Cinema of tomorrow

António and Jota go to some Roman thermal baths to spend the afternoon. There they have an impossible encounter with Aurelius and Pompey, two of the soldiers who built them. Although they are separated by more than 2000 years, António and Aurelius share a fear: losing their best friend forever.

Dídac travels by bicycle along the Danube with his family during the summer. But when he meets the mysterious Alexander, who appears and disappears in the river's waters, something in him begins to change.

Premiere: Biennale di Venezia

Azucena, a 30-year-old woman, spies on the teenagers at a children's home. She searches in their games and camaraderie for something from her past, driven by an event that marked her adolescence and stopped her in her tracks.

Premiere: Biennale di Venezia

Alone in the mountains: Olivia, her Father, and their home. By the foothills, a slaughterhouse, where Father works. When Father disappears Olivia descends the mountains in search of him.

Premiere: Locarno Film Festival

Filmed in Mexico based on the memoirs of María Luisa Elío, originally from Navarre, On the Empty Balcony (En el balcón vacío, 1962) is one of the most essential films of Republican exile cinema. The restoration work carried out at EQZE was conducted following research stemming from Luis Alberto Juárez's master's final project.

This project has the support of the Government of Navarre and the collaboration of Filmoteca UNAM.

Premiere: Il Cinema Ritrovato

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This film recounts the journey of Ricardo, a 24-year-old man born with Treacher Collins Syndrome who has struggled to pronounce the letter 'R' since birth.

Premiere: Sheffield Doc Fest

In a spa surrounded by mountains of salt, guests relax and sunbathe, while workers collect the glowing crystals under the sun. Children run off, escaping the watchful eyes of adults, and a woman drifts through this landscape in a haze, detached from reality. As night falls, the space transforms, shaped by the desires of those who pass through.

Premiere: Festival de Cannes

In the darkness, a breath of light illuminates the night in the forest. Air, water, light, and wind flow across the earth to herald the end of new worlds and the beginning of ancient lives.

Premiere: Documenta Madrid

Authorities have prohibited access to a forest on the outskirts of the city. Strange vegetation has infested the area, and those questioned report sightings of rare species, human-sized birds, or figures that appear and disappear. Despite the restrictions, several people decide to visit the place. Once there, they coexist and play without fear of the warnings. Reality gradually becomes distorted, intermingling with their memories, dreams, and fantasies.

Premiere: FICCI

Mexico City, in the mid-90s. After the sudden disappearance of their parents, five siblings are left in the care of their grandmother, a woman who distrusts everyone and claims to see the devil. As they struggle to survive, the line between reality and fiction begins to blur.

Premiere: Berlinale (Best First Feature Award)

João, a Lisbon actress, stars in a biopic about Liberada, a gender non-conforming woman who was persecuted by the Inquisition in 18th century Portugal. The production turns into a battleground when João clashes with the director over how Liberada's legacy should be portrayed. When the director suffers a mysterious paralysis and is unable to finish the film, João must navigate her way through the chaos of the shoot.

Premiere: Berlinale

La Durmiente explores the story of the medieval Infanta Beatriz of Portugal through fabulation and children’s imagination. Entirely shot at the Monastery of Sancti Spiritus in Toro, a space once inhabited by Beatriz and where her tomb lies, these children stage and interpret fragments of the life of this character erased by history, yet preponderant in the Portuguese dynastic crisis of 1383.

Premiere: IFFR

Gal·la works at the radio station. Nearly asleep, she leaves the program halfway through and reads a story to her little son that accompanies him in his dreams. One night, driven by the renewing energy of a mysterious boy, she decides to start a new radio station. A program of shared melodies that broadcasts from the intimacy of the room where mother and son connect with the world.

Premiere: IFFR

He develops and imagines a world inside a dark room. His daughter weaves a dialogue inside it: about latent, invented images. About the ways of resisting and navigating the darkness. Una sombra oscilante explores how the intimate and political weight of images can open spaces to reflect upon them as acts of resistance, either because they are made despite the horror of their context or because they offer an imaginary vanishing point that might just set us free.

