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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
by Rubén Seca Produced by Shoji Films, ECIB (Escola de Cinema de Barcelona)
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Contact
distribucion@ecam.es shojifilms.productions@gmail.com
Carving in Memory
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.
Goodnight Mr.Ted
Greata (Nausea)
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.
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?
by Jana Jubert, Gerard Gil Produced by Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Contact
info@thefilmnowproject.com
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
In Spite of Ourselves
Our Friend the Moon
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.
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.
Shedding Skin Escames
Silence Club
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.
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.
The Autumn of History
The Last Matador
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.
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.
