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JAVIER DARRIBA - UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA - GRAO EN COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
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JAVIER DARRIBA - UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA - GRAO EN COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
The sisters Rosa, Herminia, and Anuncia grew up in a rural village in the Atlantic region of Galicia. Today, the ruins of a chicken coop remind them of the beginnings of industry and the transformation of the landscape. It is a story of evolution into a rururban space and the way of inhabiting it.
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GILLES CUVELIER - 2017 / FRANCE
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(FOOL TIME) JOB
GILLES CUVELIER - 2017 / FRANCE
Pedro got a new job. A weird one but times are hard and it won’t be too demanding. It’s a real chance and in any case, Pedro has never really felt the cold…
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OH SEO-RO - 2017 / SOUTH KOREA
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(OO)
OH SEO-RO - 2017 / SOUTH KOREA
The things that happen in our noses.
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JUAN LESTA - 2020 / SPAIN
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1,34943x10e4
JUAN LESTA - 2020 / SPAIN
1,34943x10e4 is the number of photographs taken to realize this film. Taken during the lockdown for Covid-19 from my flat in A Coruña, they are the result of a detained and repeated look at a daily landscape that discover us a reality we hadn't noticed before. 1,34943x10e4 is, also, another way of representing, in this case, the number 134.943.
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ÁLVARO GAGO - 2019 / SPAIN
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16 DE DECEMBRO / DECEMBER 16TH
ÁLVARO GAGO - 2019 / SPAIN
Saturday. Nightfall. The ball travels quickly across the court as the players move to take advantage of gaps in the defense. Lucía, twenty five years old, leaves handball training and sets off to pick up her brother under the lights of a city she thinks she knows.
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DAVID MARTÍN DE LOS SANTOS - 2016 / SPAIN
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23 DE MAYO / 23RD OF MAY
DAVID MARTÍN DE LOS SANTOS - 2016 / SPAIN
The voices of two women transform the remains of a house and restore the memory of those who lived there
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BASIL DA CUNHA - 2023 / PORTUGAL, SWITZERLAND
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2720 / 2720
BASIL DA CUNHA - 2023 / PORTUGAL, SWITZERLAND
A clandestine neighbourhood in Lisbon wakes up to the news of a violent police raid, which took place the night before. Camila, a 7-year-old girl, goes to search of her brother. She's worried. Her brother is missing. At the same time, Jysone is in a hurry: after 6 years in jail and 5 weeks free, Jysone has finally found work and knows he can't be late. He is looking for someone who can give him a ride as he walks through the alleys of the neighbourhood, where he comes across friends and acquaintances, which delay him even more. The fate of our two protagonists will end up intersecting in the worst possible way.
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MARIE-MAGDALENA KOCHOVÁ - 2024 / CZECH REPUBLIC
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3 MWh
MARIE-MAGDALENA KOCHOVÁ - 2024 / CZECH REPUBLIC
A nuclear power plant worker obsessed with counting has set a maximum limit on how much electricity he wants to consume. The energy that should have lasted him for the rest of his life is slowly running out, forcing him to decide on its final use. 3 MWh is a film poem about degrowth and shows what it would look like if man stopped putting themselves at the centre of nature.
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JUAN GALIÑANES - 2013 / SPAIN
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3-1=0
JUAN GALIÑANES - 2013 / SPAIN
Make love in every corner of the house of your dreams before buying it. Live the experience of being a father for the first time. Touch your baby and feel it cold. The silence after the death and the death after the silence. Carlos wants to get rid of his past and of the house that was once a home. Perhaps a buyer will appear but the memories are not for sale.
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MARTA VALVERDE - 2022 / ESPAÑA
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30' 70 60' 120
MARTA VALVERDE - 2022 / ESPAÑA
Marina inhabits a place where nothing seems to happen. She works as a prostitute: she spends most of her time waiting and answering the questions of all the men that are interested in meeting her.
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ADRIANO VALERIO - 2013 / FRANCE
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37.4° S
ADRIANO VALERIO - 2013 / FRANCE
Nowadays, only 270 people live on Tristan da Cunha. the small island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Nick and Anne, two teenagers, have known each other since birth, and have been lovers since childhood. But Anne’s just made up her mind: she’s going to study in England, 6152 miles away.
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MIGUEL PIRES DE MATOS - 2018 / PORTUGAL
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4 ESTADOS DA MATÉRIA / 4 STATES OF MATTER
MIGUEL PIRES DE MATOS - 2018 / PORTUGAL
An abstract journey through the 4 major states of matter, solid, liquid, gaseous and plasma, where science, art, and religion merge into 4 distinct graphic and sound universes.
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UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO-UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA. - 2022 / SPAIN
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42º 47´ 38.9”N - 8º 30´ 15.8”O
UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO-UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA. - 2022 / SPAIN
A boy waits impatiently for the arrival of aliens.
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LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN - 2022 / UNITED KINGDOM
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45TH PARALLEL
LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN - 2022 / UNITED KINGDOM
A monologue is performed in a building that inhabits the thickness of a borderline, telling stories of permeable borders and impermeable laws, reflecting on how free movement, free knowledge and free space are under threat.
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FRAN ARAUJO, MANUEL BURQUE - 2008 / SPAIN
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5 DÍAS DE SEPTIEMBRE / 5 DAYS OF SEPTEMBER
FRAN ARAUJO, MANUEL BURQUE - 2008 / SPAIN
An accidental encounter between a waiting person and a fleeing person.
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MADDI BARBER - 2018 / SPAIN
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592 METROZ GOITI / ABOVE 592 METERS
MADDI BARBER - 2018 / SPAIN
On the slopes of the Navarrese Pyrenees, the construction of the Itoiz dam in the 1990s flooded seven villages and three nature reserves.A strip of bare land, 592 metres above sea level, today marks a dividing line within the landscape of the valley. Below that level, the water; above it, life goes on.
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NICOLAS BIANCO-LEVRIN - 2021 / FRANCE
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6 PATTES SOUS TERRE / 6 PAWS UNDER
NICOLAS BIANCO-LEVRIN - 2021 / FRANCE
For the cat, life in the cemetery is paradise. It is calm and he only has to stretch out his paw to catch a mouse. But this time, the ghost of the mouse comes to haunt the cat.
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SERGEI RYABOV - 2018 / RUSSIA
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6:1
SERGEI RYABOV - 2018 / RUSSIA
Inseparable Girl and Cat are playing checkers. The cat loses over and over…
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DETSKY GRAFFAM - 2015 / GERMANY
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90 GRAD NORD / 90 DEGREES NORTH
DETSKY GRAFFAM - 2015 / GERMANY
Good Germans wait at traffic lights, but... what if the green man just doesn’t appear? In this fantastical black comedy called 90 Degrees North, Karl, a stressed businessman, is trapped by an evil traffic island. A bitter fight for survival ensues.
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BEN BRAND - 2013 / NETHERLANDS
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97%
BEN BRAND - 2013 / NETHERLANDS
Tsjakke-tsjakke-ding-ding-whoop! 97% match! Via an app on his phone, Bert (29) gets a notice that the girl of dreams is nearby.
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CEIP P. A PEDRA - 2023 / ESPAÑA (GALICIA)
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A ABELLIÑA QUE PERDEU AS ÁS / THE LITTLE BEE THAT LOST HER WINGS
CEIP P. A PEDRA - 2023 / ESPAÑA (GALICIA)
One morning, when she was about to go to collect pollen with her basket, the little bee realized that she had lost her wings. Where can they be? A tail in verse about a lovely and distracted bee.
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CEIP DO CARBALLAL (MARÍN) - 2018 / SPAIN
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A BRUXA DAS ANTENAS / THE ANTENNA’S WITCH
CEIP DO CARBALLAL (MARÍN) - 2018 / SPAIN
Music video based on a scary tale written by a primary school student: A witch brakes radio and TV receptors with her magic wand and children must plan an ambush to solve their problem.
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MARIO PIREDDA - 2016 / ITALY
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A CASA MIA / IN MY HOME
MARIO PIREDDA - 2016 / ITALY
Left alone as the only inhabitants of a deserted fishing village, two elderly people, Lucia and Peppino, live in the hope that winter will never end.
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CEIP TORRE-ILLA - 2017 / SPAIN
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A CHAVE PARA 6.000 PRESOS / THE KEY TO 6,000 PRISONERS
CEIP TORRE-ILLA - 2017 / SPAIN
Short documentary made by the students of CEIP Torre-Illa (Illa de Arousa) that reviews the importance of the construction of the bridge of Illa de Arousa in the life of the town for the 30th anniversary of its inauguration.
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YASH SAWANT - 2018 / INDIA
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A COLD SUMMER NIGHT
YASH SAWANT - 2018 / INDIA
An ordinary night starts to turn wildly dramatic for Ketan, a Maharashtrian migrant, when an anonymous attack on his car congregates excessive attention in the conformist Goan neighbourhood and he’s stuck with his paramour in his small rented room while his pregnant wife is away at her parents house.
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CPI EUSEBIO LORENZO BALEIRÓN - 2018 / SPAIN
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A CONTRALUZ / IN BACKLIGHT
CPI EUSEBIO LORENZO BALEIRÓN - 2018 / SPAIN
Music video based on the LP song “Lost on You”. The video is a call for everyone to join the feminist movement. It is not just a matter of women. Men must be involved for the fight to be real and effective.
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CEIP PLURILINGÜE SAN MARCOS - 2022 / SPAIN
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A COROA DA RAÍÑA / THE QUEEN'S CROWN
CEIP PLURILINGÜE SAN MARCOS - 2022 / SPAIN
Three girls travel back in time to the Middle Ages. There they help the queen on a mission.
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ALY MURITIBA - 2011 / BRAZIL
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A FÁBRICA / THE FACTORY
ALY MURITIBA - 2011 / BRAZIL
An inmate convinces his mother to risk her own safety by smuggling a cell phone into the penitentiary for him.
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GLADYS MARIOTTO - 2015 / BRAZIL
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A FELICIDADE MORA AQUÍ / HAPPINESS LIVES HERE
GLADYS MARIOTTO - 2015 / BRAZIL
How can a philosophy class on happiness in Aristotle be understood in three different schools? And what if those schools were in three different continents? The answer lies in the words of Portuguese, Brazilian and African children.
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PABLO SANT’ANA - 2016 / PORTUGAL
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A FESTA DO NOSSO MENINO SÃO GONÇALINHO / THE CELEBRATION OF SAINT GONÇALINHO
PABLO SANT’ANA - 2016 / PORTUGAL
According to Francisco van der Poel (2013), the word “party” comes from the Latin term festa and dies festus, which are derived from the also Latin word feriae, “holiday”. According to Conceição Lopes, there are days of change, interruption regarding the logic of the activities and work, days of praise and celebration for life, as well as spaces for privileged communication (2015). This documentary shows the clear concept of the celebration of St. Gonçalinho, in Aveiro (Portugal), specifying the different phases experienced during this festivity.
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CENTRO DE EDUCACIÓN ESPECIAL VILAGARCÍA DE AROUSA - 2017 / SPAIN
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A GALIÑA AZUL / THE BLUE CHICKEN
CENTRO DE EDUCACIÓN ESPECIAL VILAGARCÍA DE AROUSA - 2017 / SPAIN
A blue chicken was seen by the CEE Vilagarcía de Arousa students. The mayor asks the police to fi nd her, but the local residents join together to defend the chicken. What’s so bad about being blue? What’s so bad about being different?
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RICHARD MISEK - 2022 / NORWAY, UNITED KINGDOM
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A HISTORY OF THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GETTY IMAGES
RICHARD MISEK - 2022 / NORWAY, UNITED KINGDOM
A montage of some of the last century's most momentous events forms the basis of a reflection on how we view the past - and how commercial archives control what we see.
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ZARA DWINGER - 2020 / NETHERLANDS, PORTUGAL
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A HOLIDAY FROM MOURNING
ZARA DWINGER - 2020 / NETHERLANDS, PORTUGAL
A teenage girl attempts to flee from the grief she has felt since her mothers’ death by going to a Portugese party town. But the faster she runs the more the feeling she is trying to escape catches up on her.
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JAVIER MARCO - 2020 / SPAIN
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A LA CARA / FACE TO FACE
JAVIER MARCO - 2020 / SPAIN
Lina doesn’t care about being insulted. But if someone does it, they better do it face to face.
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NOEMÍ CHANTADA - 2017 / SPAIN
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A MULLER INVISIBLE / THE INVISIBLE WOMAN
NOEMÍ CHANTADA - 2017 / SPAIN
She would look like any other girl her age were it not for the sadness in her face. Because when the afternoon comes, she changes her skin: she changes her clothes, changes her name so she can face one more night.
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UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO: FACULTADE DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS E DA COMUNICACIÓN - 2019 / SPAIN
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A NINGUNA PARTE / TO NOWHERE
UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO: FACULTADE DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS E DA COMUNICACIÓN - 2019 / SPAIN
Carla goes out on a party night. In her way back home, she finds a stunned girl and tries to help her. As a result of dealing with an unexpected situation, a part of her personality that was asleep comes to the surface.
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CEIP CANICOUVA - 2023 / 2º EDUCACIÓN PRIMARIA
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A PRINCESA DO CAUREL / THE PRINCESS OF O CAUREL
CEIP CANICOUVA - 2023 / 2º EDUCACIÓN PRIMARIA
Adaptation of the children's book "A princesa do Caurel". One fine morning, the princess of O Courel accidentally loses her bracelet. It gets caught on the horn of the goat, who, frightened, escapes from the castle. This is the beginning of an adventure where the princess, looking for her goat, will go into the mountain of O Courel.
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JOSE ANTONIO MENA ESTÉVEZ - 2023 / IES AUDIOVISUAL DE VIGO
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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.
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ARTHUR LIPSETT - 1965 / CANADA
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A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE
ARTHUR LIPSETT - 1965 / CANADA
From Arthur Lipsett, another incisive short film that looks at human might, majesty and mayhem. Compiled from some newsreel items of the last 50 years, the filmmaker calls this a time capsule yet his arrangement of pictures makes it almost explosive. There are hundreds of items, once front-page stuff, but all wryly grotesque when seen in this reshuffle of the past.
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DYLAN WERKMAN - 2020 / NETHERLANDS
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A VIEW FROM ABOVE
DYLAN WERKMAN - 2020 / NETHERLANDS
A View From Above follows the intimate journey of an astronaut going up into space, guided by metaphors from life on earth. The film reveals the emotional complexity of the astronaut’s journey and raises questions about our shared home and our broader collective consciousness.
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OSMAN CERFON - 2022 / FRANCE
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AAAAH!
OSMAN CERFON - 2022 / FRANCE
Aaaah! is a cry of pain, surprise, fear, joy, songs, grumbling, laughter, anger... Aaaah! is the expression with which children, these primary and innocent beings, experience life in a community, framed by the whistles of adults.
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MICHAEL RITTMANNSBERGER - 2012 / AUSTRIA
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ABGESTEMPELT / PUNCHED
MICHAEL RITTMANNSBERGER - 2012 / AUSTRIA
After being checked by the police, a young father of Arabic origin fails to explain the situation to his son – unaware that the most inexplicable happenings are yet to come…
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CEP LOIS TOBÍO - 2019 / SPAIN
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ABRETUMENTE / OPENYOURMIND
CEP LOIS TOBÍO - 2019 / SPAIN
Inclusion, respect, solidarity, zero violence, tolerance... values for which we must fight!
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SYLVIA LE FANU - 2017 / DENMARK
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ABU ADNAN / ADNAN’S FATHER
SYLVIA LE FANU - 2017 / DENMARK
Sayid, a refugee doctor from Syria, has just received a Danish residence permit. At the same time as having to learn a new language, he faces the challenge of maintaining his boy’s respect, in a situation where Adnan’s assimilation seems to be going somewhat faster than his own.
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GUILLAUME FOURNIER, SAMUEL MATTEAU, YANNICK NOLIN - 2019 / CANADA - USA
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ACADIANA
GUILLAUME FOURNIER, SAMUEL MATTEAU, YANNICK NOLIN - 2019 / CANADA - USA
May 2017. The city of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, is the theatre of the mythic Crawfish Festival. It’s just another day in America.
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JOANNA QUINN, LES MILLS - 2021 / CANADA-UNITED KINGDOM
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AFFAIRS OF THE ART
JOANNA QUINN, LES MILLS - 2021 / CANADA-UNITED KINGDOM
How many obsessions can one family have? In Joanna Quinn and Les Mills’ Affairs of the Art, we reconnect with Beryl, the working-class heroine who not only reveals her own obsession with drawing but exposes the addictions of her eccentric family, which include pickling, screw threads and pet taxidermy.
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IVÁN ZULUETA - 1966 / SPAIN
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ÁGATA
IVÁN ZULUETA - 1966 / SPAIN
The abusive professional relationship between Luis, a painter, and Ágata, his traumatized model, takes an unexpected turn when she finds a mysterious self-portrait of him.
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VASCO SÁ, DAVID DOUTEL - 2018 / PORTUGAL - FRANCE
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AGOURO / AUGUR
VASCO SÁ, DAVID DOUTEL - 2018 / PORTUGAL - FRANCE
A harsh winter freezes the surface of a river, close to a house where two cousins live.
Immersed in the cold wind that rises that day, the rudeness of their relationship grows, reaching its limit.
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THANASIS NEOFOTISTOS - 2022 / GREECE
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AIRHOSTESS-737
THANASIS NEOFOTISTOS - 2022 / GREECE
Vanina, a 39 y.o, flying attendant, works on a domestic flight on a Boeing-737. She complains for her recently attached braces, in a late attempt for a perfect smile. What she really has to do is to confront her, since forever, absent mother, whose body is in the cargo area of that plane.
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CLÈMENT THEHIN-LALANNE - 2014 / FRANCE
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AISSA
CLÈMENT THEHIN-LALANNE - 2014 / FRANCE
Aissa is Congolese and she is at present residing illegally on French territory. She claims to be a minor, but the authorities believe that she is over 18. In order to establish whether or not she can remain in the country a doctor must give her a physical examination.
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GABRIEL HERRERA - 2021 / MÉXICO
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AL MOTOCICLISTA NO LE CABE LA FELICIDAD EN EL TRAJE / MOTORCYCLIST’S HAPPINESS WON’T FIT INTO HIS SUIT
GABRIEL HERRERA - 2021 / MÉXICO
There he sits proudly on his beautiful motorbike which he would never loan to anyone. He is certain that he alone can explore the jungle. A playful re-enactment with reversed roles that takes aim at the hubris of the colonial conquerors.
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IGNASI TARRUELLA - 2019 / SPAIN
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AL SOL / IN THE SUN
IGNASI TARRUELLA - 2019 / SPAIN
A couple off eggs go to the beach to spend the day. One of them puts on sunscreen and puts himself under the umbrella toavoid getting sunburnt. The other one doesn’t care about sunscreen and decides not to take any protection. Will this be a good decision?
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YULIA GONTARUK - 2013 / UKRAINE
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ALCOHOLIC
YULIA GONTARUK - 2013 / UKRAINE
Alina's mother gave her up and now she's forced to live with her aunt, whom she considers vicious; she's convinced her aunt doesn't love her. The only one who loves Alina is her doll. Accidentaly the girl runs over an announcement about intake of children into the dance class 'Vinochok'. This is the chance for Alina to flee from this miserable world.
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IES AUDIOVISUAL DE VIGO - 2022 / SPAIN
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ALGAS NEGRAS / BLACK SEAWEED
IES AUDIOVISUAL DE VIGO - 2022 / SPAIN
The merchant seaman Miguel Font Rosell, a witness to the tragedy of the Norwegian oil tanker Polycommander, recounts the events of that 5th May 1970, filling in the gaps and telling in detail the tragic story of the spillage of 15,000 tons of crude oil in the Vigo estuary.
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ÁNGEL SANTOS - 2023 / SPAIN
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ALICIA FAI COUSAS / ALICIA DOES STUFF
ÁNGEL SANTOS - 2023 / SPAIN
Alicia has developed a fixation. She has convinced herself that she is boring. Or maybe she’s bored. Maybe everything’s boring. We follow her and her obsession as she gets ready for a casting, figures out whether she should take a course or not or maybe go to a party.
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CORINA SHWINGRUBER ILIÉ - 2018 / SWITZERLAND
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ALL INCLUSIVE
CORINA SHWINGRUBER ILIÉ - 2018 / SWITZERLAND
All Inclusive submerge us under the spell of mass entertainment on the high seas.
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TEEMU NIKKI - 2019 / FINLAND
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ALL INCLUSIVE
TEEMU NIKKI - 2019 / FINLAND
Kalervo has felt powerless all his life, unable to fight back, until Annukka—a woman who loves him— gives Kalervo a life altering gift. If you could right the wrongs in your life, would you, and would you stop there?
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EFTHIMIS KOSEMUND SANIDIS - 2019 / GREECE
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ALL THE FIRES THE FIRE
EFTHIMIS KOSEMUND SANIDIS - 2019 / GREECE
Men set birds free on the mountains. Two grieving, estranged brothers try their marksmanship together with their sons. The hunting season has started. Can a bird's heart stop in the sky with no bullets coming through its body?
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CHARLES WILLIAMS - 2018 / AUSTRALIA
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ALL THESE CREATURES
CHARLES WILLIAMS - 2018 / AUSTRALIA
An adolescent boy attempts to untangle his memories of a mysterious infestation, the unraveling of his father, and the little creatures inside us all.
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PATRICK VOLLRATH - 2015 / AUSTRIA - GERMANY
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ALLES WIRD GUT / ALL WILL BE FINE
PATRICK VOLLRATH - 2015 / AUSTRIA - GERMANY
Like every second weekend Lea´s father spends a few hours with his daughter. He loves her very much and she loves him very much. But gradually, Lea cannot help feeling something is not right.
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SALVADOR SUNYER - 2022 / SPAIN
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ALOPÈCIA ANDROGÈNICA / ANDROGENIC ALOPECIA
SALVADOR SUNYER - 2022 / SPAIN
Salvador Sunyer (Son) has been the creator of the Temporada Alta Festival spots for the last ten years. Coinciding with the thirtieth anniversary of the festival, Salvador has a daughter and no longer feels strong enough to continue being the same person he thought he was.
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JÚLIA DE PAZ - 2019 / SPAIN
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AMA / MOTHER
JÚLIA DE PAZ - 2019 / SPAIN
Pepa and her daughter Leila are thrown out of their home, being dragged to find a place to sleep before grow dark on a happy day of carnival
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THOMAS WANGSMO - 2009 / NORWAY
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AMOR / LOVE
THOMAS WANGSMO - 2009 / NORWAY
In a city where young, rich people will spend whatever it takes to get what they want, Thomas provides them with a service no one else will.
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PAULO FURTADO - 2019 / PORTUGAL
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AMOR QU NTICO / QUANTIC LOVE
PAULO FURTADO - 2019 / PORTUGAL
Amor Quântico is a film with three parallel narratives, involving the same woman, without the existence of a clear chronological order.
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LACHLAN PENDRAGON - 2021 / AUSTRALIA
.FIC2022Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
AN OSTRICH TOLD ME THE WORLD IS FAKE AND I THINK I BELIEVE IT
LACHLAN PENDRAGON - 2021 / AUSTRALIA
When a young telemarketer is confronted by a mysterious talking ostrich, he learns that the universe is stop motion animation. He must put aside his dwindling toaster sales and focus on convincing his colleagues of his terrifying discovery.
.FIC2022Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
XACIO BAÑO - 2012 / SPAIN
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ANACOS / PIECES
XACIO BAÑO - 2012 / SPAIN
The life of a person can be as easy and straightforward as his recipe for sponge cake.
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
AUDE N’GUESSAN FORGET - 2022 / FRANCE
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
ANANSI
AUDE N’GUESSAN FORGET - 2022 / FRANCE
Eden, an afro hairdresser, tries to overcome her recurrent stomach aches by taking it upon herself. Not heard by the medical profession, she tries to take care of herself. When her pains catch up with her, her daily life becomes unbearable.
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
YULIA RUDITSKAYA - 2017 / GERMANY
.FIC2017JuniorsParallel
AND THE MOON STANDS STILL
YULIA RUDITSKAYA - 2017 / GERMANY
The presence of the moon affects everything that is under its glow. This fi lm explores the lunar cycle and the energies invoked by its radiance. Based on the motifs from the fairy tale Vidmak (“The Witcher”), by Aleksey Tolstoy.
.FIC2017JuniorsParallel
TORNIKE GOGRICHIANI - 2017 / GEORGIA
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
ANDRO
TORNIKE GOGRICHIANI - 2017 / GEORGIA
An unemployed architect, Andro, goes to Turkey with his son Dato to sell second-hand goods. On the road they give a ride to Turkish hitchhiker Taner. This meeting turns this harmless journey into series of unfortunate events.
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
LOTFI ACHOUR - 2021 / FRANCE-TUNISIA
.FIC2022CompetitiveDiscoveries
ANGLE MORT / BLIND SPOT
LOTFI ACHOUR - 2021 / FRANCE-TUNISIA
Under the dictatorship of Ben Ali, a man is kidnapped, tortured and killed, then vanishes without ever being found. Thirty years later, he comes back to talk to us, asking the question his mother asked: "Where did you abandon my son's body?”
.FIC2022CompetitiveDiscoveries
JULIA OCKER - 2018 / GERMANY
.FIC2019ChildrenParallel
ANGLERFISCH / ANGLER FISH
JULIA OCKER - 2018 / GERMANY
The little anglerfish has to go to bed. But the deep waters are full of threatening creatures.
.FIC2019ChildrenParallel
IES MARÍA SOLIÑO - 2020 / 12th and 11th grade
.FIC2020CompetitiveEducation CentersminiFIC
ANIMACIÓNS DE CORENTENA / QUARANTINE ANIMATIONS
IES MARÍA SOLIÑO - 2020 / 12th and 11th grade
Animations made by the Artistic Drawing and Art Education class during the lockdown, with music by Xulio Abal. Coordinated by Luz Beloso.
.FIC2020CompetitiveEducation CentersminiFIC
JULIA OCKER - 2023 / GERMANY
.FIC2023FamilyminiFICParallel
ANIMANIMALS CAT
JULIA OCKER - 2023 / GERMANY
The cat has an especially delicious recipe: Mouse Soup!
.FIC2023FamilyminiFICParallel
JULIA OCKER - 2022 / GERMANY
.FIC2023FamilyminiFICParallel
ANIMANIMALS T-REX
JULIA OCKER - 2022 / GERMANY
Sadly, the T-Rex is very bad at playing basketball.
.FIC2023FamilyminiFICParallel
SUSHMA KHADEPAUN - 2020 / INDIA, UNITED STATES
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
ANITA
SUSHMA KHADEPAUN - 2020 / INDIA, UNITED STATES
Anita, a young Indian living in the US, returns to India for her sister’s wedding. She counts on her husband’s support to announce some great news.
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
DEKEL BERENSON - 2019 / UKRAINE-UNITED KINGDOM-ISRAEL
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ANNA / ANNA
DEKEL BERENSON - 2019 / UKRAINE-UNITED KINGDOM-ISRAEL
Living in war-torn eastern Ukraine, Anna is an aging single mother who is desperate for a change. Lured by a radio advertisement, she goes partying with a group of American men who are touring the country, in search for love.
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
JULIA OCKER - 2018 / GERMANY
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
ANT
JULIA OCKER - 2018 / GERMANY
Who says work can’t be fun? An ant shows us that, with creativity, everything can improve.
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT - 1962 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
ANTOINE ET COLETTE / ANTOINE AND COLETTE
FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT - 1962 / FRANCE
Almost-20-year-old Antoine lives in a hotel and works at Phillips packaging records; he loves music. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love for the first time.
First segment of the film L'amour à vingt ans, the second film around Antoine Doinel's character after Les 400 coups.
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
YORIKO MIZUSHIRI - 2021 / FRANCE-JAPAN
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveDiscoveries
ANXIOUS BODY
YORIKO MIZUSHIRI - 2021 / FRANCE-JAPAN
Living things, artificial things, geometry shapes, and lines. When these different things encounter, a new direction is born.
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveDiscoveries
MYRSINI ARISTIDOU - 2017 / CYPRUS - GREECE - FRANCE
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
APIA / ARIA
MYRSINI ARISTIDOU - 2017 / CYPRUS - GREECE - FRANCE
Aria is waiting for a driving lesson with her father. When he finally arrives, it is not to go for a drive. Aria must now care for a young Chinese immigrant who speaks neither Greek nor English
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
IES POLITÉCNICO DE VIGO - 2018 / SPAIN
.FIC2018CompetitiveEducation Centers
ÁPICES / SHREDS
IES POLITÉCNICO DE VIGO - 2018 / SPAIN
A teenage girl is subject to constant pressure. Will she be able to pull through, or will she collapse?
.FIC2018CompetitiveEducation Centers
VALÉRIAN DESTERNE, REBECCA BLACK, CÉLINE COLLIN, JUAN OLARTE, JUAN PABLO DE LA ROSA ZALAMEA, CARLOS OSMAR SALAZAR TORNERO, LUCILE PALOMINO - 2018 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ChildrenJuniorsParallel
APRÈS LA PLUIE / AFTER THE RAIN
VALÉRIAN DESTERNE, REBECCA BLACK, CÉLINE COLLIN, JUAN OLARTE, JUAN PABLO DE LA ROSA ZALAMEA, CARLOS OSMAR SALAZAR TORNERO, LUCILE PALOMINO - 2018 / FRANCE
In a valley, a dog lives happily with his owner, a particular shepherd. The shepherd doesn’t only shear his sheep’s wool, but he also creates clouds out of it to make rain, preserving this way the cycle of life. But without the shepherd, what would happen to the valley ? The young dog would have to be creative and persistent to avoid the worst.
.FIC2019ChildrenJuniorsParallel
PATRICIO GUZMÁN - 1968 / SPAIN
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
APUNTES SOBRE LA TORTURA Y OTRAS FORMAS DE DIÁLOGO / NOTES ON TORTURE AND OTHER FORMS OF DIALOGUE
PATRICIO GUZMÁN - 1968 / SPAIN
Notes on torture and other forms of dialogue shows the torture of a prisoner by a group of Latin American soldiers, as well as the response of the intelligentsia to these tortures and other satirical and absurd images.
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
ESTEBAN CRESPO - 2012 / SPAIN
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
AQUEL NO ERA YO / THAT WASN'T ME
ESTEBAN CRESPO - 2012 / SPAIN
Being a soldier is difficult; either you get used to it or you get killed. The hardest thing about it is living with your memories and becoming yourself again having done the things that you have done.
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MANUEL MUÑOZ RIVAS - 2023 / SPAIN
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficialSpain
AQUERONTE
MANUEL MUÑOZ RIVAS - 2023 / SPAIN
On board a ferry, a series of passengers cross a river from one riverbank to the other. Some of the travelers wrap themselves in silence and observe the unfamiliar fellow travelers or contemplate the scenery. Some others chat, perhaps to liven up the voyage and speed up time. The journey on the waters seems to expand, the destination shore is postponed, the magnitude of space is blurred. Motion itself is perhaps the only certainty.
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficialSpain
JORGE DAYAS - 2015 / SPAIN
.FIC2016Parallel
ARAAN
JORGE DAYAS - 2015 / SPAIN
A little girl is waiting at home the arrival of his father. In a snowy forest, paratroopers face an enemy who surprised them with machine gun fire and artillery. All of them fall into the ambush except one, which has endured the attack, entrenched among the trees.
.FIC2016Parallel
MICHAËL GUERRAZ - 2013 / FRANCE
.FIC2014AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ARGILE / CLAY
MICHAËL GUERRAZ - 2013 / FRANCE
Alex is posing. An old lady is sculpting. It would be a normal situation… if the lady wasn’t blind and only had her hands to “see” with, wrinkled hands that she lays on the naked body of her young model. Alex is going to experience an unusual posing session.
.FIC2014AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LEÓN SIMINIANI - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveOfficialSpain
ARQUITECTURA EMOCIONAL 1959 / EMOTIONAL ARCHITECTURE 1959
LEÓN SIMINIANI - 2022 / SPAIN
Here is the love story of Sebas and Andrea, first-time university students, in the 1958-1959 academic year. Here is how social class and ideology become insurmountable obstacles? Here is the architecture marking, unnoticed, the dotted line that ends up dictating their emotion.
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveOfficialSpain
ADRIAN SITARU - 2014 / ROMANIA
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
ARTA / ART
ADRIAN SITARU - 2014 / ROMANIA
Two film directors are trying to convince a reluctant mother to let her daughter play the role of a sexual abused minor in their film.
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
FRANK YCHOU - 2017 / FRANCE
.FIC2018JuniorsParallel
ARTEM SILENDI
FRANK YCHOU - 2017 / FRANCE
Sisters are sinners like any Tom, Dick and Harry.
.FIC2018JuniorsParallel
SARA TRABA - 2016 / SPAIN
.FIC2017CompetitiveGalicia
AS VACAS DE WISCONSIN / COWS OF WISCONSIN
SARA TRABA - 2016 / SPAIN
Old Lady and Cow are friends. Cow doesn´t give milk anymore because is too old, like Old Lady. Old Lady discovers that in Wisconsin cows give more milk while listening to symphonic music. Why couldn´t it happen the same to her friend?
.FIC2017CompetitiveGalicia
ÁNGEL SANTOS - 2021 / SPAIN
.FIC2022CompetitiveGalicia
ASÍ VENDRÁ LA NOCHE / AND SO THE NIGHT WILL FALL
ÁNGEL SANTOS - 2021 / SPAIN
Pablo, a sculptor, has retired to a remote rural area on the Galician coast. Andrea lives in Canada, where she works as a literature lecturer at a university. While passing through Spain, accompanying her partner during a writing residency, Andrea decides to send a long message to Pablo, whom she has not seen for months, in the form of a long letter or a 21st century novelette.
.FIC2022CompetitiveGalicia
JORGE FERNÁNDEZ - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2017AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
ASTRAL
JORGE FERNÁNDEZ - 2017 / SPAIN
A couple connects beyond time and space. Short film made by the student of the University of Vigo, Jorge Fernández.
.FIC2017AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
LAURYNAS BAREISA - 2020 / LITHUANIA
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ATKURIMAS / DUMMY
LAURYNAS BAREISA - 2020 / LITHUANIA
Using a faceless doll, a criminal reenacts a brutal crime. But, surprisingly, he is not the one being judged. There seems to be an odd one out in the investigative group.
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
NICOLAS BIANCO-LEVRIN, JULIE REMBAUVILLE - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
ATTENTION AU LOUP! / BEWARE OF THE WOLF!
NICOLAS BIANCO-LEVRIN, JULIE REMBAUVILLE - 2019 / FRANCE
Once again, Little Red Riding Hood has to bring a cake, a jar of jam and butter to his grandmother. But this time, the wolf is not at the rendezvous.
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
MATHILDE PEPINSTER - 2019 / BELGIUM
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
AU LARGE / ALONG
MATHILDE PEPINSTER - 2019 / BELGIUM
An ice floe, a big man, a fish and a reality not quite like the others.
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
RAFAEL SOMMERHALDER - 2016 / SWITZERLAND
.FIC2017FamilyParallel
AU REVOIR BALTHAZAR / GOODBYE BALTHAZAR
RAFAEL SOMMERHALDER - 2016 / SWITZERLAND
A scarecrow, a storm, a broken leg and the resounding sound of a horn. Looking back, leaving forever.
.FIC2017FamilyParallel
ALEXIS MICHALIK - 2014 / FRANCE
.FIC2014AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
AU SOL / GROUNDED
ALEXIS MICHALIK - 2014 / FRANCE
Evelyne needs to travel to London for her mother's funeral. But at the airport, she can't produce her newborn baby's ID. So she is not allowed to board her plane. But with the help of Stephanie, a young ground hostess, Evelyne will fight the unbending rules of airport regulations and, perhaps, take off on time.
.FIC2014AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
XACIO BAÑO - 2020 / SPAIN
.FIC2021CompetitiveGalicia
AUGAS ABISAIS / ABYSSAL WATERS
XACIO BAÑO - 2020 / SPAIN
A light turns on. They are elusive and hard to see. They inhabit where nothing is. There. In the deep.
.FIC2021CompetitiveGalicia
GUILLERMO GARCÍA LÓPEZ - 2023 / SPAIN, FRANCE
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
AUNQUE ES DE NOCHE / EVENT THOUGHT IT'S NIGHT
GUILLERMO GARCÍA LÓPEZ - 2023 / SPAIN, FRANCE
La Cañada, Europe's largest slum on the outskirts of Madrid, has been without electricity for over a year. In the firelight, among Roma legends of a possible future, Toni, a 13-year-old boy, discovers that his best friend Nasser is leaving forever.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
COLEXIO ESCOLAPIOS DE MONFORTE DE LEMOS - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
.FIC2024Education Centers
AUTÓMATA / AUTOMATON
COLEXIO ESCOLAPIOS DE MONFORTE DE LEMOS - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
A guy leads a monotonous life, without any interaction with people. This short film is a reflection about the growing dehumanization of modern society, which operates with mechanisms more typical of robots than of people, to the point where even an android could go unnoticed.
.FIC2024Education Centers
HELENE LETOURNEUR, YANN AUSTIN, MARIE BRIAND, CÉCILE FAUCHIE, LOUISE FLATZ, MARINA SAUNIER. - 2015 / FRANCE
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
AUTUMN
HELENE LETOURNEUR, YANN AUSTIN, MARIE BRIAND, CÉCILE FAUCHIE, LOUISE FLATZ, MARINA SAUNIER. - 2015 / FRANCE
In the Four Seasons magic atelier, the character Autumn is finishing the changes of his season over Planet Earth.
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
CHLOÉ TERRE - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2020AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
AVANT NOTRE HEURE / BEFORE OUR TIME
CHLOÉ TERRE - 2019 / FRANCE
Raphaël takes care of his grandmother's flat as she stays in a nursing home. He tells her what happens to the neighbors, what he sees through the window. But an urbanization project is underway and the towers are strangely getting empty... Raphaël, who doesn’t dare to tell the truth, begins to lie.
.FIC2020AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
BASIL KHALIL - 2015 / PALESTINE - FRANCE - GERMANY
.FIC2016ComedyParallel
AVE MARÍA / HAIL MARY
BASIL KHALIL - 2015 / PALESTINE - FRANCE - GERMANY
Five nuns in the West Bank have their daily routine of silence disrupted when a Jewish family comes knocking at their door for help.
.FIC2016ComedyParallel
KACPER CHECINSKI - 2023 / FRANCE
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
AVEC L'HUMANITÉ QUI CONVIENT / WITH ALL DUE HUMANITY
KACPER CHECINSKI - 2023 / FRANCE
En una oficina de desempleo en plena reestructuración, Hélène, la subdirectora, recibe un correo electrónico alarmante de una desempleada desesperada. Esta última amenaza con quitarse la vida en las instalaciones de la agencia. Con la ayuda de su equipo, Hélène intentará desentrañar los disfuncionamientos internos que originaron el problema para impedir lo irreparable. El tiempo apremia.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
FON CORTIZO - 2017 / SPAIN - JORDAN
.FIC2018CompetitiveGalicia
AYSHA
FON CORTIZO - 2017 / SPAIN - JORDAN
Aysha is a young and energetic voice emerging from the Middle East. Poetry and creativity are her weapons with which to change an expectant post- Arab-Spring society.
.FIC2018CompetitiveGalicia
SOUDADE KAADAN - 2019 / LIBYA - SYRIA
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
AZIZA
SOUDADE KAADAN - 2019 / LIBYA - SYRIA
Ayman, Syrian refugee in Lebanon, teaching his wife how to drive his car, the only thing left for him from his country. The lesson takes a wrong turn into madness and nostalgia.
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
EVGENIA GOLUBEVA - 2020 / RUSSIA
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
BABA YAGA Y MALYSHKA / THE WITCH AND THE BABY
EVGENIA GOLUBEVA - 2020 / RUSSIA
An ageing witch needs a baby for a spell to make her young again. But when she brings home an infant princess things don't go according to plan.
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
TOBY FELL-HOLDEN - 2015 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
BALCONY
TOBY FELL-HOLDEN - 2015 / UNITED KINGDOM
In a neighbourhood full of racial tension, a young girl feels fascinated by a newcomer immigrant who suffers prejudices that are controlling the area.
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
MORTEZA SABZEQABA - 2012 / IRAN
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
BARAYE OW / FOR HIM
MORTEZA SABZEQABA - 2012 / IRAN
An old man sets off on a hunt near the river and sees a strange object…
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
JEAN JULIEN COLLETE - 2006 / BELGIUM
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
BARBARA BROADCAST
JEAN JULIEN COLLETE - 2006 / BELGIUM
Two friends who tell each other stories are locked in an attic. A strange disease of the will gradually overtakes them, without their knowing why.
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
AMIR HOSSEIN - 2012 / IRAN
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
BASHE BARAYE BAD / MAYBE ANOTHER TIME
AMIR HOSSEIN - 2012 / IRAN
A 13-year-old Afghan boy who goes to Iran in the hope of finding a job and helping his family.
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
EIMI IMANISHI - 2016 / USA - ALGERIA - WESTERN SAHARA
.FIC2017FamilyParallel
BATTALION TO MY BEAT
EIMI IMANISHI - 2016 / USA - ALGERIA - WESTERN SAHARA
A restless and rebellious teen girl feels confined by the restrictive duties of daily life in a Sahrawi refugee camp and runs away to join the army, seeking to liberate both her people and herself.
.FIC2017FamilyParallel
SEUNGBAE JEON - 2023 / SOUTH KOREA
.FIC2024FamilyminiFICParallel
BATTERY MOMMY / BATTERY MOMMY
SEUNGBAE JEON - 2023 / SOUTH KOREA
Battery Mommy works at various stuffs such as soap bubble guns, cameras, and thermometers in the nursery. During the children's nap time of one winter day,
Battery Mommy finds out the Christmas tree in the nursery is on fire.
At the moment, she urgently runs to the fire alarm to safely rescue sleeping children…
.FIC2024FamilyminiFICParallel
DONATO SANSONE - 2018 / FRANCE
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
BAVURE
DONATO SANSONE - 2018 / FRANCE
In the beginning was the Stain. A paintbrush reveals a being of gouache, opens him, transforms him, twists him, completes him. From this accelerated evolution arises a conquering being…
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
MAXIME ROY - 2018 / FRANCE
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
BEAUTIFUL LOSER
MAXIME ROY - 2018 / FRANCE
Michel is an ex-punk who spends half his life in hisgarage and half in his flat, a converted cellar. With Leo, his teenage son, they get up to live all sorts of mischief while simultaneously trying to manage looking after the baby Michel just had with Hélène, his ex-wife. Needless to say, his years of drugs and alcohol haven’t left him unscathed.
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
NICOLAS KEPPENS - 2023 / NETHERLAND, BELGIUM
.FIC2024CompetitiveDiscoveries
BEAUTIFUL MEN / BEAUTIFUL MEN
NICOLAS KEPPENS - 2023 / NETHERLAND, BELGIUM
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
.FIC2024CompetitiveDiscoveries
OLESYA SHCHUKINA - 2016 / RUSSIA
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
BELCHONOK I SANKI / THE SLED
OLESYA SHCHUKINA - 2016 / RUSSIA
On a winter’s day, while his mother is outside, a restless and curious squirrel will discover something incredible.
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
THELYIA PETRAKI - 2020 / GREECE
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
BELLA
THELYIA PETRAKI - 2020 / GREECE
Greece 1986-1987, a little before the fall of State Socialism and just at the end of the Cold War. In front of Anthi’s eyes the country is changing, the world is changing and with them Christos seems to be changing too.
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
JEREMY COLLINS & KELLY DILLON - 2018 / SOUTH AFRICA
.FIC2019ChildrenParallel
BELLY FLOP
JEREMY COLLINS & KELLY DILLON - 2018 / SOUTH AFRICA
Persistence pays off when an unashamed young girl learning to dive is unperturbed by a talented diver who steals the spotlight
.FIC2019ChildrenParallel
PHILIP WATTS - 2021 / AUSTRIA
.FIC2023miniFICParallel
BELLYSAURUS
PHILIP WATTS - 2021 / AUSTRIA
A tiny dinosaur dreams she is a scary big dinosaur. When danger strikes, she learns it's what's on the inside that counts.
.FIC2023miniFICParallel
HUGO COVARRUBIAS - 2021 / CHILE
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
BESTIA / BEAST
HUGO COVARRUBIAS - 2021 / CHILE
Inspired by real events, Bestia enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
LOÏC ESPUCHE - 2024 / FRANCE
.FIC2024ChildrenJuniorsminiFICParallel
BEURK ! / YUCK!
LOÏC ESPUCHE - 2024 / FRANCE
Yuck! Kissing on the mouth is disgusting. But secretly, little Léo really wants to try it....
.FIC2024ChildrenJuniorsminiFICParallel
DAVID RODRÍGUEZ MUÑIZ - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2020CompetitiveGalicia
BEYOND THE GLACIER
DAVID RODRÍGUEZ MUÑIZ - 2019 / SPAIN
Beyond the Glacier reflects on human relations with the natural environment and analyzes the future of the species within a context of geographical chaos.
.FIC2020CompetitiveGalicia
PAUL PLOBERGER - 2017 / AUSTRIA
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
BIER & CALIPPO / BEER & CALIPPO
PAUL PLOBERGER - 2017 / AUSTRIA
Finally, holidays! Jojo wants to go on tour with her boyfriend Toni and his crazy band all summer long. What´s really stupid, though, is that Jojo is pregnant, her father finds out and Toni recently smooches his drummer-girl Milli.
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MARAT NARIMANOV - 2016 / RUSSIA
.FIC2017ChildrenJuniorsParallel
BIG BOOOM
MARAT NARIMANOV - 2016 / RUSSIA
The history of our planet and humanity in four minutes. An eco-friendly statement developed in a single shot that has it all: humour, action and tragedy.
.FIC2017ChildrenJuniorsParallel
NURIA TORREÑO - 2021 / SPAIN
.FIC2022ChildrenminiFICParallel
BIG BOX
NURIA TORREÑO - 2021 / SPAIN
What if you could send your feelings? In a world where it is possible to send your feelings via mail service, a young postman named Hermy faces the arduous task of delivering the biggest package the company has ever seen. However, this will not stop our cheerful mailman, who will make use of all available means to make the package reach its destination and fulfill his mission.
.FIC2022ChildrenminiFICParallel
KATHERINE PROPPER - 2021 / USA
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
BIRDS
KATHERINE PROPPER - 2021 / USA
Moments in the lives of Austin teenagers during the heat of a Texas summer.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
SIL VAN DER WOERD & JORIK DOZY - 2018 / INDONESIA - NETHERLANDS
.FIC2019JuniorsParallel
BIRTHPLACE
SIL VAN DER WOERD & JORIK DOZY - 2018 / INDONESIA - NETHERLANDS
The symbolic story of a man arriving on a perfect Earth, and encounters his Nemesis in the shape of ocean pollution.
.FIC2019JuniorsParallel
SERHAT KARAASLAN - 2010 / TURKEY
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
BISQILET / BICYCLE
SERHAT KARAASLAN - 2010 / TURKEY
Firat and his father collect garbage to survive. Firat's biggest dream is have a bicycle. One day he finds a bicycle but it has one wheel.
