A-MANIKI
13.58 min. Fiction
Director: Elixabet Núñez
Producers: Imanol Ortiz, Dani Perez Prada, Elixabet Nunez, David Pascual, Estrella Carrasco, Julio Hidalgo, Mary Alexandra Fernandez, Pablo Otero, Daniel M. Caneiro, Yolanda Ruiz Lara, Rafa Alvarez, Victor Basallote
Screenwriter: Elixabet Núñez
Cast: Mabel Rivera, Dani Pérez Prada
Distributor: Distribution With Glasses
Contact: info@distributionwithglasses.com
Synopsis:
An elderly woman struggling with the digital world disappears from the society around her.
ÁNGULO MUERTO
14.58 min. Fiction
Director: Cristian Beteta
Producers: José Luis Rancaño, Pablo López
Screenwriter: David Verdugo
Performers: Eva Llorach, Carlos Santos
Distributor: Distribution With Glasses
Contact: info@distributionwithglasses.com
Synopsis: Estela and Ramón have been through a separation and the suicide of their only son, Hugo, aged just 13, after being bullied at school. When Estela obtains a video recorded by her son's bullies, she believes the time has come to have a conversation with Ramón.
AZKENA
09:07 min. Animation
Directors: Ane Inés Landeta, Lorea Lyons
Producer: Izaskun Arandia
Screenwriter: Ane Inés Landeta, Lorea Lyons
Distributor: Yaq distribution
Contact: alicia@yaqdistribucion.com
Synopsis: Lorea opens the family album sitting on the couch next to her mother. The album begins with photos of her grandmother Adela's youth. In the photos, Lorea observes her grandmother, who spent her entire childhood and youth in the village. Around her, there are always children or other women caring for these children.
BEHIND THE WALL
16.14 min. Documentary
Director: Martín Guevara
Producer: Martín Guevara
Screenwriter: Martín Guevara
Distributor: Films on the Road
Contact: info@filmsontheroad.com
Synopsis: Tareq Samhan, a former fighter in the Al-Qassam Forces (Hamas), is released after 13 years in prison. Tareq's story and the images captured by the filmmaker provide a snapshot of contemporary Palestine.
CÓLERA
09:50 min. Fiction
Director: José Luiz Lázaro
Producers: Sergi Miralles, Mila Luengo
Screenwriter: José Luis Lázaro
Cast: Manuel Canchal, Jorge Motos, Nacho Fresneda
Distributor: Selected Films
Contact: info@selectedfilms.com
Synopsis: After spending the morning at the beach, a careless moment leaves Guillem and Nico locked out of their car, without keys, cell phones, or clothes. What seems like a simple mishap takes a dark turn when, while asking a stranger for help, a question triggers an encounter as unexpected as it is brutal: "Are you gay?"
DEPREDADOR
07:37 min. Fiction
Director: Javier Fesser
Producers: Luis Manso, Pepe Jordana
Screenwriter: Javier Fesser
Starring: Athenea Mata, Claudia Fesser, Maggie Balance, Pepe Jordana, Elsa Diaz
Distributor: Selected Films
Contact: info@selectedfilms.com
Synopsis: Two friends are traveling through a lonely place when their car suffers a tragic breakdown.
DINOSAURIOAK
11.31 min. Fiction
Director: Koldo Almandoz
Producer: Marian Fernández Pascal
Screenwriter: Koldo Almandoz
Performers: Iñaki Beraetxe, Sara Cózar, Iñigo Aranbarri
Distributor: Kimuak
Contact: kimuakfestivals@basqueaudiovisual.eus
Synopsis: It's always the end of an era.
EHIZA
29.54 min. Fiction
Director: Aitzol Saratxaga
Producers: Kevin Iglesias, Aitzol Saratxaga, Itxaso Frau, Ana Angulo, David Pérez Sañudo, Elena Maeso, Agustín Delgado, Alberto Díaz
Screenwriters: David Pérez Sañudo, Ainara Mentxaka
Performers: Lander Otaola, Ramón Agirre, Goize Blanco, Mikel Losada, Aitor Borobia, Urko Olazabal, Josean Bengoetxea, Itziar Ituño, Klara Badiola, Elena Uriz, Mikel Martinez, Mikel Ibarguren
Distributor: Yaq distribution
Contact: alicia@yaqdistribucion.com
Synopsis: Basque Country, late 19th century. In a small village, the parish priest Mateo disappears without a trace. Rumors and gossip quickly spread among the townspeople, who attribute the priest's disappearance to a strange paranormal event. In response, the Archbishopric sends two emissaries: the young Eneko (as Mateo's temporary replacement) and the veteran Father Manuel (obsessed with learning the truth about his disappearance).
