Spain, 2025.
Address: Christian Beteta.
Script: David Verdugo.
Interpreters: Eva Llorach, Carlos Santos.
13 minutes.
Estela and Ramón have gone through a separation and suicide of Hugo, their only son, at only 13, after suffering school harassment. When Estela gets a video recorded by her son's assailants, she thinks it's time to have a conversation with Ramón. As they discover the reality of what happened with Hugo, they will try to clarify whether they were up to it as parents.
Spain, 2025.
Script and address: José Luís Lazaro.
Interpreters: Jorge Motos, Manuel Canchal, Nacho Fresneda.
9 minutes.
SINOPSIS
After spending the morning on the beach, a neglect leaves Guillem and Nico out of the car, with no keys, no cell phone, no clothes. What seems like a simple setback takes a dark turn when, when asking for help from a stranger, a question triggers an encounter as unexpected as it is brutal: «Are you faggot?
(opts for the Best Malagasy Short Film Award)
Spain, 2025.
Address and address: Alba Pino.
Interpreters: Fernando Tejero, Uxia Macías.
8 minutes.
SINOPSIS
Adela just wants to play football and be one of the team. But in the middle of a game, something happens that changes everything and makes Adela have to run, knowing that nothing will ever be the same again.
Spain, 2024.
Screenplay and address: María Herrera.
Interpreters: Olivia Delcán, Nacho Sánchez.
20 minutes.
SINOPSIS
Although they are barely known, Inés and Guille quickly connect with an unusual complicity for a first date. It seemed even as if the suffocating heat had stopped while sleeping together. Ines wants them to see the dawn together before they fall asleep.
Spain, 2025.
Script and address: Alvaro Amate.
Interpreters: Macarena Gómez, Antonio Velázquez, Tomás del Estal, Ainara Elejalde.
12 minutes.
SINOPSIS
A family meets to see the quarter finals of the 2010 South African World Cup. The absence of an important member of the family causes a dispute that leaves out the worst of each of them.
(opts for the Best Malagasy Short Film Award)
Mexico, 2025.
Address: Gabriela Ortega.
Script: Gabriela Ortega, Eduardo Espíndola.
Interpreters: Mauricio Ochmann, Lorena González.
14 minutes.
SINOPSIS
Celeste and Alonso, Mexicans, enjoy their holidays in Bilbao in an effort to recover their relationship. Walking the streets of the city, they find a local couple having an argument with physical violence. Alonso and Celeste try to intervene to separate them, but the couple turn against them and attack them. From that moment on, it will be increasingly difficult for them to ignore the violence they have normalized in their own relationship.
Iran, 2025.
Address: Anahita Qarcheh, Soroush Javadzadeh.
Script: Anahita Qarcheh, Soroush Javadzadeh, Faramarz Ahmadi.
Interpreters: Hossein Shahbazi, Yousefali Daryadel, Parham Rahmani.
15 minutes.
SINOPSIS
This is the story of each of us in Iran. Adults who once were children, whose dreams and creativity were stolen by an obsolete education system. A lament that is repeated with each child who enters the school. Agitated by the guilt and eager to correct his relationship with the only father figure he knows, the little Milo meditates on how to pay the full cost for the atonement of his lack.
Romania, 2024.
Script and address: Vlad Bolgarin.
Interpreters: Ela Lehotska, Olga Solarova, Klara Svitekova
15 minutes.
SINOPSIS
Ingrid, a single mother who lives with her daughter and grandmother in a town in eastern Slovakia where Roma face stigma, becomes a professional mother of a Roma girl to survive.
Spain, 2025.
Direction: Nazareth Beca, Rodrigo Sancho.
Script: Nazareth Beca.
Interpreters: José Manuel Poga, Vicente Vergara, Angela Olivencia, Fran Torres.
16 minutes.
SINOPSIS
In 1936, in protest of the military uprising against the Second Republic, a young anarchist and fellow worker is immersed in the burning of a church that preserves its most precious symbol of devotion.
Belgium, 2025
Script and address: Léo Medard.
Interpreters: Camille Sansterre, Gabrielle Claeys.
25 minutes.
SINOPSIS
Maëlle finishes school. Martha, her mother, comes to pick her up. They're headed for the beach. Their long separation does not make things easier, and the little one gradually discovers the truth about her mother, who has difficulty communicating. Trapped in the claws of a destructive love, Martha fights with herself.
