OFFICIAL COMPETITION SECTION
Short Looks. National Short Films Contest
Program 2
Tuesday, October 6 / 7:00 p.m.
Valentín García Yebra Municipal Library / Ovidio Lucio Blanco Assembly Hall (Ponferrada).
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Dirección/Director: Amaia Nerekan Umaran and Itziar Zorita Agirre.
Producción/Production: Begira Produkzioak.
Intérpretes/Cast:
23´ (Spain)
“Bicycle Face is an audiovisual essay that reflects on the relationship between women and bicycles from a contemporary perspective. Film clips, archival footage, texts, fictional scenes, and bicycle sounds make up this audiovisual collage that aims to be a celebration of women’s freedom, their capacity for struggle and resilience.”
Dirección/Director: Alfredo Andreu Ríos.
Producción/Production: Alfredo Andreu Ríos.
Intérpretes/Cast: Ana Wagener and Consuelo Trujillo.
13´ (Spain)
“Berta has legally requested euthanasia, but the process is already one hundred days delayed. Now she faces routine surgery, and due to a series of medical leaves, the surgeon assigned to operate on her turns out to be her sister, Carmen.”
Dirección/Director: Rubén Guindo.
Producción/Production: Claqueta Blanca, Sinapsis Films, Zalu Producciones and JAR Producciones.
Intérpretes/Cast: Carlos Santos, Veki Velilla and Marco Steel.
20´ (Spain)
“Chicho Ibáñez Serrador and Pilar Miró meet a very young Steven Spielberg at the 1967 Monte Carlo Film Festival. An encounter that could have changed the future of cinema forever.”
Dirección/Director: Álvaro G. Company and Mario Hernández.
Producción/Production: Grupo Idex, Acords Films and Aliwood Mediterráneo Producciones.
Intérpretes/Cast: Ramón Barea, Lorena López, Diego Juan García and Joan López.
15´ (Spain)
“Elias has spent 80 years not being who he truly is. Until today.”
Dirección/Director: Polo Menárguez.
Producción/Production: Malvalanda.
Intérpretes/Cast: Sonia Almarcha and Mirela Balić.
14´ (Spain)
“Ana and Amparo, mother and daughter, confront family memories in one of the strangest places of their lives: the waiting room of a forensic pathologist. On the other side awaits the body of the man who has shattered their lives. They are there to identify him, after he has suffered a terrible accident.”
Dirección/Director: Guillermo de Oliveira.
Producción/Production: Zapruder Pictures, Purocuento Films and Sétima.
Intérpretes/Cast: Milo Taboada, Diego Anido, Nancho Novo and Cristina Andrade.
18´ (Spain)
“Moncho has lived and worked for years in a small village in rural Galicia. His inner peace is disturbed by the arrival of Pardavila, a good-natured neighbor towards whom he feels an irrational hatred. Determined to make his life impossible, Moncho watches in astonishment as all his attempts to make him unhappy fail.”



