When we meet — Spain 2023 — Directed by: Group of young people from diverse backgrounds — 26 min — Production: Cinema en curs (amb estudiants d’EMAV, ERAM, UB i ESCAC)
"We met at the beginning of winter. It’s now April. To start this letter, we want to show you the city we have gotten to know and filmed together." This is how the film opens, created collectively by a group of young people aged between 16 and 23, some recently arrived in Barcelona from Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Senegal, Cambodia, Albania; others born in the city or who have lived there since childhood. Based on the portrait and experiences of six people who migrated to the city a long time ago, the group of filmmakers invite us on a journey that is external, poetic and introspective through the city, the trees and the moon. A celebration of cinema and the possibility of sharing life and making the world bigger.
Spain, United Kingdom 2023 — Directed by: Priya Woods — 8 min — Production: OTOXO Productions
Through the use of an interview and film footage, the film contrasts between the warm chaos of some old family tapes and the harsh reality of the present. A Christmas tape from 2002, of the director's family preparing for Santa's arrival. The camera suddenly cuts to today, in the same house, now empty. When her father goes to the pub, she decides to ask him some questions about the past. While drinking a beer, they reminisce about a life that once was, before everything changed when the mother died of a cancer.
ONLY THE DEVIL REMEMBERS — Spain 2023 — Directed by: Dani Iglesias — 5 min — Production: Universidad de Vigo
There are barely 200 metres between the entrance and exit signs of Nadal. Located between provinces, in this small village with no more than 20 houses the director's maternal family lived for a large part of their lives. For the director it meant visiting his great-grandmother, the stew, being with Leon and the cats, his grandfather's vegetable garden, picking blackberries in the surrounding forests... But now these are only vague memories. What remains are photos, stories remembered by his grandmother and mother, some paintings, street view images. Has anything really changed?
The Unicorn in Snowpants Suddenly Ran Off — Germany 2022 — Directed by: Philipp Schaeffer — 19 min — Spoken language: German — Subtitles: English — Production: Filmakademie B-W — Producer: Fabian Leonhardt
"The Unicorn in Snowpants suddenly ran off" explores the clash between blind children ́s fantasy worlds and the reality they live in. The film draws us into the worlds of three confident children, for whom blindness is not a disability but rather a different kind of normal. Larks, telephones and short stories each play a role.
Mexico 2022 — Directed by: Natalia García Clark — 20 min — Spoken language: Spanish — Subtitles: English — Production: Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
Discussions on social networks give life to the statues on Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City. The social climate alternates between cycles of chaos and order, expression and censorship, memory and oblivion. A new decolonial and feminist era has arrived. Realities emerge from the changes that modify the city's public space and its symbols.
Spain 2022 — Directed by: Lucía Silvestre — 17 min — Spoken language: Spanish — Subtitles: English, Spanish — Producer: Marina González
A bus returning to Navarra. The filmmaker meets María, a woman who begins to tell her about her experiences as miles go by. And from there, a series of connections between the come up. Maria, the protagonist of the documentary, becomes a channel to reflect on the filmmaker's origins, memory and absences. A metaphorical journey back home.
Spain 2021 — Directed by: Artur-Pol Camprubí — 18 min — Spoken languages: Catalan, Spanish, Romanian — Subtitles: English, Spanish, Catalan — Production Company: 15L Films — Producer: Carlota Coloma
A lamppost that marks the boundary of a town in Franja de Ponent lights up at dusk. We follow Angelica, a woman of Romanian origin. As if it were a story by Carson McCullers, the piece moves between the dream and the real world of the protagonist and in the in-between nature that implies her sense of belonging.
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