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
BILL MASON - 1969 / CANADÁ
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
BLAKE
BILL MASON - 1969 / CANADÁ
In his never-ending quest for freedom, Blake pilots his own plane. This film is Mason's view of his friend as a hobo of the skies, but it is also an adventure that beckons the viewer to come along for the ride.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
HELENA GIRÓN, SAMUEL M. DELGADO - 2023 / SPAIN
.FIC2023CompetitiveDiscoveriesSpain
BLOOM
HELENA GIRÓN, SAMUEL M. DELGADO - 2023 / SPAIN
San Borondón is a mythical island that appears and disappears. It has appeared on maps throughout history in the vicinity of the Canary Island. The legend of the island of San Borondón became so pervasive that, during the XVI, XVI and XVIII centuries, expeditions were organized to find and conquer it. After centuries of oblivion, it has finally been found.
.FIC2023CompetitiveDiscoveriesSpain
APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL - 2018 / THAILAND-FRANCE
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveDiscoveries
BLUE
APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL - 2018 / THAILAND-FRANCE
A woman lies awake at night. Nearby, a set of theatre backdrops unspools itself, unveiling two alternate landscapes. Upon the woman’s blue sheet, a flicker of light reflects and illuminates her realm of insomnia.
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveDiscoveries
KOSUKE OKAHARA - 2020 / JAPAN
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
BLUE AFFAIR
KOSUKE OKAHARA - 2020 / JAPAN
Recurring recollections of his time in a town started infiltrating the dreams of a photographer, pushing him to return to the dream and leaving reality.
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
JACQUES ROZIER - 1958 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
BLUE JEANS
JACQUES ROZIER - 1958 / FRANCE
It narrates the flirting attempts of two young men with their scooters on the coast of Cannes.
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
MARC ROESSLER - 2015 / GERMANY
.FIC2016ComedyParallel
BOB
MARC ROESSLER - 2015 / GERMANY
Bob is an artist in great demand. Despite this, he often feels misunderstood, as an air of gloom surrounds the unveiling of his art, and the funeral procession is never too far behind. An attempt at a filmic portrait.
.FIC2016ComedyParallel
ALE EDDINE BEN HAMZA, JAMEL SASSI, BOULE - 2013 / TUNISIA
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
BOBBY
ALE EDDINE BEN HAMZA, JAMEL SASSI, BOULE - 2013 / TUNISIA
It’s back to school day and for the first time, 8 year old Fares is allowed to walk alone to class. On his way, he crosses the destiny of a stray dog, he called Bobby...It’s the beginning of a true friendship until the day Fares decides to bring Bobby back home...
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
NATALIA GROFPEL - 2020 / RUSSIA
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
BOLSHOY Y MAKENKY / BIG AND SMALL
NATALIA GROFPEL - 2020 / RUSSIA
Surprising things can happen in a child's jacket pocket.
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
MARC WILKINS - 2016 / SWITZERLAND - TURKEY
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
BON VOYAGE / HAVE A GOOD TRIP
MARC WILKINS - 2016 / SWITZERLAND - TURKEY
A couple’s compassion is put to the test when they come across a sinking ship of refugees while on a pleasure trip across the Mediterranean.
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
ZOEL AESCHBACHER - 2017 / SWITZERLAND
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
BONOBO
ZOEL AESCHBACHER - 2017 / SWITZERLAND
When the elevator of their public housing breaks down, the fates of three of its tenants intertwine towards an explosive ending.
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
GABRIEL AUGERAI, CHARLES DI CICCO, ROMAIN AUGIER, LAURIE PEREIRA DE FIGUEIREDO, YANNICK JACQUIN, MATHIS MARCHAL - 2022 / FRANCE
.FIC2023ChildrenminiFICParallel
BOOM
GABRIEL AUGERAI, CHARLES DI CICCO, ROMAIN AUGIER, LAURIE PEREIRA DE FIGUEIREDO, YANNICK JACQUIN, MATHIS MARCHAL - 2022 / FRANCE
A couple of dumb birds tries its best to protect its eggs from a volcano eruption.
.FIC2023ChildrenminiFICParallel
MONTSE PIÑEIRO, RUBÉN ABAD - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
BROTAR / BLOOMING
MONTSE PIÑEIRO, RUBÉN ABAD - 2019 / SPAIN
Blooming is a tribute to handmade work, done with the hands and the heart. Through its protagonist, Mirta, we wander through theatrical stages that are constructed using analogical techniques, getting original and simple finishes. Montse Piñeiro takes her grandmothers as reference, examples of strength and wisdom of experience, to reveal a magical universe that transports us to our childhood. The original music of Rubén Abad dances with the images and takes us to the beginning of the 20th century, through impressionistic nuances that intermingle with the lights and colors that accompany the whole piece.
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
MERYAM JOOBEUR - 2018 / CANADA - QATAR - TUNISIA - SWEDEN
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
BROTHERHOOD
MERYAM JOOBEUR - 2018 / CANADA - QATAR - TUNISIA - SWEDEN
Mohamed is deeply shaken when his oldest son Malik returns home after a long journey with a mysterious new wife.
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
MANOLIS MAVRIS - 2021 / BELGIUM-GREECE
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
BRUTALIA, ERGASIMES MERES / BRUTALIA, DAYS OF LABOUR
MANOLIS MAVRIS - 2021 / BELGIUM-GREECE
A matriarchal family. An oligarchic society...what would happen if we replace bees with humans? Anna, one worker bee among the perfectly identical worker bee girls, all dressed in military uniforms, all working day and night, struggles to understand the rules of the hive.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
JORGE YÚDICE - 2016 / SPAIN
.FIC2017JuniorsParallel
BUS STORY
JORGE YÚDICE - 2016 / SPAIN
As on any given day, he finds the unknown girl completely asleep on the morning bus. He has never talked to her, but he knows where she gets off. The problem is that today she won’t wake up on time and she’s going to lose her stop. Should he wake her up?
.FIC2017JuniorsParallel
DOUWE DIJKSTRA - 2022 / THE NETHERLANDS
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveDiscoveries
BUURMAN ABDI / NEIGHBOUR ABDI
DOUWE DIJKSTRA - 2022 / THE NETHERLANDS
How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbour and filmmaker Douwe. Through playful reconstructions in a special effects
studio, Abdi and Douwe embark on a candidand investigative journey through a painful history, focusing on the creative process throughout.
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveDiscoveries
LAIA FOGUET - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveSpain
CA NOSTRA / OUR PLACE
LAIA FOGUET - 2019 / SPAIN
Lluis’ and Jesus’ grandma has just passed away. They are not capable of coping with the situation, but her memory will guide them.
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveSpain
IES AS BARXAS - 2016 / SPAIN
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
CABELOS DE BATALLA / THE HAIR OF BATTLE
IES AS BARXAS - 2016 / SPAIN
A poem by Miguel Ángel and the animation of the students of 4th ESO of the IES As Barxas, for those who are fighting a very hard battle, that of cancer.
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
ÁLVARO LÓPEZ - 2022 / COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL, UNIVERSIDADE DA CORUÑA
.FIC2023Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
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?
.FIC2023Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
BOGDAN MURESANU - 2018 / ROMANIA
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
CADOUL DE CRACIUN / THE CHRISTMAS GIFT
BOGDAN MURESANU - 2018 / ROMANIA
On 20th of December, 1989, a few days after Ceausescu’s bloody repression in Timisoara, a father’s quiet evening turns to sheer ordeal as he finds out that his little son has mailed a wish letter to Santa. As the kid understood, his father’s desire was to see Ceausescu dead.
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
CARLOS F. DE VIGO, LORENA ARES - 2023 / SPAIN
.FIC2024FamilyminiFICParallel
CAFUNÈ / CAFUNÈ
CARLOS F. DE VIGO, LORENA ARES - 2023 / SPAIN
Alma, a solitary refugee child, is thrust back into her traumatic past when her doll falls into the swimming pool, mirroring the shipwreck of the refugee boat where she was the lone survivor. Luna, her savior, steps in to help her overcome her trauma and rebuild her life.
.FIC2024FamilyminiFICParallel
MARC RIBA, ANNA SOLANAS - 2020 / SPAIN
.FIC2020CompetitiveSpain
CANDELA
MARC RIBA, ANNA SOLANAS - 2020 / SPAIN
Mrs. Candela spends the last days of her life in a big city’s dying outskirts.
.FIC2020CompetitiveSpain
ARANCHA BRANDÓN - 2018 / SPAIN
.FIC2019CompetitiveGalicia
CANDO MAMÁ PECHOU AS CAIXAS / WHEN MOM CLOSED THE BOXES
ARANCHA BRANDÓN - 2018 / SPAIN
The closing of the family business and the farewell of a phase. A challenge of overcoming the dust and the crises that take place when the mother of the filmmaker must change her life and move forward with more than 50 years. A documentary about family, family work and the importance of finding oneself.
.FIC2019CompetitiveGalicia
MARC RIBA E ANNA SOLANAS - 2013 / SPAIN
.FIC2014AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
CANIS / DOGS
MARC RIBA E ANNA SOLANAS - 2013 / SPAIN
Teo survives isolated in a house constantly besieged by a horde of stray dogs.
.FIC2014AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MANUEL CALVO - 2010 / SPAIN
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
CANNON BEACH. LA PLAYA DE BERLÍN / CANNON BEACH. THE BERLIN BEACH
MANUEL CALVO - 2010 / SPAIN
Winter. Tinka rides a bus on her way to the beach. Sitting next to her, Garrett joins her in trying to not miss life as it goes rushing by.
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
CAMILA KATER - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveGalicia
CARNE / FLESH
CAMILA KATER - 2019 / SPAIN
Rare, medium-rare, medium-well and well done. Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old age.
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveGalicia
CEIP DO HÍO - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
CAROLINA E O CORVO DE ÁS BRANCAS / CAROLINA AND THE WHITE-WINGED RAVEN
CEIP DO HÍO - 2022 / SPAIN
After breaking the windowpane of the caretaker's house, Carolina and her four siblings become involved in a dangerous adventure. With the help of her siblings, turned into crows by the influence of the ring, and the school bats, Carolina will find the solution.
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
ELIOTT CHABANIS - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2020CompetitiveDiscoveries
CARRIÈRE DE PISSY / PISSY’S CAREER
ELIOTT CHABANIS - 2019 / FRANCE
In the heart of the city of Ouagadougou, a huge granite crater imprisons a group of men who try their best to get out of there. In the end, only their image escapes.
.FIC2020CompetitiveDiscoveries
JONAS MEKAS - 1996 / UNITED STATES
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
CASSIS / CASSIS
JONAS MEKAS - 1996 / UNITED STATES
A small port in South of France, a lighthouse, the sea, shot from just before the sunrise until just after the sunset, all day long, frame by frame, a frame or two every second or every few minutes.
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
INDIA BARNARDO - 2021 / CANADA
.FIC2023miniFICParallel
CAT AND MOTH
INDIA BARNARDO - 2021 / CANADA
A white, fluffy cat dreams of finding the most comfortable spot in the world at home, but what she doesn't realise is that someone else has their eye on it too.
.FIC2023miniFICParallel
JAMILLE VAN WIJNNGAARDEN - 2017 / NETHERLANDS
.FIC2018ChildrenParallel
CATASTROPHE
JAMILLE VAN WIJNNGAARDEN - 2017 / NETHERLANDS
A cat named Rodney has been told by its owner not to hurt the little bird. So, Rodney panics when little bird suddenly drops dead in its cage. He starts doing everything he can to get birdie back to life again.
.FIC2018ChildrenParallel
VLADIMIR KANIC - 2013 / CROATIA - CANADA
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
CATCHING A LION
VLADIMIR KANIC - 2013 / CROATIA - CANADA
Father and son have to catch a lion in order to save themselves from the approaching war. Inspired by true events.
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
CPI DE PROGRESO - 2020 / 6th grade
.FIC2020CompetitiveEducation CentersminiFIC
CATOIRA STYLE
CPI DE PROGRESO - 2020 / 6th grade
A music video trap adaptation of the famous ‘Adios ríos, adiós fontes’ poem, by Rosalía de Castro. Voices recorded by the school students in a makeshift studio located in the school and filmed outdoors.
.FIC2020CompetitiveEducation CentersminiFIC
YANN CHEMIN - 2017 / FRANCE
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
CE QUI NOUS TIENT / THE TIES THAT BIND
YANN CHEMIN - 2017 / FRANCE
Alex comes home for the weekend. The family is mourning the loss of his sister but it seems they pay more attention to their dog than to the teenager. While walking it in the forest, the dog disappears.
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MARINE BLIN - 2020 / FRANCE
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
CE QUI RÉSONNE DANS LE SILENCE / WHAT RESONATES IN SILENCE
MARINE BLIN - 2020 / FRANCE
Hiding death does not make it disappear. A little girl who suffered from the silence of adults felt dispossessed of her right to mourn. As an adult, she recounts the tender gestures that bind her to the dead.
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
IES CHAMOSO LAMAS - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
.FIC2024Education Centers
CEN ANOS DOCES / ONE HUNDRED SWEET YEARS
IES CHAMOSO LAMAS - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
Three generations and almost a hundred years dedicated to bakery. A tradition in Carballiño that has grown over the years until today, with their famous fried pastries.
.FIC2024Education Centers
MUIRIS CROWLEY - 2015 / IRELAND
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
CHANGE IN THE WEATHER
MUIRIS CROWLEY - 2015 / IRELAND
Michael, a young man living in rural Ireland, struggles to adjust to a sudden change in his furtive lifestyle.
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
JEAN-LUC GODARD - 1960 / FRANCIA
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
CHARLOTTE ET SON JULES / CHARLOTTE AND HER JULES
JEAN-LUC GODARD - 1960 / FRANCIA
A man receives a visit from his ex-girlfriend and tries to win her back. Of course, he doesn't know that she just came back for her toothbrush.
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
LISE AKOKA & ROMANE GUERET - 2016 / FRANCE
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
CHASSE ROYALE
LISE AKOKA & ROMANE GUERET - 2016 / FRANCE
Angélique, 13, lives with her many brothers and sisters, in the suburb of Valenciennes. This day, at school, she is offered to pass an audition for a film.
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
KEILA CEPEDA - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2023ChildrenFamilyminiFICParallel
CHIMBORAZO
KEILA CEPEDA - 2022 / SPAIN
Chimborazo's ice pickers have long been subjected for years to the inclemency of the volcano, located in the Ecuadorian Andes. In exchange, they crush some of its ice to provide for their people. Baltazar Ushca is the only one who continue this profession, daily walking for hours to get blocks of ice. He remembers his youth and his companions. As years go by, his llama Candela dies, the city continues to grow and the near sun causes the glacier to melt. Despite the danger, Baltazar rescues the last piece of ice while he sees how his last hope melts.
.FIC2023ChildrenFamilyminiFICParallel
ÁLVARO PÉREZ DE MADRID - 2008 / SPAIN - USA
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
CHOCOLATE CHIPS
ÁLVARO PÉREZ DE MADRID - 2008 / SPAIN - USA
The journey of a girl between reality and imagination to get her favorite ice cream: chocolate with chunks of chocolate.
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
ARANTXA HERNÁNDEZ BARTHE - 2019 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2020Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
CITY OF CHILDREN
ARANTXA HERNÁNDEZ BARTHE - 2019 / UNITED KINGDOM
What is it like to grow up in a place that has been forgotten by everyone? This film is a portrait of the youth of a village in the north of England. Tyler, a 16-year-old boy who has never attended school, guides us through this place where we will meet a series of diverse young characters, each making their own way in the village. Combining poetical and observational styles, this film provides a multifaceted experience, allowing the viewer to reflect on Tyler's future and on England's past.
.FIC2020Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
DWAYNE LEBLANC - 2022 / USA
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
CIVIC
DWAYNE LEBLANC - 2022 / USA
CIVIC is a short film that follows Booker on his first trip back home to South Central, L.A. after several years of self-imposed exile. Without any clear motive, or even a warning, Booker returns to the place that holds his origins and the people who shaped him. Framed almost exclusively inside of his car, CIVIC tracks Booker’s fleeting and fragmented encounters around his old streets.
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
JAVIER MARCO RICO - 2016 / SPAIN
.FIC2016Parallel
CLASSMATE
JAVIER MARCO RICO - 2016 / SPAIN
A man and a woman meet on a bus. She’s an engineer and she’s married. He’s homeless
.FIC2016Parallel
JULIE NAVARRO - 2016 / FRANCE
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
CLÉO
JULIE NAVARRO - 2016 / FRANCE
Nothing more banal than a divorce except when neither parent seeking custody of the child. Cléo, 10, will escape what seems unbearable. The feeling of abandonment is a powerful engine of escape.
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
ALEXEI MIZIN - 2011 / AUSTRALIA
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
CLOSING IN
ALEXEI MIZIN - 2011 / AUSTRALIA
A rookie detective struggles between his professional and emotional responsibilities while stationed with a mother of a kidnapped child.
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
VERONIKA ZACHAROVÁ - 2015 / CZECH REPUBLIC
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
CO SE STALO V ZOO / ZOO STORY
VERONIKA ZACHAROVÁ - 2015 / CZECH REPUBLIC
This is the story of a girl who goes to the zoo with her mother. Due to her mother’s carelessness, absorbed by her job and phone calls, the girl is exchanged with another child and slips into the gorilla’s cage.
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
JORGE YÚDICE - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
COCODRILO / CROCODILE
JORGE YÚDICE - 2019 / SPAIN
Like every afternoon, Alicia prepares a cup of tea and watches her favorite youtube channel: VictorGaming. A rol action video games channel. Victor, the youtuber, is streaming now answering questions from his fans. Alicia has a very important thing to say to him.
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
YUANQING CAI, HOUZHI HUANG, MIKOLAJ JANIW, NATHAN CRABOT, MANDIMBY LEBON, THEO TRAN NGOC - 2020 / FRANCE
.FIC2021Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
COFFIN
YUANQING CAI, HOUZHI HUANG, MIKOLAJ JANIW, NATHAN CRABOT, MANDIMBY LEBON, THEO TRAN NGOC - 2020 / FRANCE
A man comes home and wants to go to bed. A bunch of noisy roommates. A crowded city in southern China.
.FIC2021Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
SIMON ZHOU - 2021 / FRANCE
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
COIFFEUR / HAIRDRESSER
SIMON ZHOU - 2021 / FRANCE
Visited one night by his down-and-out sister, Luc, the struggling owner of a hair salon, must find a way to meet her needs without offending the sensibilities of a wealthy customer.
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
MAXIME FEYERS, MATHIEU BERGERON - 2012 / FRANCE
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
COME WHAT MAY
MAXIME FEYERS, MATHIEU BERGERON - 2012 / FRANCE
Paul's life is tottering after a Line phone call from hospital.
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
JAN & RAF ROOSENS - 2015 / BELGIUM
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
COPAIN / BOYFRIEND
JAN & RAF ROOSENS - 2015 / BELGIUM
Fré is a teenager stuck between his conservative, wealthy family and his lower-class friends. He manages to keep the two worlds separated, until he falls in love...
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
JAIRO IGLESIAS - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
CORES / COLORS
JAIRO IGLESIAS - 2008 / SPAIN
1939. Boiro. In an isolated mountain, two soldiers meet face to face.
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
IES AS BARXAS - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2022CompetitiveEducation Centers
CORES / COLOURS
IES AS BARXAS - 2022 / SPAIN
Animation for the 28th of June, LGTBIQA+ Pride Day.
.FIC2022CompetitiveEducation Centers
PABLO POLLEDRI - 2016 / ARGENTINA
.FIC2017Parallel
CORP.
PABLO POLLEDRI - 2016 / ARGENTINA
Ambition, exploitation of labour, environmental pollution, human degradation, surplus value, corruption and much more in the amazing world of the free market!
.FIC2017Parallel
CEIP P. DO CARBALLAL - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
.FIC2024Education Centers
CORRE POR MARÍN / RUN IN MARÍN
CEIP P. DO CARBALLAL - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
Tribute music video to the athlete from Marín, Manuel Rosales, created from his biography and the story of a student.
.FIC2024Education Centers
CARLA SIMÓN, DOMINGA SOTOMAYOR - 2020 / SPAIN, CHILE
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveSpain
CORRESPONDENCIA
CARLA SIMÓN, DOMINGA SOTOMAYOR - 2020 / SPAIN, CHILE
In the form of a filmed epistolary conversation, two Young filmmakers talk about cinema, the family present and past, inheritance and motherhood. The personal and profound reflections suddenly echo the political emergency of a country.
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveSpain
OANA LACROIX - 2018 / SWITZERLAND
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
COUCOULEURS
OANA LACROIX - 2018 / SWITZERLAND
In a forest inhabited by birds of a single color, all of them occupy a predetermined place. But what happens when a bird has two colors?
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
IES TERRA DE TRASANCOS - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
COUSAS DE VELLOS / OLD PEOPLE'S MATTERS
IES TERRA DE TRASANCOS - 2017 / SPAIN
Grandson and grandfather exchange points of view during an everyday conversation. Short film made by the students of IES Terra de Trasancos.
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
CAMILLE MOL - 2016 / BELGIUM
.FIC2017Parallel
CREATURES
CAMILLE MOL - 2016 / BELGIUM
In autumn’s changing nature, Louise (15) yearns for more.
.FIC2017Parallel
JEAN-MARC E. ROY & PHILIPPE DAVID GAGNÉ - 2017 / CANADÁ
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
CRÈME DE MENTHE / MINT CREAM
JEAN-MARC E. ROY & PHILIPPE DAVID GAGNÉ - 2017 / CANADÁ
Renée comes back home for her father’s funeral. Forced to empty his house she comes across a gigantic mess; the man had been a hoarder.
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
JULIA OCKER - 2017 / GERMANY
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
CROCODILE
JULIA OCKER - 2017 / GERMANY
The crocodile sits down on the sofa, ready to enjoy a quiet evening in front of the television, but quickly discovers that has chosen the wrong snack
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
ZAHIRA TEIJELO - 2023 / COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL, UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO
.FIC2023Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
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.
.FIC2023Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
SAM MANACSA - 2023 / PHILIPPINES
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO DIE / CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO DIE
SAM MANACSA - 2023 / PHILIPPINES
Mila struggles as she remains unpaid at work and a love interest becomes a source of comfort through his constant phone calls. But a promise of hope may also lead to tragedy and sad love songs.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
MĀRA LINIŅA - 2022 / LATVIA
.FIC2022ChildrenminiFICParallel
HUSH HUSH LITTLE BEAR
MĀRA LINIŅA - 2022 / LATVIA
While the bear parents are away looking for berries and honey, the baby bears stay at home with the sheep. The bear cubs have a good time playing merrily with a ball of yarn, but soon enough the cubs find themselves all tangled up and everything is turned upside down! Luckily the sheep help them put everything in order again.
.FIC2022ChildrenminiFICParallel
LA HORDE (MARINE BRUTTI, ARTHUR HAREL, JONATHAN DEBROUWER) - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2020CompetitiveDiscoveries
CULTES / CULTS
LA HORDE (MARINE BRUTTI, ARTHUR HAREL, JONATHAN DEBROUWER) - 2019 / FRANCE
This film captures the concrete manifestation of worship that is translated into ritualized practices and performances, a mass jubilation and a consumerist mass. Are the body, its excitement and celebration the ultimate bulwark for mass consumption? Can this state succeed in transcending the uncritical space in which it develops?
.FIC2020CompetitiveDiscoveries
ÁLVARO GAGO - 2014 / SPAIN
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
CURRICÁN
ÁLVARO GAGO - 2014 / SPAIN
Xan Curricán guides us through the streets of Vilanova de Arousa, a village full of picturesque portraits and endless epiphanies.
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
ANTHONY NTI - 2019 / BELGIUM-GHANA
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
DA YIE / DA YIE
ANTHONY NTI - 2019 / BELGIUM-GHANA
On a sunny day in Ghana, a foreigner approaches two children and takes them on an unexpected trip. The three of them get along so well that "Bogah", the foreigner, starts to question his initial intentions...
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
BIBHUSAN BASNET, POOJA GURUNG - 2016 / NEPAL - FRANCE
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
DADYAA
BIBHUSAN BASNET, POOJA GURUNG - 2016 / NEPAL - FRANCE
Atimaley and Devi´s village is haunted by memories. When a dear friend leaves the village without saying “goodbye”, the old couple face a dilemma. To keep living with the memories or to leave the village for good?
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ELENA WALF - 2021 / GERMANY
.FIC2022ChildrenFamilyminiFICParallel
DAMN IT!
ELENA WALF - 2021 / GERMANY
The ancient struggle between good and evil.
.FIC2022ChildrenFamilyminiFICParallel
SHULI HUANG - 2022 / CHINA
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
DANG WO WANG XIANG NI DE SHI HOU / WILL YOU LOOK AT ME
SHULI HUANG - 2022 / CHINA
As a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search for himself, a long due conversation with his mother dives the two of them into a quest for acceptance and love.
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
TONIA MISHIALI - 2022 / CYPRUS, GREECE
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
DAPHNE
TONIA MISHIALI - 2022 / CYPRUS, GREECE
Divorcee Daphne lives with her 10-year-old socially awkward son, who has hardly any communication with her. She works from home due to the pandemic restrictive measures, so she has no other physical interaction. She signs up on a dating app and switches from one sexual partner to the next, but does not seem to be satisfied at least not with what she thought she needed; until she finds a wounded dog in the street. How far would she go to feel affection once again?
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
ALIYAR RASTI - 2018 / IRAN
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
DAR BEYN / IN BETWEEN
ALIYAR RASTI - 2018 / IRAN
A crime scene investigation is in progress. A young woman is forced to recreate the events leading up to the tragic death of her boyfriend for a detective and his assistant. She sustains that it was an accident and that she’s innocent, but the detective thinks otherwise.
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
KÁLMÁN NAGY - 2022 / HUNGARY, AUSTRIA
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
DAS ANDERE ENDE DER STRAßE / THE OTHER END OF THE STREET
KÁLMÁN NAGY - 2022 / HUNGARY, AUSTRIA
When 9-year-old Ábel is attacked by his classmate Bence at school, his father decides to visit Bence’s parents to put an end to the constant harassment. However, the conversation does not go as hoped and confronts father and son with a moral dilemma.
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
ZACHARY WOODS - 2020 / UNITED STATES
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
DAVID
ZACHARY WOODS - 2020 / UNITED STATES
A severely depressed man reaches out for an emergency therapy session. He’s not the only one
who needs help.
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
DARIA KASHCHEEVA - 2019 / CZECH REPUBLIC
.FIC2020Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
DCERA / DAUGHTER
DARIA KASHCHEEVA - 2019 / CZECH REPUBLIC
Should you hide your pain? Close yourself inside your inner world, full of longing for your father’s love and its displays? Or should you understand and forgive before it is too late?
.FIC2020Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
JAVIER VEIGA - 2011 / SPAIN
.FIC2011AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
DE QUE SE RÍEN LAS HIENAS / WHAT THE HYENAS LAUGH AT
JAVIER VEIGA - 2011 / SPAIN
This could be the typical story about Boy meet Girl. But Boy and Girl are approaching a complicated age and they are stricken by a doubt: ¿why the hyenas smile?
.FIC2011AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
DAVID TEMBLEQUE - 2015 / SPAIN
.FIC2017CompetitiveGalicia
DEAR TOM
DAVID TEMBLEQUE - 2015 / SPAIN
Sometimes, fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing direction, making two parallel lines think that they could possibly meet one day. You only stopped for a moment, and when you turn around, it’s gone... I met a girl a year ago. We dated for a few months and I filmed our private moments together. One day I woke up and she was gone. What you see is our real story.
.FIC2017CompetitiveGalicia
ALBERTO VÁZQUEZ - 2016 / SPAIN - FRANCE
.FIC2017CompetitiveGalicia
DECORADO / BACKDROP
ALBERTO VÁZQUEZ - 2016 / SPAIN - FRANCE
The world is a wonderful stage, but the casting is deplorable.
.FIC2017CompetitiveGalicia
PHIL SHEERIN - 2017 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
DEPENDENT
PHIL SHEERIN - 2017 / UNITED KINGDOM
Josh is in a care home far from his mother. One day he gets a phone call from this mum and he breaks out to help her, but what she wants isn’t what Josh expects…
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
JOHANNES WEILAND, UWE HEIDSCHOETTER - 2009 / GERMANY
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
DER KLEINE UND DAS BIEST / THE LITTLE ONE AND THE BEAST
JOHANNES WEILAND, UWE HEIDSCHOETTER - 2009 / GERMANY
When your mother has turned into a beast, a lot of things change.
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LEÏLA MACAIRE - 2022 / FRANCE
.FIC2023JuniorsminiFICParallel
DES TRESSES / BRAIDS
LEÏLA MACAIRE - 2022 / FRANCE
Lili arrives in the 4th grade in a new school and becomes friend with Dado. For the upcoming school photo, Lili has her hair braided with African braids and Dado has her hair straightened. It is the opportunity to look in one another for something they don’t have, even if this means jeopardizing their friendship.
.FIC2023JuniorsminiFICParallel
CARLA SIMÓN - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
DESPUÉS TAMBIÉN / IF THEN ELSE
CARLA SIMÓN - 2019 / SPAIN
A 28-year-old boy named Alex comes to a village bar looking for someone. There’s a song playing and a group is dancing it. One of them, Edu, our protagonist, is dancing it like a madman. They both have a conversation that we can’t listen to because the music is too loud but we can see that Alex is very affected. On the other hand, Edu doesn’t react and keeps dancing to forget about it.
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
JULIO O. RAMOS - 2012 / PERU
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
DETRÁS DEL ESPEJO / BEHIND THE MIRROR
JULIO O. RAMOS - 2012 / PERU
The worker of a cheap motel resorts to a questionable way to make ends meet. One day, the sudden death of a guest challenges his clandestine business.
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
BRUNA CALLEGARI - 2016 / BRAZIL
.FIC2017Parallel
DEUSA
BRUNA CALLEGARI - 2016 / BRAZIL
Deusa works at a toll on the island where she lives. Accustomed to seeing the movement of travellers, she had never thought of her own destiny. When a whale washes up on the beach, Deusa starts to feels different.
.FIC2017Parallel
EVGENIA ZHIRKOVA - 2016 / RUSSIA
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
DEVOCHKA, DRAKON Y PAPA / DRAGON SLEDGE
EVGENIA ZHIRKOVA - 2016 / RUSSIA
A girl turns her sled into a dragon and a valley into an enchanted forest. What will she turn her father into?
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
SOFIA BOST - 2019 / PORTUGAL
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
DIA DE FESTA / PARTY DAY
SOFIA BOST - 2019 / PORTUGAL
Mena lives alone with her daughter Clara. Today is Clara’s seventh birthday. Despite her limited financial resources, Mena still manages to organize a birthday party. But after a phone call from her mother, she becomes distraught and anxious.
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
TIM ELLRICH - 2015 / GERMANY - AUSTRIA
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
DIE BADEWANNE / THE BATHTUB
TIM ELLRICH - 2015 / GERMANY - AUSTRIA
Three brothers are preparing an original present for their mother. But the idea to re-enact an old bathtub picture from their childhood is way too stupid for the oldest one. Little by little they bare all and three brothers remain who have grown apart in the meanwhile.
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
DAVID VOSS - 2014 / GERMANY
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
DIE KUNST DES VERLIERENS / THE ART OF LOSING
DAVID VOSS - 2014 / GERMANY
Christian is a young and ambitious boxer who has an upcoming decisive boxing match. At home, he takes care of his father, who, after a second stroke, has become a complete invalid. When his older brother, Michael, returns home, he isn't the help he would have hoped for.
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
JAVIER CHILLON - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2009AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
DIE SCHNEIDER KRANKHEIT / THE SCHNEIDER DISEASE
JAVIER CHILLON - 2008 / SPAIN
Spring 1958. A Soviet space capsule manned by a primate crashes in West Germany. The diplomatic tensions between the blocks will soon forward to a terrible menace, the ape is the bearer of a mysterious virus that is spreading all across the country...
.FIC2009AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MARIAM KHATCHVANI - 2013 / GEORGIA
.FIC2015AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
DINOLA
MARIAM KHATCHVANI - 2013 / GEORGIA
In the harsh mountainous countryside of Svaneti (Georgia), happiness is brief. Dinas beloved husband dies and a strict law prevents her from being together with her child.
.FIC2015AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MIGUEL S. MARÍN - 2013 / SPAIN
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
DINOSAUR
MIGUEL S. MARÍN - 2013 / SPAIN
Mario, a ten-year-old boy spends his days locked in his room, playing with his model dinosaurs. But his father German who is a sports fanatic, doesn´t look favourably on his child's ideas. One day, German persuades Mario to go jogging with him only by promising him that he will find a giant dinosaur at the end of the road.
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
CHRISTOPHE M. SABER - 2014 / SWITZERLAND
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
DISCIPLINE
CHRISTOPHE M. SABER - 2014 / SWITZERLAND
A genuine and funny performance of how parental education can lead into an unexpectedly outbursting conflict in the supermarket.
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
ANAND KISHORE - 2017/ INDIA - SINGAPORE - USA
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
DISCO OBU
ANAND KISHORE - 2017/ INDIA - SINGAPORE - USA
A journalist captures a day in the life of a former child actor turned into a rickshaw driver. Over the course of the day their relationship is tested.
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
JORGE SAAVEDRA - 2015 / SPAIN
.FIC2016CompetitiveGalicia
DISNEY
JORGE SAAVEDRA - 2015 / SPAIN
Jorge is practicing a speech in front of a mirror, the one he is going to use to leave his girlfriend Sonia after more than four years together.
.FIC2016CompetitiveGalicia
TILL NOWAK - 2015 / GERMANY
.FIC2016Parallel
DISSONANCE
TILL NOWAK - 2015 / GERMANY
A genius musician lives a lonely life in a surreal, floating world. He plays the piano every day in a gigantic concert hall, but there is nobody to listen. He only has one wish: To play for his daughter.
.FIC2016Parallel
CLÉLIA SCHAEFFER - 2020 / FRANCE
.FIC2021JuniorsminiFICParallel
DIX ANS / TEN YEARS
CLÉLIA SCHAEFFER - 2020 / FRANCE
During Léo's birthday party, a toy disappears. Children look for a culprit.
.FIC2021JuniorsminiFICParallel
AARON SELMI - 2006-2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
DK
AARON SELMI - 2006-2008 / SPAIN
DK is a young man sentenced to death. Through a letter he wrote to his father, shows his inner universe. We see there how his childhood experiences led him to become what he is... victim and executioner at once.
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
MARTA HERNAIZ PIDAL - 2017 / MEXICO - BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA
.FIC2017Parallel
DOBRO / FINE
MARTA HERNAIZ PIDAL - 2017 / MEXICO - BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA
Mira, a Romany woman, decides to sit and rest at Selma’s doorstep. Annoyed by the situation, Selma tries everything to kick Mira out, but she refuses just by answering with the word “fine”. Both women will start an endless fight that can only end well.
.FIC2017Parallel
NOELIA SÁNCHEZ - UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO - GRAO EN COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
.FIC2024Cinema SchoolsGalician Cinema Schools
DOENTE / DOLIENTE
NOELIA SÁNCHEZ - UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO - GRAO EN COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
After the death of her grandmother, Marina stays in the house where they lived together. Despite the calls from her cousin, who tries to convince her to move in with her to overcome her grief, Marina continues an automatic life while exploring her sorrow.
.FIC2024Cinema SchoolsGalician Cinema Schools
CEIP PLURILINGÜE A PEDRA - 2021 / SPAIN
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
DONA LANDRA NO RÍO REVOLTO / MISS ACORN IN THE TROUBLED RIVER
CEIP PLURILINGÜE A PEDRA - 2021 / SPAIN
The inhabitants of the Troubled River are getting used to living in the dirt. In the middle of the filth appears a stinky green monster who terrifies all the animals. Through Miss Landra, they manage to solve the enigma of who the monster is.
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
MATVEY FIKS - 2017 / USA - RUSSIA - SRI LANKA
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
DOUGGY
MATVEY FIKS - 2017 / USA - RUSSIA - SRI LANKA
In a forgotten part of Brooklyn, Douggy works as a tow truck driver. He spends his last two night-shifts, anxiously waiting for a crucial phone call.
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
FRANCISCO JAVIER ARA SANTOS - 2010 / SPAIN
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
DREAMING A WHOLE LIFE / SOÑAR CON UNA VIDA NORMAL
FRANCISCO JAVIER ARA SANTOS - 2010 / SPAIN
Dreaming of an usual life is the main character does in this story. It wouldn´t be a difficult dream to achieve if he doesn´t have a little problem: his face hangs on his head like a fabric.
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
ELOY VARELA - 2011 / SPAIN
.FIC2011AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
DÚAS LETRAS / TWO LETTERS
ELOY VARELA - 2011 / SPAIN
Absences, emigration, forced silence... they are marking scars in Áurea's face, while her hope of seeing her son again is dissapearing...
.FIC2011AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ZOU JING - 2021 / CHINA - HONG KONG - SINGAPUR
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
DUO LI / LILI ALONE
ZOU JING - 2021 / CHINA - HONG KONG - SINGAPUR
Lili, a young mother, lives with her gambler husband in a remote part of Sichuan. Lonely and poor, she heads for the city in a bid to earn enough money to save her dying father.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
NAÏLA GUIGUET - 2020 / FRANCE
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
DUSTIN
NAÏLA GUIGUET - 2020 / FRANCE
In an abandoned warehouse, a crowd is dancing as one on 145 BPM techno music. Among them is Dustin, a young transgender and crew: Felix, Raya and Juan. As the night draws on, collective hysteria morphs into sweet melancholy, and euphoria into yearning for tenderness.
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
HUNG-EN SU - 2017 / TAIWAN
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
DXGAL / THE LAND
HUNG-EN SU - 2017 / TAIWAN
Truku elder Temu continues to work in the field after he has passed the land down to his sons. But they are more interested in talking to the land developer.
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
BRETISLAV POJAR, FRANCINE DESBIENS - 1981 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
E
BRETISLAV POJAR, FRANCINE DESBIENS - 1981 / CANADA
Under the guise of a pretty fairy tale, this animated short makes a strong political statement. Animated paper cut-outs enact a drama in which a dictator imposes his delusions on his unfortunate subjects. The humour is black and, despite the absence of dialogue, the message is crystal clear.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
JEAN-JULIEN COLLETTE, OLIVIER TOLLET - 2007 / BELGIUM
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
È FINITA LA COMMEDIA / THE COMEDY IS OVER
JEAN-JULIEN COLLETTE, OLIVIER TOLLET - 2007 / BELGIUM
A car parked in a residential area. A father and a son slowly begin a discussion: love, sex, mother and death. An atypical complicity, an overly close relationship. Time goes by, the tone rises and questions remain unanswered: what are they waiting for? And especially, what are they about to accomplish?
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
CEIP PLURILINGÜE A PEDRA - 2019/ 5th grade
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveEducation CentersminiFIC
É O MEU ANIVERSARIO / IT’S MY BIRTHDAY
CEIP PLURILINGÜE A PEDRA - 2019/ 5th grade
One of the most important days in the life of Blanca is about to begin...a day filled with sounds, images and sensations.
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveEducation CentersminiFIC
IES MARÍA SOLIÑO - 2021 / SPAIN
.FIC2021CompetitiveEducation Centers
E SE CHOVE QUE CHOVA! / IF IT RAINS LET IT RAIN!
IES MARÍA SOLIÑO - 2021 / SPAIN
A complex thriller about passion and affairs in Morrazo.
.FIC2021CompetitiveEducation Centers
ANTOINE MORINEAU - 2021 / FRANCE
.FIC2021ChildrenminiFICParallel
EARTH3
ANTOINE MORINEAU - 2021 / FRANCE
This man has one goal: to prove that the earth is flat. He embarks today on his homemade rocket. Will his mission be a failure, forcing him on a trip further out into space? The secret lies in Earth³.
The film is freely inspired by "Mad" Mike Hughes who died on February 22, 2020 in the crash of his homemade rocket.
.FIC2021ChildrenminiFICParallel
NICOLAS KEPPENS - 2020 / BELGIUM
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
EASTER EGGS
NICOLAS KEPPENS - 2020 / BELGIUM
In a small town, word goes around that Mister Ping’s exotic birds are on the loose. Two bored teenagers go on a quest to find them. During their adventure, they find that escaping daily life isn’t quite the same as escaping each other. Easter Eggs is a short animated film about finding extraordinary things in ordinary places.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
XACIO BAÑO - 2015 / SPAIN
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveGalicia
ECO / ECHO
XACIO BAÑO - 2015 / SPAIN
Echo’s voice was stolen and she was sentenced to repeat what everyone else said. Trapped, she decides to take shelter in a cave and to distance herself from human touch.
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveGalicia
NINA GANTZ - 2015 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
EDMOND
NINA GANTZ - 2015 / UNITED KINGDOM
Edmond’s impulse to love and be close to others is strong… Maybe too strong. As he stands alone by a lake contemplating his options, he goes on a journey backwards through his life, and revisits all his defining moments in search of the origin of his desires.
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
GOVINDA VAN MAE - 2012 / FRANCE - CANADA
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
EDMOND ÉTAIT UN ÂNE / EDMOND WAS A DONKEY
GOVINDA VAN MAE - 2012 / FRANCE - CANADA
A small, quiet man, Edmond has a wife who loves him and a job that he does extraordinarily well. He is, however, very aware that he is different. When his co-workers tease him by crowning him with a pair of donkey ears, he suddenly discovers his true nature. And though he comes to enjoy his new identity, an ever-widening chasm opens up between himself and others.
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
IES MACÍAS O NAMORADO - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
EFECTO BOLBORETA / BUTTERFLY EFFECT
IES MACÍAS O NAMORADO - 2017 / SPAIN
Break the chain, the circle of little decisions that turn us into the necessary accomplices of bullying.
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
NADINE TRUONG - 2009 / USA
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
EGGBABY
NADINE TRUONG - 2009 / USA
Alison Chin, an Asiatic-American adolescent from a Catholic school, learn about life and love when she is entrusted to take care of an egg like it was her own baby.
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
OLIVE NWOSU - 2021 / NIGERIA
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
EGÚNGÚN / MASQUERADE
OLIVE NWOSU - 2021 / NIGERIA
In search of healing, a young woman returns home to Nigeria, the country of her birth.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
PAUL SCHEUFLER - 2021 / GERMANY
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
EIN OZEAN / AN OCEAN
PAUL SCHEUFLER - 2021 / GERMANY
The trembling starts in his neck when Markus is getting closer to the images that have chased him for 49 years. Now he steers his motor home south, as far away from his past as possible.
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
OLGA OSORIO - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2017CompetitiveGalicia
EINSTEIN-ROSEN
OLGA OSORIO - 2017 / SPAIN
Summer of 1982. Teo claims he has found a wormhole. His brother Óscar does not believe him. At least not for now.
.FIC2017CompetitiveGalicia
CLARA ROQUET - 2015 / SPAIN
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
EL ADIÓS
CLARA ROQUET - 2015 / SPAIN
A Bolivian maid attempts to honor her late mistress’s last wishes.
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MARIBEL SUÁREZ - 2016 / MEXICO
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
EL AGUJERO / THE HOLE
MARIBEL SUÁREZ - 2016 / MEXICO
A girl goes out to play in the garden and finds a really special hole, which she will take care of and play with, but she will have to understand that things don’t always go as we wanted them to.
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
TONI BESTARD - 2007 / SPAIN
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
EL ANÓNIMO CARONTE / THE ANONYMOUS CARONTE
TONI BESTARD - 2007 / SPAIN
It narrates the experience of Joan Ferrer, an 80-year-old man who was part of the cast of Luis García Berlanga's 'El verdugo', shot in Mallorca. A simple story about an actor who barely spent three minutes in one of the greatest films in Spanish cinema. It pays tribute to all the actors who had their minute of glory, but for various reasons were unable to continue their careers.
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
CHEMA GARCÍA - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
EL ATAQUE DE LOS ROBOTS DE NEBULOSA 5 / THE ATTACK OF THE ROBOTS FROM NEBULA 5
CHEMA GARCÍA - 2008 / SPAIN
A boy tries in vain to alert his family to the imminence of an attack by space robots that will wipe out life on Earth.
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MARIO CAMUS - 1962 / SPAIN
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
EL BORRACHO / THE DRUNK
MARIO CAMUS - 1962 / SPAIN
A couple takes an alcoholic into their suburban home. He is tormented by his republican past.
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
DANY CAMPOS - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
EL CANTO DEL GRILLO / THE CRICKET'S CHIRPING
DANY CAMPOS - 2008 / SPAIN
Joseba Perurena, a young terrorist, wants to start a new life with his girl; but getting out of the chains of the past is never an easy task to accomplish, especially when the steps were not previously measured.
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
GUILLERMO ÁLVAREZ - 2011 / SPAIN
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
EL COITO TE NUBLA / COITUS CLOUDS YOU
GUILLERMO ÁLVAREZ - 2011 / SPAIN
Giraldo and his friends go out for party to satiate their primitive insticts...
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
JOSÉ LUIS MONTESINOS - 2014 / SPAIN
.FIC2015.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficialParallel
EL CORREDOR / THE RUNNER
JOSÉ LUIS MONTESINOS - 2014 / SPAIN
Five years ago, the boss closed the company and laid off three hundred workers. The first day he goes for a run, he meets one of them.
.FIC2015.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficialParallel
SERGIO BARREJÓN - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2009AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
EL ENCARGADO / THE ONE IN CHARGE
SERGIO BARREJÓN - 2008 / SPAIN
Martin, nine years old boy, is in charge of the class during the absence of the teacher. Should aim at the blackboard the students that speak. Seems an easy task... until the class bully starts speaking.
.FIC2009AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
JOAN VIVES LOZANO - 2017 / ESPAÑA
.FIC2018CompetitiveSpain
EL ESCARABAJO AL FINAL DE LA CALLE / THE BEETLE AT THE END OF THE STREET
JOAN VIVES LOZANO - 2017 / ESPAÑA
Amadeo is a good person. Since his wife died, he takes care of his father-in-law, Agustín, who is disabled. Due to this, he doesn’t participate much in social life in the village. One he is told that he has only seven days to live. This fact will develop a series of events that will change his life completely.
.FIC2018CompetitiveSpain
GERMÁN TEJADA, DANIEL MARTÍN RODRÍGUEZ - 2015 / PERU
.FIC2016ComedyParallel
EL HUECO / THE HOLE
GERMÁN TEJADA, DANIEL MARTÍN RODRÍGUEZ - 2015 / PERU
Robert saves enough money to buy the burial site next to the grave of the woman he loves. However, when he claims it, he finds it has been sold to another man, whose burial is the following day. Robert’s jealousy will take him to extreme situations in his attempt to be next to his Yenni until the end of time.
.FIC2016ComedyParallel
MARCOS MIGLIAVACCA - 2015 / ARGENTINA
.FIC2016Parallel
EL INFIERNO DE BEATRIZ / BEATRIZ'S HELL
MARCOS MIGLIAVACCA - 2015 / ARGENTINA
Beatriz Inferno is a ghostly journey through the mind and feelings of a theater director (Beatriz Catani) during a play of complex staging. The risk and the inability of control, with the ephemeral nature of the theatrical, and the inevitability of death that interrupted love, are ideas of a Dante’s soundscape where the voice intimacy of Beatriz overfly in a melancholy itinerary.
.FIC2016Parallel
FERNANDO POMARES - 2020 / SPAIN
.FIC2021CompetitiveSpain
EL MÁRTIR / THE MARTIR
FERNANDO POMARES - 2020 / SPAIN
Two Syrian brothers illegally cross a border to enter into a westerner country. Their sister narrates this journey where present time, past or the oneiric all jumble together to become both a dream and nightmare of our current world.
