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Focus Spain #24

18. October 18:00 | Puschkino 1

Short film programme of current Spanish short films
Online available 15 - 30 October

Pure Reality

Director: Joaquín Gómez
Feature film / Spain 2023 / 12:00 min
Synopsis:

Pura has made an important choice and invites her daughter home to tell her while having breakfast. Overwhelmed by the situation, not because of the choice she is facing, but the conflict of carrying out what her mother is asking her to do, everything ends up falling apart… In the cinema nothing is what it seems.

Dead Air

Director: Ronja Ehlers, Inês Filipa Palma Martins, Melissa Fabienne Klein, Lucía Artiles De Urioste
Animation/ Spain 2023/ 04:42 min
Synopsis:

Dead Air’ captures a fleeting moment of connection amidst a life of coexistence, revealing the beauty of the seemingly mundane. A stop-motion short about existential absurdity, loneliness and the banal that plays with framing in an unexpected way.

Please

Director: Marcos Gualda
Feature film/ Spain 2024/ 11:58 min
Synopsis:

Johnny wants to be a comedian, but his mother is determined that he should be a country singer. This conflict of interests could ruin Johnny’s personal growth. “Please” is a sentimental comedy that talks about the flip side of dreams and the need to be what we really want to be.

Interns

Director: Marina Donderis, Núria Poveda, Marina Cortón
Animation/ Spain 2023/ 9:40 min
Synopsis:

Three young friends face the challenge of paying rent for their shared flat each month.

For Us!

Director: Carlos Zalama
Feature film/ Spain 2023/ 09:59 min
Synopsis:

Maria is about to leave for a job interview. Older and insecure, this is her last chance to survive in the world of work. She can’t make another mistake. But she has an adversary, Marta, who also wants the job and will do everything she can to snatch it away from her, as long as Monica likes both candidates… who will the job be for?

The peace of cemeteries

Director: Raquel Troyano
Feature film/ Spain 2023/ 09:00 min
Synopsis:

Through the children’s eyes, “La paz de los cementerios” narrates a true story of survival and Brotherhood taking place amid the abuses comitted by a priest during the spanish post-war period in an environment where fear wields its power to silence society  

Dig

Director: Jandro
Feature film/ Spain 2024/ 11:38 min
Synopsis:

A man is digging a clandestine grave in the middle of the forest at night when he is suddenly discovered.

Melody’s Murmur

Director: Fabio Barber
Feature film/ Spain 2023/ 10:00 min
Synopsis:

Manuel is trying with no avail for her wife to get her memory back. Under these hard circumstances Manuel needs to ask himself if he can continue to take care of the women that, after all, loves him as the first day.

TO BIRD OR NOT TO BIRD

Director: Martín Romero
Animation/ Spain 2023/ 09:00 min
Synopsis:

To bird or not to bird, that is the question. A critical and kaleidoscopic view of the current world told through the tragicomic and grotesque experiences of some birds.

Sincopat

Director: Pol Diggler
Feature film/ Spain 2023/ 13:30 min
Synopsis:

Ona, a creative executive of a large company, is about to launch the latest technological revolution into the market: a device that allows listening to music directly inside the brain.

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