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Festival de Cannes Marché du Film 35 years sharing spoilers worldwide
6th - 15th July 2021
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On-site Stand: Riviera D3 Online Stand: Catalan Films
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Festival de Cannes - Marché du Film
Catalan Films Selected 06 Catalan Projects Selected | Marché Industry Activities
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Market Screenings Online | On-Site
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Short Film Corner | Shortcat
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Short Film Corner | Other Catalan Short Films
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Catalan Companies attending the Market
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CATALAN FILMS SELECTED AT FESTIVAL DE CANNES Libertad · 7 The Fall of the Swift · 8
SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE
Libertad by Clara Roquet Produced by Lastor Media, Avalon, Bulletproof Cupid Sales agent: Playtime
Nora’s quiet life is turned upside down when, during her summer holidays, this naïve 15-year old comes across Libertad, also 15. This new, intense friendship between the two utterly different girls will guide them towards adolescence.
Contact julie@playtime.group Screenings Thu 8 July 11:30 Espace Miramar Thu 8 July 16:30 Espace Miramar Thu 8 July 22:15 Espace Miramar Fri 9 July 08:30 Espace Miramar Fri 9 July 18:00 Studio 13 Fri 9 July 20:30 Cinema Les Visiteurs du soir Online Market Screening Catalan Films Cinema
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The Fall of the Swift by Gonzalo Quincoces Produced by ESCAC Films Contact gerard.vidal@escac.es
Bilbao, 1984. Kepa is a young working-class man who lives, burdened, in an overwhelming family environment. Having met someone, and fed up with his situation, he decides to pack his bag and run away. On the same night he intends to leave, his friends prepare an attack in protest of the closure of the shipyards where they worked. Screenings Tue 13 July
17:00
Buñuel Theatre
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CATALAN PROJECTS SELECTED | MARCHÉ INDUSTRY ACTIVITIES Winnipeg, Seeds of Hope · 11 The Treasure of Barracuda · 12 Symphony · 13
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ANIMATION DAYS | ANIMATION WORKS-IN-PROGRESS - CHILE
Winnipeg, Seeds of Hope by Elio Quiroga, Beñat Beitia Produced by La Ballesta, Dibulitoon Studio, El Otro Film, Midralgar, Marmita Films Sales agent Vision Distribution Contact tmarinvila@laballesta.net
Screening Sat 10 July
12:00
Animation Days
Synopsis Victor, a widowed father and his little daughter Julia abandon Spain, in 1939, during the civil war. Concentration camps awaits them in France; but there is a chance to escape on board the Winnipeg, a ship chartered by Neruda and the Quakers.
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ANIMATION DAYS - SPEED MEETINGS
The Treasure of Barracuda by Adrià Garcia Produced by Inicia Films S.L Contact info@iniciafilms.com Synopsis Trying to find her parents, the girl Chispas, disguised as a boy, ends up by mistake in a pirate ship! A ship full of fearsome pirates who have a problem: to find the treasure they crave, they must read a book. But the only one who can read on board is Sparks, so they make her stay with them until they find the treasure.
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CANNES XR
Symphony by Igor Cortadellas Presented by Fundació “La Caixa” Produced by Igor Studio, Glass Works, Visualise Contact info@igorstudio.com
Screening Available from 6 to 17 July: • on VeeR VR • and in Museum of Other Realities
Synopsis Symphony is an immersive audiovisual experience that takes spectators on a journey through emotions and music. Spectators are able to experience and truly understand classical music as never before, entering the interior of an instrument or feeling like musicians in an orchestra. They enjoy compositions by Beethoven, Mahler and Bernstein performed by the great conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the prestigious Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
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MARKET SCREENINGS ONLINE | ON-SITE
15 Hours · 15 All the moons · 15 Amateur · 16 Breathe · 16 Cane Malice · 17 Carpoolers · 17 Courage · 18 Cut! · 18 Desletargia · 19 Destello Bravío · 19 Diosa · 20 Final Round · 20 Girlfriends · 21 Libertad · 21 Lucía · 22 Magaluf Ghost Town · 22 Men’s Cooking · 23 Mía and Moi · 23 Ovella · 24 Passion · 24 Robin Bank · 25 Sediments · 25 Singing on the Rooftops · 26
Sinjar · 26 Song to a Lady in the Shadow · 27 The Belly of the Sea · 27 The Circle · 28 The Consequences · 28 The Last Movies from Bosnia · 29 The Luminous View · 29 The Pop Song · 30 The Return. Life after ISIS · 30 The Year of the Discovery · 31 Tolyatti Adrift · 31 We’ve got the night (a Journey to the Will to Live) · 32
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15 Hours by Judith Colell Produced by Antaviana Films, Turkana Films Sales Agent The Open Reel Contact cs@theopenreel.com
Synopsis Music brought them together. Aura, first violin and Manuel, the world’s most popular conductor, are the most envied couple in the country. Artists, famous and rich, their relationship hides an unmentionable secret. He mistreats her, something she has hidden for too long. One day, fed up with her silenced hell, Aura decides to take the plunge and ask for help, then what she had always suspected but never dared to confirm happens.
