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Competitive Section 2021

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SHE WOLF TOTEM

Verónica Echegui

Estíbaliz accepts her friend Raquel’s invitation to attend her village’s festivities. What initially seems like an exciting weekend turns nightmarish as Estíbaliz finds out these festivities involve the men dressing up as wolves and hunting the women during the night.

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CANNIBALS

Mikel Bustamante

They have come this far and now they will have to face the last test.

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CHAVAL

Jaime Olías de Lima

Pablo, a young man from the neighborhood, meets his friend Nestor at dawn. They both wait for the van to pick them up. Meanwhile, Pablo's mother doesn't stop calling him to come home.

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TIME TO VOTE

Santiago Requejo López-Mateos

What begins as an ordinary board in a traditional apartment building to vote the renewal of the elevator, turns into an unexpected debate about the limits of pacific coexistence.

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UP TO MY NECK

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa

One Thursday a month Lucas, Río and Marcos play cards at Xabi's house, the perfect host. It seems like a regular game until Xabi tells them what he has been doing during the last month.

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SELECTION PROCESS

Carla Pereira

A cat goes to a job interview where his aptitudes are assessed by three mice. As the interview progresses, the situation starts getting more and more awkward for everyone involved.

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Ana Lambarri

2 weeks after a one-night stand with Luis, Berta discovers that she is pregnant.

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EXTRA

Nacho Fernández 

Socorro Arenas began his career as an extra with the dream of becoming an actor one day. 12 years later, at 61, Socorro is still pursuing his dream.

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(AB)NORMAL

Miguel Parra

A closer look at a gym´s locker room. Inside there´s Leo, a lawyer, and Juan, a very short sighted man of fixed ideas.

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IF DAWN

Álvaro Feldman, Laura Obradors

In the neighborhood of 3,000 homes in Seville, two young lovers, Sindi and Manuel, abruptly part ways after a serious misunderstanding.

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TARA AND THE BLUE

Pol Ponsarnau

Tara lives a life of monotony. She works on her father’s fisher boat and spends her afternoons smoking pot with her friends, listening to Trap music and yearning for something to change her life.

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OSCAR

Riccardo Copreni

Oscar is the story of a woman who keeps a secret and this secret suffocates and locks her up. Oscar is also the story of lonely characters, who seek affection and love, but who are not willing to accept and love themselves.

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MTI

Mauricio Corco

Mti, an haitian inmigrant, after years of saving money during his stay in Chile decides to return with his wife and daughter in Haiti. However, his plans will be truncated by the unexpected theft of his money.

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MAID OF HONOUR

Pedro Sancho

Sometimes the maid of honor not only takes care of the flower´s color in the wedding.

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MEETING WITH SARAH JESSICA

Vicente Villanueva

Dori finally achieved her dream - having dinner with her favorite actress.

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WOODY & WOODY

Jaume Carrió

Love, religion, death, sex... These are some of the vital worries and thoughts that used to concern the director of 'Manhattan'.

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IT'S NOT FUNNY

Carlos Violadé

Manolo and Maria. They live together and love each other.

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THE FIRST TIME

Borja Cobeaga

Begoña is an old woman and a virgin. Convinced that death is close at hand, she decides to hire a male prostitute.

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BLABLABLA

Alexis Morante

Sharing car is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get.

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THE WAY I LOVE YOU

Fernando García Ruiz

Dani is a petty thief who falls for the policewoman that arrests him after robbing a store.

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THE SWIMMER

María Algora

Irene has returned to the pool where she learned how to swim. She will have an unexpected encounter with her past, still unresolved.

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36

Ana Lambarri

Sara and David wait for a visit at home, David's new bosses come to eat. Sara prepares herself, an insignificant detail makes David angry.

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AU PAIR

David Pérez Sañudo

Nadia, a chic and urban Parisian, travels to Valladolid to teach French to Nestor, a young Spaniard

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USELESS

Raquel Guerrero

Tito, a neighborhood boy that everyone is always teasing, wants to prove his worth.

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FREE FALL

Emmanuel Tenenbaum

Tom is a young trader in a London bank, whose recent performance has put his job on the line.

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THEY

Néstor López y Óscar Romero

Irene y Sergio llegan a casa enfadados después de pasar la noche fuera. Ambos entran en una discusión a gritos. De repente, se ven interrumpidos por el sonido de su puerta abriéndose. ¿Alguien más tiene las llaves de su casa? No, solo ellos.

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COMB AND SCISSORS

Rafael Martínez Calle

To cope with the departure of her sister, Diana, an 18-year-old girl, is forced to rent a room from a stranger while she tries to get by.

