OFFICIAL COMPETITION SECTION
Film Schools
International Schools Short Films Contest
Friday, October 9 / 12:00 p.m.
Valentín García Yebra Municipal Library / Ovidio Lucio Blanco Assembly Hall (Ponferrada).
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Screenings aimed at educational centers that offer Baccalaureate programs, especially the Image and Sound Vocational Training Cycles at the Ponferrada Integrated Vocational Training Center and the Arts Baccalaureate program at the Gil y Carrasco Secondary School. Free admission to the general public until capacity is reached.
Dirección/Director: Joel Cánovas.
Producción/Production: ESCAC (Escuela Superior de Cine and Audiovisuales de Cataluña).
Intérpretes/Cast: Javier Oliveras, Álvaro Requena, Jaime López, Roger Méndez, Albert Sirvent, Dúnia Coma, Pol Cardona, Joaquín Caserza and Xavi Sánchez.
20´ (Spain)
“A GEI (Special Intervention Group) police team is sent to a movie theater where shots are being fired. Things get even more complicated when Pedro, the team leader, begins to suspect that his son Mateo might be inside the theater.”
Dirección/Director: Marco Araujo Dolado.
Producción/Production: ECAM (Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid).
Intérpretes/Cast: Miguel Rellán, Alfonso Lara, Óscar Fervaz, María
Galiana, Carmen Balagué, Montse Alcoverro and Vicente Gil.
15´ (Spain)
“A group of neighbors has been evicted from the tenement building where they’ve lived their entire lives and decide to take revenge on the speculator responsible for the injustice. Led by Lázaro, the oldest and most principled neighbor, they devise a plan to carry it out with only a few resources and their ingenuity.”
Dirección/Director: Alexandra Pewinski, Marie Lombard, Florian Reignier, Emma Pluchard, Lisa Francillon y and Parmentier.
Producción/Production: Supinfocom Rubika (Valenciennes).
Intérpretes/Cast:
7´ (France)
“From the 17th-century witch hunts in Europe to the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the United States in 2022, Whispers tells the story of two women facing unwanted pregnancies. Separated by four centuries, Maria and Adeleida find their destinies inevitably intertwined. In the shadow of obscurantism, history repeats itself.”
Dirección/Director: Júlia Castaño.
Producción/Production: ESCAC (Escuela Superior de Cine y Audiovisuales de Cataluña).
Intérpretes/Cast: Júlia Fortaña, Francisco Pereyra, Babeth Ripoll, Rebecca Tanwen, Christopher Stansfeld and Alejandro Ferrà.
12´ (Spain)
“Cold drinks, sea views, and relaxation. This is how summer is experienced… from the other side of the tray.”
Dirección/Director: Sepehr Nosrati.
Producción/Production: Stockholm University of The Arts (SKH).
Intérpretes/Cast: Nora Rios, Roshi Hoss and Isa Aouifia.
11´ (Sweden)
“Two revolutionaries kidnap the son of a Swedish politician to prevent a vote on a draconian law that would allow the state to strip people of their citizenship. When the police arrive at the Persian restaurant where the boy is being held, the situation begins to spiral out of control.”
Dirección/Director: Albert G. Moreno.
Producción/Production: ESCAC (Escuela Superior de Cine y Audiovisuales de Cataluña).
Intérpretes/Cast: Moisés González, Cris Biedma, Ángel Roldán and Marisa Duaso.
19´ (Spain)
“For years, Marcos has avoided restaurants due to his severe cow’s milk allergy, but today there’s no escape: he must meet his in-laws at a family meal that soon turns into an absurd and dangerous test of survival.”
Dirección/Director: Avery Kroll.
Producción/Production: Lipscomb University. Master of Fine Arts (MFA). Nashville (Tennessee) and Storm Drain Studios.
Intérpretes/Cast:
8´ (United States)
“One night, a little girl sneaks out of bed to find her father bent over the piano, pouring his heart and soul into the keys. The powerful bond they form playing music together lasts a lifetime.”
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