All the Moons by Igor Legarreta Produced by Arcadia Motion Pictures, Kowalski Films, Noodle Production, Priss & Batty Films, Ilargia Films AIE Sales Agent Filmax Contact c.carro@filmax.com
Synopsis North of Spain, end of the 19th century. During the final throes of the last Carlist war, a little girl is rescued from an orphanage by a mysterious woman who lives deep inside the forest. Badly wounded and close to death, the girl believes the woman to be an angel who has come to take her to Heaven. Soon, however, she will discover that what this strange being has actually given her is the gift of eternal life... by turning her into a vampire.
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Amateur by Martín Gutiérrez Produced by ESCAC, MartindechoFilms, Welt Film Sales Agent Antídote Sales Contact oksana@antidote-sales.biz
Synopsis Amateur can be understood as a gesture of love and justice towards people and spaces that represent an idea of home for the author. From three stories, an old married couple, the memory of a suicide victim who spent his last days spending and giving away everything he had in the area and a huge shooting of J.Audiard’s last film, Amateur proposes an intimate portrait of a mountain village.
Breathe by Susanna Barranco Produced by Susanna Barranco, Mousiké Sales Agent Movies for Festivals Contact info@moviesforfestivals.com
Synopsis Breathe is a documentary on the personal relationships between the female inmates of Can Brians 1 prison. The documentary also intends to reveal the bond these women have with the prison and the area surrounding it. The documentary will have a unifying theme in the creation of a theatrical production which will serve as the inmates’ common goal to achieve. Breathe has been created with the aim of allowing female prisoners to express their feelings through a cultural project which they will take part in.
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Cane Malice by Juan A. Zapata Produced by Mayo Films, SomBatabat Produccions, iFilm Sales Agent Movies for Festivals Contact info@moviesforfestivals.com
Synopsis This is a documentary about a case of modern slavery through the case of one of the largest sugar cane plantations in the world, located in the Dominican Republic and belonging to the Fanjul Family, one of the most powerful families in America.
Carpoolers by Martín Cuervo Produced by A Contracorriente Films, Álamo Producciones Audiovisuales Sales Agent Latido Films Contact fabrizia@latidofilms.com
Synopsis Four strangers stay in the center of Madrid to drive to Cieza (Murcia), thanks to a shared travel application. During the journey, passengers chat about aspects of their lives to break the ice. Everything flows normally, but the driver seems to hide something and behaves strangely. The trip will be very surreal, more fun than they expected.
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Courage by Rubén Rojo Produced by Magoproduction, Apapacho Films Contact raul.b@magoproduction.com
Synopsis A 74-year-old actress suffering from a retinal disease that is turning her blind is concerned about her position at the theatre company she works at. At the same time, her 50-year-old son returns home to recover from alcoholism. Their personal crises will connect them as mother and child more than ever before.
Cut! by Marc Ferrer Produced by Canada, Películas Inmundas, Filmin Sales Agent The Open Reel Contact cs@theopenreel.com
Synopsis Marcos, not a very successful film director, is completely immersed in shooting his upcoming film, a queer Giallo, when a series of terrible murders begin to unfold in Barcelona. All of them seem to point to the director.
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Desletargia by Pep Salvador Produced by Pep Salvador, ESCAC Films Contact juancarrano@gmail.com
Synopsis Desletargia is a three-movement visual symphony manifesting different states of isolation in nature as a necessary condition for transmutation. Several subjects confined on the boundaries of civilization undertake a range of actions that connect them with the most elemental matter. Once merged with the organic substances that surround them, the inhabitants receive a response.
Destello Bravío by Ainhoa Rodríguez Produced by Eddie Saeta, Tentación Cabiria Sales Agent Patra Spanou – Film Marketing & Consulting Contact film@patraspanou.biz
Synopsis There’ll be a flash in te village, a really mighty, mighty one and everything will change, Isa uses a cassette recorder to record messages to herself for when she disappears or loses her memory. Cita feels trapped in a marriage. María returns to the town where she was born to face her loneliness. The women of a small rural town, suspended in time, live between the apathy of their daily day where nothing extraordinary happens.
