OUTLINE • 2019
DIRECTOR: Alejandro Renedo Villagrán
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '18
SYNOPSIS: "De Perfil" (Outline) it is an actress journey through the mandatory tolls of industry and customs of shame in search of a job.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
SHORT FILMS
SOLSTICE • 2020
DIRECTOR: Gala Díaz
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '16
SYNOPSIS: Martina will have to cope with her discovery during the summer she's spending with her family and friends.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
DIRECTOR: Eteri Nioradze
COUNTRY: Russia
RUNTIME: '11
SYNOPSIS: Nadia is a nail artist who is obsessed with cleanliness and tidiness. She tries to maintain a “perfect” world around herself, but one day, a new client, Kristina, comes to her beauty salon and messes up everything. The chaos helps both women see the world differently.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
PLEASE, HAVE A SEAT! • 2020
DIRECTOR: Rodolfo Lissia
COUNTRY: Italy
RUNTIME: '14
SYNOPSIS: Inspired by the mystical Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy - Hell, Purgatory, Heaven", the story narrates the metaphorical journey of Orfeo, young wanderer of the night, as an occasion to reflect upon himself and the modern world that surrounds him. A stream of consciousness of contemporary youth in a Europe divided between crisis and uncertainties.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
THE HERMIT IN THE NIGHT • 2019
DIRECTOR: Raquel Toledo
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '20
SYNOPSIS: Lucía and Alicia are Twins sisters. They belong to a different social classes. Alicia is a drug addict and She has no money. Lucía is an apparently perfect woman with a perfect Life. Their paht Will be crossed again after Alicia does visist to her sister. This fact Will reveal a secret that souldn't be kept any longer.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
LUCIA'S SECRET • 2020
DIRECTOR: Sérgio Bloch
COUNTRY: Brazil
RUNTIME: '13
SYNOPSIS: That Toinha is not just any Bahian, this is evident to those who see her, for the first time, behind her board. What many do not even suspect is that she is the one who makes the palm oil that she uses to prepare her delicacy. She climbs the coconut tree, drops the bunch, cooks the coconuts, macerates in the pestle, and when everything turns into a paste, she separates the liquid from the bagasse in a long manual process. Then it boils the palm again and only then does the oil appear, like a blade, over the water. At night she will serve the dumplings generously stuffed and packed in a banana leaf, which Toinha takes off her feet and prepares over the fire. The business takes a lot of work, but who cares? - “My acarajé has to be perfect. That's why I do the male and female frills ”- she says proudly.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
SAUCY TOINHA • 2020
DIRECTOR: Mauricio Almeida
COUNTRY: Mexico
RUNTIME: '26
SYNOPSIS: Gabriela is a young woman who had the life she always dreamed of, a beautiful home,a loving husband and a beautiful boy named Pablo. Life suddenly changes when Pablo dies in her swimming pool.While she tries to move on with her life and leave sadness behind, she faces paranormal events that happen around her house. Her husband doesn't pay attention to the situation and apparently she is all by herself. Her biggest fear is to question herself if she is dealing with her son´s ghost or is it just psicosis?
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
PABLO • 2020
DIRECTOR: Sun Woo Kim
COUNTRY: South Korea
RUNTIME: '17
SYNOPSIS: Miso has trauma of her mother leaving her when she was young. She tends to always keep her bag full of things because of what her mom said before leaving. Miso steals belongings of her customers. She tends to always keep her bag full of things. Miso falls in love with Wonseok who suddenly came in her life, and she wants to give him her belongings. But Wonseok seems not to care about what Miso gave to him. Miso gets nervous seeing that Wonseok seems like to date other girls. In the very last scene, Miso tries to squash her body in Wonseok’s bag
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
IN • 2020
DIRECTOR: Lucía Undari, Miguel Guindos
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '28
SYNOPSIS: Miriam, Sara and Sergio have gone by the pool. As usual, they take a bath, read the horoscope, play card games. With the yesterday's hangover they plan something for tonight, but never for tomorrow. They live by the day, because a shadow that comes closer and closer: september and the end of the summer. Sara starts in college, Sergio might repeat grades and Miriam has been selected for an arts academy in Barcelona, far away from Madrid. They might not ever hang out anymore.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
A SUMMER • 2020
DIRECTOR: Arian Araujo
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '20
SYNOPSIS: Dani and Mireia live together in the suburbs of a big city after being orphaned a few years ago. Both are learning to adapt to their new neighborhood, but Dani gets in trouble all the time. Mireia starts dating Guille, the son of an important neighborhood leader, just for the sake of protecting Dani and herself. Mireia will discover that getting Guille into their lives was the worst decision she’d ever made.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
SONS OF RUINS • 2020
DIRECTOR: Clara Schwarze
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '25
SYNOPSIS: Lucas, Jana and Martí, three friends coming back from having some drinks, meet Ari and Damián, which decide to invite them to their apartment for a last drink, since it's starting to rain. Everyhting seems quite normal, until the couple start to act strange. After knowing that Damián's brother passed away recently, Jana wants to leave, but he can't, since the door has literally vanished. Everything goes wild when Ari and Damián try to sacrifice Lucas in a satanic ceremony to resurrect Damián's brother, something they tried before with rabbits, to no avail.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
GRIM CHRONICLE OF A RANDOM NIGHT • 2019