.FIC2021CompetitiveSpain
GIOVANNI MACCELLI - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
EL MISTERIO DEL PEZ / THE MISTERY OF THE FISH
GIOVANNI MACCELLI - 2008 / SPAIN
Once upon a time there was an old man who went fishing every day and every day he caught the same fish.
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
RAFAEL ANTONACCIO - 2010 / URUGUAY
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
EL MONSTRUO / THE MONSTER
RAFAEL ANTONACCIO - 2010 / URUGUAY
Sebastián fall in love with his neighbour, but the hard inhibition thar he suffer prevent him from talking her normally. The infatuation become in obsession and it drags him on an unexpected way.
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
JOSÉ LUIS EGEA - 1964 / SPAIN
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
EL NIÑO DE VALLECAS / THE BOY FROM VALLECAS
JOSÉ LUIS EGEA - 1964 / SPAIN
The trainer of a neighbourhood kid makes him give up everything in order to succeed in professional boxing. El Niño de Vallecas gives up his job, girlfriend and social class in order to achieve success.
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
CÉSAR ESTEBAN ALENDA, JOSÉ ESTEBAN ALENDA - 2010 / SPAIN
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
EL ORDEN DE LAS COSAS / THE ORDER OF THINGS
CÉSAR ESTEBAN ALENDA, JOSÉ ESTEBAN ALENDA - 2010 / SPAIN
Julia´s life takes place in the bath tub. Drop by drop she will gather the courage to change the order of things.
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
SANDRA ROMERO - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficialSpain
EL PERRO DE UN TORERO / A BULLFIGHTER'S DOG
SANDRA ROMERO - 2022 / SPAIN
In the abandoned bullring of Ecija (a village in Andalusia, Spain) Jesus, an eleven-year-old boy, plays football. He and his friends spend the afternoon inventing new ways to pass the time. But that afternoon is going to be different: he is going to kill a man. Left behind by his mates, Jesús starts to abandon his childhood to enter an adult world that he is not yet ready to understand.
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficialSpain
PABLO HERNANDO - 2020 / SPAIN
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
EL RUIDO SOLAR / SOLAR NOISE
PABLO HERNANDO - 2020 / SPAIN
A collection of stories about people who had a fleeting vision of the future after an inexplicable cosmic event.
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
LOIS PATIÑO - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveGalicia
EL SEMBRADOR DE ESTRELLAS / THE SOWER OF STARS
LOIS PATIÑO - 2022 / SPAIN
Distant lights draw the city. Shining ships arrive with sleeping people and the night turns liquid.
The stars’ sower wakes them up and they travel through the city, talking about this and that, while saying goodbye to everything.
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveGalicia
ALEJANDRO CABRERA - 2023 / SPAIN
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
EL SOLDAO / EL SOLDAO
ALEJANDRO CABRERA - 2023 / SPAIN
A portrait of Francisco, an Andalusian emigrant, who returns to his hometown in Córdoba every year. This time, he finds the family home empty since his mother passed away. An intimate and personal story that explores rural depopulation while attempting to discover how places that now only exist within us shape who we are.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
VENTURA DURALL - 2010 / SPAIN
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
EL SOMRIURE AMAGAT / THE HIDDEN SMILE
VENTURA DURALL - 2010 / SPAIN
In the style of a realist fable, a reflection on the values that come about in a society made up of children. The path of initiation taken by a 10-year-old boy who arrives to the Ethiopian capital after running away from home, and his encounter with a group of street children.
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
DAVID GONZÁLEZ - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2009AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
EL TIEMPO PRESTADO / BORROWED TIME
DAVID GONZÁLEZ - 2008 / SPAIN
Marta is still on vacations...
.FIC2009AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
DIEGO CÉSPEDES - 2018 / CHILE
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
EL VERANO DEL LEÓN ELÉCTRICO / THE SUMMER OF THE ELECTRIC LION
DIEGO CÉSPEDES - 2018 / CHILE
Hidden in a house far from the city, Alonso accompanies his dear sister, Daniela. She expects to become the seventh wife of The Lion, a prophet who (according to stories) gives people electricity when they touch him.
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
JAVIER MARCO - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2017CompetitiveSpain
EL VESTIDO / THE DRESS
JAVIER MARCO - 2017 / SPAIN
Every day, on her way to work, Sara’s mother sees a dress in a store window.
.FIC2017CompetitiveSpain
DAVID GONZÁLEZ - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveSpain
EL VESTIT / THE DRESS
DAVID GONZÁLEZ - 2017 / SPAIN
The baby doesn’t take the bottle. The mother still doesn’t know what dress to wear. The father wakes up. He seems to be feeling better today.
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveSpain
JUANAN MARTÍNEZ - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
EL VIAJE AL PARAISO / JOURNEY TO PARADISE
JUANAN MARTÍNEZ - 2008 / SPAIN
Some journeys you have to make on your own.
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
MANUEL SUMMERS - 1960 / SPAIN
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
EL VIEJECITO / THE OLD MAN
MANUEL SUMMERS - 1960 / SPAIN
This is the story of an old man who didn't want to die.
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
JEAN-JULIEN COLLETTE - 2013 / FRANCE - BELGIUM
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
ELECTRIC INDIGO
JEAN-JULIEN COLLETTE - 2013 / FRANCE - BELGIUM
It is sometimes complicated for a little girl to face peer pressure and become aware of her own identity, especially when she never knew her mother and the only reference she has is the love of two heterosexual fathers united by the bonds of a “non-carnal” marriage.
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
PEDRO MONTT - 2008 / CHILE
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ELENA
PEDRO MONTT - 2008 / CHILE
Elena (55), evicted, is living her last days. Alone, she desperately seeks to ensure the future of her autistic daughter. They are rejected, they have no money and the disease is gradually increasing. The search is fruitless and time is running out.
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ÁLVARO GIMÉNEZ - 2014 / SPAIN
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
ELENA ASINS - GÈNESIS
ÁLVARO GIMÉNEZ - 2014 / SPAIN
Elena Asins has lived for over 20 years in Azpírotz, a small village in the northeast of Navarra. There she develops one of the most significant artistic careers in the Spanish contemporary art scene.
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
DAVID COWLES - 2015 / USA
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
ELEPHANTS
DAVID COWLES - 2015 / USA
They are not the biggest mammals on the planet but they’re close. Can you imagine living with them? Well, we’d better prepare because the elephants are appearing in the city and even in our homes!
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
GEOFFROY DE CRÉCY - 2020 / FRANCE
.FIC2020CompetitiveDiscoveries
EMPTY PLACES
GEOFFROY DE CRÉCY - 2020 / FRANCE
Completed before the global lockdown, Empty Places is an ode to the melancholy of machines.
.FIC2020CompetitiveDiscoveries
FELIX VIDAL - 2008 / ESPAÑA
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
EMPTY SPACES
FELIX VIDAL - 2008 / ESPAÑA
Martín, an introverted writer, has lost all his inspiration, and with it his muse and lover. Carolina, a deaf and brave girl, admires Martín. Carolina gives him a copy of the manuscript of her first work. Her novel will fill the "Empty Spaces" in Martín's life.
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
GOVINDA VAN MAE - 2012 / LUXEMBOURG
.FIC2013AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
EN DAG AM FRÄIEN / A DAY IN THE OPEN
GOVINDA VAN MAE - 2012 / LUXEMBOURG
Christophe and Caroline have fallen out of love. A day in the open is what he has in mind to win her back.
.FIC2013AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
JOSE LUIS BORAU - 1960 / SPAIN
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
EN EL RÍO / IN THE RIVER
JOSE LUIS BORAU - 1960 / SPAIN
A young man spies on the bathers in the river and falls in love with a tourist.
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
LUÍS FRANCISCO PÉREZ - 2011 / SPAIN
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
EN LA PRÓXIMA PARADA / AT THE NEXT STOP
LUÍS FRANCISCO PÉREZ - 2011 / SPAIN
Javi wants to have girlfriend, but he doesn't find the appropriate girl. One hay he founds a diary, and he notice that its owner Vcould be de women he is looking for.
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
NICK IGEA - 2009 / SPAIN
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
ENCUENTRO / ENCOUNTER
NICK IGEA - 2009 / SPAIN
A boy and a girl meet in the street, three years later from splitting their relationship.
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
ALICE SEABRIGHT - 2019 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2020ComedyParallel
END-O
ALICE SEABRIGHT - 2019 / UNITED KINGDOM
Jaq wants to have sex. But her Endometriosis is out to sabotage her: with chronic pain and unpredictable bleeding at the very worst time!
.FIC2020ComedyParallel
SAM SHAINBERG - 2022 / USA
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ENDLESS SEA
SAM SHAINBERG - 2022 / USA
Carol, 70, begins a normal day only to find out that her heart medication has doubled in price. Afraid, but not without hope, she sets out to find a solution. She goes to work, tries to borrow from family and friends, even attempts a desperate appeal to the Social Security Administration, only too in the end be forced into a desperate act of revolution.
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
DAVID DEL ÁGUILA - 2009 / SPAIN
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
ENEMIGOS / ENEMIES
DAVID DEL ÁGUILA - 2009 / SPAIN
Two soldiers in full battle with little chance of leaving alive discover the deception and make the decision to rebel against their superiors.
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
SÉLIM AZZAZI - 2016 / FRANCE
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ENNEMIS INTÉRIEURS / INTERNAL ENEMIES
SÉLIM AZZAZI - 2016 / FRANCE
In the 90’s, during the Algerian civil war, terrorism reaches France. Two men. Two identities. One fight.
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ANNE-SOPHIE GOUSSET, CLÉMENT CÉARD - 2022 / FRANCE
.FIC2023ChildrenminiFICParallel
ENTRE DEUX SŒURS / TO BE SISTERS
ANNE-SOPHIE GOUSSET, CLÉMENT CÉARD - 2022 / FRANCE
To be sisters is about sharing a special bond and laughing together. To be sisters is to be propelled by love. But these particular sisters share an extra something a bit different, and that’s absolutely fine.
.FIC2023ChildrenminiFICParallel
FRÉDÉRIC FARRUCCI - 2018 / FRANCE
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
ENTRE LES LIGNES / BETWEEN THE LINES
FRÉDÉRIC FARRUCCI - 2018 / FRANCE
France, end of the summer. Five young pick-pockets roam the city. One of them, Stefan, is trying to learn to read French.
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
MARIANA SAFFON - 2020 / COLOMBIA, MÉXICO
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
ENTRE TÚ Y MILAGROS / BETWEEN YOU AND MILAGROS
MARIANA SAFFON - 2020 / COLOMBIA, MÉXICO
At fifteen, Milagros' world still revolves around her mother's affection. This summer an unexpected encounter with death will make her question their relationship and her own existence.
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
FRANÇOIS VOGEL - 2018 / FRANCE
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
EREBETA
FRANÇOIS VOGEL - 2018 / FRANCE
Erebeta drives us on a vertical jump above the city. We rebound on the pavement, twirl around the building and pass through streets. This bouncing point of view on modern Japan is accompanied by traditional Kuroda Bushi music.
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
IES POLITÉCNICO DE VIGO - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2019CompetitiveEducation Centers
ERROR 404. GIRL NOT FOUND
IES POLITÉCNICO DE VIGO - 2019 / SPAIN
A girl sends her partner a video-recorded confession, which will trigger his reaction.
.FIC2019CompetitiveEducation Centers
JUMANA ISSA, FLAVIO LUCA MARANO - 2021 / SWITZERLAND
.FIC2022Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
ES MUSS / IT MUST
JUMANA ISSA, FLAVIO LUCA MARANO - 2021 / SWITZERLAND
During the course of the same humiliating day, Silvia is fired from her job even though she is just a couple of years away from retirement, the police fine her in the course of a traffic check, and the director of her church choir takes away the solo part from her. During the rehearsal of the Ave Maria, Silvia decides to just let go in an act of silent resistance.
.FIC2022Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
RAFAEL HAIDER - 2015 / AUSTRIA
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ESEL / DONKEY
RAFAEL HAIDER - 2015 / AUSTRIA
It is wintertime. The landscape is bare and grey. An old married couple lives in an isolated farm located next to the woods. Their boring life changes when…
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO: FACULTADE DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS E DA COMUNICACIÓN - 2018 / SPAIN
.FIC2018AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
ESTATUS / STATUS
UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO: FACULTADE DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS E DA COMUNICACIÓN - 2018 / SPAIN
In a dystopian future, people carry written on their foreheads their main feature, their status. This will divide society into two groups: those valid, good; and those not-valid, who will be persecuted by the system.
.FIC2018AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
IZABELA PLICINSKA - 2009 / POLAND
.FIC2011AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ESTERHAZY
IZABELA PLICINSKA - 2009 / POLAND
The hero is young bunny Esterhazy from the Esterhazy-Dynasty in Vienna who is sent to find a huge, healthy and beefy bunny woman nearby a mysterious Berlin Wall.
.FIC2011AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
WISSAM CHARAF - 2023 / FRANCE, LEBANON
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
ET SI LE SOLEIL PLONGEAIT DANS L’OCÉAN DE NUES / IF THE SUN DROWNED INTO AN OCEAN OF CLOUDS
WISSAM CHARAF - 2023 / FRANCE, LEBANON
Beirut, Lebanon. On the waterfront’s construction site, security agent Raed must prevent passing-by walkers from accessing the seaside. Yet as the horizon becomes each day more stifled by the construction, Raed makes peculiar encounters — mere dreams, or symbols of his desires?
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
RODRIGO BATISTA - 2018 / BRAZIL
.FIC2018JuniorsParallel
EU SOU O SUPER-HOMEM / I AM THE SUPERMAN
RODRIGO BATISTA - 2018 / BRAZIL
Lucas, 7, black, goes to a birthday party as Superman. Eric, 7, white, the birthday kid, had the same idea. Who’s the real “Man of Steel”?
.FIC2018JuniorsParallel
LEV LEWIS - 2020 / CANADA
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
EVERY DAY’S LIKE THIS
LEV LEWIS - 2020 / CANADA
A family grapples with the mundanity of life as they care for someone in the lead-up to an assisted death.
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
MORGANE DZIURLA-PETIT - 2018 / SWEDEN - FRANCE
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
EXCESS WILL SAVE US
MORGANE DZIURLA-PETIT - 2018 / SWEDEN - FRANCE
In a small village of the North of France, an attack alert has been set off due to the combination of two events: the beginning of the hunting season and an argument between drunk Polish workers.
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
IES MARÍA SOLIÑO - 2018 / SPAIN
.FIC2018CompetitiveEducation Centers
FAI O QUE PRECISES / DO WHAT YOU NEED
IES MARÍA SOLIÑO - 2018 / SPAIN
A couple say goodbye so one of them can have a chance to improve their life and that of their people. From a refugee camp they set out facing an uncertain destination chasing their hopes in Europe.
.FIC2018CompetitiveEducation Centers
ERICK KAMALA - 2023 / CANADA
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
FAIRE UN ENFANT / MAKING BABIES
ERICK KAMALA - 2023 / CANADA
After many years together, a couple decides to have a baby. Throughout their relentless efforts, the partners try to maintain their love and unity. Making Babies is a minimalist comedy drama that takes a bittersweet look at a couple’s life, with its doubts, its challenges and its resilience.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
MIKAI GERONIMO, JOSH O’CAOIMH - 2021 / IRELAND
.FIC2022AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
FALL OF THE IBIS KING
MIKAI GERONIMO, JOSH O’CAOIMH - 2021 / IRELAND
The antagonist of a dark opera becomes increasingly unsettled following the unlikely return of the former lead actor.
.FIC2022AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
CATHERINE COSME - 2018 / BELGIUM
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
FAMILLE / FAMILY
CATHERINE COSME - 2018 / BELGIUM
Lisa gives refuge to a Somalian family while they are waiting for a foreigners services notification. In Lisa’s house, two worlds are meeting. Among benevolence, silence, and communication problems, doubt and anxiety raise.
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
LEONARDO MARTINELLI - 2021 / BRAZIL
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
FANTASMA NEON / NEON PHANTOM
LEONARDO MARTINELLI - 2021 / BRAZIL
A delivery man dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical film.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
IAN DE LA ROSA - 2020 / SPAIN, USA
.FIC2021CompetitiveSpain
FARRUCAS
IAN DE LA ROSA - 2020 / SPAIN, USA
Four teenagers from El Puche, a suburb in Almería, who are proud of their Moroccan and Spanish roots, navigate their first experiences in out-of-the neighborhood schools, that evidence their underprivileged environment. However, this does not affect the intensity of their desires and dreams. On Fatima’s eighteenth birthday, the strength of their self-confidence will be put to the test.
.FIC2021CompetitiveSpain
JÉRÉMY COMTE - 2018 / CANADA
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
FAUVE / WILD BEAST
JÉRÉMY COMTE - 2018 / CANADA
Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer.
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
BENJAMIN TRAVADE - 2016 / FRANCE
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
FAUX-FUYANTS / EVASION
BENJAMIN TRAVADE - 2016 / FRANCE
A residential area, in the edge of the city. Straight forms. Empty windows. Disturbing peace. A man observes a young woman without her knowing.
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
MARTIN MONK - 2019 / AUSTRIA
.FIC2020Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
FAVORITEN / FAVOURITES
MARTIN MONK - 2019 / AUSTRIA
After falling out with her mother, juvenile Sofia hitchhikes southwards in search of the father she never had. When she meets grumpy engineer Michael, who reluctantly agrees to give her a lift, the two strangers develop an unlikely friendship on their shared journey through the Austrian south.
.FIC2020Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO: FACULTADE DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS E DA COMUNICACIÓN - 2020 / Final thesis
.FIC2020AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema SchoolsminiFIC
FERMATA
UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO: FACULTADE DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS E DA COMUNICACIÓN - 2020 / Final thesis
Martin’s hopes in maintaining his relationship with his college friends vanish. After a long summer in which they barely share any moment together, this group of friends come into the realisation that a new phase in their life is about to start -their last year of college, in other words, their last year together. Martin also realizes that Daniela, the girl he is in love with, is moving to Japan and she is not coming back any time soon.
.FIC2020AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema SchoolsminiFIC
SIMON VAHLE - 2016 / SWEDEN
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
FIGHT ON A SWEDISH BEACH!!
SIMON VAHLE - 2016 / SWEDEN
EPIC BEACH FIGHT! This is what happens when you yell “sieg heil” and call someone’s wife a whore. They had it coming.
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LOLA QUIVORON - 2015 / FRANCE
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
FILS DU LOUP
LOLA QUIVORON - 2015 / FRANCE
Between the walls of an ancient military fort, Johnny, a young boy, learns how to train and dominate Iron, his first guard dog.
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
TOMMASO FRANGINI - 2020 / ITALY
.FIC2021Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
FINIS TERRAE
TOMMASO FRANGINI - 2020 / ITALY
Travis and Peter, two childhood friends in their mid-twenties, decide to go on a camping trip to spend some time together. The desolate nature which surrounds them highlights their differences and the distance that separates them.
.FIC2021Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
JOHN N. SMITH - 1981 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
FIRST WINTER
JOHN N. SMITH - 1981 / CANADA
This historical drama features the first winter spent in Canada by a family of Irish immigrants deep in the Ottawa Valley. The year is 1830. Because the father is working in a logging camp, the mother has sole charge of the family. Sickness overtakes her, and she dies. The children are left on their own to survive.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
UZI GEFFENBLAD - 2017 / SWEDEN
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
FISKETUR / OUT FISHING
UZI GEFFENBLAD - 2017 / SWEDEN
A small cat goes out fi shing. Everything is full of junk and the cat starts imagining all that can be done with everything he fi nds while sailing. His day out will become an opportunity to make new friends.
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
JESSICA ASHMAN - 2010 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
FIXING LUKA
JESSICA ASHMAN - 2010 / UNITED KINGDOM
Lucy thinks her brother Luka is broken. Lucy thinks he should be fixed, but not in the way she imagines...
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
CYNTHIA SCOTT - 1983 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
FLAMENCO AT 5:15
CYNTHIA SCOTT - 1983 / CANADA
An impressionistic record of a flamenco dance class given to senior students of the National Ballet School of Canada by two great teachers from Spain, Susana and Antonio Robledo. The film shows the beautiful young North American dancers, inspired by the flamenco rhythms and mesmerized by Susana's extraordinary energy, joyously merging with an ancient gypsy culture.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
BAER XIAO - 2019 / FRANCE-CHINA
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
FLEUR DE PAVOT / NIGHT FACTORY
BAER XIAO - 2019 / FRANCE-CHINA
In a Chinese "factory-town", Luohan is informed that he has to move to Shanghai. He only has a few days to say goodbye to Tian Xi, the girl in his dance class that he doesn't dare to approach.
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
HUGUES HARICHE - 2012 / FRANCE
.FIC2013AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
FLOW
HUGUES HARICHE - 2012 / FRANCE
John, a young bodybuilder, gets ready day after day for a competition, the NPC Gerogia Bodybuilding Championships. His life is a rite, perfectly adjusted mechanics. Concentrated on his objective, he releases nothing, hoping to reach on stage this moment of unique happiness: the flow.
.FIC2013AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
PATRÍCIA FIGUEIREDO - 2014 / PORTUGAL
.FIC2017Parallel
FOI O FIO / ONCE UPON A THREAD
PATRÍCIA FIGUEIREDO - 2014 / PORTUGAL
A skein-shaped woman, an old woman who spends her days looking through the window and other who sells fallen clothes from the clotheslines are connected by a thread. The three women lead the actions of other characters, as well as the inevitable fate of a woman with her husband on the back.
.FIC2017Parallel
LUISO BERDEJO - 2006 / SPAIN
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
FOR(R)EST IN THE DES(S)ERT
LUISO BERDEJO - 2006 / SPAIN
Andy believed that when someone was abducted by aliens, a spaceship would come down from the sky and take them away, until his brother Forrest was abducted. And he just disappeared one day, he was gone, he just wasn't there anymore. Things are not always as they appear in the movies. Messages from aliens can come in a packet of Golden Grahams.
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
KRISTOFFER BORGLI - 2020 / UNITED ESTATES
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
FORMER CULT MEMBER HEARS MUSIC FOR THE FIRST TIME
KRISTOFFER BORGLI - 2020 / UNITED ESTATES
After a woman escapes the captivity of her abusive family, a magazine invites her to a journalistic experiment: hearing music for the first time.
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
ANDRÉS SALABERRI - 2009 / SPAIN - CZECH REPUBLIC
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
FOTO / PHOTO
ANDRÉS SALABERRI - 2009 / SPAIN - CZECH REPUBLIC
Prague is not for Robert, that wonderful city that attracts millions of tourists every year. It is quite the opposite. He is looking for something to save him from boredom and that is how he finds, Alice. In this way, helping her with a box marks the point of no return beyond which reason, fear and intrigue set a fight without the rest. Questions will arise in Robert's path, and also in the viewer's.
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
JACQUELINE LENTZOU - 2016 / GREECE
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
FOX
JACQUELINE LENTZOU - 2016 / GREECE
Athens, Greece. A heatwave. Stephanos is working out listening to rap, while his mother is planning a day out. After another fight between them, he is left alone to take care of his two younger siblings and Lucy, their family dog. Lucy is sick.
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MIKEL GURREA - 2015 / ICELAND - UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
FOXES
MIKEL GURREA - 2015 / ICELAND - UNITED KINGDOM
In London, a young estate agent has to juggle making a crucial sale with looking after his ten-year-old son. Malcolm and Aron struggle to understand each other, while an urban fox follows them around one rainy night.
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
ALESSANDRO SASHA CODAGLIO - 2016 / ITALY
.FIC2017JuniorsParallel
FRAGOLE / STRAWBERRIES
ALESSANDRO SASHA CODAGLIO - 2016 / ITALY
Half of 80’s. Giulio, six years old, is allergic to strawberries. One day his mum catches him eating in secrets strawberries. To avoid the punishment Giulio locks himself in the bathroom starting a trench war. In the bathroom Giulio discovered a new world, made of toothbrushes and galleons, makeup and colors and a sink that becomes the scene of a pirates battle. Some years later, Giulio has to recognize the same process of emancipation in his daughter.
.FIC2017JuniorsParallel
PALOMA CANONICA, CRISTINA VILCHES - 2015 / SPAIN
.FIC2016CompetitiveGalicia
FRES-BOI
PALOMA CANONICA, CRISTINA VILCHES - 2015 / SPAIN
A lab abandoned in the middle of the Artic, a lost eskimo and a discovery that will change his life forever...
.FIC2016CompetitiveGalicia
ANDREA SÁNCHEZ - 2024 / SPAIN, ANDORRA
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
FRIALDAD / COLDNESS
ANDREA SÁNCHEZ - 2024 / SPAIN, ANDORRA
Can a country that is also a huge vacation resort become the ideal setting for a horror story? When the avenues empty out and the commercial fervor subsides, something stirs in the depths of Andorra.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
FÁBIO SILVA - 2021 / PORTUGAL
.FIC2022Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
FRUTO DO VOSSO VENTRE / FRUIT OF THY WOMB
FÁBIO SILVA - 2021 / PORTUGAL
A son discovers the old 8mm tapes of his father. And for the first time sees footage previous to his birth, childhood and adolescence. While watching it the son returns to the house where he once grew, he starts an investigation about his parents, in order to understand the trauma that he lived his whole life.
.FIC2022Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
LAURA MOSS - 2017 / USA
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
FRY DAY
LAURA MOSS - 2017 / USA
A celebration on the night before serial killer Ted Bundy’s execution, as seen through the eyes of Lauryn, a young photographer who happens to look like one of his victims.
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
ARNE NOSTITZ-RIENECK - 2013 / AUSTRIA
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
FÜR TOT ERKLÄRT / DECLARED DEAD
ARNE NOSTITZ-RIENECK - 2013 / AUSTRIA
Manfred, an 82 year old man, wants to kill himself, but his alleged death comes in between.
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
JULIA SIUDA - 2021 / POLAND
.FIC2022CompetitiveDiscoveries
FURY
JULIA SIUDA - 2021 / POLAND
The film deals with the problem of growing anger, frustration and aggression that seeks an outlet. The heroine of the film is a person who loses control of her anger. Losing herself in emotions, she cannot stand the tension.
.FIC2022CompetitiveDiscoveries
ESCOLA DE IMAXE E SON DE VIGO - EISV. CE MARCOTE - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2022Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
GALLERIA. NEVER HUG THE FENCE
ESCOLA DE IMAXE E SON DE VIGO - EISV. CE MARCOTE - 2022 / SPAIN
Fashion film about the independent clothing brand founded in Vigo in early 2018. It features hand-drawn designs somewhere between streetwear and anti-fashion.
.FIC2022Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
ABDENOUR ZAHZAH - 2010 / ALGERIA
.FIC2011AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
GARAGOUZ
ABDENOUR ZAHZAH - 2010 / ALGERIA
Mokhtar earns his living as a puppeteer, aided by his son who is learning the job. Using his old van, he goes to schools scattered all over the Algerian countryside, encountering prejudice and obstacles on the way.
.FIC2011AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ADRIEN MERIGEAU - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveDiscoveries
GENIUS LOCI
ADRIEN MERIGEAU - 2019 / FRANCE
One night, a young loner, Reine, sees within the urban chaos a mystical oneness that seems alive, like some sort of guide.
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveDiscoveries
KEVORK ASLANYAN - 2015 / BULGARIA - GERMANY
.FIC2016ComedyParallel
GETTING FAT IN A HEALTHY WAY
KEVORK ASLANYAN - 2015 / BULGARIA - GERMANY
In a world where gravity is weak and skinny people fly into the sky, Constantine has never left the apartment he shares with his father Atanas. But one day the beautiful stewardess who moves into the building will change Constantine’s life forever.
.FIC2016ComedyParallel
(LA) HORDE – BRUTTI / DEBROUWER / HAREL - 2022 / FRANCE
.FIC2022CompetitiveDiscoveries
GHOSTS
(LA) HORDE – BRUTTI / DEBROUWER / HAREL - 2022 / FRANCE
Ghosts is a new short film by (LA)HORDE with the Ballet national de Marseille soundtracked by Rone and scripted Spike Jonze, filmed in the Palais Longchamp in Marseille. When the Fine Arts Museum closes, figures take over the deserted place, embrace and tear each other, as if to recover their body, until their encounter with the night guard.
.FIC2022CompetitiveDiscoveries
TOMMI SEITAJOKI - 2017 / FINLAND
.FIC2017Parallel
GLASPÄRLAN / THE GLASS PEARL
TOMMI SEITAJOKI - 2017 / FINLAND
A 12-year-old boy plunders garbage cans in a suburb. He’s searching for something that that might reward him.
.FIC2017Parallel
IES AUDIOVISUAL DE VIGO - 2020/ SPAIN
.FIC2021Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
GOLDEN BOY
IES AUDIOVISUAL DE VIGO - 2020/ SPAIN
Berto is a boy from Vigo who trains four different contact sports disciplines. He is aiming for his first Kick Boxing professional Spain’s title. This documentary follows his early days, his career and the fight for the title.
.FIC2021Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
MOLLY MANNING WALKER - 2020 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
GOOD THANKS, YOU?
MOLLY MANNING WALKER - 2020 / UNITED KINGDOM
In the aftermath of an attack, Amy is left voiceless, trapped in a whirlwind of incompetence. She must find a way to confront what has happened, in order to save what matters to her most.
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
CEIP PLURILINGÜE SAN CLEMENTE DE CESAR - 2023 / 3º EDUCACIÓN PRIMARIA
.FIC2023CompetitiveEducation Centers
GOZA CO TEU SAMAÍN / ENJOY YOUR SAMAÍN
CEIP PLURILINGÜE SAN CLEMENTE DE CESAR - 2023 / 3º EDUCACIÓN PRIMARIA
An American appears in the castro of Castroladín to encourage its inhabitants to celebrate Halloween. The castreños decide to explain to him the authentic origin of the festivity, showing him their castreño roots and encouraging the Galicians to enjoy the samaín.
.FIC2023CompetitiveEducation Centers
HASSAN NEAMAH - 2013 / EGYPT
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
GRAY
HASSAN NEAMAH - 2013 / EGYPT
She rushed to the Café seeking shelter. From the rain, her eyes examine people in the vicinity, then she turned towards him, he was a man in his mid-forties.
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
DIJANA MLADENOVIC - 2016 / CROATIA
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
GRIMIZNO / SCARLET
DIJANA MLADENOVIC - 2016 / CROATIA
After a completed military action, the atmosphere of triumphant relaxation and camaraderie will be suddenly and irreversibly disturbed by a revelation of a hidden crime.
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
QUEK SHIO CHUAN - 2011 / MALAYSIA
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
GUANG
QUEK SHIO CHUAN - 2011 / MALAYSIA
Guang is a story about two brothers. The elder brother, Wen Guang is Autistic. Wen Guang is often misunderstood. Above all, he suffers from attention deficiency disorder, struggles with social interaction, and has difficulty performing day to day obligations. He also has a secret passion. To make ends meet, Wen Guang is coerced by his younger brother into looking for a job to share his burden on meeting their monthly expenses.
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
NARA NORMANDE - 2018 / BRAZIL - FRANCE
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
GUAXUMA
NARA NORMANDE - 2018 / BRAZIL - FRANCE
Tayra and I grew up on a beach in the north east of Brazil. We were inseparable. The sea breeze brings me happy memories back.
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
ANXOS FAZÁNS - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
HABITAR / HABITAR
ANXOS FAZÁNS - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
What is home? Can a body become a shelter? This film tries to answer these questions about the construction of our identities through the intimate portraits of transgender and non-binary people from Galicia.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
ARNAS BALČIŪNAS - 2023 / LITHUANIA
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
HABLO DĖSNIS / HUBBLE’S LAW
ARNAS BALČIŪNAS - 2023 / LITHUANIA
A mute guy struggles to fit in at a construction site. Tensions rise among the workers when a colleague gets badly injured.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
STORY CHEN - 2022 / CHINA
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
HAI BIAN SHENG QI YI ZUO XUAN YA / THE WATER MURMURS
STORY CHEN - 2022 / CHINA
When an asteroid hits the Earth, underwater volcanic eruptions risk submerging a riverside town and the inhabitants start to flee inland. The day before leaving, Nian says goodbye to a childhood friend but on her way she crosses paths with some of the town’s residents. Gradually, her memories of the town start to become clearer and clearer in her mind.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
AURÉLIE MONTEIX - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2021KindergartenminiFICParallel
HANNIBAL, L’ÉLÉPHANT / HANNIBAL, THE ELEFANT
AURÉLIE MONTEIX - 2019 / FRANCE
A little war elephant decides to leave his command to see the world. On the way, lost in the mountains, he discovers the diversity and beauty of nature.
.FIC2021KindergartenminiFICParallel
KATARZYNA KLIMKIEWICZ - 2009 / POLAND
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
HANOI-WARSZAWA / HANOI-WARSAW
KATARZYNA KLIMKIEWICZ - 2009 / POLAND
It’s a story of one day of a young Vietnamese girl, Mai Anh, who illegally enters Poland through the green border with Ukraine. She has to reach Warsaw, where she will join her boyfriend and start the life she has dreamed of. But the journey is full of humiliation and violence.
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
JONAS MEKAS - 1966 / UNITED STATES
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
HARE KRISHNA / HARE KRISHNA
JONAS MEKAS - 1966 / UNITED STATES
A 'documentary' - one Sunday afternoon in New York - beautiful new generation - dancing in the streets of New York - singing 'Hare Hare' - filling the streets and the air with love...
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
JÚLIA DE PAZ SOLVAS - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveSpain
HARTA / FED-UP
JÚLIA DE PAZ SOLVAS - 2022 / SPAIN
Carmela, a 12-year-old girl, on her birthday, is forced to meet her father in a family meeting centre, due to the sentence of gender violence that he has against her mother.
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveSpain
PHAM THIEN AN - 2019 / VIETNAM
.FIC2020CompetitiveDiscoveries
HÃY TỈNH THỨC & SẴN SÀNG / MANTENÉOS DESPIERTOS, ESTAR PREPARADOS
PHAM THIEN AN - 2019 / VIETNAM
A motorbike crash happening before the street stalls on a street corner has something to do with the mysterious story of three young men.
.FIC2020CompetitiveDiscoveries
FOKION XENOS - 2019 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
HEATWAVE
FOKION XENOS - 2019 / UNITED KINGDOM
In the summertime a quirky crowd occupies a Greek Island beach. As the sun gets increasingly hotter people get lost in their petty personal problems. Despite that, a little girl and boy dare to show everyone how to have fun!
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
ANNA SZÖLLŐSI - 2020 / HUNGARY
.FIC2021Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
HELFER / HELP
ANNA SZÖLLŐSI - 2020 / HUNGARY
A young woman is struggling with anxiety and recurring nightmares, that she wants to end. She seeks out a helper, who offers an alternative solution, but in the process she must confront her greatest fears. The film details their relationship in a surreal world through symbolic events.
.FIC2021Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
MIKEL GURREA - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2022CompetitiveSpain
HELTZEAR
MIKEL GURREA - 2022 / SPAIN
San Sebastian, the year 2000, the Basque conflict continues. While writing a letter to her absent brother, Sara, a 15-year-old climber, is training for the most difficult climb of her life.
.FIC2022CompetitiveSpain
CEIP DO CARBALLAL - 2021 / SPAIN
.FIC2021CompetitiveEducation Centers
HEROES ENMASCARADOS / MASKED HEROES
CEIP DO CARBALLAL - 2021 / SPAIN
During the works in the school, some thieves get into the Carballal… will the Masked Heroes be able to confront them?
.FIC2021CompetitiveEducation Centers
BAHRAM & BAHMAN ARK - 2017 / IRAN
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
HEYVAN / ANIMAL
BAHRAM & BAHMAN ARK - 2017 / IRAN
A man who wants to pass the border, disguises himself as a ram.
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
SAARA HAKKARAINEN - 2020 / FINLAND
.FIC2021AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
HILJAISUUS / SILENCE
SAARA HAKKARAINEN - 2020 / FINLAND
How does it feel like when you come to understand that you are a pedophile? This theme touches upon many, yet it remains unspoken.
.FIC2021AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
AMANDINE MEYER - 2021 / FRANCE
.FIC2022FamilyminiFICParallel
A STORY FOR 2 TRUMPETS / A STORY FOR 2 TRUMPETS
AMANDINE MEYER - 2021 / FRANCE
Histoire pour 2 trompettes is an initiatory and intimate story in which the author tells, in the form of a tale, the key stages of her construction as a woman and artist.
.FIC2022FamilyminiFICParallel
STINA WIRSÉN - 2022 / SWEDEN
.FIC2024JuniorsminiFICParallel
HISTORIEN OM BODRI / THE STORY OF BODRI
STINA WIRSÉN - 2022 / SWEDEN
My name is Hédi, I'll tell you about my childhood. About how I was a happy child in a happy city in Germany. What happened next is hard to tell and hard to listen to. I still want to tell you and I want you to listen. For we humans can do so much evil but also very good. We all have a choice; we can choose the good.
An animated short for younger children about the Holocaust.
.FIC2024JuniorsminiFICParallel
SEM ASSINK - 2022 / NETHERLANDS
.FIC2024FamilyminiFICParallel
HOEBA! / HOOBA!
SEM ASSINK - 2022 / NETHERLANDS
We are in a world quite far from today, 3000 years BC. A group of inhabitants of an arid zone try to figure out how to fightfight against nature’s elements. Or against hunger. Or against your own foolishness.
.FIC2024FamilyminiFICParallel
RUSLAN MAGOMADOV - 2012 / RUSSIA
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
HOME
RUSLAN MAGOMADOV - 2012 / RUSSIA
This is a story about a man, who has been left behind in the destroyed city at war.
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
JUAN DE DIOS MARFIL - 2009 / SPAIN
.FIC2009AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
HOMELAND
JUAN DE DIOS MARFIL - 2009 / SPAIN
If there is a will, there is way.
.FIC2009AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ALBERTO VÁZQUEZ - 2020 / SPAIN
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveGalicia
HOMELESS HOME
ALBERTO VÁZQUEZ - 2020 / SPAIN
No one can escape their roots, however rotten they may be.
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveGalicia
DAVID FIDALGO - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2019CompetitiveGalicia
HOMOMAQUIA
DAVID FIDALGO - 2019 / SPAIN
Homomaquia presents us a world where humans beings are treated as they treat animals, establishing a strong metaphor for bullfighting. Placing them in the role of the bull, HOMOMAQUIA represents the bull’s life with its violence, harshness, lack of freedom even at the time of mating, using his sexuality only with speculative interest purposes. It is a social denouncement of animal abuse and a cry for freedom.
.FIC2019CompetitiveGalicia
MIGUEL A. CARMONA - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
HORÓSCOPO / HOROSCOPE
MIGUEL A. CARMONA - 2008 / SPAIN
Why do we become idiots when we fall in love? Does it have something to do with our zodiac sign?
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
PETER FOLDÈS - 1973 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
HUNGER
PETER FOLDÈS - 1973 / CANADA
In this animated short, director Peter Foldès depicts one man’s descent into greed and gluttony. Rapidly dissolving and ever-evolving images create a contrast between abundance and want. One of the first films to use computer animation, this satire serves as a cautionary tale against self-indulgence in a world still plagued by hunger and poverty.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
CHRIS FILIPPONE, JAMIE MELTZER - 2020 / UNITED STATES
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
HUNTSVILLE STATION
CHRIS FILIPPONE, JAMIE MELTZER - 2020 / UNITED STATES
Every weekday, inmates are released from Huntsville State Penitentiary in Texas, taking in their first moments of freedom with phone calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block.
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
FLORIAN BRAUCH, MATTHIEU PUJOL, KIM TAILHADES, YOHAN THIREAU, ROMAIN THIRION - 2017 / FRANCE
.FIC2018JuniorsParallel
HYBRIDS
FLORIAN BRAUCH, MATTHIEU PUJOL, KIM TAILHADES, YOHAN THIREAU, ROMAIN THIRION - 2017 / FRANCE
When marine wildlife has to adapt to the pollution surrounding it, the rules of survival change...
.FIC2018JuniorsParallel
ROSS MCCLEAN - 2019 / UNITED KINGDOM - NORTHERN IRELAND
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
HYDEBANK
ROSS MCCLEAN - 2019 / UNITED KINGDOM - NORTHERN IRELAND
Located on the Northern Irish countryside, Hydebank Wood prison has currently 104 young male offenders inside its walls. Ryan, currently serving a 5-year sentence, has formed an unlikely bond with the prisons flock of sheep. Through their interactions, Ryan attempts to come to terms with the brutal act that led him here.
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
ROBERT SEIDEL - 2021 / GERMANY
.FIC2022CompetitiveDiscoveries
HYSTERESIS
ROBERT SEIDEL - 2021 / GERMANY
Muybridgean silhouettes, baroque textures and bursting painterly structures fluctuate between the second and third dimensions, unfolding free-floating gestures that unhinge the laws of nature. Using machine-learning to mediate these transformative re-presentations, the film intentionally corrupts strategies of the AI, unveiling a frenetic, delicate, flamboyant visual language of the hysteria and hysteresis where history collapses into a single point in the present.
.FIC2022CompetitiveDiscoveries
KATE NOVACK - 2020 / UNITED STATES
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
HYSTERICAL GIRL
KATE NOVACK - 2020 / UNITED STATES
Sigmund Freud’s sole case study of a female patient is re-examined from a modern feminist perspective.
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
SAMEH ALAA - 2020 / EGYPT, FRANCE, QATAR, BELGIUM
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
I AM AFRAID TO FORGET YOUR FACE
SAMEH ALAA - 2020 / EGYPT, FRANCE, QATAR, BELGIUM
After being separated for 82 days, Adam travels down a rough road to be reunited with the one he loves, whatever it takes.
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
LARS VEGA, ISABELLE BJÖRKLUND - 2019 / SWEDEN
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
I VÄNTAN PÅ DÖDEN / AWAITING DEATH
LARS VEGA, ISABELLE BJÖRKLUND - 2019 / SWEDEN
A son arrives at the hospital to watch his father's death bed. When the son wants a last nice moment with him, he would rather find out what to do with the two unopened cans of mustard.
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
MARTIN ROSETE - 2010 / SPAIN - USA
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
I WISH
MARTIN ROSETE - 2010 / SPAIN - USA
Moses, a person who lives in San Francisco, was surprised people throw their coins into a fountain made in memory of Martin Luther King. In that moment starts a dispute for the wishes of the people who walk there.
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
MARITA MAYER - 2022 / NORWAY - GERMANY
.FIC2022FamilyJuniorsminiFICParallel
I´M NOT AFRAID!
MARITA MAYER - 2022 / NORWAY - GERMANY
During a game of hide and seek Vanja leaves the bright living room and enters a dimly lit courtyard, which has far too many dark corners, weird shadows and strange noises. To overcome the fear, Vanja turns into a dangerous tiger!
.FIC2022FamilyJuniorsminiFICParallel
BEVERLY SHAFFER - 1977 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
I'LL FIND A WAY
BEVERLY SHAFFER - 1977 / CANADA
This documentary presents Nadia, a 9-year-old girl with spina bifida. Her dream is to attend a regular school, even though she knows other kids will tease her. Wise for her young age, Nadia simply decides that she'll find a way to deal with it. Despite having to overcome many obstacles, Nadia's got spunk and makes it clear she's not looking for sympathy. This film is part of the Children of Canada series.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
MAITE ALBERDI, GIEDRE ZICKYTE - 2016 / CHILE - LITHUANIA - DENMARK
.FIC2017Parallel
I’M NOT FROM HERE
MAITE ALBERDI, GIEDRE ZICKYTE - 2016 / CHILE - LITHUANIA - DENMARK
Josebe, a Basque 80-year-old woman, lives in a residence for the elderly in Santiago, Chile. Every day she thinks it’s her first day there, and every day she has to realise it’s not. She must also remember that she is neither in her country nor with her family anymore.
.FIC2017Parallel
JOÃO GONZALEZ - 2022 / PORTUGAL, FRANCE, USA
.FIC2023CompetitiveJuniorsminiFICOfficial
ICE MERCHANTS
JOÃO GONZALEZ - 2022 / PORTUGAL, FRANCE, USA
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.
.FIC2023CompetitiveJuniorsminiFICOfficial
BASTIAN WILPLINGER - 2019 / AUSTRIA
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
ICH ARMER MENSCH / I, WRETCHED MAN
BASTIAN WILPLINGER - 2019 / AUSTRIA
A man caught in a vicious circle of self-accusation and self-pity tries to find relief by surrendering to a higher entity.
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
FRAN ESTÉVEZ - 2013 / SPAIN
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
IDIOTAS / FOOLS
FRAN ESTÉVEZ - 2013 / SPAIN
A red balloon descends from the sky and lands in the magic city of Santiago de Compostela (famous for the Jacobeo pilgrimage). A smiling boy and his dog find the balloon and discover a message hanging from it: "deflate me little by little".
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
ALEXANDRU RANTA - 2017 / ROMANIA
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
IDIOTUL / THE IDIOT
ALEXANDRU RANTA - 2017 / ROMANIA
Looking to buy a Christmas Tree, Marius offers to buy a tree for a girl, then drives her and her mother home where we meet Costi, who doesn’t like Marius’ generosity.
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
PHOEBE ARNSTEIN - 2023 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
IF YOU ARE HAPPY / IF YOU ARE HAPPY
PHOEBE ARNSTEIN - 2023 / UNITED KINGDOM
A woman struggles with the pressures of motherhood and uses a childish game at a local baby group to vent her fury, sparking an unexpected chain reaction.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
ANDRIAS HØGENNI - 2018 / DENMARK - FAROE ISLANDS
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
IKKI ILLA MEINT / NO BAD INTENTIONS
ANDRIAS HØGENNI - 2018 / DENMARK - FAROE ISLANDS
Elinborg accidentally runs into her friend Marita at the grocery store. The conversation is civil yet slightly awkward, as Elinborg has forgotten Marita’s birthday.
However, something else is nagging Marita, who decides to corner her friend and ask if Elinborg has blocked her on Facebook.
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
FRANCESCO SOSSAI - 2023 / FRANCE, GERMANY
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
IL COMPLEANNO DI ENRICO / THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
FRANCESCO SOSSAI - 2023 / FRANCE, GERMANY
December 1999. I remember that, amidst the Millennium Bug anxiety, I went to the birthday of Enrico, a kid who lived with his family in an old and isolated farmhouse.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
VINCENT PARONNAUD - 2010 / FRANCE
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS L´HUILE / ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS OIL
VINCENT PARONNAUD - 2010 / FRANCE
In a garage, two children search through the shelves and knock over inadvertently an oil can. A drop falls to the ground and turns into Goutix, the official mascot of Meroll Oils, for frying and engines. A marvelous journey in the factory begins…
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
ANDREA BRUSA, MARCO SCOTUZZI - 2020 / ITALY
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
IL MURO BIANCO / THE WHITE WALL
ANDREA BRUSA, MARCO SCOTUZZI - 2020 / ITALY
A teacher and the high school’s principal conspire to protect their students from an invisible predator lurking inside their school. Based on a true story.
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
ALI ASGARI, FARNOOSH SAMADI - 2016 / ITALY - FRANCE
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
IL SILENZIO / THE SILENCE
ALI ASGARI, FARNOOSH SAMADI - 2016 / ITALY - FRANCE
Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees in Italy. On their visit to the doctor, Fatma has to translate what the doctor tells to her mother but she keeps silent.
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
MARIO FERNÁNDEZ FILLOY - 2023 / COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL, UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
.FIC2023Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
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.