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Diosa by Cyprien Clément-Delmás Produced by Canada, Vixens Films Contact xavi@canadacanada.com
Synopsis Diosa is a film about the quest for identity of Joan Galo, an icon of the Barcelona queer scene. Through the presentation of his story, his daily life and his female alter ego Marina, Joan proposes to erase the stablished boundaries between masculinity and feminity.
Final Round by Mohamed Fekrane, Gustavo Cortés Bueno Produced by Toned Media, Le Midi Productions, Ozz Films Contact produccion@tonedmedia.com
Synopsis Rachid, participates in daily underground fights in Marrakech with the sole purpose of raising money to pay for passage across the Strait for him and his two friends. The journey takes them from Marrakech to Tangier. There, under the dark of night, they embark on a journey that ends in a fatal shipwreck.
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Girlfriends by Carol Rodríguez Produced by Alba Sotorra, Promarfi Futuro 2010, Balance Media Sales Agent Filmax Contact c.carro@filmax.com
Synopsis After losing her job at a cutting-edge fashion magazine, Marta finds herself forced to abandon the cool, modern world she had always dreamed of being a part of and return to the old-fashioned neighborhood where she grew up.
Libertad by Clara Roquet Produced by Lastor Media, Avalon, Bulletproof Cupid Sales Agent Playtime Contact julie@playtime.group
Synopsis Nora’s quiet life is turned upside down when, during her summer holidays, this naïve 15-year old comes across Libertad, also 15. This new, intense friendship between the two utterly different girls will guide them towards adolescence.
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Lucía by Juan Pato Produced by Pato Films Sales Agent Movies for Festivals Contact info@moviesforfestivals.com
Synopsis Lucía is the story of a nine-year-old girl who goes on a field trip with her father. Suddenly, she finds herself alone in the middle of the woods anxiously awaiting the return of her father. Hours follow and night falls, no one shows up.
Magaluf Ghost Town by Miguel Ángel Blanca Produced by Boogaloo Films, Little Big Story, Mosaic Produccions Sales Agent Taskovski Films, LTD Contact sales@taskovskifilms.com
Synopsis Magaluf Ghost Town is a choral portrait of a community during the off-season and high season, in a tone of mystery, close to a thriller but without losing sight of the costumbrist comedy, mixing documentary and fiction. It is a story of international scope about the dreams of a town that is just trying to survive in a touristic context, and also a reflection on what it means to be a tourist in Europe.
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Men’s Cooking by Sílvia Subirós Produced by Cornelius Films Contact mikelmas@corneliusfilms.com
Synopsis Through her personal history, Sílvia Subirós uses her family history as a springboard to construct a critical and searing interpretation of culinary tradition and the way women’s roles in it have been rendered invisible.
Mía and Moi by Borja de la Vega Produced by Toned Media Contact produccion@tonedmedia.com
Synopsis After losing their mother, Mia and Moi take refuge in a ramshackle family home in the countryside, in the middle of nowhere. With them is Biel, Moi’s boyfriend. The arrival of Mikel, Mia’s boyfriend, will disturb their coexistence and perturb each character in a different way.
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Ovella by Marc Puig Biel, Júlia Marcos Lázaro, Maria Molteni, Sergi Rubio González Produced by ESCAC Films Contact gerard.vidal@escac.es
Synopsis Ove is a young man who has been treated and raised as a sheep all his life. His daily life consists of eating, sleeping, pasturing and hanging out with LL, the only sheep from the flock that seems to accept him. The arrival of a truck that comes to pick up a portion of the flock makes Ove wonder if there could be anything beyond the limits of the farm, and this way, rebel against what he always thought he was.
Passion by Maja Borg Produced by Amor y Lujo, Mantaray Film Contact produccion@amorylujo.com
Synopsis A film about longing, healing, and belonging. Adopting rituals and play from queer BDSM practice and their own Christian heritage, filmmaker Maja Borg seeks to reclaim intimacy and re-establish boundaries in the wake of a destructive relationship. Through stories of queer BDSM communities, Borg portrays the humanity at the heart of the practise, illuminating its similarities with Christianity.
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Robin Bank by Anna Giralt Gris Produced by Gusano Films, IndiFilm Contact gusano@gusano.org
Synopsis Want to know how to steal half a million euros from thrity-nine different banks to fund social causes? Robin Bank – the story of who did this and how. Want to know how to steal half a million euros from thirty-nine different banks to fund social causes? Robin Bank - the story of a man who did this and how.
