PARALLEL SECTION
RETROSPECTIVES OF OUR FILM FESTIVAL.
RETROFICP.
From ,Monday Sept 30st to Thursday Oct, 3st. 11,00 h.
Valentín García Yebra Space. Public Library. Ponferrada.
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Monday Sept 30th. 11:00h

Dirección/Director: Sergio G. Sánchez.
Producción/Production: W&P S.L.
Intérpretes/Cast: Marta Belaustegui, Enrique Sánchez-Marín, Arsenio González and Covadonga González
17’ (Spain)
“Autumn, 1973. A young teacher arrives in Naviella, a town lost in the Asturian mountains, to take over a rural school abandoned since the civil war. No one comes to receive it. But someone has been waiting a long time … ”

Dirección/Director: Gustavo Salmerón
Producción/Production: Sueños Despiertos P.C., S.L.
Intérpretes/Cast: Candela Peña, Ernesto Alterio, Guillermo Toledo, Malena Alterio, Eduardo Antuña, Secun de la Rosa, Raúl Fraire, Eduardo Gómez, Ana Gracia and Francisco Maestre.
22’ (Spain)
“A salad and a fish are known in the antechamber of death: the cold store of a restaurant. In these circumstances, they decide to form a single dish that will lead them to an eternal love. ”

Dirección/Director: Javier Ruiz
Producción/Production: Escándalo Films S.L.
Intérpretes/Cast: Héctor Castellarnau, Ramón Alconada, Xus Estruch, Enrique Benz and Manuel Bronchud
15’ (Spain)
“The story of a boy with a peculiar family (mother obsessed with food, father in a mental hospital), and a member of a band where girls are forbidden and whose leader is a small tyrant. Our protagonist will be considered a “treitum”, a traitor ”.

Dirección/Director: Borja Cobeaga
Producción/Production: Altube Filmeak S.L. and Allmura Films S.L.
Intérpretes/Cast: Mariví Bilbao and Aitor Beltrán.
11’ (Spain)
“Begoña is old and virgin. When he sees death near, he decides to hire a prostitute, Daniel, to satisfy his curiosity about sex, because everyone says that it is something beautiful and wonderful. But this will not be an easy task for Daniel. ”
Tuesday Oct 1st. 11:00h

Dirección/Director: Marc Andrés
Producción/Production: El Zulo and Factotum Barcelona S.L.
Intérpretes/Cast: Kike Ferragut, Luis Busto and Olalla Escribano.
16’ (Spain)
“A young couple in search of their first floor have to face the high prices of the real estate market, until someone presents a revolutionary system that would allow them to bear such a heavy burden. The tile to tile system. ”

Dirección/Director: Iván Sáinz-Pardo
Producción/Production: Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, Neos Films and Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
Intérpretes/Cast: Laura Sonntag, Catherine H. Flemming and Hilmar Henjes
15’30” (Germany and Spain)
“Simone is an introverted and mysterious 11-year-old girl, as a result of her parents’ separation and living with her alcoholic and depressive mother in a house too big for both of them …”

Dirección/Director: Javier Rebollo
Producción/Production: Lolita Film
Intérpretes/Cast: Lola Dueñas, Joan Dalmau and Mari Ángeles Acevedo
18’ (Spain)
“People who take the last meters on business days always wear wrinkled clothes. Sitting in an almost empty car, they look at each other, they guess. After another day of missed opportunities, they just wait to get home. Tomorrow will be another day”.

Dirección/Director: Javier Rebollo
Producción/Production: Lolita Film
Intérpretes/Cast: Lola Dueñas, Joan Dalmau and Mari Ángeles Acevedo
18’ (Spain)
“(song) Oh love, blind love, what sticks do you give around you. At the beginning and when you leave two good times you only give us … ”
Wednesday Oct 2nd. 11:00h

Dirección/Director: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Producción/Production: Avalon Productions S.L.
Intérpretes/Cast: Jorge Monje, Héctor Colomé, Alberto Ferreiro, Aida Folch, Antonio de la Torre and Alba Alonso
20’ (Spain)
“September Exam of Physics II 2nd year of high school. The test is presented by Jorge, a young man who wants to enter the university but who on the other hand suffers pressure from his father to succeed him as a janitor of the estate in a building … ”.

Dirección/Director: Imanol Ortiz López
Producción/Production: La Rana Verde Producciones
Intérpretes/Cast: Álex Angulo, César Sarachu y Enrique Martínez
8’ (España)
“Un hombre más que paciente se topa con un pasajero absolutamente hipocondríaco, ya instalado en la litera de un ex- preso nocturno. El pasajero, en su afán por descubrir los hábitos que pudieran alterarle el sueño, terminará con la paciencia de su compañero de compartimento al someterle a un interrogatorio absurdo”.

Dirección/Director: Álex Pastor
Producción/Production: Escándalo Films, S.L.
Intérpretes/Cast: Pere Ventura, Silvia Serván, Albert López and Begoña Guillén
11’ (Spain)
“When Divad wakes up after a strange accident in the bathtub, he is unable to remember anything, not even his own name. His house, his supposed wife Arual … Absolutely everything is unknown to him. Although I cannot specify it, something disturbing and out of the ordinary seems to occur in the world around it. ”

Dirección/Director: José Javier Rodríguez Melcón
Producción/Production: Socarrat Producciones and El Médano Producciones
Intérpretes/Cast: Andrés Lima, Nieve de Medina, Juli Mira and Gonzalo de Santiago
14’ (Spain)
“A woman attends a job interview. The interviewing man enjoys his superiority situation, making her feel extremely uncomfortable. ”
Thursday Oct 3rd. 11:00h

Dirección/Director: Marco Besas
Producción/Production: Elemental Films
Intérpretes/Cast:
11’ (Spain)
“The life of a scarecrow changes radically when he decides to make friends with the birds.”

Dirección/Director: Oskar Santos
Producción/Production: Himenóptero, S.L.
Intérpretes/Cast: José Ángel Egido, Dritan Biba, José Luis Rogerio, Rosina Olaso, Rebeca Cobos and David García
14’ (Spain)
“In the late nineteenth century, a renowned alien, Guillermo Rivas, accepts to take care of a strange medical case: that of Don Diego de Robledo, a young man belonging to the high nobility who, for unknown reasons, is able to sleep Up to three days in a row. According to his relatives, that excess sleep is causing serious mental disorders.”

Dirección/Director: Curro Novallas
Producción/Production: Common Films and Sueños Despiertos P.C.
Intérpretes/Cast: Gustavo Salmerón and Ximena Suárez
10’ (Spain)
“Marcos hides his fear of taking his relationship with Andrea behind a world of graphics and drawings.”

Dirección/Director: José Antonio Pajares
Producción/Production: Cachito Films
Intérpretes/Cast: Julián Villagrán, Antonio Dechent and Geli Albaladejo
19’ (Spain)
“Bruno is a thirties who has tried to get his driving license on numerous occasions, failing in all of them.”