Short Films 2020

In the wake of a vicious anti-LGBT government crackdown in Azerbaijan in September 2017, this experimental documentary follows the plight of three young LGBT Azeris fearing for their lives.

Joana and Nina live trapped in the contradictions of female puberty in the first world. Both are women of their time and culture: social networks, immediacy and excesses. Today, Joana has decided to devise a game in which she will involve her friend Nina. That decisive moment of puberty will change something in each of them forever.

These lands had a different name in years gone by. They were inhabited by other beings. It is said that those beings founded cities. The prophetic stones with which they were built possessed an ancient power. It is said that such dark power keeps us confined amidst a mirage which makes us believe that we truly exist. But no one remembers anymore.

Five women, each in a different stage of their life, share experiences about their relationships to their bodies and how others perceive them.

People of all ages enjoy themselves at the pool in Montánchez. It's an almost utopian depiction of community, under the gaze of Our Lady of Consolation. While conflicts and aggression have a siesta, the villagers take a well-deserved break.

GANG is a journey into group-mentality, impulse, and those experiences that men very often keep quiet, to the masculinity that devours us.

During the tediousness of late summer, Barbara faces an unknown world from somewhere between desire, strangeness and uncertainty.

The hands of a man try to reconstruct the history of his life with objects that he keeps in boxes. Each object refers to a moment. These remnants of things tell the story of his life, which in the end could also be ours. Restos de Cosas is a small film that deals with memory and the passage of time. Such a broad, universal and intergenerational theme will be treated from a minimal, intimate and personal thing: the objects that a man has been saving during his life. It will be these small units of memories that will guide the whole story until you can draw the life of the protagonist. This concrete experience results in a collective experience in which the viewer can find resonances and feel reflected.

Saturday. It is nightfall. The ball moves quickly from side to side. The bodies try to get into the gaps left by the defense. Lucía, twenty-five years old, leaves handball training and goes to look for her brother on a motorcycle under the lights of a city that she thinks she knows.

Julia, Anna, Zaida and Marc are four friends who are looking for love in Barcelona. During the season of a popular film festival in the city, they share their adventures and misadventures.

A masked mob cruelly punish a lone masked man in this nightmarish short film.

Subsequent characters appear in a poorly-decorated room, intertwining but never colliding, all possessed by never-ending rituals.

On a drive back home in a dirty car, three young women talk about other people. Their conversation flows naturally, and takes them into uncharted territory.