Sediments by Adrián Silvestre Produced by Adrián Silvestre Films, Testamento Producciones Contact adriansilvestredavid@gmail.com
Synopsis Six trans women travel to a small town in León, Spain, where they will explore unusual landscapes, as well as the ins and outs of their own personalities. Even though their team spirit will be challenged, they will learn to deal with their differences together, protecting their right to uniqueness. An engaging and fun story about empathy, individuality and the need to belong: the radiography of a collective that turns to the emotional world in order to amplify both present and future identity politics.
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Singing on the Rooftops by Enric Ribes Produced by Inicia Films Contact info@iniciafilms.com
Synopsis Gilda Love / Eduardo (95), the last “transformist” from Barcelona’s Chinatown, survives with a miserable pension while trying to continue acting on stage. His priorities are turned upside down with the arrival in his life of Chloe (3) and her mother, Hanna (25), with whom he will have the chance to have the family he has never had.
Sinjar by Anna M. Bofarull Produced by KaBoGa Sales Agent Filmax Contact c.carro@filmax.com
Synopsis 2014. ISIS invades Sinjar on a genocidal campaign. Hadia is enslaved and held captive with three of her children. Young Arjin escapes and tries to go back home. In Barcelona, Carlota searches for her disappeared son. How far will these women go to save the ones they love?
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Song to a Lady in the Shadow by Carolina Astudillo Produced by Carolina Astudillo, Cornelius Films Contact mikelmas@corneliusfilms.com
Synopsis A woman decides to start working in order to support her family while her husband is at war. She starts a new life and, like her, many others. Penelopes who did not succumb to the trap of the loom and impassive waiting.
The Belly of the Sea by Agustí Villaronga Produced by Testamento Producciones, La Perifèrica Produccions, Link-Up Barcelona Sales Agent Antídote Sales Contact oksana@antidote-sales.biz
Synopsis June 1816. The French frigate Alliance runs aground off the coast of Senegal. Without enough boats for everyone, a raft is built to tow 147 men to shore. But panic and confusion seize the convoy and cut the tow rope, abandoning the raft to its fate.
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The Circle by Iván Roiz, Álvaro Priante Produced by Nanouk Films, Holidays Films, MM4 Producciones Sales Movies for Festivals Contact info@moviesforfestivals.com
Synopsis The Circle it is an uncomfortable and uncensored portrait of current masculinity in Spain. Feminism has triggered a crisis of what it means to be a man that the characters in the documentary channel through the Circles, intimate spaces for dialogue and reflection that serve as catharsis and a meeting point.
The Consequences by Claudia Pinto Produced by Érase una vez films, Sin Rodeos Films, Las Consecuencias A.I.E, N279 Entertainment, Potemkino Sales Agent Film Factory Entertainment Contact manon@filmfactory.es
Synopsis Since Fabiola saw her husband die in a diving accident, nothing has been the same again. Tired of not getting better, she decides to self-prescribe an unconventional therapy: together with her dad and her teenage daughter, she travels to a house her family owns in a small volcanic island. During this time of coexistence but something tells her that things are not what they seem.
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The Last Movies from Bosnia by Albert Solé Produced by Minimal Films, Clack Sales Agent Movies for Festivals Contact info@moviesforfestivals.com
Synopsis Sifa Suljic returns to Bosnia to try to bury the remains of her older brother, the last member of her family to identify those who died in Srebrenica. This fact allows her to capture the situation in the Balkan country 25 years after the end of the war and ask herself a question: could it happen again?
The Luminous View by Fabrizio Ferraro Produced by Eddie Saeta, Boudu/Passepartout Contact eddie@eddiesaeta.es
Synopsis Mr. Emmer is a jaded Film Director. Catarina is the assistant of an absent Producer. Together they embark on a journey in search of the places where Hölderlin lived, for an impossible project on the German poet. During the journey, their different perspectives will be a permanent obstacle for any work. A love song for a suffering Nature.
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The Pop Song by Raúl Portero Produced by Érase una vez films Sales Agent Alief Contact miguel@alief.co.uk
Synopsis Simón must go from London to Barcelona to attend the funeral of one of his Friends. In the 24 hours that he spends in Barcelona, he will find a city that he doesn’t recognise and some friends that he feels are like strangers. Their reunion will determine his future and make him decide whether to stay or go back to London.
The Return. Life after ISIS by Alba Sotorra Produced by Alba Sotorra, Televisió de Catalunya, Sky Sales Agent Metfilm Sales Contact vesna@metfilm.co.uk
Synopsis With unprecedented access we enter the prison camp Roj in Syria, which holds families of ISIS fighters. Among them, probably the most famous British recruit Shamima Begum, who fled London when she was just 15, and Hoda Muthana from USA who allegedly incited her followers on Twitter to support the Islamic State. Universally reviled by the media, they now tell their stories for the very first time.