.FIC2023Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
JONAS MEKAS - 1995 / UNITED STATES
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
IMPERFECT THREE-IMAGE FILMS / IMPERFECT THREE-IMAGE FILMS
JONAS MEKAS - 1995 / UNITED STATES
A series 'imperfect' three image films from my new film diaries. – Jonas Mekas
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
ILJA KISLITSYN - 2024 / GERMANY
.FIC2024Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
IN BETWEEN / IN BETWEEN
ILJA KISLITSYN - 2024 / GERMANY
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been ongoing for over a year. The 21-year-old Ira, along with her mother, finds herself in a foreign Germany, cut off from her home, family, and friends, seeking solace. After many doubts, she resolves to breathe new life into her neglected passion for swimming. That leads to an encounter with an old friend with whom she openly discusses her struggles and thoughts for the first time.
.FIC2024Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
ELIANE ESTHER BOTS - 2021 / NETHERLANDS
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
IN FLOW OF WORDS
ELIANE ESTHER BOTS - 2021 / NETHERLANDS
In Flow of Words follows the narratives of three interpreters of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. They interpreted shocking testimonies from witnesses, victims and perpetrators, without ever allowing their own emotions, feelings and personal histories to be present. Contrary to their position at the tribunal, this film places their voices and experiences center stage.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
ANDREW NORMAN WILSON - 2020 / UNITED STATES
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
IN THE AIR TONIGHT
ANDREW NORMAN WILSON - 2020 / UNITED STATES
There’s an urban legend about Phil Collins’ inspiration for his 1980 hit In the Air Tonight. According to the ritual of the legend, the song is played while a narrator tells the story, syncing the infamous analog drum break of the song with the climax of the narrative.
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
FLORIAN GROLIG - 2015 / GERMANY
.FIC2016Parallel
IN THE DISTANCE
FLORIAN GROLIG - 2015 / GERMANY
It’s calm and peaceful above the clouds. But chaos lurks in the distance and each night, it draws closer.
.FIC2016Parallel
JULIA ELIHU - 2023 / UNITED STATES
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
IN THE GARDEN OF TULIPS / IN THE GARDEN OF TULIPS
JULIA ELIHU - 2023 / UNITED STATES
At the height of the Iran-Iraq war, Caroline takes a final car ride with her father to the Iranian countryside.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
ROMAN KROITOR, COLIN LOW E HIGH O’CONNOR - 1979 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
IN THE LABYRINTH
ROMAN KROITOR, COLIN LOW E HIGH O’CONNOR - 1979 / CANADA
A film without commentary in which multiple images, sometimes complementary, sometimes contrasting, draw the viewer through the different stages of a labyrinth. The tone of the film moves from great joy to wrenching sorrow; from stark simplicity to ceremonial pomp. It is life as it is lived by the people of the world, each one, as the film suggests, in a personal labyrinth.
In the Labyrinth was first released as a multi-screen presentation for Chamber III of the Labyrinth at Expo 67. These separate images were integrated into a single strand of film, using a "five-on-one" cinematic technique.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
ALEXANDER GRATZER - 2022 / AUSTRIA
.FIC2023FamilyminiFICParallel
IN THE UPPER ROOM
ALEXANDER GRATZER - 2022 / AUSTRIA
Every season a young mole visits his blind grandfather, who lives deep underground in a comfortably decorated burrow. As the two grow older their relationship becomes more intense and important questions arise.
.FIC2023FamilyminiFICParallel
JORIS IVENS - 1946 / AUSTRIA
.FIC2023ParallelRetrospective
INDONESIA CALLING
JORIS IVENS - 1946 / AUSTRIA
Commissioned by the Dutch to film Indonesia's liberation from Japan, but realizing the colonists would not let Indonesians govern themselves, Ivens went rogue, filming part in secret, to make a document demanding freedom for the people. A pamphlet-style film on the dock strikes that broke out in Australia in solidarity with the Indonesian Republic, following the Dutch decision to send troops and weapons to Indonesia in 1945.
.FIC2023ParallelRetrospective
ELIN ÖVERGAARD - 2019 / SWEDEN
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
INGEN LYSSNAR / WHO TALKS
ELIN ÖVERGAARD - 2019 / SWEDEN
The new refugee home for children is being discussed at a public council meeting. Two people standing on the opposite sides try to be heard. Who Talks raises questions about which opinions actually matter and which ones only create polarization.
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
VICTOR KIRSCH, ELLIOT THOMASSON, ARTHUR ALLENDER, MATHIEU ANTOINE, LÉNA BELMONTE, CYRIELLE GUILLERMIN - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
INSTINCT
VICTOR KIRSCH, ELLIOT THOMASSON, ARTHUR ALLENDER, MATHIEU ANTOINE, LÉNA BELMONTE, CYRIELLE GUILLERMIN - 2019 / FRANCE
In a dense and icy forest, Piotr, a young hunter, finds himself violently paralyzed by a bear trap. While he is slowly freezing to death, the prey he was hunting approaches...
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
COSME CASTRO, JEANNE FRENKEL - 2023 / FRANCE
.FIC2024CompetitiveDiscoveries
INTELLIGENCE / INTELLIGENCE
COSME CASTRO, JEANNE FRENKEL - 2023 / FRANCE
Pascal Rivière works for the newspaper Mistral. One day, he discovers his death notice in the classified ads section. It's in writing, it's official that Pascal will die at 45.
.FIC2024CompetitiveDiscoveries
ANDREI EPURE - 2021 / ROMANIA
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
INTERFON 15 / INTERCOM 15
ANDREI EPURE - 2021 / ROMANIA
Several residents discover an unconscious woman lying in front of the block. Even though she lives on the third floor, nobody knows her name. While waiting for rescue, the neighbours reflect on her life and their own.
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
VINCENT RENÉ-LORTIE - 2022 / CANADA
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
INVINCIBLE
VINCENT RENÉ-LORTIE - 2022 / CANADA
Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a esperate quest for freedom.
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
FABIO PALMIERI - 2015 / ITALY
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
IRREGULARS
FABIO PALMIERI - 2015 / ITALY
Against a tellingly hypnotic factory backdrop, a refugee encapsulates the global migrant crisis in his own wrenching words.
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MENGQIAN CHEN - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2019JuniorsParallel
ISLAND
MENGQIAN CHEN - 2019 / FRANCE
A desperately lonely Cyclops lives on a deserted island. Time passes, the seasons too. One summer night, he discovers a bird hatching from an egg. Very quickly, a fusional relationship unites them until summer came back…
.FIC2019JuniorsParallel
CLAUDIUS GENTINETTA, FRANK BRAUN - 2015 / SWITZERLAND
.FIC2016Parallel
ISLANDER’S REST
CLAUDIUS GENTINETTA, FRANK BRAUN - 2015 / SWITZERLAND
A bitter-sweet, affectionate tale of innocence lost, bottled-up desires and the comfort of recycling
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ANNA HINTS - 2017 / ESTONIA
.FIC2017Parallel
JÄÄ / ICE
ANNA HINTS - 2017 / ESTONIA
Harri is a lieutenant colonel in the Estonian army. He’s divorced and only sees his 10-year-old son during school holidays. In order to make up for lost time, Harri decides to go on an adventurous father-son winter trip to an island. After missing the last ferry, Harri chooses to take a local ice road over the frozen sea. On the vast and snowy desert, past memories collide with the present.
.FIC2017Parallel
RENE PANNEVIS - 2015 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
JACKED
RENE PANNEVIS - 2015 / UNITED KINGDOM
Russell and Waylen jack a car, the wrong car, will they do the right thing?
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
CLAIRE OAKLEY - 2014 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
JAMES
CLAIRE OAKLEY - 2014 / UNITED KINGDOM
Gloucestershire, England, 1796. A poor labourer is offered a job but he must first let his son be used in a medical experiment.
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
MAURICE PIALAT - 1962 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
JANINE
MAURICE PIALAT - 1962 / FRANCE
Two men united by a brief friendship walk through the city at night reflecting on women. One, the most disenchanted, has experience, while the other wants to get married, have children...
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
ZENO GRATON - 2015 / BELGIUM
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
JAY PARMI LES HOMMES / JAY AMONG MEN
ZENO GRATON - 2015 / BELGIUM
To please his father, and win the love he lacks, Jay, 14, has to become a man and find a girlfriend. Forcing his entry into the violent territory of men, Jay will try to forget that he’s still a child.
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
ALEXANDRE DOSTIE - 2019 / CANADA
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
JE FINIRAI EN PRISON / I’LL END UP IN PRISON
ALEXANDRE DOSTIE - 2019 / CANADA
Maureen Sauvageau's escape comes to an abrupt end when she drives her monster truck into a deadly car accident. Stuck in the middle of nowhere, she must share the company and the blame of a rather touching junkie dubbed Jelly the Loon.
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
ANNE-MARIE BALAŸ - 2016 / FRANCE
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
JE MANGERAIS BIEN UN ENFANT / I WOULD EAT A CHILD
ANNE-MARIE BALAŸ - 2016 / FRANCE
One day, Achille decides he doesn’t want to eat any more bananas. He is convinced: he wants to eat a child.
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
ROMAN PRZYLIPIAK - 2017 / POLAND
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
JERRY
ROMAN PRZYLIPIAK - 2017 / POLAND
Jerry, an energy therapist, finds fame in his community after a miraculous healing of a patient. But how long will his healing powers last?
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
TIHONI BRCIC - 2020 / CROATIA
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
JEŽ BODLJIKAVKO / SPIKINEY THE HEDGEHOG
TIHONI BRCIC - 2020 / CROATIA
Spikiney is a hardworking and altruistic hedgehog who runs a soup kitchen for the needy community. The food disappears during a winter night, endangering their existence. Spikiney’s friends - an old monkey with a cane, an orphan squirrel, a strayed bird and a beaver with a rubber flipper for a tail - bravely join him on the quest to find the stolen food. They suspect a monster is the thief. The trail takes them to the ominous cave, where they need to bravely confront the monster…
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
RODRIGO ZANFORLIN - 2017 / USA
.FIC2017ComedyParallel
JIMBO
RODRIGO ZANFORLIN - 2017 / USA
Jimbo: sixteen, quiet and shy. He has spent his life cowering in the shadow of his overbearing and anarchic father, also known as “El tigrón”, and his devoted but delusional lover Lolli. After their latest heist, Jimbo decides to take charge of his destiny and break free from his father’s prison.
.FIC2017ComedyParallel
DAVID CASADEMUNT - 2007 / SPAIN
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
JINGLE BELLS
DAVID CASADEMUNT - 2007 / SPAIN
Any time in the past was better. Alex, 14 years old, does not accept the changes in his new family situation. Therefore, when Christmas comes, he will make a last effort to make things as they used to be with his mother.
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
FILIP DIVIAK - 2023 / CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA
.FIC2024ChildrenminiFICParallel
JMENUJU SE EDGAR A MAM KRAVU / MY NAME IS EDGAR AND I HAVE A COW
FILIP DIVIAK - 2023 / CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA
Edgar’s ordinary life is disrupted by a newborn calf he sees on a tourist trip to a slaughterhouse.
.FIC2024ChildrenminiFICParallel
ALEXANDRA BRODSKI - 2021 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2022Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
JOY
ALEXANDRA BRODSKI - 2021 / UNITED KINGDOM
Jacob, a resident in child detention is desperate to get back to the outside wold. When he meets fellow inmate Joy, a mysteriously magnetic 10-year-old girl, he finds an unexpected sense of belonging which will sooner take a weirder turn.
.FIC2022Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
ROBERT S. HANSON, ANDY MCNEIL, HENNING M. LEDERER - 2016 / GERMANY
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
JUDITH AND ERNEST
ROBERT S. HANSON, ANDY MCNEIL, HENNING M. LEDERER - 2016 / GERMANY
Judith is a very friendly turtle that strives to reach an original goal. Ernest is a friendly lion that doesn’t know where to soak his mane.
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
HISKO HULSING - 2012 / NETHERLANDS - BELGIUM
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
JUNKYARD
HISKO HULSING - 2012 / NETHERLANDS - BELGIUM
A man is being robbed and stabbed by a junkie and in that last second before he dies he discovers who is the murder.
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
SANDRINE BRODEUR-DESROSIERS - 2019 / CANADA - MEXICO
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficialSpain
JUSTE MOI ET TOI / JUST ME AND YOU
SANDRINE BRODEUR-DESROSIERS - 2019 / CANADA - MEXICO
Eva (8 years old) and her father are doing a road trip Montreal-Mexico in a big 18-wheels truck.
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficialSpain
NARGIZA MAMATKULOVA - 2012 / KYRGYZSTAN
.FIC2013AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
JYMJYRT / SILENCE
NARGIZA MAMATKULOVA - 2012 / KYRGYZSTAN
When a family is unable to repay a bank loan, they lose their most coveted possession.
.FIC2013AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
KRISTOF HOORNAERT - 2009 / BELGIUM
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
KAÏN
KRISTOF HOORNAERT - 2009 / BELGIUM
Kaïn reflects in a contemplative way on our human codition. It’s an audiovisual meditation on the cruelty and suffering of our tragic humanity. A short film about the Birth of Conscience.
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ANDREA BOUZO - 2023 / SPAIN, SENEGAL
.FIC2024CompetitiveGZ_00
KALABUKÚ, LA SEMILLA DEL CAMBIO / KALABUKÚ, THE SEED OF CHANGE
ANDREA BOUZO - 2023 / SPAIN, SENEGAL
In Oukout, four women meet every Sunday with their group to self-manage a micro-credit system alongside the rice harvest, as individualism has no place in their society. Together they strive for a balance between traditional life and economic independence. Kalabukú - ‘the women’ in the language - are sowing the seeds of a change that is in the making.
.FIC2024CompetitiveGZ_00
FRANZ MARIA QUITT - 2017 / AUSTRIA
.FIC2017FamilyParallel
KALB
FRANZ MARIA QUITT - 2017 / AUSTRIA
A short film that shows the day-to-day life of a boy and his grandfather in a farm the Tyrol (Austria).
.FIC2017FamilyParallel
IGNAS MEILŪNAS - 2024 / LITHUANIA
.FIC2024ChildrenFamilyKindergartenminiFICParallel
KANOPOS IR PAČIŪŽOS / HOOFS ON SKATES
IGNAS MEILŪNAS - 2024 / LITHUANIA
In a winter wonderland two friends are having a blast ice-skating on a frozen lake when suddenly a strange and unfamiliar world cracks open underneath them. Now they must learn how to deal with the other kind, not letting the fear and preconceptions rule.
.FIC2024ChildrenFamilyKindergartenminiFICParallel
VOLKER SCHLECHT, ALEXANDER LAHL - 2016 / GERMANY
.FIC2017Parallel
KAPUTT / BROKEN – THE WOMEN’S PRISON AT HOHENECK
VOLKER SCHLECHT, ALEXANDER LAHL - 2016 / GERMANY
Based on interviews with former prisoners, this animated documentary provides a glimpse into the most notorious women’s prison in East Germany. A film about political imprisonment, forced labour and the enormous profi ts on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
.FIC2017Parallel
SOLÈNE BOSSEBOEUF, FLORE DECHORGNAT, TIPHAINE KLEIN, AUGUSTE LEFORT, ANTOINE ROSSI - 2021 / FRANCE
.FIC2022FamilyminiFICParallel
KAYAK
SOLÈNE BOSSEBOEUF, FLORE DECHORGNAT, TIPHAINE KLEIN, AUGUSTE LEFORT, ANTOINE ROSSI - 2021 / FRANCE
A father and his baby’s kayak outing along a peaceful river turns out to be a real family adventure.
.FIC2022FamilyminiFICParallel
ÜLO PIKKOV - 2011 / ESTONIA
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
KEHA MÄLU / BODY MEMORY
ÜLO PIKKOV - 2011 / ESTONIA
Our body remembers more than we expect and imagine. Our body remembers the sorrow and pain of our predecessors, the stories of our parents and grandparents and also those of their ancestors. But, how far back is it possible to go in your bodily memory?
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
JULIA OCKNER - 2012 / GERMANY
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
KELLERKIND / CELLAR CHILD
JULIA OCKNER - 2012 / GERMANY
A woman gives birth to a child. But the child is absolutely different from other children.
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
CARLOS DOUGLAS - 2019 / USA
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
KENYA'S SYMPHONY
CARLOS DOUGLAS - 2019 / USA
Kenya goes to a classical music concert with her mother for the first time. At first she fidgets all the time and gets very bored, but then she discovers her musical gift and falls in love with music.
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
CARLOS DOUGLAS - 2019 / USA
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
KENYA'S SYMPHONY
CARLOS DOUGLAS - 2019 / USA
Kenya goes to a classical music concert with her mother for the first time. At first she fidgets all the time and gets very bored, but then she discovers her musical gift and falls in love with music.
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
JURI KRUTII - 2023 / ESTONIA
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
KEYHOLE / KEYHOLE
JURI KRUTII - 2023 / ESTONIA
As young Anastassia matures and begins making decisions for herself, the wishes of her passionate mother are left behind. Amongst such disagreements, a more serious issue rises to change everything. The story shines a light on two distant memories of the same traumatic experience, and one family’s journey through a loving relationship to an unexpected tragedy, with the hope that they must create for themselves to guide them forward through grief.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
MIGUEL ÁNGEL JIMENEZ - 2010 / SPAIN
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
KHOROSHO
MIGUEL ÁNGEL JIMENEZ - 2010 / SPAIN
Khorosho is the story of the reunion between Andro and Beka, two old army comrades who share lots of bad memories, a very bad conscience and mountains and mountains of cigarettes.
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
MICHAEL FREI - 2019 / SWITZERLAND
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
KIDS
MICHAEL FREI - 2019 / SWITZERLAND
An animated short exploring group dynamics. How do we define ourselves when we are all equal?
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
JULIE REMBAUVILLE, NICOLAS BIANCO-LEVRIN - 2020 / FRANCE
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
KIKI LA PLUME / THE CANARY KIKI
JULIE REMBAUVILLE, NICOLAS BIANCO-LEVRIN - 2020 / FRANCE
Kiki the canary knows only his cage and the old lady who feeds him. His dream is to fly free like the other birds, but when he has a chance to escape, he discovers that being a free bird can be terrifying.
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
YAWEN ZHENG - 2020 / FRANCE - SWITZERLAND
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
KIKO ET LES ANIMAUX / KIKO AND THE ANIMALS
YAWEN ZHENG - 2020 / FRANCE - SWITZERLAND
Kiko chases all animals. She can’t stop teasing them... she doesn’t even leave the tiny mice alone! How can we show him that these animals are like him, capable of feeling emotions and loving, and that they deserve to be respected?
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
BETTINA OBERLI - 2019 / SWITZERLAND
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
KINGDOM
BETTINA OBERLI - 2019 / SWITZERLAND
A vast, rocky desert. A lone woman struggles to preserve the last remaining bit of a the last glacier left with a crazy patchwork of cloth and rags that she retrieves from the abandoned valleys. A Sisyphus-like work. It is only at night, when the blazing sun has disappeared, that other creatures appear. Wolves and mountain goats drink in unison from the last source of water. And the woman is no longer alone.
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
DARIA BELOVA - 2013 / GERMANY
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
KOMM UND SPIEL / COME TO PLAY
DARIA BELOVA - 2013 / GERMANY
Berlin. Grisha, a Russian-German boy, fools around with a wooden stick toygun. The longer he plays, the further he is thrust into an altered reality. The boundaries between the past and the present, the real and the surreal, start to blur. Images from bygone Berlin appear; streets and buildings still carry the memories of war. Suddenly, he is caught in a nightmare of another lifetime, nightmare that is still present today.
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
KOLJA SAKSIDA - 2017 / SLOVENIA
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
KOYAA: PLESOCE NOGAVICE / KOYAA: DANCING SOCKS
KOLJA SAKSIDA - 2017 / SLOVENIA
In the morning, Koyaa wakes up to the sound of the cuckoo clock, rubs his eyes and opens a drawer to take out a pair of socks. It’s not possible! The socks move, run and jump! How will he ever catch them?
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
EKATERINA FILIPPOVA - 2016 / RUSSIA
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
KOZLY / GOATS
EKATERINA FILIPPOVA - 2016 / RUSSIA
Is it possible to have a snack poking your head out of the window of a moving train? A group of reckless goats will attempt it.
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
JOACHIM DOLLHOPF & EVI GOLDBRUNNER - 2008 / GERMANY
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
l DON´T FEAL LIKE DANCING
JOACHIM DOLLHOPF & EVI GOLDBRUNNER - 2008 / GERMANY
Somewhere in a warzone. Three young stationed soldiers try to divert themselves from their everyday wartime existence. One of them takes notice of a local girl. The comrades follow her...
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
OLIVIER TREINER - 2011 / FRANCE
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
L´ACCORDEUR / THE TUNER
OLIVIER TREINER - 2011 / FRANCE
Adrien is a young piano prodigy. He collapsed psychologically after failing at an important competition and since then has worked as a piano tuner. In response to this situation he masquerades as a blind person, which enables him to access the private lives of his clients.
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
CLAUDE CHABROL - 1964 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
L´HOMME QUI VENDIT LA TOUR EIFFEL / THE MAN WHO SOLD THE EIFFEL TOWER
CLAUDE CHABROL - 1964 / FRANCE
A man breaks his car in front of the residence of a rich and eccentric German obsessed by the Eiffel Tower. He announces him that the State wants to get rid of it at scrap prices and invites him to Paris to participate in the auction.
Episode of Les Plus Belles Escroqueries du monde, film that recreates different real scams that have taken place in some of the main cities on the planet.
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
GABRIEL HÉNOT LEFÈVRE - 2022 / FRANCE
.FIC2023ChildrenminiFICParallel
L'AIR DE RIEN / SLIPPING AWAY
GABRIEL HÉNOT LEFÈVRE - 2022 / FRANCE
In a sanatorium by the sea, an old man finds his life transfigured by the arrival of a seagull, that he delicately tames. When the seagull gets wounded, the man takes care of her, and for a brief moment, he returns to boyhood again.
.FIC2023ChildrenminiFICParallel
BIANCA MANSANI - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2021KindergartenminiFICParallel
L’ATELIER / THE SEWING WORKSHOP
BIANCA MANSANI - 2019 / FRANCE
A girl unleashes her creativity when she sees her aunt working in a sewing workshop, turning her daily routine into a beautiful chaos of colors and fabric.
.FIC2021KindergartenminiFICParallel
THÉO DEGEN - 2020 / FRANCE
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
L'ENFANT SALAMANDRE / THE SALAMANDER CHILD
THÉO DEGEN - 2020 / FRANCE
At 15, Florian thinks he can communicate with the dead through fire. That belief makes him the weirdo in the village where he lives. One day, by dint of being called a monster...he becomes one.
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MARIE-PIER DUPUIS - 2023 / CANADA
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
L’ÉTÉ DES CHALEURS / THE SUMMER OF HEAT
MARIE-PIER DUPUIS - 2023 / CANADA
A hot summer day. A half-unpacked house. A mother who needs room to breathe, and a child who needs space to exist. As the afternoon heat turns oppressive, time seems to move entirely differently for each person.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
SVEN BRESSER - 2018 / NETHERLANDS
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
L’ÉTÉ ET TOUT LE RESTE / THE SUMMER AND ALL THE REST
SVEN BRESSER - 2018 / NETHERLANDS
When at the end of the summer the last ferries with tourists leave and most of young Marc-Antoine’s friends have left for the mainland to study or to work, he and his friend Mickael remain behind on the deserted island.
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
ÉRIC ROHMER - 1963 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
LA BOULÀNGERE DE MONCEAU / THE BAKERY GIRL OF MONCEAU
ÉRIC ROHMER - 1963 / FRANCE
A law student who is attracted to the young Sylvie, with whom he often crosses the street. Advised by a friend, he provoques a fortuitous encounter to approach her. Sylvie accepts the invitation, but says she is in a hurry and proposes to postpone the appointment for another day. Time passes, and while he tries in vain to see the girl again, he meets another girl, a baker.
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
MAŠA AVRAMOVIĆ - 2023 / SWITZERLAND, FRANCE, CROATIA
.FIC2024ChildrenFamilyKindergartenminiFICParallel
LA BOULANGERIE DE BORIS / BAKING WITH BORIS
MAŠA AVRAMOVIĆ - 2023 / SWITZERLAND, FRANCE, CROATIA
Every morning, Boris the village baker makes a fresh batch of crusty bread and pastries for all his neighbours until… Achoo! He can’t stop sneezing. He has become allergic to flour. How will he manage to keep baking for everyone in the village?
.FIC2024ChildrenFamilyKindergartenminiFICParallel
CPR ESCOLAPIOS MONFORTE DE LEMOS - 2019 / Secondary School
.FIC2020CompetitiveEducation CentersminiFIC
LA BUENA ELECCIÓN / THE GOOD CHOICE
CPR ESCOLAPIOS MONFORTE DE LEMOS - 2019 / Secondary School
Nuria is a sad and lonely girl going through a rough time. Something happens in her birthday that will force her to make a difficult choice.
.FIC2020CompetitiveEducation CentersminiFIC
AUGUSTO SCHILLACI - 2023 / FRANCE, CANADA, ARGENTINA
.FIC2024ChildrenFamilyKindergartenminiFICParallel
LA CALESITA / THE CAROUSEL
AUGUSTO SCHILLACI - 2023 / FRANCE, CANADA, ARGENTINA
A heartfelt story of the beloved Argentinian merry-go-round operators who have dedicated their lives to providing fun and happiness to children and their neighborhoods.
This is a story of perseverance and community above the individual.
.FIC2024ChildrenFamilyKindergartenminiFICParallel
ALAM RAJA - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
LA CARRERA / THE RACE
ALAM RAJA - 2008 / SPAIN
A boy on the street does everything possible to get some new trainers. Running is all he understands, his only way out of poverty.
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
ANTONIO DROVE - 1967 / SPAIN
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
LA CAZA DE BRUJAS / THE WITCH HUNT
ANTONIO DROVE - 1967 / SPAIN
The witch hunt tells the story of what happens in a religious school when a priest catches some students in the bathroom.
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
ALEXEY ALEKSEEV - 2017 / FRANCE
.FIC2018ChildrenParallel
LA CHASSE / THE HUNT
ALEXEY ALEKSEEV - 2017 / FRANCE
The disappointments of a short-sighted and harmless hunter who by mistake takes a rabbit with him to go hunting in the forest instead of his dog.
.FIC2018ChildrenParallel
DAVID GONZÁLEZ - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2019CompetitiveSpain
LA DIGNITAT / DIGNITY
DAVID GONZÁLEZ - 2019 / SPAIN
María and her son Jesús leave the house. They left Josep alone. They cannot return until midday, so they will have to spend the morning pretending that it is a day as any other.
.FIC2019CompetitiveSpain
CHEMA GARCÍA IBARRA - 2016 / SPAIN - TURKEY
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveSpain
LA DISCO RESPLANDECE / THE DISCO SHINES
CHEMA GARCÍA IBARRA - 2016 / SPAIN - TURKEY
The evening is ending and the shadow of the mountain falls descends on the town. It’s saturday, almost summer. Five friends are preparing a night of fun. They are young, they have alcohol, a car and music.
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveSpain
MARGAUX ELOUAGARI - 2018 / FRANCE
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
LA DUCASSE
MARGAUX ELOUAGARI - 2018 / FRANCE
Today is the much-awaited opening day of La Ducasse. Finally, something is going to happen in the lives of Shanna, Anaïs and their friends.
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
ANNA SOLANAS, MARC RIBA - 2021 / SPAIN
.FIC2021ChildrenminiFICParallel
LA EXTRAORDINARIA HISTORIA DE BRUNA / THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF BRUNA
ANNA SOLANAS, MARC RIBA - 2021 / SPAIN
One night a strong wind takes Bruna far away from home.
.FIC2021ChildrenminiFICParallel
HUGO CHESNARD - 2011 / FRANCE
.FIC2013AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LA FRANCE QUI SE LÈVE TOT
HUGO CHESNARD - 2011 / FRANCE
It is about the course of a future expelled person, about the judicial machine whichentails the illegal immigrants to leave the country. The story is redrawn under the shape of a social operetta.
.FIC2013AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
JEAN-BERNARD MARLIN - 2013 / FRANCE
.FIC2014AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LA FUGUE / THE RUNAWAY
JEAN-BERNARD MARLIN - 2013 / FRANCE
Lakdar, a youth worker in a home for juvenile offenders in Marseille, goes to court confidently along with one of his teenage wards, Sabrina.
.FIC2014AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
FERNANDO TRIAS DE BES - 2014 / SPAIN
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
LA GRAN INVENCIÓN / THE BIG INVENTION
FERNANDO TRIAS DE BES - 2014 / SPAIN
Paris. Year 2027. 10th anniversary of the European Union demise. French Public TV broadcasts a documentary about the responsible of the end of Europe: an Spanish film whose director dissapeared.
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
ALEX LORA - 2023 / SPAIN
.FIC2024JuniorsminiFICParallel
LA GRAN OBRA / THE MASTERPIECE
ALEX LORA - 2023 / SPAIN
Leo and Diana, a rich couple, bring a broken TV to a recycle point. They meet Salif and his son, two scrap dealers. Diana asks them to come to their house to get more objects. Once there, Leo looks at them collecting objects with mistrust, until they see the scrap dealers have something they want.
.FIC2024JuniorsminiFICParallel
CAMILLE AUTHOUART - 2023 / FRANCE
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
LA GRANDE ARCHE / THE GREAT ARC
CAMILLE AUTHOUART - 2023 / FRANCE
With nearly 70 monumental works of art scattered throughout the district, La Défense, Paris, is Europe's largest open-air museum. Sitting between the legs of the gigantic Red Spider, I wonder how I didn't notice them before.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
CHRISTIAN AVILÉS - 2023 / SPAIN
.FIC2023Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational SchoolsSpain
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.
.FIC2023Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational SchoolsSpain
JOSÉ LUIS MONTESINOS - 2009 / SPAIN
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LA HISTORIA DE SIEMPRE / THE USUAL STORY
JOSÉ LUIS MONTESINOS - 2009 / SPAIN
A man does all he can to regain his wife and, like this, solve his crisis.
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
BELÉN FUNES - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2018CompetitiveSpain
LA INÚTIL / THE USELESS
BELÉN FUNES - 2017 / SPAIN
Merche is too proud to explain how she feels. And the truth is that she feels bad, she feels completely useless.
.FIC2018CompetitiveSpain
SUSANA CASARES - 2016 / SPAIN
.FIC2017FamilyParallel
LA INVITACIÓN / THE INVITATION
SUSANA CASARES - 2016 / SPAIN
Pushed by the fear of losing her friends, Silvia (10) invites them to a sleepover. However, things can be complicated when your home is not exactly what your friends may call a home.
.FIC2017FamilyParallel
JULIO DIAMANTE - 1961 / SPAIN
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
LA LÁGRIMA DEL DIABLO / DEVIL’S TEAR
JULIO DIAMANTE - 1961 / SPAIN
The devil bets with Saint Anthony that he is capable of corrupting a young devotee full of virtue.
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
LOFTI ACHOUR - 2016 / FRANCE - TUNISIA
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
LA LAINE SUR LE DOS / LAW OF THE LAMB
LOFTI ACHOUR - 2016 / FRANCE - TUNISIA
While driving along a road in the Tunisian desert in an old battered van in their way to market to sell their sheep, and old man and his grandson are stopped by two policemen. In order to be allowed to leave, they have to accept a strange and unusual deal.
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
HU WEI - 2013 / FRANCE
.FIC2014AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LA LAMPE AU BEURRE YAK / THE LAMP OF YAK BUTTER
HU WEI - 2013 / FRANCE
A young photographer and his assistant suggest that they take pictures of some Tibetan nomad families. Against more or less exotic backgrounds.
.FIC2014AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
GABRIELE BIASI - 2023 / ITALY
.FIC2024CompetitiveDiscoveries
LA LINEA DEL TERMINATORE / THE ENDER'S LINE
GABRIELE BIASI - 2023 / ITALY
The Ender’s Line is the story Fernanda Gonzalez’s escape from Buenos Aires to Italy. Weaving archive footage from space explorations with personal family videos of Fernanda, the film focuses on her emotional journey, as she struggles with the guilt of leaving her loved ones behind.
.FIC2024CompetitiveDiscoveries
JACQUES DEMY - 1962 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
LA LUXURE / LUST
JACQUES DEMY - 1962 / FRANCE
Paul and Bernard are searching in the Jerome Bosch's "Jardin des délices" reproductions, a definition of lust itself. Bernard remembers his childhood, when he confused lust with luxury.
Fragment of the film Les sept péchés capitaux, in which seven filmmakers use the capital sins as a reason to develop their different stories.
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
JEAN-CLAUDE ROZEC - 2013 / FRANCE
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
LA MAISON DE POUSSIÈRE / THE HOUSE OF DUST
JEAN-CLAUDE ROZEC - 2013 / FRANCE
Slowly, steel jaws devour the old tower. The ancient owner rushes into the rubble, chasing away unwary children. Then begins a strange journey into the heart of this "house" which shelters so many memories...
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
MARTÍN ROMERO - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveGalicia
LA NOCHE / THE NIGHT
MARTÍN ROMERO - 2019 / SPAIN
A Wolf Man and a Moon Woman meet in a large lake during a warm summer night. The passion arises between them and they immediately begin an idyllic love relationship. However, an unexpected happening will turn their life upside down.
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveGalicia
SVETLANA FILIPPOVA - 2011 / FRANCE
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LÁ OÚ MEURENT LES CHIENS / WHERE DOGS DIE
SVETLANA FILIPPOVA - 2011 / FRANCE
We say that dogs do not want to give sorrow to their masters and that they leave their house when they smell their death approaching. Nobody has ever seen where die dogs. Where do they go? Nobody knows.
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
FABRICE LUANG-VIJA - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2021KindergartenminiFICParallel
LA PÊCHE MIRACULEUSE / THE MIRACULOUS FISHING
FABRICE LUANG-VIJA - 2019 / FRANCE
In a calm sea, a man finds himself fishing in a boat with his cat. The first catch of the day is a catfish, but the objects that follow are more and more absurd and surprising.
.FIC2021KindergartenminiFICParallel
CAMILLE LUGAN - 2018 / FRANCE
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
LA PERSISTENTE
CAMILLE LUGAN - 2018 / FRANCE
A ski resort, somewhere in the French Pyrenees. Ivan only lives for his motorcycle — the sentient, loving, breathing La Persistente. When a local rival tears her away from him, Ivan’s obsession becomes to win her back…
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
ALFREDO RUIZ FORCA - 2007 / SPAIN
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
LA PESCA PERFECTA / PERFECT FISHING
ALFREDO RUIZ FORCA - 2007 / SPAIN
My God, are you aware of what is happening? The two best fishermen on our shores meet to go head to head against the sea. This can only be the PERFECT FISHING!
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
KEREN BEN RAFAEL - 2016 / FRANCE
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LA PLAGE / AT THE BEACH
KEREN BEN RAFAEL - 2016 / FRANCE
Head in the sun, feet in the water, even at the beach people have a hard time relaxing. The noise of their thoughts drowns out what’s happening just a few meters away.
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MANUEL ABRAMOVICH - 2013 / ARGENTINA
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
LA REINA / THE QUEEN
MANUEL ABRAMOVICH - 2013 / ARGENTINA
"Her dress is white and brown and she is wearing a four kilo crown. They had to remove weight from it because she couldn’t carry it. It would fall off her head. But now she doesn’t want anything else to be done with it because she looks so pretty."
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
FRANCISCO ANTONIO PEINADO GAITÁN - 2009 / SPAIN
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
LA SOMBRA DEL BAMBÚ / THE SHADOW OF THE BAMBOO
FRANCISCO ANTONIO PEINADO GAITÁN - 2009 / SPAIN
The story of three samurai who have been outlawed and must decide about their future. Kintaro, the youngest, thinks they should follow the path of Good; Toshiru, who is older, only believes in survival at any cost. The two talk about duty and honor and the true meaning of these words in a world that no longer accepts them, while Benkei, the elderly samurai, simply listens... When their paths separate, Kintaro and Toshiru know that their different positions have made them enemies.
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
ANA CHUBINIDZE - 2021 / FRANCE
.FIC2023miniFICParallel
LA SOUPE DE FRANZY / FRANZY'S SOUP
ANA CHUBINIDZE - 2021 / FRANCE
Alone on her asteroid, Franzy leads a happy life until she runs out of delicious magic soup, made with a secret recipe that her parents taught her.
.FIC2023miniFICParallel
YATONI ROY CANTU - 2018 / SWITZERLAND
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
LA SOURCE / THE SOURCE
YATONI ROY CANTU - 2018 / SWITZERLAND
In the middle of the darkness of a past-century chalet, somebody appears between the cracks and the dirt of an old mirror. It is Lisbeth. She moves forward in her dressing gown with precaution, trying not to wake Anne who is still sleeping. In front of her own reflection, she discovers her shoulder. The skin is cracked, darkened and in blood. The disease is back.
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
ALESSANDRO FALCO - 2013 / ITALY - SPAIN
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
LA STRADA DI RAFAEL / RAFAEL’S WAY
ALESSANDRO FALCO - 2013 / ITALY - SPAIN
Raffael is a 13 year old boy who lives in the suburbs of Naples. With his friend Adama they are rehearsing to play at the village’s festival. Meanwhile, police and demonstrators have been struggling for days after the Mayor's decision to evict a compound of apartments. Raffael is waiting anxiously for his mother to return home.
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
CARLOS SAURA - 1957 / SPAIN
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
LA TARDE DEL DOMINGO / SUNDAY AFTERNOON
CARLOS SAURA - 1957 / SPAIN
An ordinary Sunday in September. Clara is a young maid who can barely read, a sort of Cinderella who is mercilessly exploited. Clara makes plans to spend Sunday afternoon in the company of other girls. They go to El Retiro for a stroll and then go to a dance with some friends, they flirt, but Clara feels anguished, she feels isolated in the midst of the people.
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
ÈVE SAINT-LOUIS - 2021 / CANADA
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
LA TRAVERSÉE / THE JOURNEY
ÈVE SAINT-LOUIS - 2021 / CANADA
After a year away from home, Chantale, who now lives and studies in Paris, returns to Quebec City, to spend the Holidays with her mother and sister. Against all odds, her father, with whom she has a contentious relationship, has offered to pick her up at the airport and drive her there. Hesitant about seeing him again, she accepts his offer nonetheless.
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
LAURE BOURDON ZARADER - 2017 / FRANCE
.FIC2017ComedyParallel
LA VIE SAUVAGE / WILD LIFE
LAURE BOURDON ZARADER - 2017 / FRANCE
Arnaud and Nora had a perfect plan for a perfect weekend: a tour in a wildlife park, pictures with animals, sex, a nap and dinner. But the stifling heat, the lack of animals and Nora’s libido will ruin Arnaud’s methodical plans.
.FIC2017ComedyParallel
FATIMA KACI - 2023 / FRANCE
.FIC2024Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
LA VOIX DES AUTRES / THE VOICE OF OTHERS
FATIMA KACI - 2023 / FRANCE
Rim is a Tunisian interpreter working in France on asylum procedures. Every day, she translates the stories of exiled men and women, whose voices raise questions about her own history.
.FIC2024Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
DÉNES NAGY - 2013 / HUNGARY - BELGIUM
.FIC2014AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LÁGY ESÖ / SOFT RAIN
DÉNES NAGY - 2013 / HUNGARY - BELGIUM
In a village in East Hungary, Dani, an adolescent boy, who is growing up in an orphanage, falls in love with his classmate. He is trying to get close to her but his behaviour is obscene and grotesque. He doesn`t understand the rules of the game of love.
.FIC2014AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ALIKSEI PALUYAN - 2019 / BELARUS-GERMANY
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LAKE OF HAPPINESS
ALIKSEI PALUYAN - 2019 / BELARUS-GERMANY
In a small Belarussian village where time seems to stand still, Jasja, a nine-year-old girl, has to deal with her mother‘s death. Her father decides to send her to an orphanage. But one day she decides to run away and go back home.
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
FILIPE MARTINS - 2016 / PORTUGAL
.FIC2017Parallel
LANDING
FILIPE MARTINS - 2016 / PORTUGAL
Metaphorical characters are twisted together within a story told through gestures, bodies and places. Life, from beginning to end, as a path that is always interrupted by the same conflict: the incomplete landing. This landing won’t be anything but the arrival to a state of things, a permanent immobility. It is the eternal conflict between the rapture of the passions and the hidden desire for serenity and balance, as well as for conformism and death.
.FIC2017Parallel
PABLO ARAGÜÉS - 2009 / SPAIN
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
LAS 5 MUERTES DE IBRAHIM GONSÁLEZ / THE 5 DEATHS OF IBRAHIM GONSÁLEZ
PABLO ARAGÜÉS - 2009 / SPAIN
After a domestic accident, Ibrahim Gonsález spends one minute clinically dead. That would be the best minute in his life
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
ÁLVARO ANGUITA ARAYA - 2015 / CHILE
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
LAS COSAS SIMPLES / THE SIMPLE THINGS
ÁLVARO ANGUITA ARAYA - 2015 / CHILE
Penelope is a civil servant who lives with her mother, who has Alzheimer’s. One day she meets Ulises, a poor old man who has lost his memory and his identity papers. She convinces him that he is her father and he must come home to take care of his wife.
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
ALBERTO GARCÍA MARTÍN - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
LAS GAFAS / THE GLASSES
ALBERTO GARCÍA MARTÍN - 2008 / SPAIN
In a desert place, where there is hardly any sign of civilization, two guys are chatting in warm jackets under a sweltering sun. They have to carry out a mission on behalf of a boss they have never met. The mission: to bring back a pair of glasses.
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
ANDREA HERRERA CATALÁ - 2021 / SPAIN
.FIC2022CompetitiveSpain
LAS INFANTAS / THE INFANTAS
ANDREA HERRERA CATALÁ - 2021 / SPAIN
Carnival in Barcelona. Ruth involves her daughter Rihanna in a carnival float. Rihanna usually dresses like a tomboy and Ruth wants everyone to see her like a princess but the tutu and tiara are an unbearable embarrassment for the submissive Rihanna.
.FIC2022CompetitiveSpain
PANG-CHUAN HUANG - 2018 / FRANCE - TAIWAN
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
LAST YEAR WHEN THE TRAIN PASSED BY
PANG-CHUAN HUANG - 2018 / FRANCE - TAIWAN
My experience of traveling by train is the origin of this project. I’m always curious about little houses at the window when I pass through. The photography allows me to return to these places, and discover the stories of these peoples, one year after.
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
SYLVAIN CUVILIER, CHLOÉ BURDIC, THÉOPHILE COURSIMAULT, NOÉMIE HALBERSTAM, MAŸLIS MOSNY & ZIJING YE - 2020 / FRANCE
.FIC2021JuniorsminiFICParallel
LATITUDE DU PRINTEMPS / SPRING’S LATITUDE
SYLVAIN CUVILIER, CHLOÉ BURDIC, THÉOPHILE COURSIMAULT, NOÉMIE HALBERSTAM, MAŸLIS MOSNY & ZIJING YE - 2020 / FRANCE
A dog gets abandoned on the side of the road. Attached to a street light, he stays alone until the day he meets a young astronaut wannabe and a professional cyclist who keeps on trying to beat her highest score.
.FIC2021JuniorsminiFICParallel
FALK SCHUSTER - 2009 / GERMANY
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
LAUFENDE GESCHÄFTE / A BUSINESS ON THE MOVE
FALK SCHUSTER - 2009 / GERMANY
A world where the characters cocks beat to a different rhythm. Two people living next door to one another but still in completely separate worlds. But one day their paths cross and their worlds are turned upside down. What happened?
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
DAVID FINDLAY - 2022 / CANADA
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
LAY ME BY THE SHORE
DAVID FINDLAY - 2022 / CANADA
Introducing a young cast of first time actors, Lay Me by the Shore follows a week in the life of Noah, a high school senior in his final days of school as he comes to terms with his best friend’s passing. Bathed in the warm light of long June days and with the intimidating spectre of an unknown future looming, the tale is told from the perspective of the recently departed and, through the prism of grief, highlights the raw, potent emotions of youth.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
ROBERT DELESKIE - 2018 / CANADA
.FIC2019JuniorsParallel
LAY THEM STRAIGHT
ROBERT DELESKIE - 2018 / CANADA
A teenage girl battling obsessive compulsive disorder has to deal with the bullies of her school on daily basis until a traumatic event convinces her that her disorder may be an indication of supernatural powers.
.FIC2019JuniorsParallel
SOPHIE THOUVENIN - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
LE BOUT DE LA PISTE / TRACKS
SOPHIE THOUVENIN - 2019 / FRANCE
Lala is the only girl in a group of four young middle-distance athletes from Mali. Their visas are about to expire. With the help of their coach, Loïc, they find themselves with one last chance to impress a scout and fulfill their dreams of joining a French athletics club.
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
NATA MORENO - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2017ChildrenParallel
LE CHAT DORÉ / THE GOLDEN CAT
NATA MORENO - 2017 / SPAIN
Inside an old cabin, a group of musicians try to create art under the pressure of a mean director. This short film defends creative freedom and artistic expression.
.FIC2017ChildrenParallel
JORIS IVENS - 1966 / FRANCE
.FIC2023ParallelRetrospective
LE CIEL, LA TERRE / THE THREATENING SKY
JORIS IVENS - 1966 / FRANCE
In the midst of the Vietnam War, this documentary bears witness to the resistance of the Vietnamese and Indochinese people. Ivens began filming the American raids on Hanoi in 1965, militarily supporting the South Vietnamese army against the North Vietnamese people's army. Le ciel, La Terre captures the response of the inhabitants of the countryside, through booby-trapping, clashes and demonstrations.
.FIC2023ParallelRetrospective
JACQUES RIVETTE - 1956 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
LE COUP DU BERGER / FOOL’S MATE
JACQUES RIVETTE - 1956 / FRANCE
When an unfaithful wife receives a fur coat as a gift from her lover, they must figure out a way to keep the husband from discovering the coat's true origins.
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
MAZARINE MILOUDI, MÉLANIE LEVAUX, PAULINE MAHIEU, ORIANE GROS, SÉBASTIEN PAGÈS - 2020 / FRANCE
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
LE DOIGT DE LA MORT / THE FINGER OF DEATH
MAZARINE MILOUDI, MÉLANIE LEVAUX, PAULINE MAHIEU, ORIANE GROS, SÉBASTIEN PAGÈS - 2020 / FRANCE
The encounter between old Hadja and a cursed creature will lead the old man from Madagascar to change the way he sees the world.
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
SONIA GERBEAUD - 2022 / FRANCE
.FIC2023ChildrenminiFICParallel
LE GARÇON ET L'ÉLEPHANT / THE BOY AND THE ELEPHANT
SONIA GERBEAUD - 2022 / FRANCE
The arrival of a new elephant-headed student in class triggers mockery and sarcasm. One of the students seems captivated and disturbed by this strange child.
.FIC2023ChildrenminiFICParallel
VINCENT BRUNO - 2011 / BELGIUM
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
LE MAILLOT DE CRISTIANO / CRISTIANO'S SHIRT
VINCENT BRUNO - 2011 / BELGIUM
Tom and Ptit Lu, two 11-year old children, dream of buying the same shirt as their idol, Cristiano Ronaldo.
