Catalogue 2019

When They Left

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

Verónica Haro Abril 61ʹ 2019 Ecuador

When the colourful ice-cream van rides through the deserted streets of the village, there are no children trailing behind it. In Plazuela, a peaceful hamlet lost in a mountainous region of Ecuador,...

El Guru

Burning Lights International

Rory Barrientos Lamas 70ʹ 2019 Chile

In the south of Chile on the Chiloé Island, Carlos Ruiz works as an operator in an industrial cannery. He is one of the cogs that makes the machine turn, except when he is a machine himself,...

Últimas Ondas

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

Emmanuel Piton 41ʹ 2019 France

We are somewhere in the north of Spain. After crossing a town, in the rain, at the end of a tunnel, the valley of Solana opens up. The grain and the flickering of the film add a dreamlike quality to...

La vida en común

International Feature Film Competition

Ezequiel Yanco 70ʹ 2019 Argentina, France

A puma is stalking Pueblo Ranquel, an indigenous community settled in the northern Argentinian desert, in a modern camp built to accommodate them. As if to break free of their youth, some young boys...

Kentannos. May You Live to Be 100!

Grand Angle

Victor Cruz 84ʹ 2019 Argentina, Italy

In Costa Rica, Panchita has just turned 109 and hopes for a visit from two of her children: Pablo, 93 years old, and Calixto, 88 years old. Sarita, who is 93, has no hesitation in confessing her love...

Quicksilver Chronicles

Burning Lights International

Ben Guez, Sasha Kulak 75ʹ 2019 United States

Kate Woods and her brother Kemp are survivors. They could have been some of Jack Kerouac's Dharma bums or Ken Kesey's freaks or militants like Jerry Rubin. They probably have been all these things....

Compañía

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

Miguel Hilari 61ʹ 2019 Bolivia

In Bolivia, in a small mountain village, the daily rhythm seems marked by a time that no longer exists, by nature's invisibles forces, by the will of the gods. In this place where there is no longer a...

God

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

Christopher Murray, Israel Pimentel, Josefina Buschmann 63ʹ 2019 Chile

In 2018, Pope Francis travelled to Chile on an official visit. The country was then undergoing a serious spiritual crisis. Despite the efforts of the Catholic Church, the parishes are increasingly...

Insula

Burning Lights International

María Onis 85ʹ 2019 Argentina

An anthropology student and her companion, a film student, want to direct a documentary about a community of hunter-gatherers in Argentina. The difference between the well-off young urbanites and the...

Sweet Salty Wind

Opening Scenes

Laura Gabay 20ʹ 2019 Switzerland, Cuba

Somewhere on the coast of Cuba, three brothers and sisters spend the day by the sea. Laura Gabay observes them as well as the world they are constructing for themselves in the solitude of the...

This Film Is About Me

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

Alexis Delgado Búrdalo 61ʹ 2019 Spain

Renata presents herself to the camera like one of these fascinating film noir heroines: a beautiful woman with a nondescript accent, with assured gestures, who looks people right in the eyes....

Again

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

Mario Pfeifer 38ʹ 2019 Germany

His name was Schabas Saleh Al-Aziz. He came from Iraq where his family had remained. He was 21 years old. He suffered from epilepsy and mental disorders and he was found frozen to death in a forest in...

No Nos Representan

National Competition

Irene Muñoz Martin 40ʹ 2019 Switzerland

We enter a living painting: actors demonstrating to the cries of “They don't represent us!”, the rallying slogan of the Anti-austerity movement in the “Puerta del Sol” square, who in 2011 shared...

The Sheriff

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

Samuel Moreno Alvarez 26ʹ 2019 Colombia

Fernando is Kamëntsa, indigenous and autochthonous to the Sibundoy Valley, in the south of Colombia. He is over 40, but still lives in his grandmother's house and often parties. He is popular and...