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The Year of the Discovery by Iván Roiz, Álvaro Priante Produced by LaCima Producciones, Alina Film, Magnetica Creative Lab, Cromagnon Producciones Sales Begin Again Films Contact gloria@beginagainfilms.es
Synopsis In 1992, when the Olympics and the Expo at last presented Spain as an emerging new democracy, the de-industrialization policies were met with riots in the southern town of Cartagena. The locals remember those days.
Tolyatti Adrift by Laura Sisteró Produced by Boogaloo Films, Les Films d’Ici Contact bernat@boogaloofilms.com
Synopsis The old Russian city Tolyatti which once was a symbol of progress and socialist pride is nowadays the poorest in Russia. It was known for its car industry, mainly for the legendary car called LADA. Currently it’s a deteriorated place with the highest youth unemployment rates. In this desolated context arises ‘Boyevaya Klassika’, a teenagers’ movement based on the idea of rescuing the old cars from the local factory.
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We’ve got the night (a Journey to the Will to Live) by Jo Sol Produced by Shaktimetta Produccions Contact info@shaktimettaproductions.com
Synopsis A filmmaker decides to disappear when he finds out that his work as a documentalist has lost its meaning. Commentary on the gaze in a world saturated with images.
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SHORT FILM CORNER | SHORTCAT
Farrucas · 34 Future Foods · 34 Her and I · 35 Red Gold · 35 Tara and the Blue · 36 The Infantas · 36 The Strange · 37
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Farrucas by Ian de la Rosa Produced by Vayolet Films, Amplitud, Primo Content Sales Agent Marvin & Wayne, pablo@marvinwayne.com Contact shortcat@gencat.cat
Synopsis Hadoum, Fátima, Sheima and Sokayna are four teenagers from El Puche, a suburb in the Spanish city of Almería, who are proud of their Moroccan and Spanish roots. Together they navigate their first experiences in out-of-the neighborhood schools, that evidence their underprivileged environment. However, this does not affect the intensity of their desires and dreams. On Fatima’s eighteenth birthday, the strength of their self- confidence will be put to the test.
Future Foods by Gerard Ortín Produced by Gerard Ortín Contact shortcat@gencat.cat
Synopsis Future Foods revolves around technological innovations in the production of “future foods”, problematizing its ecological consequences through a perceptive and cinematic journey.
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Her and I by Jaume Claret Produced by Jaume Claret, Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola Contact shortcat@gencat.cat
Synopsis Queralt, a painter from Barcelona, tries to talk to her daughter Gemma on the phone. Gemma is starting a new life in Athens, in a studio where she paints and lives. Ella i jo is a film featuring the paintings of Roser Agell and Paulina Muxart.
Red Gold by Carme Gomila Produced by Novena Nube, Laudiovisual Prod. Sales Agent Marvin & Wayne, pablo@marvinwayne.com Contact shortcat@gencat.cat
Synopsis Red Gold is an animated short film documentary. Three women help us see the bigger picture behind a seasonal workers protest: abuse as local policy, racial capitalism, and the north to south global extractivism based on local alliances and migration policies. Their voices guide us to the heart of a bigger conflict nudging us to reflect on its complexity.
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Tara and the Blue by Pol Ponsarnau Produced by Turkana Films, ZLAFilms Contact shortcat@gencat.cat
Synopsis Tara lives in a Mediterranean town. A life that drags between hard work on a fishing boat, boredom and partying. It is an existence without perspective, trapped in economic and social stagnation. Tara is unconsciously looking for a way out. When she unexpectedly finds an opportunity to escape.
The Infantas by Andrea Herrera Catalá Produced by Amor y Lujo Festivals queralt@morethan-films.com Contact shortcat@gencat.cat
Synopsis Carnival in Barcelona. The Dominican troupe is the most popular at the most attended parade in the city, and for the first time this year, they are parading with a float. Ruth, the owner of a Latin hairdresser, is sponsoring the float so that she can put her daughter Rihanna in it. Rihanna usually dresses like a “machito” and Ruth wants everyone to see her like a princess for once. But the tutu and tiara are a shaming too unbearable for the until then submissive Rihanna.
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The Strange by Oriol Guanyabens Produced by Fractal 7 Films, Corte y Confección de Películas Sales Agent Freak Independent Film Agency Contact shortcat@gencat.cat
Synopsis Amadeu goes to his first summer camp. The first days are tough, but Nil, the senior instructor, is able to boost his confidence and help him fit in with the group. Just as Amadeu finally finds his own place at the summer camp, a violent occurrence forces him to turn against everything he has learnt.