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
QUENTIN BAILLEAUX - 2018 / FRANCE
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
LE MANS 1955
QUENTIN BAILLEAUX - 2018 / FRANCE
The 24 Hours of Le Mans, 1955. 300,000 spectators are watching from the sidelines. It is 6 PM when Pierre Levegh’s car ploughs into the spectator stands, scattering the crowd with his car engine’s hot debris. It is a tragedy that will cost more than 80 lives. And yet, the race goes on. At Mercedes, a friend and co-pilot of Pierre Levegh’s is ready to take the relay. His name is John Fitch.
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
FABRICE BRACQ - 2017 / FRANCE
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
LE MONDE DU PETIT MONDE / A WHOLE WORLD FOR A LITTLE WORLD
FABRICE BRACQ - 2017 / FRANCE
A woman tells her baby a beautiful story full of princes and princesses through she revives her memories to pass on her daughter.
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
JACQUES DROUIN - 1976 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
LE PAYSAGISTE / MINDSCAPE
JACQUES DROUIN - 1976 / CANADA
Powerful animation with Alexeieff-Parker's pin screen takes the viewer on a journey into the subconscious.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
LÉVON MINASIAH - 2011 / ARMENIA - FRANCE
.FIC2011AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LE PIANO / THE PIANO
LÉVON MINASIAH - 2011 / ARMENIA - FRANCE
Thirteen years after the Armenian earthquake. Loussiné lives with her grandfather; she is dumb, but a talented pianist. To prepare for an international competition, the Ministry of Culture lends her a beautiful piano. But the trailer where they live is too small to hold a piano.
.FIC2011AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MÉRYL FORTUNAT-ROSSI, XAVIER SÉRON - 2016 / BELGIUM
.FIC2017ComedyParallel
LE PLOMBIER / THE PLUMBER
MÉRYL FORTUNAT-ROSSI, XAVIER SÉRON - 2016 / BELGIUM
One day, Tom, a Flemish comedian that used to dub cartoons, replaces a colleague unexpectedly. Finally, Tom ends up in the studio of a French-speaking pornographic film. Catherine, an experienced actress, will be his partner. Tom will play the plumber.
.FIC2017ComedyParallel
CLAUDE BERRI - 1963 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
LE POULET / THE CHICKEN
CLAUDE BERRI - 1963 / FRANCE
A family go to visit a chicken farm. The son catches and brings home a chicken. The father plans to eat it if the chicken doesn't lay eggs. Therefore, the boy wants to save a chicken from being Sunday's family dinner.
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
NÖLWENN ROBERTS - 2018 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ChildrenParallel
LE RÊVE DE SAM / SAM’S DREAM
NÖLWENN ROBERTS - 2018 / FRANCE
In a sunny spring morning, a small mouse decides to make his dream come true, quite a crazy dream: flying with swallows. Sam has one year to the day to make it real by defying the laws of gravity and the lack of understanding from the other animals.
.FIC2019ChildrenParallel
PATRICK BOUCHARD - 2018 / CANADA
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
LE SUJET / THE SUBJECT
PATRICK BOUCHARD - 2018 / CANADA
An animator dissects his own body, extracting memories, emotions and fears that will nurture his work. As he cuts into his skin with a scalpel, various symbolic objects recalling his past emerge. Reaching the heart after cracking his ribs, he succeeds in identifying the burden he’s been dying to cast off.
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
FABRICE LUANG-VIJA - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2021KindergartenminiFICParallel
LE TIGRE ET SON MAÎTRE / THE TIGER AND ITS MASTER
FABRICE LUANG-VIJA - 2019 / FRANCE
In a exuberant jungle in the Far East, a very clumsy tiger is not able to huno or catch any of his prey. Until he meets a cat, a skilled predator, who teaches him the art of hunting...
.FIC2021KindergartenminiFICParallel
RAÚL ROBIN ALEJANDRO MORALES REYES - 2020 / FRANCE-SWITZERLAND
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICPanoramaParallel
LE TIGRE SANS RAYURES / A TIGER WITH NO STRIPESYAS
RAÚL ROBIN ALEJANDRO MORALES REYES - 2020 / FRANCE-SWITZERLAND
A little tiger decides to take a long journey in search of his stripes.
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICPanoramaParallel
IAGO ROSA-ROSSO, ANDRÉ TORRES - 2014 / PORTUGAL
.FIC2016ComedyParallel
LEI DA GRAVIDADE / LAW OF GRAVITY
IAGO ROSA-ROSSO, ANDRÉ TORRES - 2014 / PORTUGAL
Two characters of a Portuguese film question their brief existence.
.FIC2016ComedyParallel
STIJN BOUMA - 017 / BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - NETHERLANDS
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
LEJLA
STIJN BOUMA - 017 / BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - NETHERLANDS
Lejla is a young woman who feels stuck in her life, working in a fast food restaurant and taking care of her elderly father. One day she meets Vedad and they fall in love.
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
AL DÍAZ - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2017CompetitiveGalicia
LEMBRANZA / MEMORY
AL DÍAZ - 2017 / SPAIN
Walk with me a journey into the past through my memories...
.FIC2017CompetitiveGalicia
ILENIA COTARDO - 2017 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
LEMON & ELDERFLOWER
ILENIA COTARDO - 2017 / UNITED KINGDOM
Two hummingbird siblings attempt their first flight. Working as a team will help them turn a defect into the greatest virtue.
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
RACHEL WALDEN - 2023 / EEUU
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
LEMON TREE / LEMON TREE
RACHEL WALDEN - 2023 / EEUU
At a Halloween carnival, a young father steals a magician's rabbit to impress his ten year old son. The thrill of the petty theft quickly dissolves into reality when the young boy is tasked with getting himself, his father, and his new pet home safe.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
POM BUNSERMVICHA - 2021 / THAILAND
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LEMONGRASS GIRL
POM BUNSERMVICHA - 2021 / THAILAND
As clouds begin to gather, a young production manager is left with no choice but to take on the burden of becoming the lemongrass girl.
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ALBERTO TAIBO PIÑEIRO - 2016 / SPAIN
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LENI K.
ALBERTO TAIBO PIÑEIRO - 2016 / SPAIN
A home movie recorded by Leni Kastell, a photographer and filmmaker, during her 5 months stay in her brothers-in-law house, in Tierra de Campos (Castile-Leon), in 1945. The arrival of the filmmaker unbalance the daily life of the marriage couple.
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
FERNANDO CORTIZO - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LEO
FERNANDO CORTIZO - 2008 / SPAIN
The ventriloquist Victor, his assistant Raul and the puppet Leo are nearing the end of their careers. The passing of the years has made their relationship with the puppet unsustainable due to the fame and popularity Leo has achieved to the prejudice of his creator.
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
THANASIS NEOFOTISTOS - 2018 / GREECE
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficialSpain
LEOFOROS PATISION / PATISION AVENUE
THANASIS NEOFOTISTOS - 2018 / GREECE
Yanni’s mum is on her way to audition for a role as Shakespeare’s Viola, when she discovers that her young son has been left home alone.
Through a series of phone calls, she fights to balance the most important roles of her life, whilst walking in the most controversial area of central Athens, Patision Avenue.
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficialSpain
LAURENT DENIS - 2008 / BELGIUM
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
LES DOIGTS DE PIED / THE TOES
LAURENT DENIS - 2008 / BELGIUM
Arthur lives alone in a little room of an old people's home. His days are exclusively rythmed by the visits of Julie, the nurse. No one else ever come to visit him. Therefore, when Julie tells him about the visit of Bernard, Arthur get very well dressed. Who is this visitor? Is he there for the good of Arthur? And Julie? Is she really a nurse?
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
PHILIPPE GARREL - 1964 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
LES ENFANTS DÉSACCORDÉS / THE OUT-OF-TUNE CHILDREN
PHILIPPE GARREL - 1964 / FRANCE
It recounts the story of a young couple, Pascal and Christiane, who decide to flee their homes. To do so, they steal a car.
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
AGNÈS VARDA - 1961 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
LES FIANCÉS DU PONT MAC DONALD / THE FIANCÉS OF THE BRIDGE MAC DONALD
AGNÈS VARDA - 1961 / FRANCE
In this funny parody of silent cinema, a young man sees life in black when he puts on his sunglasses, but everything is fixed when he takes them off.
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
MARC FOUCHARD - 2014 / FRANCE
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
LES FRÉMISSEMENTS DU THÉ / THE WAY OF TEA
MARC FOUCHARD - 2014 / FRANCE
A small town in northern France, Alex, a young skinhead, enters Malik’s grocery store
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
ANNIE ST-PIERRE - 2020 / CANADÁ
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
LES GRANDES CLAQUES / LIKE THE ONES I USED TO KNOW
ANNIE ST-PIERRE - 2020 / CANADÁ
December 24. The traditional family Christmas party is in full swing at aunt Lisette's. While Julie, eight years old, wishes for Santa Claus to appear, her father, Denis, is waiting alone in his car for the agreed time to come so he can go and pick up his kids. A comedy drama about a father daughter relationship, just when their traditional roles are reversed.
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
JULIETTE RICCABONI - 2018 / SWITZERLAND - ITALY
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
LES ÎLES DE BRISSOGNE / BRISSOGNE ISLANDS
JULIETTE RICCABONI - 2018 / SWITZERLAND - ITALY
On the rest area called Brissogne Islands, Aurora, protected by her brother Angiolino, prostitutes herself in the trucks and saves money to start a new life somewhere else.
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT - 1957 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
LES MISTONS / THE MISCHIEF MAKERS
FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT - 1957 / FRANCE
During a hot summer, five children spy on Bernadette and Gérard, a couple of lovers. Taking advantage of Gérard's departure with a mountaineering expedition, the children send Bernadette a provocative postcard.
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
DENYS ARCAND - 1965 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
LES MONTRÉALISTES / VILLE-MARIE
DENYS ARCAND - 1965 / CANADA
How was Ville-Marie born? What was the religious view of one of its founders, Paul de Chomedey of Maisonneuve? What influence did the religious communities exert? While focusing on the work of Jeanne-Mance, Marguerite-Bourgeois and other elite minds, this film shows the difficulties that Montréalistes, as they called themselves, had to overcome in the early days of the colony.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
RENAUD MARTIN - 2012 / FRANCE
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
LES SOUVENIRS / MEMORIES
RENAUD MARTIN - 2012 / FRANCE
A woman slowly loses her mind over the last four seasons of her life and her memories escape her one by one. Her husband remembers their life together through them.
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
JACQUES DONIOL-VALCROZE - 1958 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
LES SURMENÉS / THE EXHAUSTED
JACQUES DONIOL-VALCROZE - 1958 / FRANCE
A beautiful young lady who is not too smart wins a typing contest and takes the train to Paris to work, where she will encounter two men.
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
JEAN ROUCH - 1965 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
LES VEUVES DE 15 ANS / THE 15 YEAR-OLD WIDOWS
JEAN ROUCH - 1965 / FRANCE
Marie-France and Véronique are two Parisian students who enjoy a carefree lifestyle. Protected by their family and friends, they only care about pursuing love, and happiness.
Initially titled "Marie-France et Véronique", as part of the collective film La fleur del'âge or Les adolescents, it gets a new life as an independent short film.
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
PEDRO COLLANTES - 2010 / NORWAY
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
LIFE IN A MINUTE
PEDRO COLLANTES - 2010 / NORWAY
Small visual poem about love and the brevity of life.
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
RAWAN RAHIM - 2015 / LEBANON - FRANCE
.FIC2017ChildrenJuniorsParallel
LILOU
RAWAN RAHIM - 2015 / LEBANON - FRANCE
Lilou is extremely sensitive and curious, but also weakened by an unbearable shyness. She is given the power to see into the past of people, and that will force her to get out of her introversion.
.FIC2017ChildrenJuniorsParallel
BERU TESSEMA - 2022 / FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2023JuniorsminiFICParallel
LIONS
BERU TESSEMA - 2022 / FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM
Rosie, a Congolese teenager, who’s recently arrived in London, discovers the unwelcoming side of life in Britain when a misunderstanding with two window cleaners escalates into conflict.
.FIC2023JuniorsminiFICParallel
DAVID MACIÁN - 2007 / SPAIN
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
LIQUIDACIÓN TOTAL / FULL SETTLEMENT
DAVID MACIÁN - 2007 / SPAIN
Mr. Iglesias meets Mr. De los Santos in a coffee shop to make a simple order. However, Mr. De los Santos surprises Mr. Iglesias with a proposal.
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
HAMY RAMEZAN, RUNGAND NYONI - 2014 / DENMARK - FINLAND
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
LISTEN
HAMY RAMEZAN, RUNGAND NYONI - 2014 / DENMARK - FINLAND
A foreign woman in a burqa arrives at a police station in Copenhagen with her young son to file a complaint against her violent husband.
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
LETICIA DOLERA - 2009 / SPAIN
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LO SIENTO, TE QUIERO / SORRY, I LOVE YOU
LETICIA DOLERA - 2009 / SPAIN
Love and science fiction story, about Toni, a ¿regular? guy who was once unfaithful to his own heart. From that moment on, something rotten lives within him. Now he has a chance to change things.
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
CELINE HELD, LOGAN GEORGE - 2019 / USA
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
LOCKDOWN
CELINE HELD, LOGAN GEORGE - 2019 / USA
Struggling with feelings for her best friend, 14 yearold Marie stages an almost perfect plan.
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
ANITA KWIATKOWSKA-NAQVI - 2016 / POLAND
.FIC2017Parallel
LOCUS
ANITA KWIATKOWSKA-NAQVI - 2016 / POLAND
A woman on an empty train in the middle of the night, lonely and anxious to get back home and see her husband and son. When the train suddenly brakes, she looks through the window. What she sees will change her life.
.FIC2017Parallel
IES MARIA SOLIÑO - 2020 / 11th grade
.FIC2020CompetitiveEducation CentersminiFIC
LONGA NOITE DE EVA / LONG NIGHT OF EVA
IES MARIA SOLIÑO - 2020 / 11th grade
A work by the eleventh grade students of the IES María Soliño inspired by Hio’s calvary and its stone sculpted Eva.
.FIC2020CompetitiveEducation CentersminiFIC
PABLO POLLEDRI - 2020 / ARGENTINA
.FIC2021FamilyminiFICParallel
LOOP
PABLO POLLEDRI - 2020 / ARGENTINA
In this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again.
.FIC2021FamilyminiFICParallel
PABLO POLLEDRI - 2020 / ARGENTINA
.FIC2021JuniorsminiFICParallel
LOOP
PABLO POLLEDRI - 2020 / ARGENTINA
In this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again...
.FIC2021JuniorsminiFICParallel
ZACARÍAS & MACGREGOR - 2015 / SPAIN
.FIC2016Parallel
LOS ANGELES 1991
ZACARÍAS & MACGREGOR - 2015 / SPAIN
Los Angeles, 1991. The streets have become a hotbed of racial tension and hate about to burst... Today is an important day for Eladio: he is going to avenge the death of his older brother. Within minutes he will find out that he is not the only one who has reasons to kill someone.
.FIC2016Parallel
LUIS E. PARÉS - 2021 / SPAIN
.FIC2022CompetitiveSpain
LOS CONSPIRADORES / THE CONSPIRATORS
LUIS E. PARÉS - 2021 / SPAIN
In every attempt at subversion, there are two moments, the one just before, when everyone doubts and no one knowshow to hide fear, and the one just after, when all that remains is to run and find a safe place, maybe in memory.
.FIC2022CompetitiveSpain
LAURA FERRÉS - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2018CompetitiveSpain
LOS DESHEREDADOS / THE DISINHERITED
LAURA FERRÉS - 2017 / SPAIN
This is a portrait of the director’s father facing the end of the family business. Pere Ferrés is 53 years old and in charge of a bus company. The shortage of income forces him to organise bachelor parties where customers often destroy the vehicle, but he isn’t willing to lose his dignity.
.FIC2018CompetitiveSpain
VÍCTOR ERICE - 1963 / SPAIN
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
LOS DÍAS PERDIDOS / THE LOST DAYS
VÍCTOR ERICE - 1963 / SPAIN
A Spanish emigrant woman working in Paris returns to Spain after the death of her father. The events make her aware of the uprooting of her whole sentimental life.
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
LUCAS CASTÁN - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2017FamilyParallel
LOS HOMBRES DE VERDAD NO LLORAN / REAL MEN DON’T CRY
LUCAS CASTÁN - 2017 / SPAIN
A father, a son and ice hockey a passion, but with a harsh reality to face.
.FIC2017FamilyParallel
JANAIRA MARQUES RIBEIRO - 2009 / CUBA - BRAZIL
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LOS MINUTOS, LAS HORAS / MINUTES, HOURS
JANAIRA MARQUES RIBEIRO - 2009 / CUBA - BRAZIL
Yoli has always lived with her mother in a humble neighborhood of Havana. One day, a man invites her out and she decides to wait for him rejecting, for the first time, her mother´s company.
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
BIEL MAURI - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2009AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LOVE
BIEL MAURI - 2008 / SPAIN
"Love" is a love story about an unusual family. A family in which everyone suffers a disability unless Karen.
.FIC2009AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
SONEJUHI SINHA - 2015 / USA
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
LOVE COMES LATER
SONEJUHI SINHA - 2015 / USA
America, the land of opportunity, attracts immigrants from every corner of the world. An ambitious young immigrant, Riz, works at a small motel in pursuit of her American dream. When an unexpected discovery confronts Riz with the consequences of being undocumented, she is forced to make a life changing decision.
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
DAN HODGSON - 2015 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
LOVE IS BLIND
DAN HODGSON - 2015 / UNITED KINGDOM
Alice is in the passionate embrace of a young lover, as she finally succumbs to temptation. When her husband James returns home early to try and make amends for his recent infidelity and inattention for their marriage, Alice finds herself in the midst of an emotional minefield. Racked with guilt for being unfaithful just as James offers an olive branch, while simultaneously negotiating her lover’s escape.
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
BRITT RAES - 2022 / BELGIUM-FRANCE-NETHERLANDS
.FIC2022ChildrenFamilyminiFICParallel
LUCE AND THE ROCK
BRITT RAES - 2022 / BELGIUM-FRANCE-NETHERLANDS
One day, out of nowhere, a giant Rock lays in the middle of the peaceful little village where Luce lives. The villagers can’t even open the door to their houses anymore! Luce is angry: go away Rock, you don’t belong here! And why are you here anyway?
.FIC2022ChildrenFamilyminiFICParallel
JUAN PABLO ZARAMELLA - 2011 / ARGENTINA
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LUMINARIS
JUAN PABLO ZARAMELLA - 2011 / ARGENTINA
In a world controlled and timed by light, an ordinary man has a plan that could change the natural order of things.
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ANDRÉ MARQUES - 2013 / PORTUGAL - ROMANIA
.FIC2014.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficialParallelRetrospective
LUMINITA
ANDRÉ MARQUES - 2013 / PORTUGAL - ROMANIA
Two brothers, who haven’t spoken in years, meet at their mother’s funeral where they must deal with their mourning family, their obligations as sons and their own feelings of loss
.FIC2014.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficialParallelRetrospective
NANI MATOS - 2016 / SPAIN
.FIC2016CompetitiveGalicia
LURNA
NANI MATOS - 2016 / SPAIN
Lurna is a young African woman who dreams about having a better life. One day she sets off with the hope and expectation of fulfilling her dream. What Lurna doesn’t know is that she will soon wish to go back.
.FIC2016CompetitiveGalicia
KIM TORRES - 2022 / COSTA RICA
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
LUZ NOCTURNA / NIGHT LIGHT
KIM TORRES - 2022 / COSTA RICA
A tale about solitude portrayed from the intimacy of three siblings who are about to receive one of the harshest news of their lives. In the midst of it all the forest accompanies them, but also haunts them.
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
CHEMA GARCIA IBARRA - 2012 / SPAIN
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
LV-225
CHEMA GARCIA IBARRA - 2012 / SPAIN
In a city where its dwellers live in the shadow of a huge garbage tower, a man writes a letter to his lover.
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
EMMA BRANDERHORST - 2023 / NETHERLANDS
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MA MÈRE ET MOI / MY MOTHER AND ME
EMMA BRANDERHORST - 2023 / NETHERLANDS
Kees, 17 years old, wants to break free from her mother Lois and decides to take a language course in France. During their 'last' trip together Lois struggles with their changing relationship, while Kees can't wait to start her own adventure.
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ISMAËL JOFFROY CHANDOUTIS - 2020 / FRANCE
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
MAALBEEK
ISMAËL JOFFROY CHANDOUTIS - 2020 / FRANCE
Survivor but amnesiac of the attack at Maalbeek metro station on 22 March 2016 in Brussels, Sabine is looking for the missing image of an over-mediatised event of which she has no memory.
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
HATEM KHRAICHE RUIZ ZORRILLA - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
MACHU PICCHU
HATEM KHRAICHE RUIZ ZORRILLA - 2008 / SPAIN
There are long weekends.
There are endless weekends.
And there are weekends taking care of him.
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
IVAN BARGE - 2015 / NEW ZEALAND
.FIC2016.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficialParallel
MADAM BLACK
IVAN BARGE - 2015 / NEW ZEALAND
When a photographer runs over a young girl’s cat, he finds himself inventing a story about its disappearance.
.FIC2016.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficialParallel
RODRIGO SOROGOYEN - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2018CompetitiveSpain
MADRE / MOTHER
RODRIGO SOROGOYEN - 2017 / SPAIN
An everyday conversation between Marta and her mother turns into a tragic race against time, when Marta receives a phone call from her son.
.FIC2018CompetitiveSpain
SIMÓN MESA SOTO - 2016 / COLOMBIA - SWEDEN
.FIC2017Parallel
MADRE / MOTHER
SIMÓN MESA SOTO - 2016 / COLOMBIA - SWEDEN
Andrea is 16 years old and leaves her neighbourhood on the hills of Medellin, Colombia, to attend a downtown casting call for a porn film.
.FIC2017Parallel
JAVIER SAN ROMÁN MARTÍN - 2007 / SPAIN
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
MADRID MOSCÚ
JAVIER SAN ROMÁN MARTÍN - 2007 / SPAIN
Chema, a truck driver on his way through a regular road, decides to stop at a whorehouse to watch a soccer match. To do so, he will have to go to Olga's room, the only one with a TV.
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
LUCA MEISTERS - 2023 / NETHERLANDS
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
MAGMA
LUCA MEISTERS - 2023 / NETHERLANDS
The world of the introverted but fiery Esra has been turned upside down. Her father has become disabled after a recent motorcycle accident and as a result, they had to move to a new place. Struggling with his limitations, Esra’s father isn’t the man she once knew. At her new school, she tells a lie that results in a lot of positive attention, but of which she is unable to oversee the consequences. The pain, anger, and shame that boil inside of her will inevitably find their way to the surface.
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
IES DE BRIÓN - 2018 / SPAIN
.FIC2019CompetitiveEducation Centers
MAIS EU NON SON EU / BUT I AM NOT ME
IES DE BRIÓN - 2018 / SPAIN
Music video made by secondary school students out of a theme composed and interpreted by themselves.
.FIC2019CompetitiveEducation Centers
MOHAMMADREZA FARZAD - 2022 / IRAN, POLAND, GERMANY
.FIC2023CompetitiveDiscoveries
MAJMOUAN
MOHAMMADREZA FARZAD - 2022 / IRAN, POLAND, GERMANY
Have you kept a record of your gray hair? The number of houses you have owned or rented? The number of kisses you have exchanged? The number of times you have flown in your dreams? You may not have. It makes no real difference in a life lived beyond numbers.
.FIC2023CompetitiveDiscoveries
SANTI TEIJELO - 2023 / SPAIN
.FIC2023CompetitiveGZ_00
MALGRAT
SANTI TEIJELO - 2023 / SPAIN
“Malgrat” is a documentary project that reflects upon the capacity of spaces to shelter memories. Through images of the past recorded with the family’s video camera, images of the present and the confrontation of both, is composed the story of Iago and Javi, who make a trip to say goodbye to the family’s house, after the recent passing of their grandmother.
.FIC2023CompetitiveGZ_00
MAIMOUNA DOUCOURÉ - 2015 / FRANCE
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MAMAN-S
MAIMOUNA DOUCOURÉ - 2015 / FRANCE
The 8-year-old Aida lives in an apartment in the Parisian suburb. The daily life of Aida and the whole family is overwhelmed when her father comes back from Senegal, their country of origin. Actually, he did not come back alone. He returned with the young Senegalese Rama whom he introduced as his second wife. Aida is very sensitive to her mother’s distress. She decides then to get rid of the new visitor.
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
CIRO ALTABÁS - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
MANUAL PRÁCTICO DEL AMIGO IMAGINARIO / PRACTICAL MANUAL OF THE IMAGINARY FRIEND
CIRO ALTABÁS - 2008 / SPAIN
Fernando is a shy 27 year old young man who receives the visit of an old classmate, Iratxe. This arouses jealousy in his imaginary friend, Captain Kiloton, a superhero that had stood by his side since he was a kid, and who feels their friendship is now in jeopardy...
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
IES AUDIOVISUAL DE VIGO (EAV) - 2018 / SPAIN
.FIC2018Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
MARBEL: 40 ANOS DESPOIS / MARBEL: 40 YEARS AFTER
IES AUDIOVISUAL DE VIGO (EAV) - 2018 / SPAIN
Forty years ago, on the 27th of January of 1978, the motor of the freezer vessel Marbel broke down, causing it to drift and run aground on the Cíes Islands, sinking and taking with it 27 souls. Although a long time has passed, it is still present in many homes.
.FIC2018Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
CHAO KOI WANG - 2010 / TAIWAN - MACAO
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
MARCH RHAPSODY
CHAO KOI WANG - 2010 / TAIWAN - MACAO
To win back beautiful times gone by, Chang Yen makes a secret decision. When everything is ready, his relation ship whit his son takes an unexpected good turn, causing Chang Yen to regret his decision. As time goes by, he realizes the beautiful times can only exist in his imagination.
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
CECILIA BARTOLOMÉ - 1969 / SPAIN
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
MARGARITA Y EL LOBO / MARGARITA AND THE WOLF
CECILIA BARTOLOMÉ - 1969 / SPAIN
In the marriage separation trial Margarita is facing, an ecclesiastical judge establishes that there will only be a separation of bodies and property.; the marriage is for life. Throughout this hectic day, we see what her past life has been, through fragmentary memories that are strung together by means of numbers.
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
CEIP PLURILINGÜE DO CARBALLAL - 2023 / 4º EDUCACIÓN PRIMARIA
.FIC2023CompetitiveEducation Centers
MARIO O TEIXUGHO / MARIO THE BADGER
CEIP PLURILINGÜE DO CARBALLAL - 2023 / 4º EDUCACIÓN PRIMARIA
The Carballal teachers search in their memories for that boy from '87. Through this musical short, based on a piece of news invented by the students, we will discover the story of Mario, that pupil from '87.
.FIC2023CompetitiveEducation Centers
PEDRO SANCHO - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2019CompetitiveGalicia
MARUSÍA / THE SURGE
PEDRO SANCHO - 2019 / SPAIN
Juan and Pedro, two losers not at their best, sip their last coffee liquor at Socia’s bar. Fed up with their situation, they decide to get revenge of the system, taking the most absurd decision of their lives: they will blow up a ship based on their neighbourhood’s most crowded roundabout.
.FIC2019CompetitiveGalicia
CEIP PLURILINGÜE DE GUILLAREI - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
MARUXA E PEPIÑO / MARUXA AND PEPIÑO
CEIP PLURILINGÜE DE GUILLAREI - 2019 / SPAIN
Maruxa takes care of all the domestic chores while Pepiño spends his time watching the grass grow, until one day... things are reversed.
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
MAITÉ SONNET - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MASSACRE / MASSACRE
MAITÉ SONNET - 2019 / FRANCE
Two sisters, aged 10 and 12, are about to leave their beloved island, which became too expensive for their family. Their sadness turns into rage towards those forcing them to leave: tourists. This last summer will be dark, deadly, and toxic.
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
JAN LOCUS - 2021 / BELGIUM
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
MASTERS OF THE LAND
JAN LOCUS - 2021 / BELGIUM
The rise of mining and climate change have led to vast desertification in Mongolia. According to Mongolian shamanistic belief violation of nature by men provokes the anger of the ruling spirits or the ‘masters of the land’. Interweaving texts by shamaness Kyrgys Khurak and Hungarian poet Ferenc Juhasz with medium long shots, Masters of the Land submerges the viewer in an intoxicating finale.
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
ÁLVARO GAGO - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveGalicia
MATRIA
ÁLVARO GAGO - 2017 / SPAIN
Faced with the challenges presented by her daily routine, Ramona tries to take refuge in the relationship that unites her to her daughter and granddaughter.
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveGalicia
BIANCA CADERAS, KERSTIN ZEMP - 2023 / SWITZERLAND
.FIC2024CompetitiveDiscoveries
MATTO UND MATTA / MATTO AND MATTA
BIANCA CADERAS, KERSTIN ZEMP - 2023 / SWITZERLAND
In a dystopian world where touch is forbidden, Matta and Matto offer refuge to the lonely at Hotel Vaip. In the deceptive labyrinth of mind-bending rooms at their transient hotel, deepest desires are fulfilled and surpassed, but this comes at a price.
.FIC2024CompetitiveDiscoveries
JOSEPH OXFORD - 2013 / USA
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
ME + HER
JOSEPH OXFORD - 2013 / USA
When Jack and Jill of Cardboard City are separated by Jill's untimely death, Jack goes on a journey to mend his (literally) broken heart.
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
ALBER PONTE - 2011 / SPAIN
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
ME LLAMO RAMA / MY NAME IS RAMA
ALBER PONTE - 2011 / SPAIN
Luisa's parents live in a small village close to Santiago de Compostela. She goes there to introduce her boyfriend to them. What they don`t know is that her boyfriend is Rama, an indian man.
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
BELINDA BONAN - 2020 / SPAIN
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
ME, A MONSTER?
BELINDA BONAN - 2020 / SPAIN
After living a peaceful life on his small planet, the lonely Nono must deal with the visit of a new being, that will make him realize that, after all, they are not as different as they seemed.
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
SOFIA GEORGOVASSILI - 2022 / GREECE
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
MEMOIR OF A VEERING STORM
SOFIA GEORGOVASSILI - 2022 / GREECE
It is a morning in September. A storm is about to break. Α mother drives a girl to school in the morning and picks up a woman at the end of the school day. Anna, a fifteen-year-old girl sneaks out of school, and with the help of her boyfriend, they visit a hospital. There, she has to face an event that will jolt her into adulthood.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
BRUNO COLLET - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MÉMORABLE / MEMORABLE
BRUNO COLLET - 2019 / FRANCE
In the last few years, both the painter Louis and his wife Michelle are suffering from a series of paranormal events. The world around them seems to be undergoing some kind of transformation. Very slowly, the furniture around them, as well as the people, begin to lose their shape.
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
IES AUDIOVISUAL DE VIGO - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2019Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
MEMORIAS DE RODAXE / MEMORIES OF SHOOTING
IES AUDIOVISUAL DE VIGO - 2019 / SPAIN
The Vigo film director Fon Cortizo sends an audio message to the director Xisela Franco, in which he remembers a recent party that both of them assisted. Fon had a bad night, has a fever and suffered a state of reverie in which he imagined large empty containers. Thus, Fon comes to the conclusion that this dreamt space has the necessary ingredients to build a story. In Xisela Franco’s answer, she talks about the films she made in 8 mm of different locations in Vigo and her idea of the cinematographic space in the city itself.
.FIC2019Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
FERNANDO FRANCO - 2007 / SPAIN
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
MENSAJES DE VOZ / VOICE MESSAGES
FERNANDO FRANCO - 2007 / SPAIN
Marta returns to Madrid after a period living abroad in order to reorganize her life with Luis.
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
NACHO OZORES - 2020 / SPAIN
.FIC2021CompetitiveGalicia
MENTRES ISO PASA / WHILE THIS IS HAPPENING
NACHO OZORES - 2020 / SPAIN
Nico is a boy with obsessions and compulsions that prevent him from living a normal life. Today he is late again for training. Nico needs to finish that hell in his head.
.FIC2021CompetitiveGalicia
CEIP DO CARBALLAL - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2022CompetitiveEducation Centers
MERGULLO NAS RÍAS / DIVING IN THE RIAS
CEIP DO CARBALLAL - 2022 / SPAIN
A day's fishing turns into an adventure for Ivan. It involves whiting, pirates and even the shark in a video clip created by the students and made from the story Diving in the ria.
.FIC2022CompetitiveEducation Centers
ANTJE HEYN - 2021 / GERMANY
.FIC2023miniFICParallel
META
ANTJE HEYN - 2021 / GERMANY
Interconnection, form, function, flow: all these big ideas about change and growth sprout in a playful way as the creatures in this short film dance and change shape.
.FIC2023miniFICParallel
AGNES PATRON, MORGANE LE PECHON - 2023 / FRANCE
.FIC2024JuniorsminiFICParallel
MÉTÉORES / METEORS
AGNES PATRON, MORGANE LE PECHON - 2023 / FRANCE
On a cool summer night, animals with eyes full of light leave the forest to venture into the alleys of a suburban neighbourhood. Four children sneak out of their beds, and stars begin to fall from the sky. By the morning everything will have changed, but for now let's run!
.FIC2024JuniorsminiFICParallel
FAUSTÓN DA SILVA - 2013 / BRAZIL
.FIC2014.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficialParallel
MEU AMIGO NIETZSCHE / MY FRIEND NIETZSCHE
FAUSTÓN DA SILVA - 2013 / BRAZIL
Lucas’ chance meeting with Niestzche will be the beginning of a violent revolution in his mind, his family and society. By the end, he will no longer a boy, he’ll be dynamite!
.FIC2014.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficialParallel
ISABEL DE OCAMPO - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
MIENTE / LIE
ISABEL DE OCAMPO - 2008 / SPAIN
Doina wants to make a birthday gift to her little sister, but it is not easy to achieve.
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
IES PRAIA BARRAÑA - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2022CompetitiveEducation Centers
MIGRANDO / MIGRATION
IES PRAIA BARRAÑA - 2022 / SPAIN
A reflection on emigration: a swallow realises that human winters are different from his own...
.FIC2022CompetitiveEducation Centers
HUGO CABY, ANTOINE DUPRIEZ, AUBIN KUBIAK, LUCAS LERMYTTE, ZOÉ DEVISE - 2020 / FRANCE
.FIC2021JuniorsminiFICParallel
MIGRANTS
HUGO CABY, ANTOINE DUPRIEZ, AUBIN KUBIAK, LUCAS LERMYTTE, ZOÉ DEVISE - 2020 / FRANCE
Two polar bears are driven into exile due to global warming. They will encounter brown bears along their journey, with whom they will try to cohabitate.
.FIC2021JuniorsminiFICParallel
BARBARA BRUNNER - 2018 / SWITZERLAND
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
MILES AWAY
BARBARA BRUNNER - 2018 / SWITZERLAND
With imagination everything is possible, even ending up in an amusement park with a tree as a companion.
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
DIANA CAM VAN NGUYEN - 2021 / CZECH REPUBLIC - SLOVAKIA
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
MILÝ, TATI / LOVE, DAD
DIANA CAM VAN NGUYEN - 2021 / CZECH REPUBLIC - SLOVAKIA
A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent.
The author rediscovers letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again. She puts in writing what could not be said: blaming him for family ́s break-up but also trying to understand.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
NIKI LINDROTH VON BAHR - 2017 / SWEDEN
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MIN BÖRDA /THE BURDEN
NIKI LINDROTH VON BAHR - 2017 / SWEDEN
An animated musical with apocalyptic undertones. The story is divided into four episodes that take place in a supermarket, a long-term hotel, a call centre and a hamburger restaurant.
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
STÉPHANIE LAGARDE - 2021 / NETHERLANDS
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveDiscoveries
MINIMAL SWAY WHILE STARTING MY WAY UP
STÉPHANIE LAGARDE - 2021 / NETHERLANDS
As an intelligent elevator discovers the world, we get to know the invisible links between extreme heights –the mega-tall tower, speculative object and symbol for social, cultural and economical domination– and extreme depths –the deep mine, place of natural wealth extraction and colonial exploitation. As doubts, fears and desires melt in the consciousness of the elevator, existence becomes a battle to justify itself.
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveDiscoveries
ANDRES TENUSAAR - 2016 / ESTONIA
.FIC2017ChildrenParallel
MIRIAMI KANA UNISTUS / MIRIAM’S HEN’S DREAM
ANDRES TENUSAAR - 2016 / ESTONIA
It’s a rainy day. Little Brother and Father are building a toy plane, Miriam is viewing an album about southern countries and Hen is also dreaming about flying to the south, because she sees a flock of birds heading southwards. When the rain is over, Mother takes everybody to the park to rake the fallen leaves.
.FIC2017ChildrenParallel
JORIS IVENS, HENRI STORCK - 1934 / BELGIUM
.FIC2023ParallelRetrospective
MISÈRE AU BORINAGE / MISERY IN BORINAGE
JORIS IVENS, HENRI STORCK - 1934 / BELGIUM
Documentary about a miners' strike in Borinage, an area in the southwest of Belgium. Misère au Borinage denounces the harsh living conditions of the workers in this community through images of their struggle, the destruction of consumer goods and their confrontations.
.FIC2023ParallelRetrospective
MILEN VITANOV - 2020 / GERMANY - BULGARIA
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
MISHOU
MILEN VITANOV - 2020 / GERMANY - BULGARIA
A helicopter full of tourists lands in a place where there is snow, ice and pleasant silence all around. After a quick selfie session, the tourists fly away again in the helicopter, leaving behind them a pile of garbage and a little dog that is immediately adopted by four Arctic hares.
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
IES AS BARXAS - 2021 / SPAIN
.FIC2021CompetitiveEducation Centers
MISS EACH OTHER BEFORE WE NEED
IES AS BARXAS - 2021 / SPAIN
Student Ainhoa Mosquera original song’s music video, recorded and produced by the music class from IES As Barxas.
.FIC2021CompetitiveEducation Centers
CHRISTOPH GIRARDET, MATTHIA MÜLLER - 2021 / GERMANY
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
MISTY PICTURE
CHRISTOPH GIRARDET, MATTHIA MÜLLER - 2021 / GERMANY
The television images of the collapse of the World Trade Center were preceded by manifold stagings of the building, either as a highly symbolic icon, a speculative destruction fantasy or merely as a spectacular backdrop. City symphony, disaster movie and media trauma therapy become one.
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
GÉZA M. THÓT - 2020 / HUNGARY
.FIC2021ChildrenminiFICParallel
MITCH-MATCH
GÉZA M. THÓT - 2020 / HUNGARY
There’s only one matchstick left in the box. This stick, embarks on a journey in every episode and always returns to the box.
.FIC2021ChildrenminiFICParallel
INÉS ENCISO - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
MOFETAS / SKUNKS
INÉS ENCISO - 2008 / SPAIN
Night falls in the port of Tangier. Karim and Aziz are waiting for silence. It is the wait for a journey towards a seemingly better world. A journey towards dreams. A journey that repeats itself many times...
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
MOURAD BOUDAOUD, CARINE MAY, YASSINE QNIA, HAKIM ZOUHANI - 2014 / FRANCE
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
MOLII
MOURAD BOUDAOUD, CARINE MAY, YASSINE QNIA, HAKIM ZOUHANI - 2014 / FRANCE
Steve is in his twenties. One night, he has to fill in for his father, watchman at the public swimming pool. Everything goes as planned, until the young man hears an unusual noise.
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
GREGORY CASARES - 2016 / SWITZERLAND
.FIC2017Parallel
MON ANGE / ANGEL
GREGORY CASARES - 2016 / SWITZERLAND
For a long time, Eva and Mr. Corbeau have felt affection and attraction for each other. But the human world and the animal world cannot mix! Or so it seems until, one autumn evening, Eva's father arranges a masked dance in his daughter's favour.
.FIC2017Parallel
SUKI - 2021 / FRANCE
.FIC2021FamilyminiFICParallel
MONDO DOMINO / DOMINO'S WORLD
SUKI - 2021 / FRANCE
In a deafening noise of chainsaws, loggers happily humming as they cut down trees to be used as decor for a fashion show. A contemporary cartoon satire, in the form of a burlesque action musical tragi-comedy, leads us into a delirious whirlwind of chain reactions as chaotic as they are grotesque…
.FIC2021FamilyminiFICParallel
BERNARD LONGPRÉ, ANDRÉ LEDUC - 1975 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
MONSIEUR POINTU / MR. POINTU
BERNARD LONGPRÉ, ANDRÉ LEDUC - 1975 / CANADA
This animated short about virtuoso stage entertainer Monsieur Pointu (Paul Cormier) is screen magic at its best. Here, the man and his violin are literally taken apart; head, feet, limbs, various items of stage attire, bow, strings, and box all go into their own separate acts, with strange and amusing results.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
DAVID RODRÍGUEZ MUÑIZ - 2016 / SPAIN
.FIC2016CompetitiveGalicia
MONSTRUO
DAVID RODRÍGUEZ MUÑIZ - 2016 / SPAIN
When a man turns in a monster, his only option is the death.
.FIC2016CompetitiveGalicia
NOELIA MARÍA MUÍÑO GONZÁLEZ - 2020 / SPAIN
.FIC2021CompetitiveGalicia
MONTE BRAVO / WOODLAND
NOELIA MARÍA MUÍÑO GONZÁLEZ - 2020 / SPAIN
Paula is a girl who lives in a Spanish village after the Civil War. One day, while playing with her brother Pablo, she sees a werewolf in the forest. But, is it real or just the child’s imagination?
.FIC2021CompetitiveGalicia
IES FELIX MURIEL - 2021 / SPAIN
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
MONTE VIVO
IES FELIX MURIEL - 2021 / SPAIN
Documentary realized by 4º ESO student’s from the IES Félix Muriel, in Rianxo. The short film is about the educational project “Monte Vivo”, in the context of the Audiovisual Workshop of Cinema with Mobile Phone 2020-2021.
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
ANITA KILLI - 2020 / NORWAY
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
MOR VISSTE INGENTING / MOM DIDN’T KNOW
ANITA KILLI - 2020 / NORWAY
It's a cold winter night, when a young old girl crawls down into an old, dark farm silo. Sad and depressed, she cuts off her hair and collapses on the cold ground, just in her nightdress and far too big rubber boots.
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
AITOR ECHEVERRÍA - 2010 / SPAIN
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
MORIR CADA DÍA / DYING EVERY DAY
AITOR ECHEVERRÍA - 2010 / SPAIN
Blanca is not prepared to allow her familiy dinner peacefully. The conversation is boring, and the usual jokes annoy her. She knows all could be different.
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
ELODIE WALLACE - 2020 / FRANCE
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
MOTUS / NOT A WORD
ELODIE WALLACE - 2020 / FRANCE
Alice gets lost in the maze of a hospital, driven by the need to resolve her grievances with her former abuser, who is now dying. A race to finally put words to her pain...
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
JONAS MEKAS - 2000 / UNITED STATES
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
MOZART WIEN & ELVIS / MOZART WIEN & ELVIS
JONAS MEKAS - 2000 / UNITED STATES
This is footage of Elvis Presley's last performance in New York on June 9th, 1972. It is preceded by footage I shot in Vienna a few years earlier. It is a unique recording whichever way you look at it.
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
IGNAS MEILUNAS - 2015 / LITHUANIA
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
MR NIGHT HAS A DAY OFF
IGNAS MEILUNAS - 2015 / LITHUANIA
Mr Night is the nocturnal sky. One morning he decides go down into the city for a visit and starts transforming whatever he finds into night’s blackness.
.FIC2018KindergartenParallel
CÉSAR DÍAZ MELÉNDEZ - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
MUEDRA
CÉSAR DÍAZ MELÉNDEZ - 2019 / SPAIN
Life can arise anywhere, nature behaves strangely and days can last for minutes. Although everything is familiar to us, nothing is what it seems in this place. The cycle of life seen from a different perspective.
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
EVA SAIZ - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2020CompetitiveSpain
MUJER SIN HIJO / WOMAN WITHOUT A CHILD
EVA SAIZ - 2019 / SPAIN
Tere welcomes a young boy in his house looking for a room to rent. An affinity will gown between them, which little by little will resemble the one that any mother has with her son, if it were not because Tere sees him in another way.
.FIC2020CompetitiveSpain
SEEMAB GUL - 2021 / PAKISTAN
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
MULAQAT / SANDSTORM
SEEMAB GUL - 2021 / PAKISTAN
Zara, a schoolgirl in Karachi (Pakistan), shares a sensual dance video with her virtual boyfriend, who then blackmails her. Caught between his manipulative behaviour and the desire to experience love on her own terms, Zara searches for the strength to reject the confines of a patriarchal society.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
CPI ALCALDE XOSÉ PICHEL - 2023 / 4º ESO
.FIC2023CompetitiveEducation Centers
MUNDO AO REVÉS / WORLD UPSIDE DOWN
CPI ALCALDE XOSÉ PICHEL - 2023 / 4º ESO
Is being heterosexual normal? In "Mundo ao revés" we reflect on this question to discover how absurd human behaviour can be.
.FIC2023CompetitiveEducation Centers
TATIANA KISELEVA - 2021 / RUSSIA
.FIC2023miniFICParallel
MY FRIEND TIGER
TATIANA KISELEVA - 2021 / RUSSIA
A girl and her friend Tiger are cycling around the city. They spend the whole day doing things together and sharing experiences, until one day the city becomes too small for Tiger.
.FIC2023miniFICParallel
UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO: FACULTADE DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS E DA COMUNICACIÓN - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2019Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
NA MEMORIA DA TÚA ESPOSA / IN YOUR WIFE’S MEMORY
UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO: FACULTADE DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS E DA COMUNICACIÓN - 2019 / SPAIN
Adela is a seventy-one year old woman who lives in an abandoned village in the Galician countryside. The magic of the place surrounds the old population that is completely isolated from the outside world. She, who dedicated her whole life to her husband, family and home, finds herself in a situation of bewilderment after losing what she dedicated her whole life to. It is now a continuous routine between going to church and the cemetery to visit her husband’s grave, maintaining the role with which she has always lived. She does not know how to be if it is not for someone else.
.FIC2019Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
LAURA PIÑEIRO, CORAL PIÑEIRO - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2023CompetitiveGZ_00
NA PEL DA MEMORIA / THE MEMORY OF OUR SKIN
LAURA PIÑEIRO, CORAL PIÑEIRO - 2022 / SPAIN
A young girl writes a letter to Mariví Villaverde, daughter of the republican mayor of the village where she was born. Mariví had to go into exile at the age of 14 because of the coup d'état, do their lives have anything to do with each other? Are the traces of the people and stories that preceded us visible in the places where we grew up? This story reflects on the importance of historical memory through the experiences of its protagonist.
.FIC2023CompetitiveGZ_00
SHADY EL-HAMUS - 2017 / NETHERLANDS
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
NACHTSCHADE / NIGHTSHADE
SHADY EL-HAMUS - 2017 / NETHERLANDS
Eleven-year-old Tarik helps his father Elias to transport illegal immigrants into the Netherlands. When an accident occurs, Tarik gains the acknowledgement from his father he has yearned for, but at a high price.
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
NIKI LINDROTH VON BAHR - 2019 / SWEDEN
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
NÅGOTT ATT MINNAS / SOMETHING TO REMEMBER
NIKI LINDROTH VON BAHR - 2019 / SWEDEN
A lullaby before the great disaster. Two pigeons visit a zoo without animals, a snail measures his blood pressure at the doctor, in the CERN laboratory something has gone terribly wrong. Six moments from our age, like memories of the world we leave behind.
