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.

Direction: Gabriel Azorín

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. It is a story that will run in reverse, in which we will see how Germán goes from adolescence to childhood. In this journey backwards, other children who once left the village and were part of the group of friends of the protagonist will be incorporated every year.

Direction: Marina Palacio

At the age of 31, Azucena decides to search for the son she abandoned when she became pregnant at 13. Julio, her 18-year-old son, is in his last year at the orphanage, and they both seem to be the same age. La Hiedra (The Ivy) explores the relationship between mother and son from the instinctive, sleeping bodies, these bodies’ relationship with nature.  

Direction: Ana Cristina Barragán

Direction: Jaume Claret

In a post-apocalyptic Basque Country, two siblings leave on a mission to Mars. A futuristic road trip through a family past.

Direction: Amat Vallmajor

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.

Direction: Jaime Puertas

In June 1931, the Virgin Mary appeared to two brothers as they were returning home. Groups of people from around the region began to travel to the small Gipuzkoan town of Ezkio with a defined ritual. That event changed the paradigm of faith, which went from “believe in what you can’t see” to “believe in what you see”.

Direction: Patxi Burillo Nuin

The film is a series of assumptions that revolve around the life of a group of characters… A speculative science, or a group of scientists exploring an imagined territory. Explorers setting out into the unknown not as a professional pursuit, but rather as a leisure activity (which others might consider a waste of time). It is also a film of magic tricks performed after dinner, of fortuitous encounters that we would have liked to avoid, of endless siestas and excessive sunscreen.

Direction: Magdalena Orellana

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.

Direction: José María Avilés

Singing rap.
Biting your nails.
Eating a whole apple, seeds and all.
The yellow pill.
Your golden watch.
And performing for people.
Ten minutes to midnight,
and it’ll be the last time we see each other.

Direction: Mario Sanz

A group of film school students face a colossal task: to research the archives of a festival with a decades’ old history. “Which ones are our years?” asks one of them, when faced with piles of boxes with documents. But that question reverberates throughout the film, and expands beyond it: the youth of the students, their cinematographic and vital impetus, the will to film and understand the present and the past are deployed in a film that contains, above all, moments of beauty. That of those who joyfully face the past to understand their present and their future.

Direction: Clara Rus

In Un viento roza tu puerta (A Wind Brushes Your Door), tradition is mixed with the singing and voices from the past and the present, which start to emerge from the earth like small dusty memories, speaking of a violence that is perhaps premonitory, perhaps forgotten.

Direction: Jorge Castrillo