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SHORT FILM CORNER | OTHER CATALAN SHORT FILMS Carving in Memory · 39 Eden · 39 Goodnight Mr. Ted · 40 Greata (Nausea) · 40 In Spite of Ourselves · 41 Our Friend the Moon · 41 Shedding Skin Escames · 42 Silence Club · 42 The Autumn of History · 43 The Last Matador · 43
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Carving in Memory by Rubén Seca Produced by Shoji Films, ECIB (Escola de Cinema de Barcelona) Contact distribucion@ecam.es shojifilms.productions@gmail.com
Synopsis A story about personal and collective memories told through sculptures.
Eden by Guillermo Enrique Osorto Campos Produced by Escola Universitària ERAM Contact animalesdecristal@gmail.com
Synopsis Quique visits Marga at her summer home, where they spent their childhood. Marga’s cousin, Diego, awakens in him a desire that he didn’t know he had. Quique spends the night wondering whether to act on his desire or to suppress those feelings, as his religion taught him.
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Goodnight Mr.Ted by Nicolás Solé Produced by 2Mentes, ECIB (Escola de Cinema de Barcelona) Contact fiona@ecib.es
Synopsis When night falls, a Teddy bear has to protect his child owner from the horror that lurks in the shadows.
Greata (Nausea) by Jana Jubert, Gerard Gil Produced by Universitat Pompeu Fabra Contact info@thefilmnowproject.com
Synopsis Ivan is sad because his partner, Meri, just left him and Alex stayed up all night while they were on nightparty. With the sunrise they decide to go home but an unexpected awaits them in the car: a young prostitute with a wound in her face asks for help. What will they do?
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In Spite of Ourselves by Clara López, Sebastián Ramírez, Aurora Báez, Olatz Ovejero Produced by UAB - Màster en Teoria i Pràctica del Documental Creatiu. Contact m.documental.creativo@uab.cat
Synopsis In Spite of Ourselves tells the story of a group of workers in the petrochemical sector who are forced to mobilize after a deadly explosion in the second largest petrochemical estate in southern Europe. This group of workers will try to find their own voice and their own autonomy in the achievement.
Our Friend the Moon by Velasco Broca Produced by Terranova and Labrador, Bravo Tango Zulu Contact brocabatan@gmail.com
Synopsis Hadji is a disabled Hindu young man who lives humbly close to the river Ganges. After losing the little he has, he is accepted as a disciple by a strange spiritual leader of Russian origin. This alliance will lead them to some bizarre episodes that will have consequences in other parts of the West.
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Shedding Skin Escames by Katherina Harder Produced by Bande à Part Contact produccion@eldedoenelojo.org
Synopsis Alicia (39) is a seamstress. She works designing and making women’s clothing, but behind the fabrics she hides the secret of her own body; the nuisance and disconformity that she feels with it after having been mastectomized as a result of breast cancer. After the accidental flooding of her apartment.
Silence Club by Irene Albanell Mellado Produced by ESCAC Films Contact gerard.vidal@escac.es
Synopsis An afternoon that Martina, a ten-year-old kid, spends with her mother Alejandra. Mother and daughter have an incredible chemistry, but her relationship gets complicated because Alejandra’s damnific contact with drugs.
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The Autumn of History by Marcel Buisan Produced by Films en Off Contact marcelbuisan@gmail.com
Synopsis In Barcelona early 90’s, a historian wants to find out the truth behind the only execution in Europe of a democratically elected president. A mysterious man assures him that he was part of the execution picket that, under General Franco’s orders, killed him in 1940.
The Last Matador by Katariina Lillqvist Produced by Studio Caliostro, Fotos i Films, Zigedaire Animation, Studio Mamiwata Sales Agent Agustí Argelich / Fotos i Film, Finish Film Foundation Contact fotosifilms5@gmail.com
Synopsis When the last bullfighting arena in Catalonia has turned into a shopping mall, an old matador has to earn his living in the bars of Barcelona. One night, a bored Russian president pops in, trying to freshen up his too long holidays.