Premiere: FIDMarseille

Times of war. A woman takes refuge in her bedroom. Memories emerge that resonate with the violence outside: photos, films, paintings, and books, whose evocation inhabits solitude and opens a space of resistance. Between documentary and fiction, The Room of Shadows proposes a new staging of art history.

Premiere: FIDMarseille

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Pirópolis immerses us in the fiery port city of Valparaíso through Pompe France, a humble company of volunteer firefighters with diplomatic ties to France. Amidst forest fires and the spread of flames toward the city, they challenge their status quo by welcoming women into the brigade and confronting the departure of their captain.

Premiere: Tribeca

A son and his immigrant mother in Madrid wait for his father to return. A Basque woman and a Japanese man meet in San Sebastian and he shares his stories about home. A drifting Japanese man returns to his family for Obon to welcome the spirits of the deceased. These fragmental stories of each daily life in different places of the world imply their reminiscence of home.

Premiere: FIDMarseille

Beneath the Ciudad Oculta neighborhood, there is another city where the dead reside. After the murder of the young soccer player Iki Dosantos, his friend Jonás has recurring dreams about him. Jonás must find a way to cross over to the city of the dead and settle past issues that still bind him to Iki.

Premiere: Woche der Kritik

In the afternoons, Mari explores the countryside while she works on her end of degree project, the creation of a digital archive that compiles all the farmhouses in the area that started going through a process of decline and neglect in the 1980s. Among the ruins of these constructions, now inhabited mainly by drones, José, a shepherd who lives with his mother and daughter, keeps his sheep. He has started to develop a strange skin rash on his arm. Mari and José meet by chance out in the countryside. Also by chance, José's mother invites Jonás to dinner. He, who was once a shepherd, seems to know an ancient story that connects the searches, disappearances and sheep.

Premiere: IFFR

Premiere: IFFR

El tercer paisaje is a film project that has as its protagonist the fungus that made the painted forest of Oma sick, the work that the Basque artist Agustín Ibarrola carried out in the 80s in the province of Bizkaia. This artwork belongs to the Land Art movement, which is mainly characterized by its ephemeral nature. Within this current, artists leave their works exhibited at the mercy of weather conditions and other elements alien to human will.

Premiere: SSIFF

A young primary school teacher searches for her disappearing voice in a foreign town. She crosses paths with other women ready to help her find what she has lost. 

Premiere: IFFR

My father used the camera just once in his life time. After 30 years he ask me to digitise VHS material he filmed. I was wondering what he remembers.

Premiere: ZINEBI (Grand Award for Basque Cinema)

Txomin, an unemployed Basque archaeologist, receives a commission to provide an expert's report on Mars. With his brother Gene at the wheel, they leave Eibar on an adventure through northern Spain. When Gene's frail health and a mysterious toxic mist make them lose their way, they turn to their sister Mila. The reunion between the three awakens old family gripes as Gene's health continues to decline. With the help of a few ghosts and Jesus Christ himself, the two brothers decide to complete their mission.

Premiere: FICX Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón/Xixón

A forest starts over. A town recalls the landscape it never saw. Hands, hoes, and boots that stir up the dry earth to bring to the surface the trees that once inhabited Ulla. Here the river is constantly born and murmurs an already forgotten language. Who will live in this forest when it exists? Can a forest be planted? Will someone give it a name? Where does a town begin?

Premiere: SSIFF

Atahualpa works on the construction of a road leading East. In the area there is a rumour about a treasure hidden at the beginning of the colony. One afternoon, after his girlfriend Rocío has left the city, Atahualpa feels a provocation, a distant rumour that takes him a hundred years back.

Premiere: La Biennale di Venezia

Lucrecia Pérez was brutally murdered by 4 neo-Nazis in Madrid in 1992. After a lengthy trial, the Spanish judicial system for the first time condemned a crime as racist and xenophobic. As an essay, the film delves into Lucrecia's short life in Spain to deepen the experience of the Afro-descendant diaspora, the representation of the Afro-Caribbean woman, and her historical construction.

In a small, almost uninhabited town, where the fields that surround it stretch out flat and endless, German, a 12-year-old boy, runs after a crane that takes to the scrapyard the motorcycle of 'S' that has just died. Thus begins a story that runs for five years the life of this boy on a journey against time.