia,” the script “hints at much but tells little.” If you go, bring your patience and a love of bleak, wintry scenery.

Lovestorming, by contrast, you can easily picture being remade for the States featuring John Krasinsky and Rainn Wilson in a mullet. An oil-and-water buddy pic, it’s set on New Year’s Eve in a Spain where people are hustling a bit harder to keep afloat: Sergio (Unax Ugalde) has to head back to work New Year’s Day. Thanks to her being so extraordinarily kind as to visit his father with him for the holidays, he’s glossing over his months-old breakup with his girlfriend Bea (Alexandra Jimenez).

When a snow storm blows in, he’s stuck at the hotel with a former 5th-grade classmate Juancarlitros (Julian Lopez), a “professional” comedian, who takes it upon himself to help Sergio win Bea back before she leaves for Germany. Of course he gathers a ragtag band of supporters; you might want to edit out a few of them, but not flight attendant Laura (Mariam Hernandez), who has the kind of Spanish eyes that Bono sings about. Look forward to at least two laugh-out-loud moments, with multiple snickers.