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"High River" to take part in the Cannes Film Festival Market
Daniel Alegrete's work has been selected for the ICAA's 2cool4school initiative. High River is a fiction set in a gay club in Bilbao during the floods of August 1983. The short film is part of the development of the feature film High.
Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola will be present at the 79th Cannes Film Festival with High River, a short film by Daniel Alegrete, a student in EQZE's 2024-2025 class.
The film has been selected by 2cool4school, an initiative by the ICAA (Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales, Spain's Film and Audiovisual Arts Institute) that each year brings together a selection of works by students from film schools across Spain at the festival's Short Film Corner. In this sixth edition of the program, High River will be presented alongside three other works made at ESCAC, ECAM and the UPV.
High River is a fiction piece set in the High, a gay club in Bilbao, during the catastrophic floods of August 1983. The short film stems from the development process of High, a feature film Daniel Alegrete is currently preparing, which has recently taken part in the labs of the D'A Film Festival, Márgenes and Mostra FIRE.
Daniel Alegrete (Madrid, 1993) holds degrees in Audiovisual Communication (UC3M) and Art History (UNED) and has furthered his training at the Sarajevo Film Academy and at MasterLAV. He completed the Master's in Filmmaking Studies at EQZE in 2025.
The 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival runs from 12 to 23 May.