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CATALAN COMPANIES ATTENDING THE MARKET Production Companies · 45 Distribution · 48 Sales Agents · 51 Festivals · 52 Broadcaster · 53 Others · 53 ICEC · 54
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Production Companies A Contracorriente Films Adolfo Blanco Managing Director
Apocalipsis Producciones Maria José Serra CEO
adolfo@acontracorrientefilms. com
jose@apocalipsisproducciones. com
A Contracorriente Films David Mitjans Acquisitions Manager
Arcadia Motion Pictures Sandra Tápia Executive Producer
david@acontracorrientefilms. com
sandra.tapia@arcadiamotionpictures.com
A Contracorriente Films Paz Recolons Partner
Arcadia Motion Pictures Ibon Cormenzana Director – Producer
paz@acontracorrientefilms.com
ibon@arcadiamotionpictures. com
A Contracorriente Films Manuel Monzón Fueyo Executive Producer
Arcadia Motion Pictures Ignasi Estapé General Manager
manuel@acontracorrientefilms. com
ignasi@arcadiacapital.es
A Contracorriente Films Fernando Riera Fischer Head of Production Department
Bastian Films Arturo Méndiz Producer arturo@bastianfilms.com
fernando@acontracorrientefilms. com
Apocalipsis Producciones Eva Álvarez Content Director
Canada Xavi Vara Producer
eva@apocalipsisproducciones. com
xavi@canadacanada.com
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Fasten Films Adrià Monés Producer
Films en Off Inés Rubinat Producer
info@fastenfilms.com
Fasten Films Maud Petit Development Executive info@fastenfilms.com
Fractal 7 Films Marc Guanyabens Producer
Films en Off Marcel Buisan Director – Producer
Fractal 7 Films Oriol Guanyabens Director
marcelbuisan@gmail.com
oriol.guanyabens@gmail.com
Films en Off Marc Pascual DoP – Producer
Global Eyes Production Josephine Landertinger Forero Director - Producer
paskuister@gmail.com
marc@fractal7films.com
info@globaleyes-production.com
Films en Off Josep Oller Executive Producer josepoller89@gmail.com
Igor Studio Igor Cortadellas Director – Producer info@igorstudio.com
Films en Off Elisenda Contreras Communication
Inicia Films Valérie Delpierre CEO - Producer info@iniciafilms.com
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Lastor Media Sergi Moreno Executive Producer
Screen Division Annick Mahnert Managing Director
sergi.mcastillo@lastormedia. com
annick@screen-division.com
Lastor Media Tono Folguera Executive Producer
Set Màgic Audiovisual Oriol Marcos CEO - Producer
tfolguera@lastormedia.com
oriol@setmagic.com
Lukimedia Jaume Vilalta Producer - Head of Film Production
Shoji Films Rubén Seca President
jaume@lukimedia.com
shojifilms.productions@gmail. com
No hay Banda Martín Samper Writer - Director - Producer
Un Capricho de Producciones Belén Sánchez Producer
martinsamper@nohaybanda.es
belen@uncaprichoproducciones.com
Parallamps Companyia Cinematogràfica Ana Stanic Executive Producer
Un Capricho de Producciones Santi Suárez Director – Producer
ana@parallamps.cat
Parallamps Companyia Cinematogràfica Marc Recha Executive Producer marc@parallamps.cat
santi@uncaprichoproducciones. com
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Distribution A Contracorriente Films Adolfo Blanco Managing Director
Adso Films Jose Escola Managing Director
adolfo@ acontracorrientefilms.com
escola@adso.tv
A Contracorriente Films David Mitjans Acquisitions Manager
Adso Films Clara Pi Creixel Marketing
david@ acontracorrientefilms.com
cpi@adso.tv
A Contracorriente Films Paz Recolons Partner
Art Mood Entertainment, SL María José Solera Partner
paz@acontracorrientefilms.com
mjsolera@art-mood.com
A Contracorriente Films Manuel Monzón Fueyo Executive producer
Artaire Films Toni Segura President - CEO
manuel@ acontracorrientefilms.com
tsegura@artairefilms.com
A Contracorriente Films Fernando Riera Fischer Head of production department
Cesca Films Francesca Ibáñez CEO francesca@cescafilms.com
fernando@ acontracorrientefilms.com
Adso Films Lídia Molinero Acquisitions Executive & Marketing Manager lidiam@adso.tv
Noucinemart Carlos Rodríguez Ríos Director - Manager carlos@noucinemart.com
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Noucinemart Loles Fanlo Int’l Relations and Marketing
Lighthouse Distribution Conchita Escura Managing Director
loles@noucinemart.com
marketing@ lighthousedistribution.es
Flamingo Films Xavier Lezcano Buyer
Morethan Queralt Pons Serra Managing Partner
xlezcano@flamingofilms.es
queralt@morethan-films.com
Harpo Entertaintment Albert Galera Cinema Division Manager
Movies For Festivals Johanna Tonini CEO - Acquisition
agalera@harpotv.com
info@moviesforfestivals.com
Inopia Films Anna Vicens Director of Acquisitions
Selectavision Jorge Gabarro President
avicens@inopiafilms.com
