11:40 • 2019
DIRECTOR: Claudia Ruiz
COUNTRY: Argentina
RUNTIME: '12
SYNOPSIS: Damián (10) and his little brother Matias (7) start attending a new school located next to a jail. The day before the new beginning is the birthday of Damien receives a clock and the invitation to a meeting that will wait anxiously: the hour 11:40.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
SHORT FILMS
19 SCHAFFARIK STREET • 2019
DIRECTOR: Lana Pavkov
COUNTRY: Serbia
RUNTIME: '20
SYNOPSIS: Vanya and Anya are having dinner with their guests Sergei, Boris and Ivana in an elegantly furnished salon, located in a semi-ruined house. Vanya concludes that the house they are seems very familiar to her, while Anya also has the same conclusion. Soon, Vanya realizes that Anya is her daughter and that the house in which they are dining is theirs. Everything becomes more and more peculiar when Vanya pays attention to other strange occurrences
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
DIRECTOR: Fran Gas
COUNTRY: España
RUNTIME: '6
SYNOPSIS: Carla had become trapped in Super 8mm film. Scientists call this phenomenon a FRAMETRAVEL.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
CARLA'S FRAMETRAVEL • 2018
DIRECTOR: David Cánovas
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '14
SYNOPSIS: Ana and Víctor, a middle age couple, drive to the house of some friends to have dinner. But he decides to stop at a gas station to buy a bottle of wine and wash the car, a decision that will change the way of their lives
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
CAR WASH TUNNEL • 2019
DIRECTOR: Liza Koifman
COUNTRY: Netherlands
RUNTIME: '15
SYNOPSIS: After her parents passed, Janna took over the family farm where she lives with her disabled brother. The daily care for her brother takes a toll on Janna. Watching her peers moving on in life and building relationships makes the situation even more unbearable. Will she ever be able to leave her nest?
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
NEST • 2019
DIRECTOR: Jaime Herrero
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '11
SYNOPSIS: After closing his eyes, our main character wakes up in a different world, a place without a voice where everything would be easier. On top of a mountain, he waits for somebody to come. Together, they walk towards the depths of the forest, with the intention of rescuing his most beloved one from the clutches of a mysterious secret society. This cult, led by a fearsome woman connected in some way to the main character, will start a cathartic ritual that will allow accessing the shadows from his past.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
RITE OF PASSAGE • 2019
DIRECTOR: Guilhem Amesland
COUNTRY: France
RUNTIME: '21
SYNOPSIS: Alexandre is celebrating Joëlle’s birthday in an Asian restaurant, trying to save their relationship. Jade is a lethargic waitress who takes life as it comes. Lee, the manageress, has succumbed to Jade’s charms but suffers from her indifference. Meanwhile, in the kitchen Souleymane dreams about becoming a great chef; his bibimbap recipe could perhaps bring hearts together and arouse desires.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
BIBIMBAP • 2019
DIRECTOR: François Rivière
COUNTRY: France
RUNTIME: '20
SYNOPSIS: Stuck in an ordinary life, with no future, he spends nights playing video games to escape. But sleep deprivation starts to come in.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
• Best Director
ABOVE • 2019
DIRECTOR: Eloi Rodríguez Franquesa
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '13
SYNOPSIS: A mourner has dedicated all her life to mourn the dead of others as a job and to be the mentor for young mourners. One night, after returning from work, she receives the news that her daughter has died. From that moment on, her whole life turns upside down and she must find her place and find a way to attend the funeral and cry as a mother.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
LACRIMOSA • 2019
DIRECTOR: Ale Alviar
COUNTRY: Colombia
RUNTIME: '15
SYNOPSIS: Eight year old Luisa is forcefully displaced from her rural life accompanied by her mother and older sister. Danger haunts them, altering their efforts to cope with their new life, all in the exuberance and cultural beauty of a tropical city in Colombia where violence feels inevitable.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
TIERRA • 2018
DIRECTOR: Júlia García
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '18
SYNOPSIS: Lucía (17) is tired of fighting an outbreak of atopic dermatitis that affects her entire skin. As her last resort, her mother decides to spend some time in a house near the sea so that she can be cured by the salt. Lucía will live an inner struggle that makes her a prisioner of her own body by not saying how she feels.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
• Best Actress:
Katrin Vankova
ATÓPICA • 2019
