iCOFF GRAND PRIX 2024

TO BIRD OR NOT TO BIRD

9 min. Animation

Director: Martín Romero

Producer: Iván Miñambres

Distributor: Selected Films

Contact: info@selectedfilms.com

Synopsis: To bird or not to birdThat's the point. A critical and kaleidoscopic look at the modern world told through the tragicomic and grotesque experiences of some birds.

BEST DIRECTION OF FICTION

GUILLERMO GARCÍA LÓPEZ for AUNQUE ES DE NOCHE

17 min. Fiction

Director:   Guillermo García López

Producers: Marina García López, David Casas Riesco, Pablo de la Chica

Distributor: Marvin&Wayne

Contact: fest@marvinwayne.com

Synopsis: In Cañada Real, the largest illegal settlement in Europe, there is no light. In the shadows, Tonino, a thirteen-year-old Roma boy, discovers he is about to lose his best friend forever.

BEST DOCUMENTARY

EL BUS

29 min. Documentary

Director: Sandra Reina

Producer: Valerie Delpierre

Distributor: Marvin&Wayne

Contact: fest@marvinwayne.com

SynopsisA bus picks up passengers on Friday morning to travel the route that leads them to the weekend, with their plans, their reflections, and their fears. The same bus will pick them up on Sunday afternoon to return them to their place of origin.

BEST ANIMATION

MUJER ILUSTRADA

8 min. Animation

Director:   Isabel Herguera

Producer: Diego Herguera

Distributor: Kimuak

Contact: kimuakfestivals@basqueaudiovisual.eus

Synopsis: In Ahmedabad, Isabel leads an animation workshop for a group of temporary tattoo artists, the Mehndi artists. She interviews them about their dreams: Ramia wants to fly, Saadiya dreams of a women's parliament, Shubhashree longs to travel to Switzerland, and Samira asserts her independence through rap.

BEST INTERPRETATION

BRUNA CUSÍ for ELI

17 min. Fiction

Director:   Álvaro López Alba

Producer: Nuria Muñoz-Ortín

Distributor: Selected Films

Contact: info@selectedfilms.com

SynopsisEli spends day and night with her father, who is hospitalized. On Christmas Eve, her brother Tomás, who had been absent from his care until then, shows up unannounced and offers to take over. But rather than a relief, this seems to unsettle Eli.

BEST BASQUE SHORT FILM

EL REY DE LA SEMANA

29 min. Fiction

Director:   David Pérez Sañudo

Producers: Agustín Delgado Bulnes, David Pérez Sañudo, Elena Maeso, Fernando Pérez Sañudo, Kevin Iglesias, Pilar Sancho, Néstor López, Álvaro Cervantes, Alejandra Aróstegui

Distributor: Kimuak

Contact: kimuakfestivals@basqueaudiovisual.eus

SynopsisMartín is a divorced man with a son who works in a cosmetics factory. He's obsessively concerned with his appearance and physique and feels lonely. Desperate, he joins a seduction workshop to help him find a partner. One day he meets Marta, and seducing her becomes his main goal.

OFIZIALA AUDIENCE AWARD

HADAS

15 min. Fiction.

Director: Beatriz de Silva

Producer: Iñigo Silva

Distributor: Freak Agency

Contact: festhome@agenciafreak.com

SynopsisMarta is a twelve-year-old girl who is bullied at school. It seems she's going to celebrate her birthday alone until, in a moment of despair, her fairy godmother appears to prevent her from falling apart.

EUSKO-ATALA AUDIENCE AWARD

EL QUE NO VE

25 min. Documentary

Director: Natxo Leuza

Producer: Juan San Martín

Distributor: Selected Films

Contact: info@selectedfilms.com

Synopsis: The one who does not seeIt's the story of anyone who one day loses their way and opens the door to social exclusion. It's a human portrait of someone who falls and the steps they take to get back up. It's the life, told in the first person, of Montxo Rejano. It's the life of thousands who walk the streets unseen.

EUSKO-ATALA AWARD FOR BEST BASQUE SHORT FILM

EUROPA

8 min. Fiction

Director: Ekain Irigoien

Producers: Amaia Merino, Ander Iriarte

Distributor: Mirokutana

Contact: airiarte@mirokutana.com

Synopsis: Lubna has arrived in Paris fleeing the war. There she can see whales gliding over the Eiffel Tower, while she expresses her wish that her parents might join her.

AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM IN BASQUE

TALKAK

6 min. Animation

Directors: Ilune Díaz, Jordi Nuet

Producer: Ilune Díaz

Distributor: Ilune Díaz

Contact:talkak.laburetraia@gmail.com

Synopsis: A couple in crisis will find the perfect shock therapy at an amusement park to solve all their problems at once.