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MARION JAMAULT - 2021 / FRANCE
.FIC2023miniFICParallel
NAISSANCE DES OASIS / BIRTH OF THE OASES
MARION JAMAULT - 2021 / FRANCE
A cold-blooded snake and a hot-blooded camel become very close friends.
.FIC2023miniFICParallel
ERIK SCHMITT - 2013 / GERMANY
.FIC2015AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
NASHORN IM GALOPP / RHINOCEROS AT A GALLOP
ERIK SCHMITT - 2013 / GERMANY
Bruno is making his way through the city searching for its soul. Driven by his curiosity, a stimulating imagination and his wild reflections on reality he is lifting the old dusty curtain on the city‘s crusted perception.
.FIC2015AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
JAKUB JIRÁSEK - 2019 / CZECH REPUBLIC
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
NEBÁT SE NIČEHO / DON’T BE A PUSSY
JAKUB JIRÁSEK - 2019 / CZECH REPUBLIC
Dancing and parkour are officially dead. Elementary schools now offer YouTube classes. But why do the kids only have their parents and classmates as subscribers? Two best friends, Kate and Rachel, decide to make a groundbreaking video. And as their teacher says: followers don't come for free, if you want to be successful, don’t be a pussy.
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
CLAUDIA COSTAFREDA - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveGalicia
NÉBOA / FOG
CLAUDIA COSTAFREDA - 2017 / SPAIN
Telma decides to travel to Galicia with the intention to give back Desiderio, her father’s dog which she inherited after the recent dead of her father.
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveGalicia
LORNA NICKSON BROWN - 2020 / UNITED KIGNDOM
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
NED & ME
LORNA NICKSON BROWN - 2020 / UNITED KIGNDOM
An elderly man meets a young woman in a café, and the deal that follows will alter their lives forever. Ned & Me explores the complexity of human transactions.
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
FARNOOSH SAMADI - 2017 / IRAN - ITALY
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
NEGAH / GAZE
FARNOOSH SAMADI - 2017 / IRAN - ITALY
On her way back from work a woman witnesses something happening on the bus and she has to decide if she reveals it or not.
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MARÍA FLORENCIA ÁLVAREZ - 2010 / ARGENTINA
.FIC2011AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
NENA
MARÍA FLORENCIA ÁLVAREZ - 2010 / ARGENTINA
Nena is 13 years old. She became tall from one day to the next and her body became clumsy. She passes the afternoons in the square. She takes shelter in her attitude but she doesn't achieve to escape from the world hostilities.
.FIC2011AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
HLYNUR PÁLMASON - 2022 / ICELAND, DENMARK
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
NEST
HLYNUR PÁLMASON - 2022 / ICELAND, DENMARK
A story of siblings building a tree house together over the course of a year. We experience the beauty and brutality of the seasons, as we follow them through their struggles and moments of joy.
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
ESCOLA DE IMAXE E SON DE VIGO - EISV. CE MARCOTE - 2020 / SPAIN
.FIC2021Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
NIGHT KEEPER
ESCOLA DE IMAXE E SON DE VIGO - EISV. CE MARCOTE - 2020 / SPAIN
Two night keepers wander through the forest. While they play among the trees one of them gets lost. Their mission will be to find each other.
.FIC2021Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
DAVID VALERO - 2007 / SPAIN
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
NIÑOS QUE NUNCA EXISTIERON / CHILDREN WHO NEVER EXISTED
DAVID VALERO - 2007 / SPAIN
Somewhere where blood mixes with soil, childhood has a soldier's name.
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
UGO SANZ - 2007 / SPAIN
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
NO ES UNA BUENA IDEA / NOT A GOOD IDEA
UGO SANZ - 2007 / SPAIN
Today is a very important day for Maria and she needs to feel her father with her all the time to face it with courage.
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
JOAN GRATZ - 2020 / UNITED STATES
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
NO LEADERS PLEASE
JOAN GRATZ - 2020 / UNITED STATES
No Leaders please is based on a poem by Charles Bukowski. Paintings by Basquiat, Banksy, Haring, and A Weiwei represent the theme of invention and reinvention.
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
LAURA JOU - 2015 / SPAIN
.FIC2016Parallel
NO ME QUITES / DON'T LEAVE ME
LAURA JOU - 2015 / SPAIN
Laura and Luis. Two characters mired in a contradiction: she wants to go with him but attacks and despises him and he does not want her back but there he is, at home and taking off his jacket... The story of heartbreak in which a woman confuse desire with the need to fill an infinite void.
.FIC2016Parallel
MOÏA JOBIN-PARÉ - 2019 / CANADA
.FIC2021Carte Blanche - Marc BertrandParallel
NO OBJECTS
MOÏA JOBIN-PARÉ - 2019 / CANADA
Combining hands-on techniques with digital and analog technologies, No Objects transfigures forms of expression, turning photographs into etchings and sound into motion. An ode to touch in which every gesture is magnified and the image can be heard.
.FIC2021Carte Blanche - Marc BertrandParallel
ELHAM TOROGHI - 2016 / IRAN
.FIC2018JuniorsParallel
NOBODY
ELHAM TOROGHI - 2016 / IRAN
A white cat lives in a city of black residents. No one pays attention to him because he looks different.
.FIC2018JuniorsParallel
PEDRO PERALTA - 2020 / PORTUGAL
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
NOITE PERPÉTUA / PERPETUAL NIGHT
PEDRO PERALTA - 2020 / PORTUGAL
Castuera, Spain, April 1939. During the night two Falangist Guards appear at the door of the house where Paz is taking refuge with her family. They request her presence at the police station. Paz immediately understands the fatality of this visit.
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
IES SALVATERRA DE MIÑO - 2023 / 1º BACHARELATO
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
NON ESTÁS SOA. NON CALES. NON TE PECHES. NON ES A CULPÁBEL / YOU ARE NOT ALONE. DON’T BE SILENT. DON’T CLOSE YOURSELF OFF. YOU ARE NOT TO BLAME
IES SALVATERRA DE MIÑO - 2023 / 1º BACHARELATO
Short video in the form of an advertisement for adolescent mental health.
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
CPI EUSEBIO LORENZO BALEIRÓN - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2022CompetitiveEducation Centers
NON TES PREZO / PRICELESS
CPI EUSEBIO LORENZO BALEIRÓN - 2022 / SPAIN
Videoclip in defence of one's own identity.
.FIC2022CompetitiveEducation Centers
VADIM LASCA - 2015 / VENEZUELA
.FIC2016Parallel
NORMAL
VADIM LASCA - 2015 / VENEZUELA
Fabricio, a Chavista young man, is stuck at home during the rioting occurred in Venezuela on 2014. Alejandra, his former opposition girlfriend, who is participating in the street rioting, is pursued by the National Guard, and arrives, without knowing, to the Fabricio’s house, who helps her to hide. Due to the volatile situation in the streets, Alejandra should stay with Fabricio until it is safe to get out. During this time together should deal with their political differences, which in the past led to their separation.
.FIC2016Parallel
UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO: FACULTADE DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS E DA COMUNICACIÓN E ESCOLA AUDIOVISUAL DE VIGO - 2019 / Final thesis
.FIC2020Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema SchoolsminiFIC
NORTE / NORTH
UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO: FACULTADE DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS E DA COMUNICACIÓN E ESCOLA AUDIOVISUAL DE VIGO - 2019 / Final thesis
A disorientated man is found in the woods by a woman who leads him to an abbey. There, he will find out that there is a cursed land called Saturnia beyond the woods.
.FIC2020Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema SchoolsminiFIC
PHIL SHEERIN - 2014 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
NORTH
PHIL SHEERIN - 2014 / UNITED KINGDOM
Isolated on a farm and fighting against his family, Aaron struggles to be heard as he watches his mother willingly die.
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
MEREIKE ENGELHARDT - 2020 / FRANCE
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
NOS LIONS / BIRDS OF PARADISE
MEREIKE ENGELHARDT - 2020 / FRANCE
Nadia loves Julien and Julien loves Nadia. Today, she will leave her life and her family to marry him. But this is no ordinary marriage. Once they're reunited, nothing can stop them
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
YORDAN PETKOV, EDDY SCHWARTZ - 2020 / BULGARY, BELGIUM, FRANCE
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
NOSHTNA SMYANA / NIGHT SHIFT
YORDAN PETKOV, EDDY SCHWARTZ - 2020 / BULGARY, BELGIUM, FRANCE
Single, unemployed and with nothing to lose, Anton begins working in an illegal coal mine. When his partner is buried in an accident, Anton must find a replacement. Twenty-year-old Hristo seems like a good fit, until Anton discovers his well-kept secret.
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
KATERYNA NAUMENKO - 2009 / UKRAINE
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
NOT SCARED
KATERYNA NAUMENKO - 2009 / UKRAINE
Brother and sister dream about the motorbike. To buy it, they make big efforts and decide to create a little enterprise, which becomes subject to derision from their peers. One day, they meet Valera, who invited them to support him during the motocross championship. At the race, a terrible accident happens... and suddenly the children grow up.
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
RENÉ JODOIN - 1966 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
NOTES ON A TRIANGLE
RENÉ JODOIN - 1966 / CANADA
In this short animation film the triangle achieves the distinction of principal dancer in a geometric ballet. The triangle is shown splitting into some three hundred transformations, dividing and subdividing with grace and symmetry to the music of a waltz.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
JONAS MEKAS - 1966 / UNITED STATES
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
NOTES ON THE CIRCUS / NOTES ON THE CIRCUS
JONAS MEKAS - 1966 / UNITED STATES
Ringling Bros., filmed in three sessions (three-ring circus), with no post-editing of opticals, five rolls strung together as they came out of a camera. Jim Kweskin's Jug Band prepared the soundtrack.
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
MICHELLE KRANOT, URI KRANOT - 2017 / DENMARK - FRANCE
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
NOTHING HAPPENS
MICHELLE KRANOT, URI KRANOT - 2017 / DENMARK - FRANCE
It’s freezing cold in the city suburbs. Yet some people are gathering. We are all waiting for something to happen. But nothing does…
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
RAÚL GARCÍA - 2009 / SPAIN
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
NOUTURNIO DE CELANOVA / NOUTURNIO OF CELANOVA
RAÚL GARCÍA - 2009 / SPAIN
Based on the poem "Nocturnio", written by Manuel Curros Enríquez, it relates a story of an old man who has to leave his home to go arround the world to beg. It could be that, one day, you meet that old man in your way.
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
CEIP DE CAIÓN - 2018 / SPAIN
.FIC2019CompetitiveEducation Centers
NOVAMENTE FELIZ / HAPPY AGAIN
CEIP DE CAIÓN - 2018 / SPAIN
After her grandfather suffered a medical setback, a teenager with a complicated life is forced to move in with some old family friends.
.FIC2019CompetitiveEducation Centers
CHARLIE MANTON - 2019 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
NOVEMBER 1ST
CHARLIE MANTON - 2019 / UNITED KINGDOM
A mother and daughter travel across the state to witness a long overdue execution.
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
LUKAS SCHRANK - 2015 / AUSTRALIA - UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
NOWHERE LINE: VOICES FROM MANUS ISLAND
LUKAS SCHRANK - 2015 / AUSTRALIA - UNITED KINGDOM
An animated short film, narrated by two asylumseeking men detained in Australia’s Manus Island Offshore Processing Centre, recounting the dangerous journeys that brought them to the island and their memories of the riot that erupted.
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
GUILLERMO MADURGA - 2015 / SPAIN
.FIC2016Parallel
NOWHERELAND
GUILLERMO MADURGA - 2015 / SPAIN
Where would you go if you could go anywhere? Nowhereland it’s a trip through the imagination of a young couple who dreams to escape and share their privacy far away from the world that they are living.
.FIC2016Parallel
TOM NOAKES - 2018 / AUSTRALIA
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
NURSERY RHYMES
TOM NOAKES - 2018 / AUSTRALIA
On the side of a rural highway, a bizarre encounter with a metalhead takes a profound turn.
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
NIKOLETT FÁBIÁN - 2022 / HUNGARY
.FIC2023CompetitiveDiscoveries
NYUGVÓ KÖD / RESTING FOG
NIKOLETT FÁBIÁN - 2022 / HUNGARY
Resting Fog is an experimental animation short, that takes place in a fictional, secluded sanatorium in the light from the setting sun's last rays. Through associative imagery, the short introduces the process of reliving memories and the disintegration of those, using the tools of drawn animation as well as digital effects.
.FIC2023CompetitiveDiscoveries
PAUL WENNINGER - 2021 / AUSTRIA
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
O
PAUL WENNINGER - 2021 / AUSTRIA
A dialogue between a camera, a performer and the surrounding space.
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
RENEE ZHAN - 2020 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2021Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
O BLACK HOLE!
RENEE ZHAN - 2020 / UNITED KINGDOM
A woman who can't stand the passing of time turns herself into a black hole. A thousand unchanging years pass inside her warm and dark embrace until, finally, the Singularity awakens inside.
.FIC2021Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
IES PONTEPEDRIÑA - 2020 / 12th grade
.FIC2020CompetitiveEducation CentersminiFIC
O CABALO DE ALBERTE MERLO / ALBERTE MERLO’S HORSE
IES PONTEPEDRIÑA - 2020 / 12th grade
For many years, Alberte Merlo had the typical man-horse relationship with Cheval, until one day the latter started talking and… never stopped. The ups and downs of their relationship and, above all, the conflict between the official standard for Galician language and reintegrationism will constitute the plot of this absurd comedy.
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CEIP PLURILINGÜE FELICIANO BARRERA - 2023 / 1º EDUCACIÓN PRIMARIA
.FIC2023CompetitiveEducation Centers
O CASCABEL DA GATA / THE CAT'S BELL
CEIP PLURILINGÜE FELICIANO BARRERA - 2023 / 1º EDUCACIÓN PRIMARIA
After reading the story O cascabel da gata many times, the children of 1st grade wanted to make a song to tell the story.
We made the song, the characters and the necessary elements to make our short film with stop motion. In the end it is a story-song... it is a short film-video clip.
.FIC2023CompetitiveEducation Centers
MIGUEL CANALEJO - 2023 / ESPAÑA
.FIC2023CompetitiveGZ_00
O COIDADO / THE CARE
MIGUEL CANALEJO - 2023 / ESPAÑA
Eduardo is a man that is beginning to have issues taking care of himself. In his household, he lives alone with an android whose only job is to make his life easier. With time, Eduardo finds himself developing a close relationship with the robot, something he never accomplished with his son Anxo. The old man projects in the android the identity he wishes for his son. However, after a family gathering, he realizes how much this affects the ones he has around him.
.FIC2023CompetitiveGZ_00
IES AS BARXAS - 1º ESO AND 3º ESO
.FIC2023CompetitiveEducation Centers
O CONTO DA MULLER LAMPREA / THE TALE OF THE LAMPREY WOMAN
IES AS BARXAS - 1º ESO AND 3º ESO
Work by the kids of the "audiovisual club", a new chapter of the "lamprey woman", based on an original text by the writer Iria Collazo.
.FIC2023CompetitiveEducation Centers
PABLO DOPAZO - 2024 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
O FRÍO / THE COLD
PABLO DOPAZO - 2024 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
Chema works in a food market in a small town in north-western Spain. His day starts early; he carries orders, hauls crates of ice and fish, transports packets of seafood. After a hard day's work, he returns home. But this afternoon he receives a call that disrupts his normal life; it's the past coming back.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
ANDRÉ MARQUES - 2008 / PORTUGAL - ROMANIA
.FIC2016ParallelRetrospective
O LAGO / THE LAKE
ANDRÉ MARQUES - 2008 / PORTUGAL - ROMANIA
Two friends embark on a journey towards the lake, towards themselves.
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IES CACHEIRAS - 2018 / SPAIN
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
O MEU MELLOR INIMIGO / MY BEST ENEMY
IES CACHEIRAS - 2018 / SPAIN
We all have fears.
.FIC2019AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
CEIP A GUÍA - 2021 / SPAIN
.FIC2021CompetitiveEducation Centers
O MISTERIO DO BOLSO / THE PURSE'S MISTERY
CEIP A GUÍA - 2021 / SPAIN
A story about a mystery that happened in the CEIP A Guía from Moaña.
The work of the police has great relevance in the investigation, but also the work of superheroes as Spiderman and Spidergirl, and the Supercaracoliños and Supercaracoliñas, who will try to discover who stole the principal’s purse.
.FIC2021CompetitiveEducation Centers
LUCÍA ESTÉVEZ - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2023CompetitiveGZ_00
O NENO SARDIÑA / SARDINE BOY
LUCÍA ESTÉVEZ - 2022 / SPAIN
People say that in an indeterminate place of the Miño River, in the north of Galicia, a sardine-boy crosses the current at the end of the carnival festivities, leaving behind the people who celebrate his burial. It is unknown what causes his transformation, but it is said that the most watchful eyes can notice the moisture on his skin. Its existence is confirmed by the biggest sceptics. No one in the area has any doubts.
.FIC2023CompetitiveGZ_00
LUCÍA ESTÉVEZ - 2021 / SPAIN
.FIC2022CompetitiveGalicia
O NIÑO DOS PAXAROS / NEST OF BIRDS
LUCÍA ESTÉVEZ - 2021 / SPAIN
Sparrows find their way into machinery, in exhaust pipes, in open engines, or in the seats of cars on the third floor. When they hear the big gate open first thing in the morning, they fly fast to get inside. Today the workshop is a safe place for them, just as it was for my father in the 80s.
.FIC2022CompetitiveGalicia
JORGE MORAIS - 2007-2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
O PINTOR DE CEOS / THE PAINTER OF SKIES
JORGE MORAIS - 2007-2008 / SPAIN
From the darkness of the lost cliffs a mad painter marked by his past and his faithful assistant try to find a permanent solution against perpetual storms. Sea is destroying their home. A magic boiler and some tormented ghosts will help them find the light.
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO: FACULTADE DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS E DA COMUNICACIÓN - 2021 / SPAIN
.FIC2021AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
O QUE QUEDA DE NÓS / WHAT'S LEFT FROM US
UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO: FACULTADE DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS E DA COMUNICACIÓN - 2021 / SPAIN
A girl and her mother always go hunting together. She enjoys it and is good with weapons, but her mother thinks she is not ready yet. One day of hunting they lose their dogs and everything gets complicated.
.FIC2021AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
DANIEL SOARES - 2021 / PORTUGAL
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
O QUE RESTA / WHAT REMAINS
DANIEL SOARES - 2021 / PORTUGAL
Emilio is a lifelong farmer in his eighties who lives alone on his abandoned farm. Everyone close is gone. One animal is all there is left. Today is the day he decides to sell it.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
CEIP PLURILINGÜE SAN MARCOS - 2023 / 6º EDUCACIÓN PRIMARIA
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
O ROUBO DA MONA LISA / THE THEFT OF THE MONA LISA
CEIP PLURILINGÜE SAN MARCOS - 2023 / 6º EDUCACIÓN PRIMARIA
Da Vinci and the Mona Lisa are struggling financially in the middle of the modern age. That's why they decide to travel to the future and recover the painter's masterpiece: the Mona Lisa. Everything changes when they discover that the painting has disappeared from the museum.
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
CPI CABO DA AREA - 2018 / SPAIN
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
O SEGREDO DO BOSQUE / THE FOREST’S SECRET
CPI CABO DA AREA - 2018 / SPAIN
The fi lm talks about the love between a squirrel and a woodpecker, that will be commented on by the other animals in the forest.
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
VIRGINIA CURIÁ, TOMÁS CONDE - 2009 / SPAIN
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
O SOLDADIÑO DE CHUMBO / THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER
VIRGINIA CURIÁ, TOMÁS CONDE - 2009 / SPAIN
The Steadfast Tin Soldier arrives to a Toy Museum and fall in love with an elegant dancer. The rag Cigarrón, who is in love with her too, will try to avoid the two main characters get together. The Steadfast Tin Soldier is an update from Andersen´s story where is made a revision of characters´s personality. A reflection about a search of real love and love ones.
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
IES AS BARXAS - 1º ESO AND 3º ESO
.FIC2023CompetitiveEducation Centers
O VELLO MÁIS O RÍO / THE OLD MAN AND THE RIVER
IES AS BARXAS - 1º ESO AND 3º ESO
Animation based on a text by Ramón Otero Pedrayo.
.FIC2023CompetitiveEducation Centers
LUIS DA MATTA ALMEIDA, JULIO VANZELER - 2012 / SPAIN
.FIC2013AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
O XIGANTE / THE GIANT
LUIS DA MATTA ALMEIDA, JULIO VANZELER - 2012 / SPAIN
A giant carries a little girl in his heart. His heart is like a large window from where the little girl discovers and understands the world where we live… One day she will have to leave.
.FIC2013AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
FABIEN MEYRAN, OTALIA CAUSSÉ, GEOFFROY COLLIN, LOUISE GRARDEL, ANTOINE MARCHAND, ROBIN MERLE - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
O28
FABIEN MEYRAN, OTALIA CAUSSÉ, GEOFFROY COLLIN, LOUISE GRARDEL, ANTOINE MARCHAND, ROBIN MERLE - 2019 / FRANCE
In Lisbon, a German married couple is about to get aboard the legendary n°28 tramway, but, how should you react when the brakes let go and embark you on a vertiginous race... with a baby on board?
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
GLEB OSATINSKI - 2024 / LITHUANIA, UNITED STATES
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
OBRAZA / RESENTMENT
GLEB OSATINSKI - 2024 / LITHUANIA, UNITED STATES
Like any teenager, 17-year-old Yasha is rebelling against authority, but in 1990’s Soviet Ukraine some of the opposing forces are more dangerous than others. When Yasha hits his breaking point, raw impulses propel him to the precipice of irreparable harm.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
THOMAS SCOHY, KEVIN ZONNEN - 2016 / FRANCE
.FIC2017ComedyParallel
OFF
THOMAS SCOHY, KEVIN ZONNEN - 2016 / FRANCE
A man is intrigued by an electrical switch he discovers behind a cabinet. He does not rest until he figures out its purpose, but… at what cost?
.FIC2017ComedyParallel
EMMA DE SWAEF, MARC JAMES ROELS - 2011 / BELGIUM - FRANCE - NETHERLANDS
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
OH WILLY
EMMA DE SWAEF, MARC JAMES ROELS - 2011 / BELGIUM - FRANCE - NETHERLANDS
Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
VICTOR DUPUIS - 2023 / BELGIUM
.FIC2024Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
OISEAU DE PASSAGE / WANDERING BIRD
VICTOR DUPUIS - 2023 / BELGIUM
A body is floating in the water. A strange bird is calling and memories come alive again. “Where were you when I was in despair?”, asks the friend. A film about hearing and listening, about speaking out, forgiving and saying farewell.
.FIC2024Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
NATALIA MATEO - 2012 / SPAIN
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
OJOS QUE NO VEN / EYES THAT DO NOT SEE
NATALIA MATEO - 2012 / SPAIN
All families have secrets and lies; and at some point everyone has thought of confessing everything. But when? How? One by one? Suddenly at a family reunion? Today, on Christmas Eve, it doesn’t seem to be the best moment. On Christmas Eve you have to enjoy,because Santa Claus is coming, because children are there. Tonight, the secrets are whispered and lies are floating in the air. But who cares about another small lie, it will be the last. Tomorrow, yes, tomorrow we will tell her everything. So far, gramma, Merry Christmas.
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
KAUR KOKK - 2013 / ESTONIA
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
OLGA
KAUR KOKK - 2013 / ESTONIA
The parking lot guard Olga spends her humdrum days sweeping snow between the cars. Another similar loner, the casino addict Joel brings variety to her days. As the snow piles up, her problems start to accumulate. In the middle of a personal crisis, the weather takes a turn for the worst and Olga is faced with a choice.
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
ARIANE LABED - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
OLLA
ARIANE LABED - 2019 / FRANCE
Olla has answered to an ad on a dating website for eastern women. She moves in with Pierre, who lives with his old mother. But nothing goes as expected.
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MICHAEL WAHRMANN - 2011 / BRAZIL - URUGUAY
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
OMA
MICHAEL WAHRMANN - 2011 / BRAZIL - URUGUAY
She speaks german, i speak spanish. She doesn’t hear me, i don’t understand.
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
ZBIGNIEW CZAPLA - 2021 / POLAND
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
ON TIME
ZBIGNIEW CZAPLA - 2021 / POLAND
What is only current and what is universal - an intense experience of travel through time and space.
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
PAU CAMARASA - 2009 / SPAIN
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
ONA
PAU CAMARASA - 2009 / SPAIN
A short story about desire.
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
DANI CORNES - 2020 / SPAIN
.FIC2020CompetitiveGalicia
ONDE DORMEN AS GAIVOTAS / WHERE THE SEAGULLS SLEEP
DANI CORNES - 2020 / SPAIN
In a future affected by global warming, a biologist, Amelia, arrives to an archipelago on a recon mission. All alone, her only companion is the voice of Control in her ear. It all seems to be ok, but as the time passes by, tensions rise, and they start to argue.
.FIC2020CompetitiveGalicia
EMMA BRANDERHORST - 2019 / NETHERLANDS
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
ONDERHUIDS / UNDER THE SKIN
EMMA BRANDERHORST - 2019 / NETHERLANDS
The friendship between three young synchronized swimmers is plagued by vicious tensions. The desire to belong destroys everything.
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
EMMA BRANDERHORST - 2019 / NETHERLANDS
.FIC2020Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
ONDERHUIDS / UNDER THE SKIN
EMMA BRANDERHORST - 2019 / NETHERLANDS
The friendship between three young synchronized swimmers is plagued by vicious tensions. The desire to belong destroys everything.
.FIC2020Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
AQSA ALTAF - 2017/ USA
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
ONE SMALL STEP
AQSA ALTAF - 2017/ USA
A story about an eleven-year-old girl from Compton, California, who dreams of being an astronaut as she juggles the realities of her circumstances.
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
TEEMU NIUKKANEN - 2019 / FINLAND
.FIC2020ComedyParallel
ONKO SULLA NÄLKÄ? / ARE YOU HUNGRY?
TEEMU NIUKKANEN - 2019 / FINLAND
A single mother struggles to connect with her adopted teenage son, who she believes is gay. Worried that the vulnerable boy will fall victim to older men preying on young boys online, she takes it upon herself to guide him safely through this period of self-exploration by setting him up on a date.
.FIC2020ComedyParallel
DAVID VALERO - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
THE FLARES
DAVID VALERO - 2019 / SPAIN
“Los Bengalas”, an orchestra formed by four retired friends, have been playing at small villages festivals for over 30 years. But this year, something has changed.
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
ELOY DOMÍNGUEZ SERÉN - 2020 / SPAIN
.FIC2021CompetitiveGalicia
OS CORPOS / THE BODIES
ELOY DOMÍNGUEZ SERÉN - 2020 / SPAIN
In Galicia, Spain’s most northwestern region, one of the oldest forms of Carnival takes place every year. Spread over several days are parades with characters who wear spectacular outfits, including a striking mask and a belt strung with cowbells. The peculiar celebrations, lit by torches and accompanied by drums, are compellingly filmed in this short documentary—it is as if you were standing among the revelers yourself, immersed in an age-old pagan ritual.
.FIC2021CompetitiveGalicia
CEIP PLURILINGÜE A PEDRA - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2022CompetitiveEducation Centers
OSO ATRAPABOLBORETAS / BUTTERFLYCATCHER BEAR
CEIP PLURILINGÜE A PEDRA - 2022 / SPAIN
A bear loves to collect strange objects from the trees in the forest. One day he finds a butterfly net which he uses to rescue butterflies that from time to time fall into the lake. But when it's the bear that falls into the lake? ... Who will rescue him?
.FIC2022CompetitiveEducation Centers
SAMANEH LASHGARI - 2022 / IRAN
.FIC2023FamilyminiFICParallel
OUR PHOTO MEMENTO
SAMANEH LASHGARI - 2022 / IRAN
A late couple’s photo is installed on a wall. The Old Lady comes to life and notices her husband in the photo next to hers. They, now both alive, try to get closer. Accidentally, they manage to do so.
.FIC2023FamilyminiFICParallel
TOMER ESHED - 2016 / GERMANY
.FIC2017ChildrenJuniorsParallel
OUR WONDERFUL NATURE THE COMMON CHAMELEON
TOMER ESHED - 2016 / GERMANY
The feeding habits of the common chameleon as they have never been seen before.
.FIC2017ChildrenJuniorsParallel
SARAH CHALEK - 2017 / FRANCE
.FIC2018ChildrenParallel
OUTDOORS
SARAH CHALEK - 2017 / FRANCE
A very old woman steps out into the big city after her pet bird is accidentally set free by the little girl next door.
.FIC2018ChildrenParallel
DELPHINE GRELET - 2016 / FRANCE
.FIC2017Parallel
OXYMORE / OXYMORON
DELPHINE GRELET - 2016 / FRANCE
Many years later, the relatives of a sick person get testify about their feelings into the open.
.FIC2017Parallel
VICA ZAGREBA - 2016 / FRANCE
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
PA FUERA / TO OUTSIDE
VICA ZAGREBA - 2016 / FRANCE
Stella and her three daughters are isolated from the outside world since they live with Corto. They will do anything for a moment of freedom!
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
SAMIR KARAHODA - 2021 / KOSOVO
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
PA VEND / DISPLACED
SAMIR KARAHODA - 2021 / KOSOVO
In post-war Kosovo, driven by the ambition of keeping their beloved sport alive, two local players wander from one obscure location to another carrying with them the only possession of the club: their tables.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
NELY REGUERA - 2009 / SPAIN
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
PABLO
NELY REGUERA - 2009 / SPAIN
A family tries to return to normal.
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
SANTIAGO BOU - 2013 / ARGENTINA - FRANCE
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
PADRE / FATHER
SANTIAGO BOU - 2013 / ARGENTINA - FRANCE
Day by day, the daughter of a retired military commander takes care of her bedridden father. The dictatorship has come to an end in Argentina, but not in this woman’s life.
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
RYAN GILLIS - 2014 / USA
.FIC2016Parallel
PALM ROT
RYAN GILLIS - 2014 / USA
An old crop-duster named Bill discovers a crate filled with unearthly beetles out in the Florida Everglades. Wanting to piece together their mysterious appearance, Bill takes the crate on to his airboat. But he finds out the hard way that the beetles have their own agenda.fumigador llamado Bill descubre una caja llena de extraños escarabajos en los Everglades de Florida. Con la intención de averiguar su misteriosa aparición, Bill lleva la caja en su aerodeslizador. Pero descubre que los escarabajos tienen sus propios planes.
.FIC2016Parallel
ERIKA SÁNCHEZ - 2020 / SPAIN
.FIC2020CompetitiveSpain
PANTERES / PANTHERS
ERIKA SÁNCHEZ - 2020 / SPAIN
Scarred, fat, pregnant, shaved, tattooed: Joana examines the bodies of the women in the changing room. Later, she studies her own reflection in the mirror with the same intensity. Can you change your body? Your gender? Femininity? “Break free”, screams the caption on her T-shirt, under an image of Freddie Mercury – time for emancipation.
.FIC2020CompetitiveSpain
ANYA RU, MASHA RUMYANTSEVA - 2021 / ITALY / RUSSIA
.FIC2022ChildrenminiFICParallel
PAPA IS BIG, I AM SMALL
ANYA RU, MASHA RUMYANTSEVA - 2021 / ITALY / RUSSIA
Una breve y tierna historia sobre una niña que despide a su padre marinero en un viaje lejano. Su imaginación infantil alegrará su larga espera.
.FIC2022ChildrenminiFICParallel
EVELYN LAMBART - 1970 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
PARADISE LOST
EVELYN LAMBART - 1970 / CANADA
A wordless plea for the right of all living creatures to a clean, unpolluted environment. With rich colour and intricate animated motion, the film features birds, butterflies and other woodland creatures succumbing to air pollution caused by human inventions.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
ÁLVARO ROBLÈS, JOSÉ PRATS - 2020 / SPAIN
.FIC2021FamilyminiFICParallel
UMBRELLAS
ÁLVARO ROBLÈS, JOSÉ PRATS - 2020 / SPAIN
In a faraway land where the rain never stops, six-year-old Kyna spends her days playing carelessly under the protective "umbrella-beard" of her father, Din. One night, Kyna’s beloved dog Nana disappears.To find her, Kyna will embark on an adventure of self-discovery and face her great fear, the Rain.
.FIC2021FamilyminiFICParallel
JULES DE NIVERVILLE - 2020 / CANADA
.FIC2021FamilyminiFICParallel
PARLE MOI / TALK TO ME
JULES DE NIVERVILLE - 2020 / CANADA
Parle Moi is a 14-minute film about not fitting in, in an over-the-top kind of way. The short follows a contortionist and a stilt walker going about their everyday lives, and serves as a reminder to never be afraid to let what you do be an expression of who you are.
.FIC2021FamilyminiFICParallel
TALKHON HAMZAVI - 2012 / SWITZERLAND
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
PARVANEH
TALKHON HAMZAVI - 2012 / SWITZERLAND
Parvaneh is a young Afghan immigrant who recently arrived at a transit centre for asylum seekers in the Swiss Alps. When she receives a phone.
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
NORMAN MCLAREN - 1968 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
PAS DE DEUX / DÚO
NORMAN MCLAREN - 1968 / CANADA
This film by Norman McLaren is a cinematic study of the choreography of ballet. A bare, black set with the back-lit figures of dancers Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren create a dream-like, hypnotic effect.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
ONUR YAGIZ - 2013 / FRANCE
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
PATIKA / WAY
ONUR YAGIZ - 2013 / FRANCE
Every morning, ten-year-old Yachar goes down the same country road with his father. As they have only one bike between them, they take turns, which creates distance between them.
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
VIBEKE BRYLD - 2015 / DENMARK
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
PEBBLES AT YOUR DOOR
VIBEKE BRYLD - 2015 / DENMARK
Harmonia lived a happy life in North Korea, but her reality cracks as she learns the truths, she never wanted to know. In the end she faces a choice of living in a broken paradise of lies and deception, or treading the unknown, lonely path of the real world outside.
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
HUGO AMOEDO - 2024 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
.FIC2024CompetitiveGZ_00
PECHAR CAIXAS ABRIR CAIXAS / CLOSED BOXES OPEN BOXES
HUGO AMOEDO - 2024 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
Galician writer Xavier Queipo is getting ready to move back to his homeland after more than 30 years of living in Brussels. He empties his house and puts his memories in boxes the removal company loads onto their truck to take them to Spain. Another Galician man, the filmmaker Hugo Amoedo, who is based in Brussels, too, wonders whether and when he’ll be back in his homeland. In the meantime, he teaches his son to ride a bike, wonders, dreams, struggles to unravel ideas for films, and argues with the clerks of the Brussels post.
.FIC2024CompetitiveGZ_00
IES AUDIOVISUAL DE VIGO - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2019AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
PEGASO 650 / PEGASUS 650
IES AUDIOVISUAL DE VIGO - 2019 / SPAIN
The Vista Alegre School of Vigo was returning on 10 April 1979 from a trip to Madrid, when on the bridge over the Órbigo River, in Santa Cristina de la Polvorosa, they suffered an accident. Only 9 children and one soldier survived. Different people will describe us what the following days were like and how the event is remembered nowadays.
.FIC2019AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
SHANE ATKINSON - 2012 / USA
.FIC2013.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficialParallel
PENNY DREADFUL
SHANE ATKINSON - 2012 / USA
A rookie crook gets involved in a ransom plot and ends up kidnapping the wrong girl.
.FIC2013.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficialParallel
CHRISTOPH LAUENSTEIN - 2021 / GERMANY
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
PEOPLE IN MOTION
CHRISTOPH LAUENSTEIN - 2021 / GERMANY
In a land without light, the sudden appearance of a strange, illuminated object causes a stir among the inhabitants. A peculiar parable about the shortcomings of human behaviour.
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
LUCRÈCE ANDREAE - 2017 / FRANCE
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
PÉPÉ LE MORSE / GRANDPA WALRUS
LUCRÈCE ANDREAE - 2017 / FRANCE
On the windy and cloudy beach, Granny is praying, Mom is shouting, the sisters don’t care, Lucas is alone. Grandpa was a weird guy, now he’s dead.
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
JORGE LÓPEZ NAVARRETE - 2013 / SPAIN
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
PEQUEÑO BLOQUE DE CEMENTO CON PELO ALBOROTADO CONTENIENDO EL MAR
JORGE LÓPEZ NAVARRETE - 2013 / SPAIN
A dog and a mare embark on a voyage together. With every step they take, the differences between them become inevitably clearer. However, the profound mutual knowledge generated by the shared time suddlenly translates into a luminous moment between the two.
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
LOFTI ACHOUR - 2014 / TUNISIA - FRANCE
.FIC2015AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
PÉRE / FATHER
LOFTI ACHOUR - 2014 / TUNISIA - FRANCE
Hédi is a taxi driver in Tunis. One evening he drives a young pregnant woman who is about to give birth to the hospital . This brief encounter will bring a series of unexpected, tragic and humorousevents, leading to a life-changing experience for both of them.
.FIC2015AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
PEDRO PERALTA - 2020 / PORTUGAL
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
NOITE PERPÉTUA / PERPETUAL NIGHT
PEDRO PERALTA - 2020 / PORTUGAL
Castuera, Spain, April 1939. During the night two Falangist Guards appear at the door of the house where Paz is taking refuge with her family. They request her presence at the police station. Paz immediately understands the fatality of this visit. With no chance to escape, she asks to breastfeed her newborn daughter one last time.
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
DUSTIN DEFA - 2014 / USA
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
PERSON TO PERSON
DUSTIN DEFA - 2014 / USA
The morning after hosting a party, a man wakes up to discovers a stranger on his floor. He spends the rest of the day trying to convince her to leave.
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
HAMMUDI AL-RAHMOUN - 2016 / SPAIN
.FIC2017CompetitiveSpain
PETRONA
HAMMUDI AL-RAHMOUN - 2016 / SPAIN
Petrona is the story of an everyday heroine in a country where being a woman, indigenous and rural condemns you inevitably to poverty and social exclusion.
.FIC2017CompetitiveSpain
ALEJANDRO DE VEGA - 2015 / SPAIN
.FIC2016ComedyParallel
PIEL CANELA
ALEJANDRO DE VEGA - 2015 / SPAIN
To regain the trust of his girlfriend, Manuel will have to do something desperate.
.FIC2016ComedyParallel
JURE PAVLOVIC - 2015 / CROATIA
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
PIKNIK / PICNIC
JURE PAVLOVIC - 2015 / CROATIA
Sarajevo, rush hour. Emir, accompanied by a social worker, is on his way to meet his father Safet for a weekend picnic at Igman, a semi open penitentiary. Due to the heavy traffic they are late...
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MARCO GIANFREDA - 2011 / ITALY
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
PIZZANGRILLO
MARCO GIANFREDA - 2011 / ITALY
Tired of life, Ettore, 65 years old, everyday tries to find the courage to drive himself and his three wheeler down a country ditch. When Luca, his 10 year old nephew, finds out about his grandfather's intentions, he decides to furtively follow him.
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
COLEXIO SAGRADO CORAZÓN DE PLACERES - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2018CompetitiveEducation Centers
PLACERES NEWS
COLEXIO SAGRADO CORAZÓN DE PLACERES - 2017 / SPAIN
Several events take place in Lourizán and in the Placeres School. Lucía and Pedro inform the audience of important news so they don’t miss anything happening in the town.
.FIC2018CompetitiveEducation Centers
XACIO BAÑO - 2024 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
PLATÓNICO, PLATÓNICA / PLATONIST
XACIO BAÑO - 2024 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
Our relationship with the creation of images starts with love: for a moment, for a person, for a landscape, for an emotional state. With their multiplication, the reasons why we make them more and more diffuse. To be rather than to be. We are at a historical and evolutionary crossroads. Today we can no longer trust our eyes. With the advent of Artificial Intelligence, we must begin to doubt everything. "Platonist" is an audiovisual essay about images, love, and its truth. Because without love there is no image.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
ALICE DOUARD - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
PLEIN OUEST / DUE WEST
ALICE DOUARD - 2019 / FRANCE
Mathilde, aged 9, enjoys her last day of the summer holidays at the seaside with her group of friends. Her father misinterprets one of their games.
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
KATERINA KARHANKOVA - 2017 / CZECH REPUBLIC
.FIC2018ChildrenParallel
PLODY MRAKU / THE FRUITS OF CLOUDS
KATERINA KARHANKOVA - 2017 / CZECH REPUBLIC
The animals’ fear of the woods does not allow them to leave the glade and head off to look for the food somewhere else. But for Furry the wood awakens curiosity in him.
.FIC2018ChildrenParallel
LAEN SANCHES - 2022 / FRANCE
.FIC2023JuniorsminiFICParallel
PLSTC
LAEN SANCHES - 2022 / FRANCE
Welcome to the world of PLSTC, an undersea dystopia that submerges you in the disturbing reality of plastic pollution. Through a series of graphically confronting AI-generated and hand-composited images, this animated film confronts you with the devastating consequences of our habits on marine life and leaves you gasping for breath.
.FIC2023JuniorsminiFICParallel
HELENA GIRÓN & SAMUEL DELGADO - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2018CompetitiveGalicia
PLUS ULTRA
HELENA GIRÓN & SAMUEL DELGADO - 2017 / SPAIN
Plus Ultra is the motto of the Spanish state. This slogan was used to encourage navigators to conquer new lands, forgetting the warning from Greek mythology: Non Terrae Plus Ultra (There is no land beyond here).
.FIC2018CompetitiveGalicia
GUILLAUME AUBERVAL, LÉA DOZOUL, SIMON GOMEZ, TIMOTHÉ HEK, HUGO LAGRANGE, ANTOINE LAROYE, DAVID LASHCARI - 2016 / FRANCE
.FIC2017JuniorsParallel
POILUS / HAIRY
GUILLAUME AUBERVAL, LÉA DOZOUL, SIMON GOMEZ, TIMOTHÉ HEK, HUGO LAGRANGE, ANTOINE LAROYE, DAVID LASHCARI - 2016 / FRANCE
In the French trenches, calm reigns and the hairy are waiting to leave for the battlefield. Among them, Ferdinand, a young hare, is playing the harmonica. A whistling signal is given, the attack begins. In no man’s land, he encounters his worst enemy: a horrible creature.
.FIC2017JuniorsParallel
TOÑO CHOUZA - 2009 / SPAIN
.FIC2009AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
POR LA MAÑANA / IN THE MORNING
TOÑO CHOUZA - 2009 / SPAIN
A young couple dawns making love. However...
.FIC2009AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
KONSTANTINOS ANTONOPOULOS - 2019 / GREECE
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
POSTCARDS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD
KONSTANTINOS ANTONOPOULOS - 2019 / GREECE
Trapped in a seemingly dull family vacation, Dimitra, Dimitris and their two daughters will have to find a way out of a secluded island in the Mediterranean, when confronted with the unexpected end of the world.
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
JULIEN GRANDE - 2016 / BELGIUM
.FIC2017ChildrenParallel
POUR UNE POIGNEE DE GIROLLES / FOR A FISTFUL OF CHANTARELLE
JULIEN GRANDE - 2016 / BELGIUM
An epic day for a mushroom seeker.
.FIC2017ChildrenParallel
ALEXANDRE STEIGER - 2017 / FRANCE
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
POURQUOI J’AI ÈCRIT LA BIBLE / WHY A WROTE THE BIBLE
ALEXANDRE STEIGER - 2017 / FRANCE
Francis, a man in his sixties with many eccentricities, wrote a book many years ago. One day his son asks to read it. Soon after taking the book home, things start to get weird.
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
MARTIN SMATANA - 2019 /
CZECH REPUBLIC - SLOVAKIA - POLAND
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
POUŠTĔT DRAKA / THE KITE
MARTIN SMATANA - 2019 /
CZECH REPUBLIC - SLOVAKIA - POLAND
Summer is coming to the end, the fruit is growing ripe on the trees. Grandpa gives his grandson a kite. As the boy is tossed around in the air, Grandpa catches him. When the leaves fall, Grandpa grows weak and a strong autumn wind carries him off into the cloudy sky. Winter comes, then springtime. A warm breeze brings them together again. Told with enchanting, richly-textured images, this tale is all about remembering those who are no longer with us.
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
ANDRÈ TURPIN, ANAÏS BARBEAU-LAVALETTE - 2014 / CANADA
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
PRENDS-MOI
ANDRÈ TURPIN, ANAÏS BARBEAU-LAVALETTE - 2014 / CANADA
A nurse working in a center for the disabled is confronted to his principles when he’s asked to accomplish a particular task.
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
PHILIP ULLMAN - 2024 / PAÍSES BAIXOS
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
PREOPERATIONAL MODEL / PREOPERATIONAL MODEL
PHILIP ULLMAN - 2024 / PAÍSES BAIXOS
In Preoperational Model, anthropomorphic princess Sophie and her maid Jessica prepare for a new day in the royal court. Sophie's struggle to play her role propels the two protagonists forward and backward in time, through worlds and identities to find a way to live together.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
NATURAL ARPAJOU - 2015 / PARAGUAY - ARGENTINA
.FIC2016Parallel
PRINCESAS / PRINCESSES
NATURAL ARPAJOU - 2015 / PARAGUAY - ARGENTINA
They live in the shadow of what is rightfully theirs.
.FIC2016Parallel
RATI TSITELADZE - 2018 / GEORGIA
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
PRISONER OF SOCIETY
RATI TSITELADZE - 2018 / GEORGIA
What does it mean to be a stranger in your own home and country? Prisoner of Society is an intimate journey into the world and mind of a young transgender woman, who has been locked away from the outside world for the past decade.
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
IES TERRA DE TRASANCOS - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2022CompetitiveEducation Centers
PSICOLOGÍA SEMANAL / PSYCHOLOGY OF THE WEEK
IES TERRA DE TRASANCOS - 2022 / SPAIN
The days of the week have their own life, but not everyone is entirely happy with it.
.FIC2022CompetitiveEducation Centers
LARRY KETANG, LIAM WHITE - 2021 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
PUNCH-DRUNK
LARRY KETANG, LIAM WHITE - 2021 / UNITED KINGDOM
In a café in Marseille, a man’s life is knocked off its axis when his lunch is disturbed by a chatty stranger.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
REMI MAZET - 2015 / FRANCE
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
PUNK À CHIEN / GUTTER PUNK
REMI MAZET - 2015 / FRANCE
Joey, a young twenties, travels the roads of France with his dog. Someday, his dog is bitten. The wound does not heal.
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
JONAS MEKAS - 1991 / UNITED STATES
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
QUARTET #1 / QUARTET #1
JONAS MEKAS - 1991 / UNITED STATES
I began to worry about the huge amount of unedited footage that I had on my shelves. I had to do something with it before it begins to fade. One idea was to begin to edit it all in form of quartets. This quartet was my first try in that direction. - Jonas Mekas
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
CPI ALCALDE XOSÉ PICHEL - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
QUE VAN DICIR DE NÓS / WHAT WILL THEY SAY ABOUT US?
CPI ALCALDE XOSÉ PICHEL - 2022 / SPAIN
What could have been and wasn't; a love story between two girls. Trying to fit into a conservative society and protect themselves from what people will say leads them to be nothing more than friends.
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveEducation Centers
INÉS PINTOR - 2024 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
.FIC2024CompetitiveGZ_00
QUEIMAR CANDO MORRA / BURN WHEN I DIE
INÉS PINTOR - 2024 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
“Burn when I die, recite Our Father and throw it to the fire”. That’s what a package I found in my grandma’s wardrobe said when she passed away. Before burning it, the objects we discovered made me think about my family, about shared memories. About what was life like for women and how it has changed.
