DON'T TELL MAMA • 2020
DIRECTOR: Conrad Alejandro Faraj
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: '7
SYNOPSIS: A young man with a long-kept secret becomes conflicted about revealing it to his mother.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
SHORT FILMS
HOLD ONTO THE MOVING SKY
• 2019
DIRECTOR: Benjamin Morgan
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: '8
SYNOPSIS: Emily is alone, stressing over a text. There’s no avoiding it. She must make a decision that will dramatically change the course of her life.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
DIRECTOR: Isabel Casanova
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '12
SYNOPSIS: Natalia enters a sex shop ready to rent a movie to surprise her partner. Suddenly a girl enters for whom Natalia feels a strong attraction and can no longer get out of her head.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
SEX SHOP • 2019
DIRECTOR: Cristian Casado, Dennis Gleiss
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '7
SYNOPSIS: Tragedy strikes when a couple wins the Lottery, neither of them ready, but some would say eager, for what comes after.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
JACKPOT • 2020
DIRECTOR: Juanlu Moreno Somé
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '18
SYNOPSIS: Javier, an unscrupulous man, goes to his favorite local hostess on any given night. There he meets Alma, a new prostitute who promises an unforgettable evening. Javier can´t imagine to what extent she is willing to keep his word.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
ANY GIVEN NIGHT • 2019
DIRECTOR: Guille Vázquez
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '7
SYNOPSIS: A young woman seeks out someone who has entered her house when she is between sleep and vigil. Based on Henry Fuseli's painting 'The Nightmare', 'Mare' depicts a sleep paralysis as told by the incubus myth.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
MARE • 2020
DIRECTOR: Rodrigo Tavares
COUNTRY: Portugal
RUNTIME: '15
SYNOPSIS: Maria, gave up her life to take care of John, her brother, who due to an accident in childhood lives in a vegetative state. Sick, she discovers that the treatment for her cancer has not been effective. Alone, without prospects, and at the edge of her forces, Maria has to decide how to deal with John, who, unable to survive by himself, will be left by his own.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
THE EDGE • 2019
DIRECTOR: Hengjun Li
COUNTRY: China
RUNTIME: '25
SYNOPSIS: A funeral, a trip back home, in the plateau mountains, where the signal is hard to find, the father accidentally learned the girl's secret, two generations have completely contradictory life concepts, the contradiction intensified immediately.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
• Best Director
SIGNAL • 2019
DIRECTOR: Javier Alfonso Bartolozzi
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: '13
SYNOPSIS: The story follows Mrs. Allerton, an elderly woman that becomes a serial killer after realizing about being alone in the world with no family and friends left. Drowned in a terrible feeling of loneliness Mrs. Allerton will gradually suffer several stages of dementia that will make her believe she has a special relationship with the corpses of their victims.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
TEA TIME • 2020
DIRECTOR: Àlex "Gela" Aguado
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '26
SYNOPSIS: The story is about two music enthusiasts, Nico and Fran, who are in a band: Phoenix Down. Nico plays the guitar and Fran the violin. They both understand music in their own way and that make things complicated when they start getting important gigs. In every gig the tension between them builds and compromises their friendship and the future of the band.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
GHOSTS • 2019
DIRECTOR: Rafaella Gnecco
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '13
SYNOPSIS: Victoria's most painful loss will be the thread of her revenge in an action shortfilm that puts violence between man and woman on the table from a prism totally opposite to reality. Is the crime a revenge or a victory?
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
VICTORIA • 2019
