THE MANILA LOVER
Johanna Pyykkö
Norway | 2019 | 26’ | fiction
During a trip to the Philippines, middle-aged, Norwegian Lars has met Abigail – the Filipina he wants to share his life with, but does she share his plans?
PURPLEBOY
Alexandre Siqueira
Portugal | 2019 | 14′ | animation
Oscar is a child who sprouts in his parents garden. Nobody knows his biological sex but he claims the masculine gender. One day Oscar lives an extraordinary but painful adventure in an authoritarian and oppressive world. Will he manage to have the identity recognition he desires so much?
EN RACHA
Ignacio Estaregui
Spain | 2020 | 17′ | fiction
Distributed by Selected films
Another night at the palace. A security guard facing boredom and an abyss ahead. There is nothing worse for an inveterate player than thinking he is on a roll. We stopped being humans without becoming machines and now we are mere AAA batteries. Apathy, Adrenaline, Abrasion.
SERIAL PARALLELS
Max Hattler
Hong Kong | 2019 | 09′ | animation
This experimental animation approaches Hong Kong’s built environment from the conceptual perspective of celluloid film, by applying the technique of film animation to the photographic image. The city’s signature architecture of horizon-eclipsing housing estates is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips: Serial Parallels.
WOMAN
Raúl de la Fuente Calle
Spain | 2020 | 20′ | fiction
Distributed by Selected films
In Mozambique, the case of Josina Machel, daughter of the first president, shows that gender-based violence makes no distinction between social classes. Other women suffer terror every day, with no means to defend themselves. Their gender defines them from birth; society wants them to give in; male violence kills them.
EL TRATAMIENTO
Álvaro Carmona
Spain | 2019 | 09′ | fiction
A clinic offers what you’ve always wanted… for a low price.
EDÈN
Formentera | 2021 | 6’45” | fiction
Audiovisual dialogue between filmmaker Pilar Aldea and composer Donato Cocca on Eden.
With Nico Castellanos and Milena Ruzicka.