Spain, 2024.
Screenplay and address: Santiago Olivera.
Interpreters: Pedro Ricard, Néstor León, Nathan Radley, Victoria Cruz.
Two minutes.
SINOPSIS
At almost 20 years old, John apparently has a life like anyone of his age, studying the career he had always wanted, being the joy of his home and the friend of all, with a bright future and clear ideas. But something breaks with his normal and his family's.
Spain, 2025.
Script and address: Marta M. Mata.
Interpreters: Beatriz Arjona, Antonio Navarro, Pedro Casablanc.
20 minutes.
SINOPSIS
Adela is taken by her husband to a psychiatric centre in which Dr. Colillas accompanies Orfilian mothers (children's orphans) in their pathological mourning processes. To name things allows to give a place to pain, to recognize its existence.
Spain, 2025.
Script and address: Eduard Fernández.
Interpreters: Eduard Fernández.
18 minutes.
SINOPSIS
A man, he's alone. He makes several calls and no one answers, he's all alone. He says he's not going out that night, but he's going out. Come home, more cheerful and alive, but worse. He drinks, he drugs, he listens to music, he goes crazy. He goes into a paranoia, very real. He comes out of his house, runs away and is persecuted at the same time running from that paranoia, from the other, from him.
Spain, 2025.
Script and address: Daniel Sanchez-Arévalo.
Interpreters: Marta Etura, Nur Levi, Diego García, Iker Ruiz.
24 minutes.
SINOPSIS
Pilar and Isabel. Mario and Jaime. Two mothers who start a relationship. Two 13-year-olds. A new family unit and a summer holiday where they expect their children to understand their love, and they can connect and accept themselves as what they will have to be: brothers.
Spain, 2025.
Script and address: Alicia Ubeda.
Interpreters: Carmen García, Luís Zahera, Sara Ferro.
10 minutes.
SINOPSIS
Velia rapes an eyebrow with Mary's blade, her father's girlfriend, who stops her about to take off her second. The theme of the blade and the privacy of its things, triggers a conflict between Mary and the child's father, which ends up leaving the little one in a background.
Spain, 2025.
Address: Vanessa Romero.
Script: Vanessa Romero, Raúl Ruano Monge.
Interpreters: Mamen García, Laura Candil, Fernando Colomo, Javier Bóalalo, Carlos Sobera.
20 minutes.
SINOPSIS
Marga, a widow caught in the monotony, is surprised when her granddaughter organizes an appointment through an app, posing as her. Despite its initial resistance, Marga knows Agapito, a dicharachero and salsa-loving man, but the night does not go as expected, as at a certain age the relationships carry their own rhythm.
Denmark, 2025.
Script and address: Mads Koudal.
Interpreters: Ann Smith, Mads Koudal.
14 minutes.
SINOPSIS
Arthur is a man around the age of forty with a mental age that is about six. He lives at his mother's house, Birthe, who is on his deathbed. He spends the days collecting garbage or watching old movies in loop. One day, his sister Petra takes him shopping and he has an idea about how to save his mother.
Spain, 2025.
Script and address: Javier Celay.
Interpreters: Ane Gabarain, Roman Rymar, Bruno Ciordia
11 minutes.
SINOPSIS
In a small town, Philo, a pensioner, has a house for rent. For a year Tito has lived only in the house of Filo after the death of his mother. Tito, with serious mental problems, has not paid the rent, which has led Filo to act desperately. A casual meeting at Jere's bar will lead to a duel.
Spain, 2024.
Address: Manuel Manrique.
Script: Manuel Manrique, Itziar Sanjuán.
Interpreters: Nacho Sánchez, Angela Cervantes.
20 minutes.
SINOPSIS
It has been three years since the abolition of the bulls in Spain and Rafael Jesus can no longer be the figure of the bullring to which he was destined. But every step it takes, it takes him further from the sand, and closer to the blood.
Spain, 2025.
Script and address: Andrés Cansino.
Interpreters: Martín Granados, Monica Prados, Miriam Molina, Luis Raya, Casti Campanario.
Five minutes.
SINOPSIS
One day it starts in the life of a 12-year-old. The emotion next to his class waiting to be collected by his teacher at the entrance to the school leads him to sit next to a partner with whom a conversation arises around a shared chocolate cookie.
House of Culture. Pz. de Austria, s / n. 29631. Honey Arroyo. Benalmádena.
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