Competitive sections
LA HERIDA LUMINOSA / DAYDREAMING SO VIVIDLY ABOUT OUR SPANISH HOLIDAYS
CHRISTIAN AVILÉS – 2023 / SPAIN
LA HERIDA LUMINOSA / DAYDREAMING SO VIVIDLY ABOUT OUR SPANISH HOLIDAYS
CHRISTIAN AVILÉS – 2023 / SPAIN
Driven by their desire for light and warmth, British teenagers take a trip to the Balearic Islands.They must absorb the sun and store it in their bodies to take it back to their cloud-covered kingdom. A surreal film about the real phenomenon of “balconing” which, in recent summers, has led to tragic, self-inflicted accidents particularly among young people travelling to Spain.
RITUÁLY / RITES
DAMIÁN VONDRÁŠEK – 2022 / CZECH REPUBLIC
RITUÁLY / RITES
DAMIÁN VONDRÁŠEK – 2022 / CZECH REPUBLIC
A twelve-year-old Michal was born with a cleft lip. He feels inadequate because of his deformed face. His only friend Ondra convinces him to join a street gang to finally break free from a position of an outsider. Two friends have one afternoon to show they have what it takes to pass the admission to the gang. Michal desperately wants to prove he is good enough, but the tempting adventure suddenly turns into an initiation ritual into adulthood.
RAICES / ROOTS
MADDALENA BROZZI, LAURA CAGNONI, SARA MOSCHINI – 2022 / ITALY
RAICES / ROOTS
MADDALENA BROZZI, LAURA CAGNONI, SARA MOSCHINI – 2022 / ITALY
“You’ve gone. Gone: poisoned word. It creeps frozen under the skin. I see your smile again, your peonies. How can be true?”. A girl copes with the untimely death of her beloved aunt.
THE BOY WHO COULDN’T FEEL PAIN
EUGEN MERHER – 2023 / GERMANY, USA
THE BOY WHO COULDN’T FEEL PAIN
EUGEN MERHER – 2023 / GERMANY, USA
‘The Boy Who Couldn’t Feel Pain’ is set in Grants, New Mexico and tells the fictional small-town legend of Chester, a street fighter who can’t feel any pain. When Annie, a bowling alley employee who just moved into town challenges him for a fight, things begin to change.
A RAIA / THE RAIA
JOSE ANTONIO MENA ESTÉVEZ – 2023 / IES AUDIOVISUAL DE VIGO
A RAIA / THE RAIA
JOSE ANTONIO MENA ESTÉVEZ – 2023 / IES AUDIOVISUAL DE VIGO
Between the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Raia became a place for contraband commodities such as coffee, sugar and oil between the north of Portugal and the south of Galicia. Today our grandparents still remember those times.
CADEAS / CHAINS
ÁLVARO LÓPEZ – 2022 / COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL, UNIVERSIDADE DA CORUÑA
CADEAS / CHAINS
ÁLVARO LÓPEZ – 2022 / COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL, UNIVERSIDADE DA CORUÑA
Two people look after a house throughout the year. One of them starts to hear different sounds, but his partner doesn’t seem to hear anything. Is it all a product of his imagination or is there something out of the ordinary?
CRÓNICA DUN RECORDO / CHRONICLE OF A MEMORY
ZAHIRA TEIJELO – 2023 / COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL, UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO
CRÓNICA DUN RECORDO / CHRONICLE OF A MEMORY
ZAHIRA TEIJELO – 2023 / COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL, UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO
Rebeca has a new companion in the house where she lives, located in a small town in Ourense, where she is writing a book about sexuality in rural areas. For work, Sonia, the new companion, is back in the place where she was born, of which she has vague memories, although perhaps there are more things.
ILLA CORDURA / SANITY ISLAND
MARIO FERNÁNDEZ FILLOY – 2023 / COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL, UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
ILLA CORDURA / SANITY ISLAND
MARIO FERNÁNDEZ FILLOY – 2023 / COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL, UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
The lighthouse keeper on Sanity Island is left alone when his partner goes to the mainland. On a stormy night he finds a letter. The story it tells and the fear of the night alone will drive him to the limits of madness.
