COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES
38RETINAS. 5TH ITINERANT FILM FESTIVAL FOR EL BIERZO
Screening of the finalist short films from the official competition section. The attending public will decide the 38Retinas 2023 award with their votes.
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Dirección/Director: Álex Escuredo
Producción/Production: Ecir Films, S.L
Intérpretes/Cast: José Sacristán, Carles Bigorra, Amaia Salamanca, Ben Vinnicombe and Manuel Galiana.
20´ (Spain)
“Dr. Peláez, an exemplary man like few others, wants to take out a large bank loan. Vidal, the Director of the bank, is surprised when, despite the important profession of his future client, he does not meet the necessary requirements. Although “At Christmas, sometimes miracles can happen.”
Dirección/Director: Isabel Medarde
Producción/Production: Bambara Zinema and the León Orchestra.
Intérpretes/Cast:
14´ (Spain)
“In 1941, the residents of Manzaneda del Torío celebrated the patron saint’s day of the Virgin of Manzaneda. After the procession and mass, they attended a festival enlivened by La Orquestina de León. The festive atmosphere was cut short when two girls, Socorro and Lola, a fight begins over Narciso. To everyone’s astonishment, the girls relive, during the dance, the brawl itself narrated in the song that The Orchestra is performing: ”The streets of Granada”.
Dirección/Director: Berta García-Lacht
Producción/Production: Playlab Films and Miss Wasabi Films.
Intérpretes/Cast: Guadaluoe Fiñana, Montserrat Roig, Neus Bos Bolós, Juan Manuel Urbano, Gemma Sastre and Carlos Cuevas
15´ (Spain)
“María Antonia Bravo García, better known as Maruja, lives with her husband in San Ildefonso, a working-class neighborhood in Cornellà, on the outskirts of Barcelona. She is 87 years old, is bored at home and often goes out on the street in looking for fresh air that makes her smile, always with her shopping cart.
Dirección/Director: Sergio Postigo Cruz.
Producción/Production: Sergio Postigo Cruz
Intérpretes/Cast: Juan Blanco, Núria Deulofeu, Pedro Miguel Martínez and Camille Glémet
17´ (Spain)
“Based on the true story of Leo, a 10-month-old Labrador retriever who, after being dragged by the strong current of a water channel, gets lost in the Irati Jungle. His owners, Pablo and Lucía, will do the impossible to get it back.”
Dirección/Director: Diego Marcos
Producción/Production: Petitua
Intérpretes/Cast: Juantxo Irigoyen and Margarita Errea
10´ (Spain)
“Arsenio is an 80-year-old man who tries to please Herminia, a woman of the same age who seems little interested in him.
When we talk about places at risk of depopulation we tend to do so from an exclusively demographic prism and we rarely stop to think about what the daily lives of their inhabitants, often elderly, are like. “Sin un amor” is a story that seeks to vindicate those lives that seem forgotten before their time. “Those of the people who didn’t leave and are still there.”