jgabarro@selecta-vision.com
La Aventura Audiovisual José Tito Co-Founder
Selectavision Teresa Zaffino Head of Acquisitions
tito@laaventuraaudiovisual.com
tzaffino@selecta-vision.com
Lighthouse Distribution Maria Tarrazon International Director
Selectavision Miquel Royo Sales Manager
info@lighthousedistribution.es
mroyo@selecta-vision.com
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Selectavision Javier Puertas Theatrical Manager
Vercine Leo Guzmán Commercial Director
jpuertas@selecta-vision.com
lguzman@vercine.org
Selectavision Beatriz Escolar Bravo Acquisitions Assistant
Wild Duck Productions Luis M. Rosales Buyer
bescolar@selecta-vision.com
luisrosales@ wildduckproductions.es
Selectavision Cristina Ripollès Theatrical Manager
Xowed Entertaintment Jose Luis Puertas Ruiz Acquisitions Manager
cripolles@selecta-vision.com
Twelve Oaks Pictures Ignacio Lamarca General Manager mar.abadin@twelveoakspictures.com
Twelve Oaks Pictures Mar Abadin Head of Acquisitions mar.abadin@ twelveoakspictures.com
Vercine Ignacio Puebla Linares CEO ipuebla@vercine.org
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Sales Agents Artaire Films Toni Segura President - CEO
Film Factory Entertaintment Maite Pascual Head of Servicing
tsegura@artairefilms.com
maite@filmfactory.es
Cesca Films Francesca Ibáñez CEO
Harpo Entertaintment Albert Galera Cinema Division Manager
francesca@cescafilms.com
agalera@harpotv.com
Film Factory Entertaintment Vicente Canales Managing Director
Screen Division Annick Mahnert Managing Director
v.canales@filmfactory.es
annick@screen-division.com
Film Factory Entertaintment Manon Barat Sales & Marketing Executive manon@filmfactory.es
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Festivals Casa Asia / Asian Film Festival Barcelona Menene Gras Balaguer Director
Molins Horror Film Festival Victor Torres Lopez Film Programmer and Guest Director
mgras@casaasia.es
victor.torres@molinsfilmfestival. com
Casa Asia / Asian Film Festival Barcelona Rodrigo Escamilla Sandoval General Coordinator
Molins Horror Film Festival Omar Parra Mendez Film Programmer and Co-Director omar.parra@molinsfilmfestival. com
D’A Film Festival Barcelona Carlos Rodríguez Ríos Director – Manager carlos@noucinemart.com
Molins Horror Film Festival Antonio Rosa Programming and Social Media Management antonio.rosa@molinsfilmfestival. com
D’A Film Festival Barcelona Loles Fanlo Int’l Relations and Marketing
Moritz Feed Dog Film Festival Johannes Klein
loles@noucinemart.com
Programmer jklein@in-edit.org
In-Edit Film Festival Johannes Klein Programmer
Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya Mònica Garcia Massagué General Manager
jklein@in-edit.org
monica.garcia@sitgesfilmfestival.com
Molins Horror Film Festival Miquel Pastor Head of Programming miquel.pastor@molinsfilmfestival.com
Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya Angel Sala Corbí Festival Director
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Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya Diego López Member of the Film Selection Committee
Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya Jordi Sánchez Navarro ANIMA’T
brigadoon@sitgesfilmfestival.com
Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya Elisabeth Sala Head of Film Department
Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya Alba Tomillero Head of Industry Department
elisabeth.sala@ sitgesfilmfestival.com
industry.hub@sitgesfilmfestival. com
Broadcaster TV3 – Televisió de Catalunya Agustí Argelich TV Buyer Short Films aargelich.k@tv3.catW
Others Cineasia Gloria Fernández Adame CEO gfernandez@cineasia.net
“La Caixa” Foundation Núria Oller Castells Director of the Department of Music and Digital Programmes
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ICEC representatives attending the market ICEC Miquel Curanta General Director
Catalunya Film Commission Carlota Guerrero Manager cguerrerob@gencat.cat
ICEC Francisco Vargas Film Fund Director
Catalunya Film Commission Laia Boixader Technical Manager laia.boixader@gencat.cat
ICEC Maria Basora Market Development Director
Creative Europe Desk Media Catalunya Àlex Navarro Coordinator alexnavarro@gencat.cat
Catalan Films Mar Medir Coordinator mmedir@gencat.cat
Creative Europe Desk Media Catalunya Maria Sol Hernández Communication mariasol@gencat.cat
Catalan Films Joan Ruiz International Promotion joan.ruizg@gencat.cat
Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies (ICEC) +34 93 552 49 40 www.catalanfilms.cat | catalanfilms@gencat.cat
Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies (ICEC) +34 93 552 49 40 www.catalanfilms.cat | catalanfilms@gencat.cat