EL CAMBIO DE RUEDA
09:09 min. Animation
Director: Begoña Arostegui
Producers: Fernando Franco, León Siminiani, Ainhoa Ramírez Lucendo
Screenwriter: Begoña Arostegui
Distributor: Marvin & Wayne
Contact: fest@marvinwayne.com
Synopsis: The protagonist travels as co-pilot in a car observing the landscape through the window: trees, cultivated land, barns, a dog walking dragging a long chain, a shack in whose window a man smoking seems to be looking at her.
EL CUENTO DE UNA NOCHE DE VERANO
22.22 min. Fiction
Director: María Herrera
Producer: Emilia Fort
Screenwriter: María Herrera
Cast: Olivia Delcán, Nacho Sánchez
Distributor: Marvin & Wayne
Contact: fest@marvinwayne.com
Synopsis: Although they barely know each other, Inés and Guille quickly connect, displaying an unusual complicity for a first date. It even seems as if the stifling heat has ceased while they slept together. Inés wants them to watch the sunrise together before falling asleep.
EL LADO MÁS BESTIA DE LA VIDA
14.32 min. Fiction
Director: José Antonio Campos
Producers: Gerardo de las Morenas, José Antonio Campos
Screenwriters: José Antonio Campos, Patricia Riobóo
Cast: Rosario Pardo, Alicia Fernandez, Juan Carlos Sanchez, Rafael Leon
Distributor: Selected Films
Contact: info@selectedfilms.com
Synopsis: Belén and Paco are retired. One of their children unexpectedly suffers an accident that completely changes the family situation. Old age has become complicated for them. Life can change in an instant.
EL PRINCEP
29.13 min. Fiction
Director: Alex Sardá
Producers: Carlota Coloma, Adrià Lahuerta, Marta Cruañas, Xavi Vara
Screenwriter: Alex Sardá
Cast: Enric Auquer, Mona Martinez, Javier Beltran, David Vert, Nora Sala-Patau, Daniela Brown, Carla Linares, Elena Martin Gimeno
Distributor: Marvin & Wayne
Contact: fest@marvinwayne.com
Synopsis: Today is the opening night, and Artur, the son of a bourgeois family and a dancer in a contemporary dance company in Barcelona, acts like the prince of a kingdom made just for him. Distant, Artur and his colleagues prepare the final details before the dress rehearsal. But everything changes when, during the break, he receives a call from his family and has to leave the theater.
ERROTATIBA
08:05 min. Documentary
Director: Iratxe Fresneda
Producer: Txelu Medina Arbide
Screenwriter: Iratxe Fresneda
Distributor: Kimuak
Contact: kimuakfestivals@basqueaudiovisual.eus
Synopsis: A non-fiction short film about the fragility of memory and the places humans create to safeguard it. People disappear, like the buildings they lived in, the places where they worked and were happy. Those faces and those lives were once part of a written memory, a memory that will disappear because nothing lasts forever. What water brings, water takes away.
ETORRIKO DA (ETA ZURE BEGIAK IZANGO DITU)
12.46 min. Animation
Director: Izibene Oñederra
Producer: Diego Herguera
Screenwriter: Izibene Oñederra
Distributor: Kimuak
Contact: kimuakfestivals@basqueaudiovisual.eus
Synopsis: A small community plunged into collapse by an environmental crisis adapts as best it can to its new reality. The privileged inhabitants live a hedonistic life based on carpe diem, while the others, with no other alternative, struggle to survive. What lies ahead? If nothing else, is there anything that can save us?
FLORS DE PLASTIC
10:52 min. Documentary
Director: Adan Aliaga
Producer: Miguel Molina
Screenwriter: Adán Aliaga
Distributor: Valencian Institute of Culture
Contact: irenecubellsdistribucion@gmail.com
Synopsis: My mother got her first embroidery machine when she was 13. After my father died, my mother and grandmother went to the cemetery to replace the fresh flowers with plastic ones. My mother and grandmother still embroider.
