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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mía and Moi
by Borja de la Vega Produced by Toned Media
Contact
produccion@tonedmedia.com
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.
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.
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.
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?
Sinjar
by Anna M. Bofarull Produced by KaBoGa Sales Agent Filmax
Contact
c.carro@filmax.com
Song to a Lady in the Shadow
The Belly of the Sea
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.
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.
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.
The Last Movies from Bosnia
The Luminous View
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?
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.
by Fabrizio Ferraro Produced by Eddie Saeta, Boudu/Passepartout
Contact
eddie@eddiesaeta.es
The Pop Song
The Return. Life after ISIS
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.
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.
The Year of the Discovery
Tolyatti Adrift
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.
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.
by Laura Sisteró Produced by Boogaloo Films, Les Films d’Ici
Contact
bernat@boogaloofilms.com
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.