.FIC2024CompetitiveGZ_00
JEAN-JULIEN COLLETTE - 2003 / BELGIUM
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
QUIÉN QUIERE CARGARSE A ROBERTO SANTINI? / WHO WANTS TO KILL ROBERTO SANTINI?
JEAN-JULIEN COLLETTE - 2003 / BELGIUM
Flight 623 from Berlin is 15 minutes late. Enough time for a young businessman to rethink a part of his life. At the same airport, Joseph Conrad, a homeless man with a murky past, seems obsessed about this mysterious flight.
.FIC2008CompetitiveOfficial
MATT RICHARDS - 2014 / AUSTRALIA
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
RABBIT
MATT RICHARDS - 2014 / AUSTRALIA
A vulnerable and troubled teen carries a tragic secret that will change his life forever.
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
MADDALENA BROZZI, LAURA CAGNONI, SARA MOSCHINI - 2022 / ITALY
.FIC2023AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
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.
.FIC2023AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
THOMAS GOLETZ - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
RAINBOW FRIENDS
THOMAS GOLETZ - 2019 / SPAIN
Wollywell, the black sheep, wants to make new friends, but the white sheep are not very open to meeting him and this saddens sweet Wollywell. Diddl devises a plan to cheer him up, jumping into a fun and colorful adventure where everyone will learn a valuable lesson of joyful tolerance.
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
JIE WENG - 2018 / CHINA
.FIC2021KindergartenminiFICParallel
RAY’S GREAT ESCAPE
JIE WENG - 2018 / CHINA
Ray is a little monster who lives on the edge of a volcano that is going to explode. One day, tired of so many earthquakes, he decides to leave, Loaded with all his belongings, he is immersed in a great adventure in search of a new home.
.FIC2021KindergartenminiFICParallel
DAVID VICTORI - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2009AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
REACCIÓN / REACTION
DAVID VICTORI - 2008 / SPAIN
When is the time to help someone?
.FIC2009AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MICHAEL SHANKS - 2019 / AUSTRALIA
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
REBOOTED
MICHAEL SHANKS - 2019 / AUSTRALIA
A stop motion animated skeleton, once a formidable villain of the silver screen and now a struggling actor, takes drastic measures when he learns the film for which he was created is being rebooted without him.
.FIC2020FamilyminiFICParallel
PIER-PHILIPPE CHEVIGNY - 2019 / CANADA
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
RECRUE / REBEL
PIER-PHILIPPE CHEVIGNY - 2019 / CANADA
2022. Quebec sees an unprecedented influx of illegal migrants entering the country by hiking through the wilderness that borders the United States. Radical groups are gaining supporters as citizens grow dissatisfied with their government’s mishandling of the crisis. Six years old Alex is oblivious to the world changing around him. The mysterious patrols his father leads with his right-wing militia are just more opportunities to go play hide and seek out in the woods. That morning, though, it all came into focus.
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
JUAN CARLOS MOSTAZA - 2020 / SPAIN
.FIC2021CompetitiveSpain
REFLEJO / REFLECTION
JUAN CARLOS MOSTAZA - 2020 / SPAIN
Clara is a nine-year-old girl with a distorted view of reality. She'll fall into a pit from which she can only make her way up through great effort and assistance from the people close to her.
.FIC2021CompetitiveSpain
JUAN CARLOS MOSTAZA - 2020 / SPAIN
.FIC2021JuniorsminiFICParallel
REFLEJO / REFLECTION
JUAN CARLOS MOSTAZA - 2020 / SPAIN
Clara is a nine-year-old girl with a distorted view of reality. She'll fall into a pit from which she can only make her way up through great effort and assistance from the people close to her.
.FIC2021JuniorsminiFICParallel
IES AS BARXAS - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2018CompetitiveEducation Centers
REGALA SORRISOS / GIFTING SMILES
IES AS BARXAS - 2017 / SPAIN
Animated short film about organ donation.
.FIC2018CompetitiveEducation Centers
JORIS IVENS, MANNUS FRANKEN - 1929 / THE NETHERLANDS
.FIC2023ParallelRetrospective
REGEN / RAIN
JORIS IVENS, MANNUS FRANKEN - 1929 / THE NETHERLANDS
Regen can be defined as a cinematic-poem composed of highly artistic photographs that capture the transformation of the bustling cityscape and the effects of the natural phenomenon before, during, and after the sudden rain shower in Amsterdam. The film depicts the play of light and shadow on the urban surfaces, the trams, the canals, and the crowd.
.FIC2023ParallelRetrospective
CEIP DO CARBALLAL DE MARÍN - 2018 /SPAIN
.FIC2019CompetitiveEducation Centers
REGUEIFANDO EN MARÍN / REGUEIFANDO IN MARÍN
CEIP DO CARBALLAL DE MARÍN - 2018 /SPAIN
Music video with lyrics and original music where we can get to see two bands discuss the singing accent of the inhabitants of Marín to finally end up laughing together
.FIC2019CompetitiveEducation Centers
GÜCLÜ YAMAN - 2011 / TURKEY - GERMANY
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
REISE OHNE RÜCKKEHR / JOURNEY WITH NO RETURN
GÜCLÜ YAMAN - 2011 / TURKEY - GERMANY
Aamir wanted to report the theft of his jacket to the police. But at the police station, everything goes completely different to what he imagined. His journey has already started.
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
JEAN-FRANÇOIS RAVAGNAN - 2015 / BELGIUM
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
RENAÎTRE / REBIRTH
JEAN-FRANÇOIS RAVAGNAN - 2015 / BELGIUM
Sarah gets a phone call that is a blast from the past. Alone and lying to her nearest and dearest, she has only one thing in mind: to cross the Mediterranean and return to Tunisia. Driven by powerful emotions, she undertakes a journey in order to keep a promise she once made to the man she loved.
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
JON GARAÑO, JOSE MARI GOENAGA - 2016 / SPAIN
.FIC2017CompetitiveSpain
RENOVABLE / RENEWABLE
JON GARAÑO, JOSE MARI GOENAGA - 2016 / SPAIN
Years after their break-up, Tania and Josean meet again at a conference on renewable energy. She has a lot to tell him.
.FIC2017CompetitiveSpain
JACQUES ROZIER - 1956 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
RENTRÉE DES CLASSES / BACK TO SCHOOL
JACQUES ROZIER - 1956 / FRANCE
In a small village in Provence, on the first day of school, a young boy throws his bag into the river on a bet. Its retrieval leads to a thrilling adventure.
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
ANTOINE GIORGINI - 2015 / FRANCE - BELGIUM
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
RÉPLIQUE
ANTOINE GIORGINI - 2015 / FRANCE - BELGIUM
Today, Tony is supposed to audition for drama school. But Steven, his best friend and reading partner, doesn’t show up. After having failed to find another volunteer, Tony gives up, determined never to speak to the traitor again.
.FIC2016AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
JONAS MEKAS - 1965 - 1966 / UNITED STATES
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
REPORT FROM MILLBROOK / REPORT FROM MILLBROOK
JONAS MEKAS - 1965 - 1966 / UNITED STATES
Filmed in 1965, on a weekend visit to Tim Leary's place. It was a light summer outing. No LSD. Tim took me for a walk, though, and we talked about LSD. I told him that the chemicals that motivate and drive artists are more powerful and mysterious than LSD or any drug. On that note we turned back and ended our walk. There was nothing more to say. In 1966, Tim's place was raided by the local sheriff. The East Village Other taped an interview with the sheriff about the raid. I used the interview as the soundtrack for the film. The footage can also be seen in a different form in Diaries, notes & Sketches. – Jonas Mekas.
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
OLGA OSORIO - 2015 / SPAIN
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
RESTART
OLGA OSORIO - 2015 / SPAIN
Andrea is trapped in a temporal loop. Will she be able to break it?
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
THOMAS KRUITHOF - 2013 / FRANCE
.FIC2013AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
RÉTENTION / UNDOCUMENTED
THOMAS KRUITHOF - 2013 / FRANCE
Mathilde works in a Detention Center, where she helps illegal immigrants exercise their rights. Comes Yuri, an undocumented Ukrainian. Mathilde is going to do everything she can to save Yuri from deportation. But time is running...
.FIC2013AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
KAVEH MAZAHERI - 2017 / IRAN
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
RETOUCH
KAVEH MAZAHERI - 2017 / IRAN
Maryam’s husband died in front of her eyes. First, she tried to help him, but then she just stood back and watched.
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
FABIO GRASSADONIA, ANTONIO PIAZZA - 2009 / ITALY
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
RITA
FABIO GRASSADONIA, ANTONIO PIAZZA - 2009 / ITALY
Rita is ten years old and blind since birth. The claustrophobic world of her home is suddenly breached by a boy on the run, wounded, terrified. Their enigmatic meeting lets Rita experience a brief moment of freedom
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
SIRI MELCHIOR - 2014 / DENMARK - UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
RITA & CROCODILE
SIRI MELCHIOR - 2014 / DENMARK - UNITED KINGDOM
Rita and her faithful friend the crocodile discover the importance of remaining united in the face of adversity.
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
DAMIÁN VONDRÁŠEK - 2022 / CZECH REPUBLIC
.FIC2023Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
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.
.FIC2023Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
ELOY DOMÍNGUEZ SERÉN - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveGalicia
ROMPENTE / SEABREAKER
ELOY DOMÍNGUEZ SERÉN - 2022 / SPAIN
Santi is a teenage father who lives in a small coastal town. During the day he has a job as a fisherman, while at night he smuggles seafood. While his girlfriend Lucia takes care of their baby all by herself, Santi, absent and overwhelmed by responsibility, seeks refuge and redemption in the sea.
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveGalicia
(LA)HORDE - 2020 / FRANCE
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
ROOM WITH A VIEW
(LA)HORDE - 2020 / FRANCE
In this music video from Rone’s eponymous album,(LA)HORDE continues to explore forms of protest and rebellion through dance. The video and motion capture allow us to represent the unimaginable, to question with even more violence and strangeness the physical relationships to the group through the possible collapses. Shot just before the theaters close, it is like a last rave before the Apocalypse.
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
CLAUDE JUTRA - 1966 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
ROULI-ROULANT / THE DEVIL'S TOY
CLAUDE JUTRA - 1966 / CANADA
This short 1966 documentary dedicated "to all victims of intolerance” depicts the dawn of skateboarding in Montreal. A new activity frowned upon by police and adults, skateboarding gave youngsters a thrilling sensation of speed and freedom. This film - the first Canadian documentary ever made about the sport - captures the exuberance of boys and girls having the time of their lives in free-wheeling downhill locomotion.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
FLURIN GIGER - 2016 / SWITZERLAND
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
RUAH
FLURIN GIGER - 2016 / SWITZERLAND
Nine characters, four stories, one situation. How to act while knowing that something big, something irreversible, something that you can’t run away from or fight against, is going to happen. Something bigger than anything humans have ever experienced.
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ERENTIA BEDEKER - 2020 / SOUTH AFRICA
.FIC2021ChildrenminiFICParallel
RUBY & ROACH
ERENTIA BEDEKER - 2020 / SOUTH AFRICA
Two sale toys, cruelly rejected by the buying public because they are different, make a daring escape and end up somewhere quite unexpected and somehow wonderful...
.FIC2021ChildrenminiFICParallel
GUSTAVO MILAN - 2023 / BRAZIL
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
RUÍDO DA PELE / UNFAMILIAR SKIN
GUSTAVO MILAN - 2023 / BRAZIL
During easter holiday, the intimate relationship between a 12-year-old boy and his mother comes to an end when the boy experiences his first sexual awakening.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
MARC REIXACH - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
RUNNERS
MARC REIXACH - 2008 / SPAIN
David is a 16 year old boy that refuses the fate life has kept for her mother.
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
ANDREA ZAPATA-GIRAU - 2023 / SPAIN
.FIC2023CompetitiveGaliciaOfficial
RUOVESI
ANDREA ZAPATA-GIRAU - 2023 / SPAIN
Cecilia, a survivor of the Chilean military repression, combines, from her exile in Finland, internal and political struggle, geographical and family disintegration. At her side, her granddaughter Aava, offering her a new place from which to relieve, for a moment, the burden of her persistent and fragmented re-telling. Based on the life of Silvia Eliana Aedo, who plays Cecilia.
.FIC2023CompetitiveGaliciaOfficial
CEIP DE ARDÁN - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
.FIC2024Education Centers
S.O.S POKÉMON / S.O.S POKÉMON
CEIP DE ARDÁN - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
The third and fourth graders from Ardán school find a box containing an enigma to solve. Focusing on the students' current interests and trying to take advantage of the new audiovisual materials in the school, they are encouraged to discover what happens with the mystery.
.FIC2024Education Centers
LIISBETH KALA - 2023 / ESTONIA
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
SAAB / SAAB
LIISBETH KALA - 2023 / ESTONIA
Saab investigates the aesthetics of boredom and states of slowness in the context of everyday poetics. What is it like to capture feelings and states of being on camera? What happens when so little is said and so much is felt?
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
CHRISTOPHE M. SABER - 2017 / SWITZERLAND - FRANCE
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
SACRILÈGE / SACRILAGE
CHRISTOPHE M. SABER - 2017 / SWITZERLAND - FRANCE
When a rumour comes up that he might have stolen money from the local mosque, Saoud must face a series of violent accusations which will endanger his place in the community.
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
CAROLINE DETOURNAY & PAULINA PISAREK - 2017 / FRANCE
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
SAINT DÉSIR / HOLY DESIRE
CAROLINE DETOURNAY & PAULINA PISAREK - 2017 / FRANCE
Charlotte and Jeremy are two teenagers who meet near Lisieux one summer. Here boredom brings death, death meets love, love hits fear, fear transforms into desire, and passion overcomes reason.
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
JULES COMES - 2017 / BELGIUM
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
SAINT HUBERT
JULES COMES - 2017 / BELGIUM
During a large-scale search in a nature park, the authorities clash with a local forester. The confrontation goes from bad to worse as the forester takes measures against the intruders.
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
CRA AMENCER. ESCOLA SAN PAIO. - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2022CompetitiveEducation Centers
SALVAR A CARBALLEIRA / SAVE THE OAK GROVE
CRA AMENCER. ESCOLA SAN PAIO. - 2022 / SPAIN
The little elves of the forest decide to ask for help from the bravest children of the village as the forest is losing its magic and there is no more laughter, no more fun ... The oak forest is gradually losing its strength.
.FIC2022CompetitiveEducation Centers
DAVID CASALS - 2007 / SPAIN
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
SALVAR EL MUNDO / SAVING THE WORLD
DAVID CASALS - 2007 / SPAIN
Richard is a young executive who one day decides to quit his job, leave his girlfriend and his family, and focus on the much more serious goal of saving the world, in his own particular way.
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
HANNIBAL MAHÉ - 2015 / FRANCE
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
SAMEDI / SATURDAY
HANNIBAL MAHÉ - 2015 / FRANCE
Manu runs away from Juvie. Outside, nobody pays attention to him.
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
DAVID FIDALGO - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2023CompetitiveGaliciaOfficialSpain
SANDWICH CAT
DAVID FIDALGO - 2022 / SPAIN
David lives alone with his kitty, Sandwich Cat. It seemed like an ordinary day, but an unexpected visit will lead him to a crucial reflection to humanity.
.FIC2023CompetitiveGaliciaOfficialSpain
MAIJA BLÅFIELD - 2023 / FINLAND
.FIC2024CompetitiveDiscoveries
SCENIC VIEW / SCENIC VIEW
MAIJA BLÅFIELD - 2023 / FINLAND
Finland has the most forest in Europe, but primeval forest has become so rare that it feels fictional. Is it now the enchanted forest? Is a commercial forest real? As nature documentaries are staged, are they fiction? Scenic View is a film about how we look at a forest landscape and the reality.
.FIC2024CompetitiveDiscoveries
JULIA OCKER - 2018 / GERMANY
.FIC2019ChildrenParallel
SCHAF / SHEEP
JULIA OCKER - 2018 / GERMANY
The lamb hops from one risky adventure into the next. The flock would never take that risk!
.FIC2019ChildrenParallel
ELIAS BÖTTICHER - 2024 / SWITZERLAND
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
SCHLAFSAND / EYE BOOGER
ELIAS BÖTTICHER - 2024 / SWITZERLAND
A journey from a dying Swiss glacier to the city, deep into an open-cast mine where the coal excavators rattle incessantly.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
MINO CAPUANO - 2023 / ITALY
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
SCIARABALLA / SCIARABALLA
MINO CAPUANO - 2023 / ITALY
Dario, recently retired, suffers from inexplicable crying fits. One day he decides to visit his son Mimmo, who has just started working away from home. Mimmo, embarrassed by the unexpected intrusion, avoids the meeting. Dario then spends the day with Clara and Mirco, Mimmo's roommates. At the end of the day, father and son meet and discuss their common fear of the future.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
JALAL SAEDPANAH - 2011 / IRAN
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
SEDAYE BARAN / THE SOUND OF RAIN
JALAL SAEDPANAH - 2011 / IRAN
Yadi Is cage maker and he live alone in up of the roof in his cabin. He train some birds. Young Mongolia boy loves yadi's birds but yadi keep him away from the birds. Finally one day he presonid in his cabin.
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
ANITA PICO - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
.FIC2024CompetitiveGZ_00
SEGUNDA II / THE SECOND ONE
ANITA PICO - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
Segunda (in Spanish "the Second One") was marked with her name when she was born, but she had other plans. From a small Galician town, this eighty-year-old matriarch has lived her life with the determination and personality of the Roman emperors who conquered the world. In this portrait of a Galician woman from the countryside, we discover the values of those who once dominated history.
.FIC2024CompetitiveGZ_00
ROBERTO VALLE - 2016 / SPAIN
.FIC2017ChildrenParallel
SEGUNDITO / JIFFY
ROBERTO VALLE - 2016 / SPAIN
It’s ten o’clock. A family sits down at the table. It’s dinner time.
.FIC2017ChildrenParallel
RAQUEL FELGUEIRAS - 2016 / PORTUGAL
.FIC2017Parallel
SENDAS / PATHS
RAQUEL FELGUEIRAS - 2016 / PORTUGAL
How can people escape and survive traumatic experiences? A woman and two brothers give us two parallel stories about their emotional healing journeys.
.FIC2017Parallel
CIFP IMAXE E SON. A CORUÑA - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2022Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
SEPARADOS POR UNHA BARREIRA / SEPARATED BY A BARRIER
CIFP IMAXE E SON. A CORUÑA - 2022 / SPAIN
Animation made for the NGO Infancia Solidaria. It focuses on their surgical aid work for children in developing countries.
.FIC2022Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
EMRE KOCA - 2010 / GERMANY
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
SEPPI & HIAS
EMRE KOCA - 2010 / GERMANY
Two little rascals, Seppi a 9 year old boy of turkish origin and his best friend Hias, of same age, trouble the people in a small upper bavarian village, love to play tricks on other people "Seppi & Hias“: A friendship across cultural and religious boundaries.
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
MOLY KANE - 2020 / FRANCIA
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
SËR BI / LES TISSUES BLANCS
MOLY KANE - 2020 / FRANCIA
Tomorrow, Zuzana is getting married. Now each minute counts to erase her past and become the woman she’s expected to be.
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
XACIO BAÑO - 2014 / SPAIN
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
SER E VOLTAR / BEING AND RETURNING
XACIO BAÑO - 2014 / SPAIN
A young(?) filmmaker comes back to his grandparents' house to make them a video-portrait. That's what's cinema is about, isn't it?
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
MAX HATTLER - 2019 / CHINA-HONG KONG
.FIC2020CompetitiveDiscoveries
SERIAL PARALLELS
MAX HATTLER - 2019 / CHINA-HONG KONG
This experimental animation approaches Hong Kong’s built environment from the conceptual perspective of celluloid film, by applying the technique of film animation to the photographic image. The city’s signature architecture of horizon-eclipsing buildings is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips: Serial Parallels.
.FIC2020CompetitiveDiscoveries
JUST PHILIPPOT - 2015 / FRANCE
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
SES SOUFFLES / BREATH
JUST PHILIPPOT - 2015 / FRANCE
Lizon has just attended her friend Marie’s birthday. The friends around the birthday cake, the candles to be blown, the wish to be made amazed her. For her ninth birthday, Lizon wants to have the same thing. A birthday with a cake, candles and her friends, at her home: in the car.
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
L. REZAN YESILBAS - 2012 / TURKEY
.FIC2013AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
SESSIZ-BÉ DENG / SILENT
L. REZAN YESILBAS - 2012 / TURKEY
1984: Zeynep, who lives in Diyarbakır with her three children, wants to visit her husband in prison. Zeynep only speaks her mother tongue ‘Kurdish’; however, only the Turkish language is allowed to be spoken in prison, so she’s unable to utter a word there.
.FIC2013AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
KATARINA REŠEK - 2020 / SLOVENIA
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
SESTRE / SISTERS
KATARINA REŠEK - 2020 / SLOVENIA
Three best friends, sworn virgins, get into a fight with local boys. When things get rough, they are saved by a girl in the making.
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MARIJA APCEVSKA - 2021 / MACEDONIA - SERBIA
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
SEVEREN POL / NORTH POLE
MARIJA APCEVSKA - 2021 / MACEDONIA - SERBIA
Misty field, crowded locker room. Margo belongs to neither. Maybe if she loses her virginity, she will finally find her place.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
MICHAELA MIHÀLY, DAVID STUMPF - 2019 / CZECH REPUBLIC-SLOVAKIA-FRANCE
.FIC2020ComedyParallel
SH_T HAPPENS
MICHAELA MIHÀLY, DAVID STUMPF - 2019 / CZECH REPUBLIC-SLOVAKIA-FRANCE
The caretaker exhausted by everything, his frustrated wife and one totally depressed deer. Their mutual despair leads them to absurd events, because... shit happens all the time.
.FIC2020ComedyParallel
GABRIEL RAZMADZE - 2012 / FRANCE - GEORGIA
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
SHAVI TUTA / BLACK MULLBERRY
GABRIEL RAZMADZE - 2012 / FRANCE - GEORGIA
In the mining city of Chiatura (Georgia), two teenagers spend a day together, far from their respective lives.
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
QIU YANG - 2019 / CHINA-FRANCE
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
SHE RUNS
QIU YANG - 2019 / CHINA-FRANCE
In an ordinary Chinese winter, a small city junior high student, YU, tries to quit her school aerobics dancing team.
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
JULIEN DAVID - 2020 / FRANCE
.FIC2021FamilyminiFICParallel
SHLOMO ET LE RABBIN / SHLOMO AND THE RABBI
JULIEN DAVID - 2020 / FRANCE
Winter 1895, in a small Ukrainian village, farmer Shlomo is expecting his tenth child. Thrown into a panic, he runs to the rabbi for some advice and discovers that, in life as in physics, everything is relative.
.FIC2021FamilyminiFICParallel
SANDER JOON - 2022 / ESTONIA
.FIC2022JuniorsminiFICParallel
SIERRA
SANDER JOON - 2022 / ESTONIA
A father and his son are losing the folk race. In order to win, the boy turns himself into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director’s childhood, Sierra pulls us into the surreal car racing world.
.FIC2022JuniorsminiFICParallel
ANCA MIRUNA LAZARESCU - 2011 / GERMANY - ROMANIA
.FIC2011AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
SILENT RIVER
ANCA MIRUNA LAZARESCU - 2011 / GERMANY - ROMANIA
Romania, 1986: Gregor and Vali want to get away. Both need each other, yet there is mutual distrust. One night Gregor finds his doubts confirmed. In the end only hope is left.
.FIC2011AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ZARA DWINGER - 2017 / NETHERLANDS
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
SIRENE / MERMAID
ZARA DWINGER - 2017 / NETHERLANDS
Deep down inside, a fifteen-year-old boy feel different from the other boys around him. When he becomes friends with a girl, he gets more and more tangled up in his confusion.
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
SAMAD ALIZADEH - 2023 / IRAN
.FIC2024JuniorsminiFICParallel
SIZDAH SALEGHI / THE THIRTEENTH YEAR
SAMAD ALIZADEH - 2023 / IRAN
Helia has become thirteen and this led her family to restrict her from cycling.
.FIC2024JuniorsminiFICParallel
GUY NATTIV - 2018 / USA
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
SKIN
GUY NATTIV - 2018 / USA
In a small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10-year-old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash.
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
JERRY CARLSSON - 2017 / SWEDEN
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
SKUGGDJUR / SHADOW ANIMALS
JERRY CARLSSON - 2017 / SWEDEN
Marall goes to a party with her parents. She seems to be the only one who can see the shadow circling inside the house.
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
FILIPE MELO - 2020 / 2018 / PORTUGAL - USA
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
SLEEPWALK
FILIPE MELO - 2020 / 2018 / PORTUGAL - USA
A man goes on a journey for a slice of apple pie.
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
LKHAGVADULAM PUREV-OCHIR - 2022 / MONGOLIA, FRANCE
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
SNOW IN SEPTEMBER
LKHAGVADULAM PUREV-OCHIR - 2022 / MONGOLIA, FRANCE
Davka is a teenager who lives in the decaying Soviet buildings in Ulaanbaatar. With his classmate, Anuka, they talk about manga and tease each other about sex. When Davka encounters an older woman, his ideas about intimacy and his view of relationships are forced to change.
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
ANABEL CASO - 2017 / MEXICO
.FIC2017Parallel
SOFÍA
ANABEL CASO - 2017 / MEXICO
The erotic encounter of Sofi a with a stranger at a petrol station in the middle of nowhere will mark the end of her innocence and the beginning of her puberty.
.FIC2017Parallel
NACHO OZORES - 2023 / SPAIN
.FIC2023CompetitiveGZ_00
SOLO, A VECES. FRÁGIL, SIEMPRE. / SOMETIMES ALONE. ALWAYS FRAGILE.
NACHO OZORES - 2023 / SPAIN
It's Friday night. Diego comes home after work and all he wants is time for himself. His friends want him to hang out with them, but Diego prefers his quiet plan alone at home. It seems that the universe does not agree.
.FIC2023CompetitiveGZ_00
CAIT LYN ADAMSON - 2017 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
SOME GIRLS
CAIT LYN ADAMSON - 2017 / UNITED KINGDOM
Mina, a shy teenage girl coming to terms with her sexuality, begins a new friendship with another girl from her school, Lana. Mina is swept up in the excitement of rebellion and experimentation that will culminate one night when the girls go clubbing underage.
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
CHANRADO SOK, KONGKEA VANN - 2021 / CAMBODIA
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
SOMLENG REATREY / SOUND OF THE NIGHT
CHANRADO SOK, KONGKEA VANN - 2021 / CAMBODIA
Vibol and his brother Kea sell noodles on a motorized cart every night on the streets of Phnom Penh. They often face troublesome threats from gangsters and thieves, even if these very people are their only customers. As the city is growing around them, they consider their unstable income and imagine a different future.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
THEO MONTOYA - 2020 / COLOMBIA, ARGENTINA
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
SON OF SODOM
THEO MONTOYA - 2020 / COLOMBIA, ARGENTINA
In August 2017, I chose Camilo Najar, known as "Son of Sodom" in the social media, to be the main character in my first feature film. The film delved into his life, his sexuality, dealt with drugs and the future he saw for himself. A week later, at twenty-one, he died from a heroin overdose. Who was "Son of Sodom"?
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
JONAS MEKAS - 1998 / UNITED STATES
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
SONG OF AVIGNON / SONG OF AVIGNON
JONAS MEKAS - 1998 / UNITED STATES
Reflections on my trip to Avignon in 1966, which helped me overcome a deep crisis I was going through. The texts are from my diaries of that period and are read by Angus McLise. - Jonas Mekas
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
FRANCISCO REGUEIRO - 1962 / SPAIN
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
SOR ANGELINA, VIRGEN / SISTER ANGELINA, VIRGIN
FRANCISCO REGUEIRO - 1962 / SPAIN
Sister Angelina returns home only for twenty-four hours. It is a reunion with her parents, her sisters, her old friends and some of her experiences she prefers not to remember.
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
MAXIME VOIDEY & VICTOR DUFAYAD - 2017 / FRANCE
.FIC2018ChildrenParallel
SOUS PRESSION / UNDER PRESSURE
MAXIME VOIDEY & VICTOR DUFAYAD - 2017 / FRANCE
A little astronaut lands on a planet to conquer it. But he will discover this planet has something special.
.FIC2018ChildrenParallel
MARIO GÓMEZ MARTÍN - 1967 / SPAIN
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
SOY LEYENDA / I AM LEGEND
MARIO GÓMEZ MARTÍN - 1967 / SPAIN
The story of Robert Neville, the sole survivor of a virus that has wiped out part of the human race and turned the rest into vampires.
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
KHRIS CEMBE - 2018 / SPAIN
.FIC2019CompetitiveGalicia
SOY UNA TUMBA / MUM’S THE WORD
KHRIS CEMBE - 2018 / SPAIN
Every night a boy watches his father unloading a cargo of contraband tobacco. But this night, the cargo doesn’t contain tobacco.
.FIC2019CompetitiveGalicia
MARINUS GROOTHOF - 2011 / NETHERLANDS
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
SPIEGELINGEN / REFLECTION
MARINUS GROOTHOF - 2011 / NETHERLANDS
A man flees from the clamour of a name- less, hectic street. He sneaks into what ap- pears to be an empty building, a deserted space where he is increasingly confronted with himself.
.FIC2012AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ARTHUR CHAYS - 2022 / FRANCE
.FIC2022FamilyminiFICParallel
SPOON
ARTHUR CHAYS - 2022 / FRANCE
To escape from everyday life, it's very simple: you need motivation, a ladder and a spoon. But is it really that easy?
.FIC2022FamilyminiFICParallel
SARA KERN - 2016 / SLOVENIA - AUSTRIA - CROATIA
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
SREČNO, ORLO! / GOOD LUCK, ORLO!
SARA KERN - 2016 / SLOVENIA - AUSTRIA - CROATIA
After a dramatic event, Orlo (7) watches his parents being consumed with grief. In an attempt to make them happy and his family whole again, he does something unexpected...
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MAYA VITKOVA - 2010 / BULGARIA
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
STANKA SE PRIBIRA VKASHTI / STANKA RETURNS HOME
MAYA VITKOVA - 2010 / BULGARIA
When Stanka Atanasova, an elderly and sick woman, enters her block of flats, she discovers that the elevator is out of order. Stanka must use the stairs to get to the ninth floor, and what for most of us is a simple task, becomes a challenge for her
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
JOSEMA ROIG - 2014 / USA
.FIC2015AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
STARMAN
JOSEMA ROIG - 2014 / USA
Wyatt Star, a motorcycle racer in the doldrums faces his past mistakes to become once more the legend he once was.
.FIC2015AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
THĒODORE JANVIER, FANNY PAOLI, EMMA GACH, ANABELLE DAVID, JULIE VALENTIN, CLAIRE ROBERT - 2021 / FRANCE
.FIC2022ChildrenminiFICParallel
STEP BY STEP
THĒODORE JANVIER, FANNY PAOLI, EMMA GACH, ANABELLE DAVID, JULIE VALENTIN, CLAIRE ROBERT - 2021 / FRANCE
A little rain boot wakes up on a river’s side. On her journey through the forest she would overcome any obstacles to find her way back home. On the road she faces many events that will make her grow.
.FIC2022ChildrenminiFICParallel
LEONARDO VAN DIJL - 2020 / BELGIUM
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
STEPHANIE
LEONARDO VAN DIJL - 2020 / BELGIUM
After winning her first international title, an 11-year-old gymnast experiences both new pressures and a new degree of self-aware-ness. The more recognition she gets, the more she realizes that the game only has begun.
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
IRIA PIÑÓN GARCÍA, ANDRÉS ÁLVAREZ RODRÍGUEZ - CIFP AUDIOVISUAL DE VIGO - REALIZACIÓN, PRODUCIÓN, SON E IMAXE. - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
.FIC2024Cinema SchoolsGalician Cinema Schools
STEPS&BARS / STEPS&BARS
IRIA PIÑÓN GARCÍA, ANDRÉS ÁLVAREZ RODRÍGUEZ - CIFP AUDIOVISUAL DE VIGO - REALIZACIÓN, PRODUCIÓN, SON E IMAXE. - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
Documentary that tells the story of Hip-Hop culture in Vigo. Featuring the city's pioneers and models, it narrates the beginnings, values, essence, and present state through the four elements: rap, DJing, graffiti, and breakdance.
.FIC2024Cinema SchoolsGalician Cinema Schools
GEORGI M. UNKOVSKI - 2019 / MACEDONIA
.FIC2020ComedyParallel
STICKER
GEORGI M. UNKOVSKI - 2019 / MACEDONIA
After an unsuccessful attempt to renew his car registration, Dejan falls in a bureaucratic trap that tests his determination to be a responsible father.
.FIC2020ComedyParallel
SOPHY ROMVARI - 2020 / CANADA
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
STILL PROCESSING
SOPHY ROMVARI - 2020 / CANADA
A box of stunning family photos awakens grief and lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera. Filmmaker Sophy Romvari documents her first-hand experience as an exploration into cinema as therapy in this nonfiction short.
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ETHAN BRISCOE - 2021 / USA
.FIC2023miniFICParallel
STOWAWAY
ETHAN BRISCOE - 2021 / USA
After discovering a baby kraken aboard their ship, two bumbling pirates try to get rid of it. But as their incompetent attempts escalate, they only throw themselves further into disaster
.FIC2023miniFICParallel
DARCY PRENDERGAST - 2022 / AUSTRALIA
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
STRANGE BEASTS
DARCY PRENDERGAST - 2022 / AUSTRALIA
Strange Beasts is a look at the meteoric rise and fall of the Bacchus Marsh Lion Safari, as told through the eyes of Ron Prendergast; a then 18 year old big cat keeper. From its initial boom, to its protracted closure, the park remains shrouded in mystery and folklore. Until now.
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
BORIS DOLENC - 2010 / SLOVENIA
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
STRIPBURGER V GIBANJU
BORIS DOLENC - 2010 / SLOVENIA
Stripburger is an original comic magazine. The film is based on eight comics published in Stripburger. The perfect occasion to put the comics in motion is right now-18th anniversary.
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
GUY MADDIN, EVAN JOHNSON, GALEN JOHNSON - 2020 / CANADA
.FIC2020CompetitiveDiscoveries
STUMP THE GUESSER
GUY MADDIN, EVAN JOHNSON, GALEN JOHNSON - 2020 / CANADA
He works at the fairground as “Stump the Guesser”, who can guess anything for a fee. But suddenly his tricks stop working. And, on top of that, he unwittingly falls in love with his sister whom he believed to be lost. He sets out to scientifically disprove the theory of heredity and marry his beloved one as soon as possible. An absurdist firework of a silent film in black and white.
.FIC2020CompetitiveDiscoveries
IRENE MORAY - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2019CompetitiveSpain
SUC DE SÍNDRIA / WATERMELON JUICE
IRENE MORAY - 2019 / SPAIN
Barbara and Pol spend a few days on holiday with a group of friends in a house surrounded by nature. They want to have a good time and find a peaceful space where they can enjoy their intimacy. With the support of Pol, in the midst of nature, between tears and laughter, Barbara will heal old wounds and redefine her sexuality.
.FIC2019CompetitiveSpain
JEROEN ANNOKKEÉ - 2010 / NETHERLANDS
.FIC2012.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficialParallel
SUIKER / SUGAR
JEROEN ANNOKKEÉ - 2010 / NETHERLANDS
Klaasje, Bert’s neighbour downstairs, comes to the door one day scantily dressed, asking to borrow a cup of sugar. It’s the old cliché situation with a possible sexual outcome. When she lets the cup slip from her hands and they both try to catch it, destiny strikes.
.FIC2012.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficialParallel
EMMANUEL PIERRAT, PIERRE-ANDRÉ FONTAINE, RÉMY LEROY - 2019 / FRANCE
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
SUPERBOT
EMMANUEL PIERRAT, PIERRE-ANDRÉ FONTAINE, RÉMY LEROY - 2019 / FRANCE
In a house, at night, a small household robot does his job. While cleaning the living room, the light outside attracts him. As he approaches the window, he discovers a wonderful full moon accompanied by a starry sky that leaves him speechless.
.FIC2020ChildrenminiFICParallel
ELIE GRAPPE - 2015 / FRANCE - SWITZERLAND
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
SUSPENDU / IN THE AIR
ELIE GRAPPE - 2015 / FRANCE - SWITZERLAND
At dawn, in a great classical dance conservatory, a boy falls while rehearsing some movements. Something breaks in his foot, causing sharp pain. But it’s exams day and the boy refuses to quit: he tries to face his dance partner and classmates, convincing himself his body has no limits.
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
NINA MARISSIAUX - 2018 / BELGIUM
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
SUSPENSION D’AUDIENCE / ADJOURNMENT
NINA MARISSIAUX - 2018 / BELGIUM
Five people who have nothing to do with the justice system find themselves connected to each other through an assize trial. During the adjournments, they talk about their reactions to the case.
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
BRANISLAV MILATOVIC - 2012 / MONTENEGRO
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
SVE TO / ALL OF THIS
BRANISLAV MILATOVIC - 2012 / MONTENEGRO
Danilo's friend from classroom passed away. Father wants to withdrawn boy's attention from the funeral and the obligations as a president of classroom by going on daily holiday. For father, protecting own child from unkind experience as the funeral by going on fishing, becomes much more difficult task than he expected.
.FIC2013CompetitiveOfficial
SELMA CERVANTES - 2022 / MÉXICO
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
SWEATSHOP GIRL
SELMA CERVANTES - 2022 / MÉXICO
Inés works as a seamstress in a sweatshop where pregnancy tests are periodically administered. When she becomes pregnant, she is sure that her condition will get her fired. She does everything she can to keep it a secret.
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
SOLENNE MOREAU, ELISA DRIQUE, MARIE BORDESSOULE, VINCENT LEVRERO, NADINE DE BOER, CHLOÉ LAUZU, ADRIANA BOUISSIE - 2023 / FRANCE, CANADA, ARGENTINA
.FIC2024FamilyKindergartenminiFICParallel
SWING TO THE MOON / SWING TO THE MOON
SOLENNE MOREAU, ELISA DRIQUE, MARIE BORDESSOULE, VINCENT LEVRERO, NADINE DE BOER, CHLOÉ LAUZU, ADRIANA BOUISSIE - 2023 / FRANCE, CANADA, ARGENTINA
Living in the forest, little spider Temi dreams of catching the Moon. For that, she will do anything.
.FIC2024FamilyKindergartenminiFICParallel
VINCENT COEN & JEAN-JULIEN COLLETTE - 2008 / BELGIUM
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
TABU / TABOO
VINCENT COEN & JEAN-JULIEN COLLETTE - 2008 / BELGIUM
An American couple take their son to Belgium; they want he knows his roots. But when Julián fall in love, the purpose of the trip is fulfilled in a surprising way.
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
NOTTAPON BOONPRAKOB - 2009 / THAILAND
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
TAPIEN RIM KLONG / DROWNING
NOTTAPON BOONPRAKOB - 2009 / THAILAND
Grandmom tells Pom that the reason that she has no teeth because death is approaching her. One day, Pom has baby brother and his tooth falls out. Is it a sign that he will die too?
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
BASILIO MARTÍN PATINO - 1960 / SPAIN
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
TARDE DE DOMINGO / SUNDAY AFTERNOON
BASILIO MARTÍN PATINO - 1960 / SPAIN
A young woman is left alone in her Madrid home for a whole Sunday afternoon. Oblivious to the noisy requests of her neighbours, she watches the time go by, observing the daily events that take place in the events that take place in the small square in front of her balcony.
.FIC2022ParallelRetrospective
HUGO DE LA RIVA - 2017 / SPAIN
.FIC2017FamilyParallel
TARDE DE PESCA / AN AFTERNOON FISHING
HUGO DE LA RIVA - 2017 / SPAIN
A grandfather and his granddaughter spend a pleasant afternoon fishing.
.FIC2017FamilyParallel
JOHN PASKIEVICH, MICHAEL MIRUS - 1982 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
TED BARYLUK'S GROCERY
JOHN PASKIEVICH, MICHAEL MIRUS - 1982 / CANADA
This short documentary profiles Ukrainian-Canadian Ted Baryluk, whose grocery store has been a fixture in Winnipeg's North End for over 20 years. The film is a wistful rendering of a shopkeeper's relationship with his daughter and a fascinating portrait of a neighbourhood and its inhabitants.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
ANCA DAMIAN - 2018 / ROMANIA
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
TELEFONUL / THE CALL
ANCA DAMIAN - 2018 / ROMANIA
An aged woman is taking a bath. While entering the water, a new world reveals. The phone, on a chair, connects her with her son and is the only link to the real world.
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
SAMM HODGES - 2022 / USA
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
TENDER
SAMM HODGES - 2022 / USA
An exploration of the generational trap of male violence within the context of rural American poverty. When JD can’t find his wallet, he feels disrespected. He’s scared of being disrespected. When he’s scared, he gets terrifying. He turns his rage on his girlfriend and her teenage son. The cycle continues. Damon faces an impossible choice.
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
ROBIN MCKENNA - 2020 / CANADA
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
THANADOULA
ROBIN MCKENNA - 2020 / CANADA
Two sisters are closely entwined by love. When Annie disappears, her younger sister, Natalie, seeks her out in an unconventional way: as a "Thanadoula", she accompanies the dying in their final stages.
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
ALI ASGARI - 2014 / IRAN - ITALY
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
THE BABY
ALI ASGARI - 2014 / IRAN - ITALY
Narges and her friend just have a few hours to find someone to take care of her baby for some days.
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
WILLIE DUNN - 1968 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
THE BALLAD OF CROWFOOT
WILLIE DUNN - 1968 / CANADA
The Ballad of Crowfoot was directed by Willie Dunn, a Mi’kmaq/Scottish folk singer and activist who was part of the historic Indian Film Crew, the first all-Indigenous production unit at the NFB. The film is a powerful look at colonial betrayals, told through a striking montage of archival images and a ballad composed by Dunn himself about the legendary 19th-century Siksika (Blackfoot) chief who negotiated Treaty 7 on behalf of the Blackfoot Confederacy.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
DAISY JACOBS - 2014 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
THE BIGGER PICTURE
DAISY JACOBS - 2014 / UNITED KINGDOM
Two sons, an elderly mother and no end in sight. The stark and darkly humorous tale of caring for an ageing parent.
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
CAROL FREEMAN - 2018 / IRELAND
.FIC2019JuniorsParallel
THE BIRD AND THE WHALE
CAROL FREEMAN - 2018 / IRELAND
The Bird and the Whale is a story about a young whale struggling to find his voice. After straying too far from his family to explore a shipwreck, he discovers a sole survivor, a caged songbird. Together, they struggle to survive lost at the sea.
.FIC2019JuniorsParallel
EUGEN MERHER - 2023 / GERMANY, USA
.FIC2023Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
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.
.FIC2023Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
UNA GUNJAK - 2014 / GERMANY - CROATIA
.FIC2015AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
THE CHICKEN
UNA GUNJAK - 2014 / GERMANY - CROATIA
As a present for her 6th birthday, Selma gets a living chicken. When she realises that the animal is going to be killed to feed the family, she decides to save it and set it free, unaware of the risk that such action implies. It's the year 1993 in Sarajevo.
.FIC2015AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
COLIN LOW - 1967 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
THE CHILDREN OF FOGO ISLAND
COLIN LOW - 1967 / CANADA
This short film from Colin Low presents the problems faced by the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland and what keeps them committed to the land. The film shows some of the magic of the island, as seen through the eyes of children, and helps to understand why its inhabitants cling to its shores.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
ALYONA TOMILOVA - 2016 / RUSSIA
.FIC2017ChildrenParallel
THE CLOUD AND THE WHALE
ALYONA TOMILOVA - 2016 / RUSSIA
A touching story about the friendship between a small cloud and a big whale.
.FIC2017ChildrenParallel
MICKEY LAI - 2020 / MALAYSIA
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
THE CLOUD IS STILL THERE
MICKEY LAI - 2020 / MALAYSIA
When her grandfather becomes terminally ill, Xiao Le, a young Christian woman, faces a critical decision over whether she should intervene with her family's Taoist rituals.
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
JUSTINE DE GASQUET - 2020 / SWEDEN
.FIC2021Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
THE DE FACTO MARTYR SUITE
JUSTINE DE GASQUET - 2020 / SWEDEN
Ibn Kenyatta has been in prison since 1974. In 2019, he reflects on his refusal to appear before the New York state parole board. The words resonate from his cell with images of the great migration. The invocation of a life before walls. The story takes us from Alabama, his birth place, to the New York subway where he was arrested and beaten.
.FIC2021Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
DAHEE JEONG - 2016 / FRANCE
.FIC2017Parallel
THE EMPTY
DAHEE JEONG - 2016 / FRANCE
In the woman’s room, memories constantly accumulate and disappear like dust. The man spends his time in this room, creating futile little games with the woman’s memories.
.FIC2017Parallel
EDUARDO CHAPERO-JACKSON - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
THE END
EDUARDO CHAPERO-JACKSON - 2008 / SPAIN
A middle class american family has to fight for survival in a devastated nation because of the lack of water.
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
JACQUELINE LENTZOU - 2020 / GREECE
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
THE END OF SUFFERING (A PROPOSAL)
JACQUELINE LENTZOU - 2020 / GREECE
Sofia is panicky, again. The Universe decides to contact her. An other-wordly dialogue. A planet symphony where people dream awake and fight for love.
.FIC2021DiscoveriesParallel
MILCHO MANCHEVSKI - 2017 / CUBA - USA
.FIC2017Parallel
THE END OF TIME
MILCHO MANCHEVSKI - 2017 / CUBA - USA
The End of Time highlights that one moment on a regular unassuming Tuesday, when you realise that time has stopped and that the universe has been sucked into a single grain of rice.
.FIC2017Parallel
AMANDA FORBIS AND WENDY TILBY - 2022 / CANADA
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
THE FLYING SAILOR
AMANDA FORBIS AND WENDY TILBY - 2022 / CANADA
Two ships collide in a harbour, an explosion shatters a city, and a sailor is blasted skyward. With ears ringing, blood pulsing and guts heaving, he soars high above the mayhem and towards the great unknown. A bold blend of comedy, suspense and philosophy, "The Flying Sailor" is an exhilarating contemplation of the wonder and fragility of existence.
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
JAN MÍKA - 2023 / CZECH REPUBLIC
.FIC2023FamilyminiFICParallel
THE GOOSE
JAN MÍKA - 2023 / CZECH REPUBLIC
A boy fantasizes about becoming a famous footballer, playing in big stadiums - but first he has to win a match in a small backyard against a goose.
.FIC2023FamilyminiFICParallel
CATHERINE LEPAGE - 2019 / CANADA
.FIC2021Carte Blanche - Marc BertrandParallel
THE GREAT MALAISE
CATHERINE LEPAGE - 2019 / CANADA
In the voiceover for this animated short, a young woman attempts to describe herself, casting her life in the ideal light that society expects. The film’s imagery, however, tells a different story, poignantly illustrating the intense anxiety that comes with the quest for perfection and the pursuit of happiness.
.FIC2021Carte Blanche - Marc BertrandParallel
TOMEK BAGINSKI - 2009 / POLAND
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
THE KINEMATOGRAPH
TOMEK BAGINSKI - 2009 / POLAND
Francis is an inventor. His invention is supposed to change the world. He forgot about one thing: dreams always cost too much. He is focused only on himself and his work and realizes the gravity of the situation only when it is too late.