HAPPY HOUR
22.29 min. Fiction
Directors: Nico Romero, Álvaro Monje
Producers: Javier Carneros, Urko Errazquin, Helen Martí Donoghue
Screenwriter: Nico Romero
Cast: Marcos Ruiz, Vicente Vergara, Carolina Yuste
Distributor: Jara Short Films of Extremadura
Contact: festhome@agenciafreak.com
Synopsis: David is a nurse who spends his summer nights on night shifts at a clinic in a small, isolated inland town in the middle of Extremadura. The night promises to be very boring, but there's a legend among those who work in emergency services: At three in the morning, as if it were a zombie movie, the worst in each house emerges from the shadows and becomes visible. It's what the health workers call Happy Hour.
LA SANGRE
14.40 min. Fiction
Director: Joaquín León
Producer: Miguel Molina
Screenwriter: Joaquín León
Cast: Luka Albarrán, Esther Molina, Ana Rodríguez
Distributor: Marvin & Wayne
Contact: fest@marvinwayne.com
Synopsis: Álvaro is a teenager who feels out of place in life. He doesn't want to study or work the land like his mother. During the procession of the Virgin Mary in the village, he sheds tears of blood, and people begin offering him large sums of money.
LOCAS DEL ÁTICO
16.14 min. Documentary
Director: Tamara García Iglesias
Producer: Katixa de Silva, Tamara García Iglesias, Pako Ruiz
Screenwriter: Tamara García Iglesias
Distributor: Freak Agency
Contact: festhome@agenciafreak.com
Synopsis: Seeking to represent the first mad women on screen: mute, excessive, twisted, parodic. Through an analog casting of women, sick women selected as the best sick women, tormented women who used their bodies to represent what men considered insane, we rewrite on screen lines of dialogue that make people speak, and we find a cure through Marguerite Duras and her novels.
LOLA, LOLITA, LOLAZA
09:12 min. Animation
Director: Mabel Lozano
Producers: Chelo Loureiro, Raul Berdones, Mabel Lozano
Screenwriter: Mabel Lozano
Distributor: ECAM
Contact: distribucion@ecam.es
Synopsis: With a lot of humor, love, and wit, Mabel Lozano tells us in first person about her journey with a cancerous chickpea in her left lobe. Although this isn't just Mabel's story, it's also the story of millions of women.
LO QUE NO SE VE
19.53 min. Fiction
Directors: María Algora, Mikel Bustamante
Producers: Mikel Bustamante, Juantxu Alvarez
Screenwriters: María Algora, Mikel Bustamante
Performers: María Algora, Itziar Lazkano
Distributor: Distribution With Glasses
Contact: info@distributionwithglasses.com
Synopsis: It's the beginning of summer and Ane turns 30. After blowing out the candles with her family around the table, Ane learns that her father did not die naturally, as her mother Carmen told her when she was little. This revelation changes Ane's life. At the end of the summer, Carmen tries to reconcile with her daughter by spending a day together at the swamp.
MATER BENEFACTA
11:44 min. Animation
Directors: Anna Solanas, Marc Riba
Producers: Anna Solanas, Marc Riba
Screenwriters: Anna Solanas, Marc Riba
Distributor: I + G Stop Motion
Contact: marc@stopmotion.cat
Synopsis: In a convent in Franco's Spain, the nuns offer shelter to young women in need.
ONES
16.08 min. Fiction
Director: Juanjo Giménez Peña
Producer: Juanjo Giménez Peña
Screenwriters: Juanjo Giménez Peña, Pere Altimira
Performers: Marcel Borràs, Bruna Cusí, Bruno Morales
Distributor: Marvin & Wayne
Contact: fest@marvinwayne.com
Synopsis: Sam is 9 years old. He's just been expelled from school for assaulting a classmate. Martín is 42. He's a luthier. He thinks he has a problem with his son. Sam knows what Martín is thinking.
PATRIMONIO
15.15 min. Fiction
Director: Aitor Abio
Producer: Miren Alonso
Screenwriters: Aitor Abio, Ibai Ariztegi
Performers: Xabier Elizalde, Mikel Laskurain, Iñigo Aranburu, Eder Marcos, Gonzalo Solla-Landa, Juan Zuluaga
Distributor: Kimuak
Contact: kimuakfestivals@basqueaudiovisual.eus
Synopsis: Mikel works at his father Carlos's company. When the company decides to sell and lay off half the staff, Mikel tries to take a stand on his colleagues' side. His intentions are good, but the workers decide to hide their plan from him.
