Un festival de The Circular Group

Competitive Section 2026

PRÓXIMAMENTE
May 18th
SEPTEMBER 29TH
18 Diciembre
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Gamberra

Marine Auclair March

Marta lives in a religious student residence affiliated with the far-right. Sexual misinformation leads her to seek the morning-after pill, while her colleagues prepare an unforgettable initiation prank.

*Based on a true event.

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El Revisor

Jandro ( Alejandro López García )

A fake gas inspector visits vulnerable elderly people to take advantage of them. It is now the turn of Carmen, a charming grandmother who keeps great antiques.

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Finde Top

Ainara Fernández

Does being with a sugar daddy mean being for sale? Ana seems certain it doesn’t, but after a fight with her father, doubts begin to creep in. Meanwhile, Yoli tries to forget Christopher, but you don’t choose who you fall in love with.

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Cara de cona

Guillermo De Oliveira

Moncho is obsessed with his new neighbour Pardavila. He hates his laugh, his face and his dog. After several attempts to make his life impossible he designs the perfect plan to kill him.

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Camelia

Anabel Caso

When Sol decides to terminate her unplanned pregnancy, she realizes she is alone. The lack of support from her partner and the weight of social prejudices lead her to question the value of communication and the power of emotional responsibility.

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Jacaré

Victor Quintanilha

Pedro is a dreamy teenager who lives in a modest house with his mother in Manilha, near an expressway that takes thousands of people to the beach. During school holidays, he and his friends Renan and Thiago sell drinks on the hot asphalt of the traffic jam, while longing to see the sea again. For Pedro, going to the beach is a childhood memory, from when his father still lived with the family. It’s a very hot day, and a couple stuck in traffic wants to buy a Coke while two drivers start a fight. Pedro hides in the back of a vehicle to escape the commotion. Fate then takes him to a beach, where he spends an entire day under the spell of pleasure. He surfs, drinks ice tea, plays soccer, and envisions new dreams. At the end of the day, he makes a comforting phone call to his mother and prepares to
return home, this time with a new outlook on the future.

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BOX 3

Sara Sálamo

A man in his early twenties is brought into the ER, his pulse unstable, no one there to speak for him. As they open his shirt to begin resuscitation, they find three words tattooed across his sternum: Do Not Resuscitate.

What follows unfolds over ten uninterrupted minutes, in a single continuous shot. Ten minutes in which a doctor must do something no protocol has prepared her for: read a stranger. Decide whether those words are a will or a gesture. Whether skin is enough to stand as a document.

Inspired by a true case.

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Señuelo

Martha G. Ayerbe

On a hunting trip, young Martín accompanies his father and his father’s boss. As the day progresses, each man’s inner tensions and frustrations come to light, putting Martín’s sensitivity and quiet strength to the test.

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Normal

Elena Escura

After two years apart, Sofía and Javi reunite. Their relationship was never easy — Javi struggled with a severe anxiety disorder. What if, this time, they could finally be a normal couple?

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Quebrar Albores

Adriana Galicia Guillén

As dawn breaks, an exhausted Mar forces herself to keep the party going. She tries to enjoy the moment, but a pain she cannot understand consumes her from within. In the end, she will blow up the after-party to the shock of her friends, digging through the rot of what has happened in an attempt to cleanse herself.

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Mercy

Hedda Mjøen

Guro meets her old friend Petter. Petter has recently been accused of rape, but claims he is innocent. Should she believe him? Can she be friends with a man accused of rape? And is she willing to sacrifice her reputation to support him?

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