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
KATARINA LILLQVIST - 2021 / SPAIN, FINLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, SWEDEN
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
THE LAST MATADOR
KATARINA LILLQVIST - 2021 / SPAIN, FINLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, SWEDEN
When the last bullfighting arena in Catalonia has turned into a shopping mall, an old matador has to earn his living in the bars of Barcelona. One night, a bored Russian president pops in, trying to freshen up his too long holidays. In no time he feels an urgent desire to try on his luck as a corrido hero before it is too late.
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
ELIZABETH ROSE - 2016 / CANADA
.FIC2017ComedyParallel
THE LAW OF AVERAGES
ELIZABETH ROSE - 2016 / CANADA
Death waits for no woman: in Quebec’s countryside, during a brutal winter, a woman and her adult daughter await the death of the family’s matriarch. A dark comedy about the unwitting emotional pain mothers and daughters inflict on each other.
.FIC2017ComedyParallel
EKATERINA FILIPPOVA - 2020 / RUSSIA
.FIC2021KindergartenminiFICParallel
THE LITTLE BOAT THAT WANTED TO FLY
EKATERINA FILIPPOVA - 2020 / RUSSIA
In a very special factory by the sea, boats and airplanes are born, and once in the nursery they teach them what theit functions are. Nut one of them refuses to learn how to be a good boat, because what he really want is to fly.
.FIC2021KindergartenminiFICParallel
AMIR MEHRAN - 2022 / IRAN
.FIC2023FamilyminiFICParallel
THE LOVELY SKY
AMIR MEHRAN - 2022 / IRAN
An impatient fighter pilot bombs cities every day. He returns to his little girl every night after completing his mission. The girl loves to fly, but the father doesn't fulfill his daughter's dream because of the bitter memory of his wife's death. The war is getting closer every day. One day an incident changes their life forever.
.FIC2023FamilyminiFICParallel
JOHANNA PYYKKÖ - 2019 / NORWAY-PHILIPPINES
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
THE MANILA LOVER
JOHANNA PYYKKÖ - 2019 / NORWAY-PHILIPPINES
During a trip to the Philippines, a middle-aged Norwegian called Lars meets Abigail - the Filipina he wants to share his life with. But today nothing goes according to plan.
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ROBERT MACHOIAN - 2019 / USA
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
THE MINORS
ROBERT MACHOIAN - 2019 / USA
A slice of life film about a Grandpa and his grandsons.
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
NIENKE DEUTZ - 2023 / BELGIUM, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
THE MIRACLE / THE MIRACLE
NIENKE DEUTZ - 2023 / BELGIUM, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS
The Miracle, a place where the sun always shines, with endless opportunities to relax and food in abundance. But how do you relate to a place that constantly confronts you with the things you don’t have?
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
HANNAH ROMAN - 2016 / USA
.FIC2017ChildrenParallel
THE MOON IS ESSENTIALY GRAY
HANNAH ROMAN - 2016 / USA
The Moon Is Essentaly Gray is a 3-minute CG animated short film about a young child, her makeshift rocket, and her fantastic fight to the moon. The film explores the role escapism plays in the lives of children who suffer some form of neglect or abandonment by their caregivers.
.FIC2017ChildrenParallel
ROBERT AWAD, DAVID VERRALL - 1980 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
THE NATIONAL SCREAM
ROBERT AWAD, DAVID VERRALL - 1980 / CANADA
This lively satire uses animation and a pseudo-documentary style to depict Canada's search for a national identity. The National Scream explains, amongst other elements of Canadiana, how and why the beaver became the country's symbol.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
SILVIA CARPIZO - 2017 / SPAIN - GERMANY
.FIC2018CompetitiveGalicia
THE NEVERENDING WALL
SILVIA CARPIZO - 2017 / SPAIN - GERMANY
A plea against the building of walls that divide us and restrict our freedom, expressed through the animation of 102 graffities made on the largest section of the Berlin Wall by artists from around the world.
.FIC2018CompetitiveGalicia
MIKEY HILL - 2015 / AUSTRALIA
.FIC2016Parallel
THE ORCHESTRA
MIKEY HILL - 2015 / AUSTRALIA
Imagine a world where a band of tiny musicians follow you and play a soundtrack for your life – communicating your emotions, fears and hopes. In this world lives elderly Vernon; a lonely man whose crippling shyness causes his orchestral musicians to perform terribly out of tune.
.FIC2016Parallel
DIEGO MARCON - 2021 / ITALY - UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2022CompetitiveDiscoveries
THE PARENT'S ROOM
DIEGO MARCON - 2021 / ITALY - UNITED KINGDOM
A family gathers around a bed to sing a lament to their own deaths, accompained by a blackbird.
.FIC2022CompetitiveDiscoveries
THEODORE USHEV - 2019 / CANADA
.FIC2021Carte Blanche - Marc BertrandParallel
THE PHYSICS OF SORROW
THEODORE USHEV - 2019 / CANADA
The Physics of Sorrow tracks an unknown man’s life as he sifts through memories of his youth in Bulgaria through to his increasingly rootless and melancholic adulthood in Canada.
.FIC2021Carte Blanche - Marc BertrandParallel
FARAH NABULSI - 2020 / PALESTINE
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
THE PRESENT
FARAH NABULSI - 2020 / PALESTINE
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy will it be to go shopping?
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
PASCAL BLANCHET, RODOLPHE SAINT-GELAIS - 2019 / CANADA
.FIC2021Carte Blanche - Marc BertrandParallel
THE PROCESSION
PASCAL BLANCHET, RODOLPHE SAINT-GELAIS - 2019 / CANADA
After Catherine’s fatal car accident, she speaks from the beyond to her grieving husband, Philip, who must endure the family ritual of the funeral. The Procession is an elegant poem in black, white, and pink that shows us how, despite the pressure to keep up appearances, love finds a way.
.FIC2021Carte Blanche - Marc BertrandParallel
GERALD POTTERTON - 1965 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
THE RAILRODDER
GERALD POTTERTON - 1965 / CANADA
This short film from director Gerald Potterton stars Buster Keaton in one of the last films of his long career. As the railrodder, Keaton crosses Canada from east to west on a railway track speeder. True to Keaton's genre, the film is full of sight gags as our protagonist putt-putts his way to British Columbia. Not a word is spoken throughout, and Keaton is as spry and ingenious at fetching laughs as he was in the old days of the silent slapsticks.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
OUALID MOUANESS - 2016 / LEBANON
.FIC2017Parallel
THE RIFLE, THE JACKAL, THE WOLF AND THE BOY
OUALID MOUANESS - 2016 / LEBANON
Two brothers cross the line when they use a household rifle without their father’s consent and set off some unsettling incidents. Based in a contemporary rural Lebanon, this coming-of-age parable puts family trust to the test, examining the inherent relationship between human beings, nature and violence.
.FIC2017Parallel
SIERRA PETTENGILL - 2021 / UNITED STATES
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
THE RIFLEMAN
SIERRA PETTENGILL - 2021 / UNITED STATES
Told entirely through archival material, The Rifleman traces Harlon Carter, considered the “father of the modern NRA”, revealing the links between the National Rifle Association, the U.S. Border Patrol, and gun culture.
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
FARNOOSH SAMADI - 2018 / IRAN - ITALY
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
THE ROLE
FARNOOSH SAMADI - 2018 / IRAN - ITALY
A woman accompanies her husband for an audition. What happens there leads her to take an important decision...
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
CO HOEDEMAN - 1977 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
THE SAND CASTLE
CO HOEDEMAN - 1977 / CANADA
This short animated film features the sandman and the creatures he sculpts. These lively creatures build a castle and celebrate the completion of their new home, only to be interrupted by an uninvited guest.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
THOMAS STELLMACH - 2021 / GERMANY-BELGIUM
.FIC2022FamilyminiFICParallel
THE SAUSAGE RUN
THOMAS STELLMACH - 2021 / GERMANY-BELGIUM
With cynicism, tragedy and unscrupulousness this variation of the fairy tale story Little Red Riding Hood shows how the love of eating meat leads to corruption and a fatal pact.
.FIC2022FamilyminiFICParallel
MEHRNAZ ABDOLLAHINIA, FEBEN ELIAS WOLDEHAWARIAT, RAZAHK ISSAKA, CELESTE JAMNECK, YI LIU - 2021 / FRANCE
.FIC2022FamilyJuniorsminiFICParallel
THE SOLOISTS
MEHRNAZ ABDOLLAHINIA, FEBEN ELIAS WOLDEHAWARIAT, RAZAHK ISSAKA, CELESTE JAMNECK, YI LIU - 2021 / FRANCE
In a small village ruled by ridiculous laws, three singing sisters and their dog rehearse for the Annual Autumn Festival. But an unexpected event will disrupt their plans.
.FIC2022FamilyJuniorsminiFICParallel
ANTONY PETROU - 2017 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
THE SOUND
ANTONY PETROU - 2017 / UNITED KINGDOM
Beth lives a quiet rural life with her parents. One day her mother begins to hear a mystery sound that nobody else can hear and soon it becomes a source of frustration and pain.
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
MÉLANIE LOPEZ, SIMON BOUCLY, MARIE CIESIELSKI, ALICE JAUNET, CHAN STÉPUE, BÉATRICE VIGUIER - 2018 / FRANCE
.FIC2019JuniorsParallel
THE STAINED CLUB
MÉLANIE LOPEZ, SIMON BOUCLY, MARIE CIESIELSKI, ALICE JAUNET, CHAN STÉPUE, BÉATRICE VIGUIER - 2018 / FRANCE
Finn has spots on his skin. One day, he meets a group of cool kids with different spots on their bodies. He finally understands that these spots aren’t just pretty.
.FIC2019JuniorsParallel
CAROLINE LEAF - 1976 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
THE STREET
CAROLINE LEAF - 1976 / CANADA
This interpretation of a short story by Montreal author Mordecai Richler, the short film makes a strong statement about how many families respond to their old and infirm members. In washes of watercolour and ink, filmmaker Caroline Leaf illustrates reactions to a dying grandmother, capturing family feelings and distilling them into harsh reality.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
KEVORK ASLANYAN - 2021 / BULGARIA
.FIC2022JuniorsminiFICParallel
THE TICKET
KEVORK ASLANYAN - 2021 / BULGARIA
A boy travels through the whole city using one ticket.
.FIC2022JuniorsminiFICParallel
PINK TWINS - 2023 / FINLAND
.FIC2023CompetitiveDiscoveries
THE TRANSIENT
PINK TWINS - 2023 / FINLAND
What is The Transient? It is that fleeting moment when you question what you are seeing, when uncanny valley takes over and when harmonious wildlife is revealed as a monstrous result of cloning and obsessive manipulation of nature. Or the moment when you ignore the lure of the real and give in to the overwhelming beauty of growth, the blooming of spring and the glow of midsummer night. Real, based on a true story, artificial, imaginary, a natural paradise, an apocalyptic corruption of nature. The Transient is all of these things and more...
.FIC2023CompetitiveDiscoveries
ERENIK BEQIRI - 2019 / FRANCE-ALBANIA
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
THE VAN
ERENIK BEQIRI - 2019 / FRANCE-ALBANIA
The van finally stops, the doors open and Ben comes out alive. A few more fights and he will be able to pay his way out of Albania, and, hopefully, take his father with him.
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
VOLKER SCHLECHT - 2023 / GERMANY
.FIC2024CompetitiveDiscoveries
THE WAITING / THE WAITING
VOLKER SCHLECHT - 2023 / GERMANY
Mysterious deaths occur all over the planet and have a similar pattern. Why have so many species vanished? And what does it all have to do with us?
Karen Lips is researcher and lives for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time and returns, the frogs are gone. All of them. Karen sets out to find them – and encounters a horrible truth.
.FIC2024CompetitiveDiscoveries
ADÁN ALIAGA - 2015 / SPAIN
.FIC2016CompetitiveGalicia
THE WALKER
ADÁN ALIAGA - 2015 / SPAIN
‘The Walker’ is Mateo, a civil engineer with a plan: walking each and every one of the streets of New York.
.FIC2016CompetitiveGalicia
DANIEL REMÓN - 2014 / SPAIN
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
THE WORLD
DANIEL REMÓN - 2014 / SPAIN
What would you do if the world were about to end?
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
ALAUDA RUIZ DE AZÚA - 2011 / SPAIN
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
THEY SAY
ALAUDA RUIZ DE AZÚA - 2011 / SPAIN
Not everything thats goes on at school is a game.
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
LEWIS ATTEY - 2019 / AUSTRALIA
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
THREE STORIES INSIDE A RENTAL VAN
LEWIS ATTEY - 2019 / AUSTRALIA
The life of a white rental van is told in three parts in the eyes of the different people who hire it.
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
AINA CLOTET - 2016 / SPAIN
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
TIGER
AINA CLOTET - 2016 / SPAIN
In a couple there are wonderful, tender and desperate moments. Losing your pet when you are waiting for your first baby, can trigger them all at once.
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
JUANJO GIMÉNEZ - 2016 / SPAIN
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveSpain
TIMECODE
JUANJO GIMÉNEZ - 2016 / SPAIN
Luna and Diego are the parking lot security guards. Diego does the night shift, and Luna works by day.
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveSpain
JUAN JOSÉ MEDINA - 2021 / MÉXICO
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
TÍO / UNCLE
JUAN JOSÉ MEDINA - 2021 / MÉXICO
On his first day of work as a miner, Martin, a cocky teenager will learn the importance of rituals and respect for ancestors.
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
REGINA PESSOA - 2019 / PORTUGAL-CANADA-FRANCE
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
TIO TOMÁS, A CONTABILIDADE DOS DIAS / UNCLE THOMAS, ACCOUNTING FOR THE DAYS
REGINA PESSOA - 2019 / PORTUGAL-CANADA-FRANCE
From Regina’s personal and visual memories, she pays tribute to her uncle Thomas, a humble man with a simple and anonymous life. This is an acknowledgment of how one does not have to be somebody to become exceptional in his/her life.
.FIC2020CompetitiveOfficial
FX GOBY - 2017 / FRANCE
.FIC2017Parallel
TO BUILD A FIRE
FX GOBY - 2017 / FRANCE
To celebrate the centenary of Jack London’s death, the director Fx Goby adapts his famous novel To Build a Fire into an animated short film, a tragic tale of a trapper and his dog in the freezing Yukon.
.FIC2017Parallel
BOBBIE PEERS - 2018 / NORWAY - ICELAND
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
TO PLANT A FLAG
BOBBIE PEERS - 2018 / NORWAY - ICELAND
In preparation for the moon landing in 1969, NASA sent a team of astronauts to the lunar landscapes of Iceland. Their hi-tech training mission soon discovers what obstacles one can meet when facing an Icelandic sheep farmer.
.FIC2019CompetitiveOfficial
ISAAC BERROKAL - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2009AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
TODAY IS SUNDAY
ISAAC BERROKAL - 2008 / SPAIN
Life happens, memories remain. Comes a time wich we can not deal with and we must take our own fate.
.FIC2009AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
RAFA DE LOS ARCOS - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2020CompetitiveGalicia
TODO EL MUNDO SE PARECE DE LEJOS / EVERYONE LOOKS ALIKE FROM A DISTANCE
RAFA DE LOS ARCOS - 2019 / SPAIN
Celia is back in the neighborhood, but she doesn’t really know how she got there or what went wrong to make everything shot to shit in such a short time. In an attempt to hold on to something, she desperately seeks a way to recover the life she’s lost.
.FIC2020CompetitiveGalicia
VERA VAN WOLFEREN - 2020 / NETHERLANDS
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
TOURIST TRAP
VERA VAN WOLFEREN - 2020 / NETHERLANDS
Jeep is looking for the ideal place for his vacation: an island paradise full of wild areas and tropical birds… But when he reaches his destination he discovers that he is not the only visitor on the island.
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
JEAN-LUC GODARD - 1959 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
TOUS LES GARÇONS S´APPELLENT PATRICK (CHARLOTTE ET VÉRONIQUE) / ALL THE BOYS ARE CALLED PATRICK (CHARLOTTE AND VÉRONIQUE)
JEAN-LUC GODARD - 1959 / FRANCE
Charlotte and Véronique have each met a charming boy; as they’re friends, they tell each other the boy's name, and coincidentally they both are called Patrick. Is that a very common name or are there more coincidences in this story?
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
PETER TSCHERKASSKY - 2021 / AUSTRIA
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveDiscoveries
TRAIN AGAIN
PETER TSCHERKASSKY - 2021 / AUSTRIA
18 years after Peter Tscherkassky created his darkroom film L’Arrivée (an homage to the Lumière brothers and their 1895 L’Arrivée d’un train), he embarked on Train Again. This third film in his “Rushes Series” is an homage to Kurt Kren that simultaneously taps into a classic motif in film history. All aboard!
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveDiscoveries
DONALD WINKLER - 1978 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
TRAVEL LOG
DONALD WINKLER - 1978 / CANADA
This short, experimental road movie is a study in mystery and atmosphere. Juxtaposing photographs on the screen with a woman's words, the film tells the story of a couple who drifts apart, of a journey with no return. Introspective and haunting, this mood piece is a travel album about intimacy and dispossession.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
JONAS MEKAS - 1967-1981 / UNITED STATES
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
TRAVEL SONGS / TRAVEL SONGS
JONAS MEKAS - 1967-1981 / UNITED STATES
Composed from two decades of travelling around Europe, Travel Songs evokes that improvised approach so typical of Jonas. Assisi, Moscow and Stockholm are filtered through his extraordinary and lively lens.
.FIC2024ParallelRetrospective
ENRIQUE GARCÍA - 2010 / SPAIN
.FIC2011AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
TRES RAZONES / THREE REASONS
ENRIQUE GARCÍA - 2010 / SPAIN
Antonio must stay 18 years in prison. There, people who he doesn't share anything with, will mark his day by day.
.FIC2011AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
ANDREA LOVE - 2020 / USA
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
TULIP
ANDREA LOVE - 2020 / USA
A contemporary take on the story of Thumbelina, by Hans Christian Andersen, in which a tiny girl born from a flower decides to run away and explore her surroundings. An adventure full of risk and magical creatures, in this feminist and "woolly" adaptation of the classic fairy tale.
.FIC2022KindergartenminiFICParallel
LENA VON DÖHREN, EVA RUST - 2023 / SWITZERLAND
.FIC2024KindergartenminiFICParallel
TÜMPEL / POND
LENA VON DÖHREN, EVA RUST - 2023 / SWITZERLAND
A school of fish is out at sea. When the school is attacked by hungry seagulls, one of the fish flees towards the shore. The tide is out and the fish finds itself cut off from the sea in a tidal pool. The inhabitants of the pond eye the intruder curiously and defend their territory in their own way. Suddenly a seagull appears and it becomes dangerous for the animals. With their combined strength, they manage to drive the troublemaker away.
.FIC2024KindergartenminiFICParallel
IGOR GALUK - 2009 / ARGENTINA
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
TÚNELES EN EL RÍO / TUNNELS IN THE RIVER
IGOR GALUK - 2009 / ARGENTINA
Every summer hundreds of people disappear in the waters of the Rio Plata. Juan and his two sons go fishing off the coast of Punta Pedras.
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
ALEX BOYA - 2018 / CANADA
.FIC2021Carte Blanche - Marc BertrandParallel
TURBINE
ALEX BOYA - 2018 / CANADA
A war pilot crash-lands through his apartment window. When his wife returns from work, she discovers that her husband’s face has been replaced by an airplane turbine. To save their faltering marriage, his wife decides she will no longer let her humanity get in the way of love.
.FIC2021Carte Blanche - Marc BertrandParallel
GASPAR CHABAUD - 2018 / BELGIUM
.FIC2019ChildrenParallel
TUTU
GASPAR CHABAUD - 2018 / BELGIUM
The Little red riding hood’s tale told on stage, under the spotlight and through the rythm of Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski’s music.
.FIC2019ChildrenParallel
ANTONETA ALAMAT KUSIJANOVIC - 2017 / CROATIA-SLOVENIA-SWEDEN
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
U PLAVETNILLO / INTO THE BLUE
ANTONETA ALAMAT KUSIJANOVIC - 2017 / CROATIA-SLOVENIA-SWEDEN
On an idyllic Croatian island Julija is desperate to reconnect with her best friend, Ana. Her rejection ignites old wounds and a history violence Julija thought she had left behind.
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
JELA HASLER - 2021 / SWITZERLAND
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
ÜBER WASSER / ON SOLID GROUND
JELA HASLER - 2021 / SWITZERLAND
A city, in summer. The morning coolness in the river does not last long, the heat covers the city like a magnifying glass under which supposedly trivial everyday nuisances suddenly take on weight. Eli tries to escape the narrowness and agitation of the city – yet keeps being confronted with aggression. And the rage starts to build up within her.
.FIC2022CompetitiveOfficial
IVANA BOSNJAK, THOMAS JOHNSON - 2019/ CROATIA
.FIC2020CompetitiveDiscoveries
UDAHNUT ZIVOT / IMBUED LIFE
IVANA BOSNJAK, THOMAS JOHNSON - 2019/ CROATIA
Imbued Life is a film about a young woman's connection with the force of nature. She uses her talent for taxidermy to rehabilitate animals and connect them to their natural habitat. However, the real searching for answers begins when she starts finding a roll of undeveloped film in each of the animals she treats. Her obsession drives her to seek the explanation of the connection she feels, haunting her dreams, as well as her waking moments.
.FIC2020CompetitiveDiscoveries
PAOLO SASSANELLI - 2009 / ITALY
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
UERRA / WAR
PAOLO SASSANELLI - 2009 / ITALY
The Second World war has just ended but the political tensions interfere with the familiar life.
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
VALLE COMBA CANALES - 2016 / SPAIN
.FIC2017ChildrenParallel
UKA
VALLE COMBA CANALES - 2016 / SPAIN
Uka is a little girl who lives in a gloomy abandoned factory. While she’s painting on her canvas, she finds a way of changing how she sees the world.
.FIC2017ChildrenParallel
FÉLIX BRIXEL - 2022 / SPAIN
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveGaliciaOfficialSpain
ULISES
FÉLIX BRIXEL - 2022 / SPAIN
Ulises, a man who suffers from a psychomotor disorder, is cared for by his brother. One day he leaves the house and tries to bury himself. The brother, powerless, no longer knows what to do to take care of him.
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveGaliciaOfficialSpain
MANU SACOGA - UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO - GRAO EN COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
.FIC2024Cinema SchoolsGalician Cinema Schools
UN ABRAZO ES UN MUNDO ENTERO / A HUG IS AN ENTIRE WORLD
MANU SACOGA - UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO - GRAO EN COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
Dalia, a 25 years old girl, decides to retreat in her room due to her social anxiety. There, she finds USB she doesn’t remember and a forgotten letter in which a friend asked her to fulfill a promise together. Dalia will reflect on nostalgia, her friendship, and her deceased grandmother.
.FIC2024Cinema SchoolsGalician Cinema Schools
JULIE GOURDAIN - 2016 / FRANCE - BELGIUM
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
UN GRAND SILENCE / VEIL OF SILENCE
JULIE GOURDAIN - 2016 / FRANCE - BELGIUM
It is 1968 and Marianne is 19. She is placed in a home far from her family and friends where she meets other young girls whose common secret has shaken the foundations of their social standing.
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MARISA CRESPO, MOISÉS ROMERA - 2013 / SPAIN
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
UN LUGAR MEJOR / SOMEWHERE BETTER
MARISA CRESPO, MOISÉS ROMERA - 2013 / SPAIN
Thimbo wants to be a football player. Malik dreams of managing his own business. Demba just thinks of finding somewhere better.
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
CAROLINA ASTUDILLO - 2019 / SPAIN
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
UN PASEO POR NEW YORK HARBOR / A CRUISE THROUGH NEW YORK HARBOR
CAROLINA ASTUDILLO - 2019 / SPAIN
The apparent calm of a sunny Sunday dazzles passers-by. Don’t they hear the songs for peace, the cries against war and the agitation produced in the streets by civil rights movements?
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
ALEXANDRA MYOTTE, JEAN-SÉBASTIEN HAMEL - 2023 / CANADA
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
UN TROU DANS LA POITRINE / A CRAB IN THE POOL
ALEXANDRA MYOTTE, JEAN-SÉBASTIEN HAMEL - 2023 / CANADA
In a run-down neighbourhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world. During a scorching summer day, the two children will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
MARTA REYES ARIAS - 2010 / SPAIN
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
UNA CAJA DE BOTONES / A BOX OF BUTTONS
MARTA REYES ARIAS - 2010 / SPAIN
Faced with the fact he cannot afford the present his daughter Irene wants for King’s Day, Andrés has no choice but to tell her the truth behind this tradition. It will be an emotional journey for them both.
.FIC2010CompetitiveOfficial
LUIS AVILÉS - 2015 / SPAIN
.FIC2015AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
UNARY
LUIS AVILÉS - 2015 / SPAIN
After 20 years in prison, Lucas faces a new life, a new world that he does not recognize anymore. Loneliness is worse than he expected after losing everything he had. Will Lucas be able to start afresh?
.FIC2015AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MARIE CLERC - 2020 / FRANCE
.FIC2020ComedyParallel
UNE DE PERDUE / A LOST ONE
MARIE CLERC - 2020 / FRANCE
After losing for the umpteenth time one of his socks, Thierry decides to sequester the one he has, to find the missing.
.FIC2020ComedyParallel
JEAN-LUC GODARD E FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT - 1961 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
UNE HISTORIE D´EAU / A STORY OF WATER
JEAN-LUC GODARD E FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT - 1961 / FRANCE
A girl finds that the streets surrounding her house are flooded due to a premature arrival of spring that produces an intense thaw....
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
AURÉLIEN LAPLACE - 2016 / FRANCE
.FIC2016ComedyParallel
UNE POIGNÉE DE MAIN HISTORIQUE / AN HISTORIC HANDSHAKE
AURÉLIEN LAPLACE - 2016 / FRANCE
Washington, September 13, 1993. History is being made! Except for one last wrinkle to iron out...
.FIC2016ComedyParallel
AMY WANG - 2017 / USA - AUSTRALIA
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
UNNATURAL
AMY WANG - 2017 / USA - AUSTRALIA
In every attempt for normality, James is perpetually confronted by his demon. Can James fit into a society that’s been taught to hate who he is?
.FIC2018PanoramaParallel
TERENCE MACARTNEY-FILGATE - 1969 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
UP AGAINST THE SYSTEM
TERENCE MACARTNEY-FILGATE - 1969 / CANADA
People on welfare are rarely heard. What do they go through? How do they feel? How do concerned social and welfare workers feel about the welfare system? What is welfare supposed to do? In this film, welfare recipients and social case workers talk about the problems of being up against the system.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
TATYANA OKRUZHNOVA - 2017 / RUSSIA
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
UROK PLAVANIYA / THE SWIMMING LESSON
TATYANA OKRUZHNOVA - 2017 / RUSSIA
On a crowded beach, a child is amazed by an old sailor’s feats about his swimming skills. But will he be able to show them to him?
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
NATALIA MALYKHINA - 2021 / NORWAY
.FIC2022ChildrenminiFICParallel
URSA-NORDLYSETS SANG
NATALIA MALYKHINA - 2021 / NORWAY
A little polar bear Ursa is alone in the cold dark Arctic and looking for his mum. He walks through a blizzard, through icy cold tundra and sharp ice hummocks, towards the northern lights and the magic song in hope to find his mother.
.FIC2022ChildrenminiFICParallel
MARIUS MYRMEL - 2013 / NORWAY
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
UTEN DEG / WITHOUT YOU
MARIUS MYRMEL - 2013 / NORWAY
A portrait of childhood. An honest and raw story about parental neglect, abuse and brotherly love.
.FIC2014CompetitiveOfficial
HAMPUS NORDENSON, BIRGITTA SIGURSTEINSDOTTIR - 2015 / ICELAND
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
ÚTHÝST / EVICTED
HAMPUS NORDENSON, BIRGITTA SIGURSTEINSDOTTIR - 2015 / ICELAND
Hanna is a young girl trying to help out after her family loses their home.
.FIC2016PanoramaParallel
ELIKA REZAEE - 2011 / IRAN
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
VAGHTI AZ KENARE HAM MIGOZARIM / WHEN WE CROSS PATHS
ELIKA REZAEE - 2011 / IRAN
One morning like any other, a couple is getting ready to go to work. He takes the car, and she takes a taxi because he doesn’t wait for her. They meet up by chance a little while later, when they really weren’t thinking about each other anymore.
.FIC2012CompetitiveOfficial
CLOUD YANG - 2017 / CHINA
.FIC2017JuniorsParallel
VALLEY OF WHITE BIRDS
CLOUD YANG - 2017 / CHINA
Each character carries a unique symbolic meaning in this film. In the pursuit of the white bird, the protagonist has to face his own inner guilt, fear and haze. After a tortuous journey of pursuits, he finally manages to revive.
.FIC2017JuniorsParallel
CARLO SIRONI - 2016 / ITALY
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
VALPARAISO
CARLO SIRONI - 2016 / ITALY
Rocio is pent up in an immigration detention center in Rome and she got pregnant during her reclusion. She doesn’t want to tell how it happened nor who did that. She prefers to remain silent.
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
PATRIK SÖDERLUND - 2018 / FINLAND
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
VALTAKUNNAT / REALMS
PATRIK SÖDERLUND - 2018 / FINLAND
A voyage through time, evolution and the kingdoms of life towards the natural destruction wrought upon the planet by the human species.
.FIC2019CompetitiveDiscoveries
JORN LEEUWERINK - 2022 / THE NETHERLANDS
.FIC2023FamilyminiFICParallel
VARKEN / PIG
JORN LEEUWERINK - 2022 / THE NETHERLANDS
A group of animals hook up a power grid to the socket-shaped snout of one big, sleeping pig. The animals use the pig’s energy for simple things at first, but soon they render themselves dependent on a city where every single thing - the useful and the useless - is automated... How long can that last?
.FIC2023FamilyminiFICParallel
MARIA KONEVA - 2017 / RUSSIA
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
VDOL’ I POPERYOK / BETWEEN THE LINES
MARIA KONEVA - 2017 / RUSSIA
A zebra runs through the savannah in the search for a partner. When it finally finds the one, it leaves everyone speechless with its peculiar jazz dance.
.FIC2019KindergartenParallel
J.A.BLANCO - 2014 / SPAIN
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
VÉNDESE / ON SALE
J.A.BLANCO - 2014 / SPAIN
Carlos is a middle-aged man who , for economic reasons , have to sell your car. He meets Miguel, who seems interested in it . Both begin a journey that will lead to a quite distinct from that appeared destination.
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
ÉRIC ROHMER - 1958 / FRANCE
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
VERONIQUE ET SON CANCRE / VERONIQUE AND HER DUNCE
ÉRIC ROHMER - 1958 / FRANCE
A tutor, hired by the mother of a lazy and undisciplined child, answers the child's seemingly simple questions.
.FIC2019ParallelRetrospective
FACULTADE DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS E DA COMUNICACIÓN. UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO. - 2021 / SPAIN
.FIC2022Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
VERSOS POST MORTEM / VERSES POST MORTEM
FACULTADE DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS E DA COMUNICACIÓN. UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO. - 2021 / SPAIN
David and his friends perform an Ouija ritual to talk to the spirit of someone very important to him. But the situation escalates rapidly when they make contact.
.FIC2022Cinema SchoolsCompetitiveGalician Cinema Schools
IES TERRA DE TRASANCOS - 2020 / 11th grade
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveEducation CentersminiFIC
VIDA FURTIVA / FURTIVE LIFE
IES TERRA DE TRASANCOS - 2020 / 11th grade
Brai’s father gets fired and becomes a poacher. Brais will do everything in his hands to obtain a licence for his father to become a legal fisherman. A portrait of the hard life of a seaman.
.FIC2020AwardedCompetitiveEducation CentersminiFIC
GORAN STOLEVSKI - 2017 / MACEDONIA
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
VIDI JA TI NEA / WOULD YOU LOOK AT HER
GORAN STOLEVSKI - 2017 / MACEDONIA
A hard-headed tomboy spots the unlikely solution to all her problems in an all-male religious ritual.
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
FRANÇOIS BIERRY - 2017 / FRANCE – BELGIUM
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
VIHTA / HATE
FRANÇOIS BIERRY - 2017 / FRANCE – BELGIUM
Serge and his four colleagues are invited by their new boss to enjoy a day in a thermal centre.
.FIC2018CompetitiveOfficial
MIGUEL LÓPEZ, ELENA NAJÁR - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
VILLA OLVIDADA
MIGUEL LÓPEZ, ELENA NAJÁR - 2008 / SPAIN
The people of Villa Olvidada are very peculiar, the last one to arrive is a girl with a strange curse, whoever she touches will die.
.FIC2008AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
EMMA BRANDERHORST - 2021 / NETHERLANDS
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
VLEKKELOOS / SPOTLESS
EMMA BRANDERHORST - 2021 / NETHERLANDS
Spotless tells the story of 15 year old Ruby, who lives in a small flat with her mother and her younger sister. Her mother works overtime to make ends meet and Ruby feels responsible for her sister. When Ruby realizes she is having her period, she notices they are out of period products. She doesn’t want to bother her mother with asking for them, because she is aware of their money problems. To make sure she doesn’t trouble anyone with her problem, she tries to solve it herself.
.FIC2022AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
EREC BREHMER - 2016 / GERMANY
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
VOICEMAIL
EREC BREHMER - 2016 / GERMANY
A young girl - Lilly - has vanished. The ambitious junior editor Stefan sees his chance for the title page. But Lilly’s mother refuses to talk to the press. Stefan has to decide how far he is willing to go as a journalist.
.FIC2017CompetitiveOfficial
CARLOS GÓMEZ-MIRA SAGRADO - 2021 / SPAIN
.FIC2021ChildrenminiFICParallel
VUELA / FLY
CARLOS GÓMEZ-MIRA SAGRADO - 2021 / SPAIN
Fly is the story of a bird that has a deformed wing that prevents it from migrating. Abandoned by his flock, he sinks in despair. Everything changes the day Pio-Pio appears. This defenseless chick gives him joy and a sense of purpose in life.
.FIC2021ChildrenminiFICParallel
CARLOS GÓMEZ-MIRA SAGRADO - 2021 / SPAIN
.FIC2021FamilyminiFICParallel
VUELA / FLY
CARLOS GÓMEZ-MIRA SAGRADO - 2021 / SPAIN
Fly is the story of a bird that has a deformed wing that prevents it from migrating. Abandoned by his flock, he sinks in despair. Everything changes the day Pio-Pio appears. This defenseless chick gives him joy and a sense of purpose in life.
.FIC2021FamilyminiFICParallel
EVI GOLDBRUNNER & JOACHIM DOLLHOPF - 2009 / GERMANY
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
WAGs_WIVES AND GIRLFRIENDS / WAGs, WIVES AND GIRLFRIENDS
EVI GOLDBRUNNER & JOACHIM DOLLHOPF - 2009 / GERMANY
Dina and Judith are the two new "WAGs" of the Berlin football club. On Saturdays they watch their men playing football, but apart from that, they’ve nothing to do. While Dina lost herself in her abundance and weariness during her long years she is living this "WAG“-life, Judith finds her new life beside an up-and-coming footballer exciting.
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
LUZ OLIVARES CAPELLE - 2016 / AUSTRIA
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
WALD DER ECHOS / FOREST OF ECHOES
LUZ OLIVARES CAPELLE - 2016 / AUSTRIA
A teenager, Christina, loses her friends in the forest. Looking for them she finds the bodies of three drowned kids. What is real and what is a mirage? Who is dreaming and who is being dreamed?
.FIC2017AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
RYAN LARKIN - 1965 / CANADA
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
WALKING
RYAN LARKIN - 1965 / CANADA
Animator Ryan Larkin uses an artist's sensibility to illustrate the way people walk. He employs a variety of techniques (line drawing, colour wash, etc.) to catch and reproduce the motion of people afoot. The springing gait of youth, the mincing step of the high-heeled female, the doddering amble of the elderly… All are registered with humour and individuality, to the accompaniment of special sound.
.FIC2021ParallelRetrospective
NINA GANTZ - 2023 / NETHERLANDS, FRANCE, BELGIUM
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
WANDER TO WONDER / WANDER TO WONDER
NINA GANTZ - 2023 / NETHERLANDS, FRANCE, BELGIUM
Mary, Billybud and Fumbleton are three miniature, human actors who perform in an eighties kids TV series called Wander to Wonder. After the creator of the series has died, they are left alone in the studio. With their slowly decaying costumes and growing hunger, they continue to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.
.FIC2024CompetitiveOfficial
JANNIS LENZ - 2017 / AUSTRIA - GERMANY
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
WANNABE
JANNIS LENZ - 2017 / AUSTRIA - GERMANY
Wannabe tells the story of a young YouTuber, Coco, who builds herself a fictitious world on the Internet.
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
JAN IJÄS - 2020 / FINLAND-UNITED STATES
.FIC2020CompetitiveDiscoveries
WASTE No. 4 NEW YORK, NEW YORK
JAN IJÄS - 2020 / FINLAND-UNITED STATES
Waste no. 4 New York, New York revisits the history of the City in twenty minutes through twelve cemeteries and one landfill. The short documentary is the fourth, independent episode from the ten-part Waste series.
.FIC2020CompetitiveDiscoveries
KONSTANTIN BRONZIT - 2014 / RUSSIA
.FIC2016Parallel
WE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT COSMOS
KONSTANTIN BRONZIT - 2014 / RUSSIA
Two cosmonauts, two friends, try to do their best in their everyday training life to make their common dream a reality. But this story is not only about the dream.
.FIC2016Parallel
OLIVER KRACHT - 2010 / GERMANY - SPAIN
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
WEIGHTLESS
OLIVER KRACHT - 2010 / GERMANY - SPAIN
18th Century: Five children spend the day outside in a mysterious garden.When they try to fly a kite, they discover a tree full of red berries.The oldest girl Elise warns that these fruits are poisonous, but the children don’t listen and try them. They are sweet, very sweet. But soon the poison begins to work…
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
DMYTRO SUKHOLYTKYY-SOBCHUK - 2018 / UKRAINE - POLAND
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
WEIGHTLIFTER
DMYTRO SUKHOLYTKYY-SOBCHUK - 2018 / UKRAINE - POLAND
At first sight, this is a story of a true price of a victory.
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
GUDMUNDUR ARNAR - 2013 / DENMARK - ICELAND
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
WHALE VALLEY
GUDMUNDUR ARNAR - 2013 / DENMARK - ICELAND
Two brothers live in a remote Icelandic fjord with their parents.When the younger brother witnesses a life or death moment involving his big brother, it sets in motion the possibility of either a great tragedy or a turning point to better times in the brothers' lives.
.FIC2015CompetitiveOfficial
MORAD MOSTAFA - 2021 / EGYPT
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
WHAT WE DON’T KNOW ABOUT MARIAM
MORAD MOSTAFA - 2021 / EGYPT
Mariam goes to a public hospital with her husband and daughter; bleeding and suffering from a severe pain in her abdomen. After the medical examination things escalate between Mariam and her husband.
.FIC2021AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MI-YOUNG BAEK - 2017 / SOUTH KOREA
.FIC2018ChildrenParallel
WHERE IS MY MOON?
MI-YOUNG BAEK - 2017 / SOUTH KOREA
A boy meets a fish, and then he loses his moon. So, they leave the adventure together to find it.
.FIC2018ChildrenParallel
TOMER SHUSHAN - 2020 / ISRAEL
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
WHITE EYE
TOMER SHUSHAN - 2020 / ISRAEL
A man finds his stolen bicycle and it now belongs to a stranger. In his attempts to retrieve the bicycle, he struggles to remain human.
.FIC2021PanoramaParallel
ZUBIN SETHNA - 2010 / GERMANY
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
WIE IMMER / AS ALWAYS
ZUBIN SETHNA - 2010 / GERMANY
An elderly lady keeps her weekly appointment at her hairdresser. Along with her, she has her friendly spirit and her waste bag.
.FIC2011CompetitiveOfficial
MO HARAWE - 2022 / GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SOMALIA
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
WILL MY PARENTS COME TO SEE ME
MO HARAWE - 2022 / GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SOMALIA
Somalia. A policewoman sits in her parked car. After a while, she gets out, puts on her service cap, and enters the prison. There, decisive hours have dawned for young Farah. Organizational machinery starts up around him. Farah is examined by a doctor, instructed by the bailiff, and looked after by an imam. Farah is waiting for his parents to visit.
“How are you?” is the question everyone asks him that day. Each time, “Good” is his concise answer. Only when the policewoman takes Farah out of town the next morning does the unspeakable become a painful reality.
.FIC2023AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
JULIAN HIGGINS - 2015 / USA
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
WINTER LIGHT
JULIAN HIGGINS - 2015 / USA
When an aging college professor confronts two hunters trespassing on his property, he begins an escalating battle of wills that will test his faith in everything he holds dear.
.FIC2016CompetitiveOfficial
ALI ASGARI - 2020 / FRANCE, IRAN
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
WITNESS
ALI ASGARI - 2020 / FRANCE, IRAN
A mother helps an elderly woman in a shopping mall in Tehran. A tragedy occurs, brutally confronting her with the impact of her actions.
.FIC2021CompetitiveOfficial
QIU YANG - 2017/ CHINA
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
XIAO CHENG ER YUE / A GENTLE NIGHT
QIU YANG - 2017/ CHINA
In a nameless Chinese city, a mother with her daughter missing, refuses to go gently into this good night
.FIC2018AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
MIGUEL R. BERRIDE - UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO - GRAO EN COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
.FIC2024Cinema SchoolsGalician Cinema Schools
XOGO DE NENOS / CHILDS GAME
MIGUEL R. BERRIDE - UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO - GRAO EN COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL - 2023 / SPAIN (GALICIA)
Miguel, Nico, Sara and Álex run through the forest, trying to escape from two pursuers who want to kill them. Álex cannot escape and is killed. Now there are only three, who will have to improvise, without weapons, to escape the forest alive.
.FIC2024Cinema SchoolsGalician Cinema Schools
NOEMI CHANTADA - 2020 / SPAIN
.FIC2020CompetitiveGalicia
XOVES DE COMADRES / THE GIRL WHO COMES ON THURSDAY
NOEMI CHANTADA - 2020 / SPAIN
Her world was already like an empty anthill, a dry swarm to which a cricket has come to sneak.
.FIC2020CompetitiveGalicia
MARINA PALACIO - 2020 / SPAIN
.FIC2021CompetitiveSpain
YA NO DUERMO / I DON'T SLEEP ANYMORE
MARINA PALACIO - 2020 / SPAIN
Miguel and his uncle Kechus want to make a vampire film together. The short explores the unique relationship that forms between uncle and nephew, alternating fiction and reality.
.FIC2021CompetitiveSpain
HUGO SANZ - 2008 / SPAIN
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
YA NO VOY A HABLAR MÁS / I'M NOT TALKING ANYMORE
HUGO SANZ - 2008 / SPAIN
Ana decides not to talk anymore, beacuse talking is useless
.FIC2009CompetitiveOfficial
LLUIS QUILEZ - 2009 / SPAIN
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
YANINDARA
LLUIS QUILEZ - 2009 / SPAIN
A gypsy village. Romanian immigrants who have camped their caravans and tents on the outskirts of a city. A car arrives. From inside a strange low. Goes in search of a miracle. Goes in search of Yanindara.
.FIC2010AwardedCompetitiveOfficial
GISELLE LIN - 2021 / SINGAPORE
.FIC2022AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
YI YI / TIME FLOWS IN STRANGE WAYS ON SUNDAYS
GISELLE LIN - 2021 / SINGAPORE
A mother, trapped in the comfort of memory and mourning, confronts her grief when she is invited to the wedding of her late son’s childhood sweetheart.
.FIC2022AwardedCinema SchoolsCompetitiveInternational Schools
NICOLAS FONG - 2017 / BELGIUM
.FIC2017Parallel
YIN
NICOLAS FONG - 2017 / BELGIUM
A jealous god creates a universe where he places an androgynous creature, which is separated into two complementary beings. In spite of the traps set by the irritable god, the creature will insist on meeting him again.
.FIC2017Parallel
HANNA HOVITIE - 2023 / FINLAND
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
YMPYRÄN NELIÖIMISESTÄ / SQUARE THE CIRCLE
HANNA HOVITIE - 2023 / FINLAND
Square the Circle is a little circular film about one person’s round trip out to the (un)known universe and into themselves, in search of a sense of belonging. To “square the circle” is an attempt to do the impossible: look into infinity, accept the perpetual passing of time, survive a long dark winter in the Northern Hemisphere or find one’s own place when you don't quite fit in. To be a circle in a world of squares.
.FIC2023CompetitiveOfficial
LAURA SPINI - 2015 / UNITED KINGDOM
.FIC2016ComedyParallel
YOU ARE WHOLE
LAURA SPINI - 2015 / UNITED KINGDOM
Norman Pugg arrives on the coast of England to spread the word of his new age religion. After finding a number his prospective converts dismembered in their own homes, Norman’s peculiar ways make him the prime suspect but he will not relent in his mission to bring clarity and wellbeing to a world that has stopped making sense.
.FIC2016ComedyParallel
ISABELLE GIROUX, DAVID ÉMOND-FERRAT - 2019 / CANADA
.FIC2020ComedyParallel
YOU DON’T KNOW ME
ISABELLE GIROUX, DAVID ÉMOND-FERRAT - 2019 / CANADA
While on a road trip, a bickering American couple gets involved in a sordid affair after stopping for gas in the middle of rural Quebec.
.FIC2020ComedyParallel
DAVID REBORDÃO - 2017 / PORTUGAL
.FIC2017Parallel
YOUR TURN
DAVID REBORDÃO - 2017 / PORTUGAL
A desperate woman runs through the forest, seemingly being chased by someone. In the middle of nowhere she finds a farm that seems abandoned, and there she looks for something or someone to help her appease her affliction. A surprising finding will turn victims into executioners in a game of mirrors in which the truth may be just an illusion
.FIC2017Parallel
ZARA DWINGER - 2018 / NETHERLANDS
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
YULIA & JULIET
ZARA DWINGER - 2018 / NETHERLANDS
Yulia and Juliet, both 16, are locked up in a closed juvenile detention centre. Despite their circumstances, they feel like they can take on anything together. They’re in love with each other. Nothing can hurt them when they’re together.
.FIC2019PanoramaParallel
ANDRÉ MARQUES - 2015 / PORTUGAL
.FIC2016ParallelRetrospective
YULYA
ANDRÉ MARQUES - 2015 / PORTUGAL
‘Yulya’ is a film that, without having any dialogues, develops itself as an exploratory and sensorial movement which follows the emotional journey of Yulya, a fragile and precious young woman.
.FIC2016ParallelRetrospective
ELAD PRIMO - 2016 / ISRAEL
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ZEEV MEVOYAT / DOMESTICATED WOLF
ELAD PRIMO - 2016 / ISRAEL
A day in the village, Jacob, a single parent, is trying to guard his chickens from being slaughtered in the coop. Not realizing his tragic true will, to guard the coop like existence he created for his daughter.
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BARTOSZ KRUHLIK - 2011 / POLAND
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ZNIKNIECIE / DISAPPEARANCE
BARTOSZ KRUHLIK - 2011 / POLAND
35-year-old Iwona takes care of the house during her husband’s absence. She tries to make up with her son Michal and at night spends her time all alone. One day, Michal doesn’t come back home for the night. None of his friends now where he is. The husband doesn’t answer the phone.
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