PIPIOLOS
24.08 min. Fiction
Director: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Producers: Nestor Lopez, Pilar Sanchez, Mari Paz Lara, Sara Muñoz
Screenwriter: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Cast: Marta Etura, Nur Levi, Diego García, Iker Ruiz
Distributor: Freak Agency
Contact: festhome@agenciafreak.com
Synopsis: Pilar and Isabel. Mario and Jaime. Two mothers. Two sons. A new family unit. A new normal. Well, at least that's what Pilar and Isabel hope will happen during their week-long vacation at a rural house: that their respective 13-year-old sons will come to understand their relationship, their love, and that they will be able to connect and accept each other as what they will have to be: siblings. But, of course, there are many ways to connect and accept each other.
PLAZER BAT
04:05 min. Animation
Director: Sonia Estévez
Producer: Sonia Estévez
Screenwriter: Sonia Estévez, Javier Fernández Landaluze
Distributor: TikTak
Contact: soniesasi@gmail.com
Synopsis: Plazer bat tries to highlight those simple pleasures that are unique to each person, but which largely coincide.
POMO D'ORO
15.42 min. Fiction
Director: Nerea Sciarra Calero
Producers: Lara Izagirre, Garazi Elorza, Ana Angulo, Itxaso Frau
Screenwriter: Nerea Sciarra Calero
Cast: Nikole Gisasola, Thelma Estivález, Naiara Carmona, María Luisa D'Amico
Distributor: Gariza Films
Contact: coordinacion@garizafilms.com
Synopsis: Like every summer, Tomato Day arrives. Nella and her family gather to celebrate the family tradition at their summer house in Italy. The day that years ago was the perfect excuse to spend time with the family turns into a day of arguments and misunderstanding.
SI NO FUERA POR MÍ
09:34 min. Fiction
Directors: Sergi González, Diego Pérez
Producers: Sergi González
Screenwriter: Sergi González
Cast: Rosario Pardo, Javier Collado, Raquel Guerrero, Cristina Fernández Pintado
Distributor: Selected Films
Contact: info@selectedfilms.com
Synopsis: Javier goes to his mother's house for lunch almost every day. He's getting older, and that keeps her happy. But this seemingly normal routine hides a deep secret. Sometimes the end justifies the means.
TRAGEDIUM
13.47 min. Fiction
Director: Gastón Haag
Producer: Ferrán Ureña
Screenwriter: Gastón Haag
Performers: Ibon Belandia, Goize Blanco, Gastón Haag, Lander Otaola, Garazi Urkola, Aimar Vega, Jordi Aguilar
Distributor: Living Rolling
Contact: finolifinoli08@gmail.com
Synopsis: An unresolved debt and three thugs who are going to take charge of the matter, but what is going to happen is not going to go at all as planned.
UTLÄNDSK
20.40 min. Fiction
Director: Alba Lozano
Producer: Mercedes del Ama
Screenwriter: Alba Lozano
Performers: Izaro Nieto, Dorleta Urretabizkaia, Itziar Manero, Arnatz Puertas, Lur Korta, Gaizka Sarasua, Miguel Garcés, Luix Mitxelena, Nerea Mazo
Distributor: Kimuak
Contact: kimuakfestivals@basqueaudiovisual.eus
Synopsis: Esti returns to Oiartzun after spending six years living in Sweden. Although she had promised herself she wouldn't return, economic instability and job insecurity force her to return. She realizes that the town remains unchanged, and Esti is unwilling to adapt.
XIAO WEI
14.14 min. Fiction
Director: Jiajie Yu Yan
Producer: José Esteban Alenda, César Esteban Alenda
Screenwriters: Jiajie Yu Yan, Marta Matute
Actors: Hongming Chen, Jing Zhou, Liping Wang
Distributor: Marvin & Wayne
Contact: fest@marvinwayne.com
Synopsis: Xiao Wei, a Spanish-Chinese teenager, turns 18, and his mother, Kai Wen, takes him to a bingo hall to celebrate. Xiao Wei spends the night waiting for the moment to go out with his friends, but he unexpectedly ends up connecting with his mother.