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DEATH IN TORREVIEJA

Adriana Arratia

A portrait of a stuck Spain, living on the daily and looking for easy money, working to attract and serve tourists, getting trapped in a vicious cycle of fast income in the summer and financial drought in the winter.

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MARE

Javier Celay

In the heart of Navarra, in the Valdorba mountains, a small town survives depopulation by coping with everyday problems.

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CRAFTWORK

David Pérez Sañudo

Manuel, owner of a small business in the center, and his daughter Vicky, recently licensed at the University of Burgos, survive a bad streak in his center in the center.

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SHARK

Nash Edgerton

His first girlfriend was hit by a car. His second girlfriend fell off a cliff. His wife has come prepared.

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THE RIGHT WORDS

Adrian Moyse Dullin

Kenza, de 15 años, y su hermano menor, Mahdi, de 13 años, se humillan regularmente en las redes sociales de manera cruel.

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CUARANTINE

Celia de Molina

After 40 days, Marina finally sees the light. A coffee shop, a milkshake, a croissant and a lot of bad blood.

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EVANESCENT

Gala Gracia, Guillermo Garavito

On a hot summer day, Mario, a cook immersed in routine, makes the mistake of forgetting his one-year-old son Enzo in the car. This oversight triggers a tragedy that will forever mark the lives of Mario and his wife Esther.

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BE RIGHT BACK

Lucas Paulino, Gabe Ibáñez

Maria, a 7-year-old girl, is watching her favourite programme. She dances and sings like crazy while watching TV. Her mother, who can't stand her any longer, tells her that she has to go out for a moment to buy something for dinner, but Maria only pays attention to her programme, although she asks her mother to bring her some plums.

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PATHOS

Andrea Noceda

Juan and Gonzalo have been journalists and friends for a long time. Both enjoy a good position within the newspaper, but the “midday demon” (or midlife crisis) lurks.

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THE MASTERPIECE

Àlex Lora

Leo and Diana, a wealthy couple, meet Salif and Yousef, two scrap dealers, at a recycle center. Offering them more junk, Diana invites them to their mansion, but the immigrants actually might be the ones with something she wants.

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THE BALLAD

Christopher Nilsson

A bicycle deliveryman on the verge of a nervous breakdown engages in a spontaneous and thoughtless act of rebellion, locking himself in the home of the customers he was delivering to.

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HIKIKOMORI

Borja Crespo

Ainara, Nara Moon on social media, is a late teenager, passionate about oriental culture.

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THE TENANT

Lucas Paulino, Ángel Torres

¡Have you ever noticed that tingling sensation in your leg so you can barely move it? It’s probably just numb…or not.

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FLIGHT ON EARTH

Ignacio Rodó

In the 23rd century the Earth has been uninhabitable for generations.

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ATTACHED

Yolanda Centeno

When Paula´s painful breakup with Raúl causes her to stop seeing his son Dani,

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IMAGINARIUM

Cristian Beteta

Vicky and Edu are on holidays at their second residence.

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WHERE WERE YOU?

María Trénor Colomer

Where were you? challenges us to reflect on the transversal and universal reality that is violence against women.

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BACK IN 5 MINUTES

Felipe Garrido Archanco

Your life sucks? BACK IN 5 MINUTES is a short film structured as a false advertising block.

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LA CAÍDA DEL VENCEJO

Gonzalo Quincoces

Kepa is a young working-class man who lives in a overwhelming family environment, and in which he feels a burden

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THE CONSPIRATORS

Luis E. Parés

During the clandestine political struggle, when overthrowing the Regime was what everyone desired, the most important thing was to know how to wait.

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PLOT POINT

Ainhoa Menéndez

Clara and Luis have an argument. It’s not the first and it’s always over the same issue.

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PARTICULES FINES

Gregory Robin

Two men on a bridge, over the ring road, wonder if life has any meaning.

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GUADALUPE

David Barba

An undocumented house cleaner, finds something unexpected and controversial in the homeowners' closet.

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VLADA GOES TO LONDON

Arti Savchenko

Vlada, a Russian immigrant, works as a pizza delivery girl in Haifa, Israel.

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SANTA CRUZ DEL ISLOTE

Luke Loretzen

Just three acres large, Santa Cruz del Islote is one of the world's most densely populated islands.

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I AM BUENOS AIRES

Tomás Gómez Bustillo

In a small town in Argentina a baby is named Buenos Aires after a mistake in his birth certificate.

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WHICH CHEESE DO YOU WANT?

Cíntia Domit

Margarete, an elderly woman, has an outburst of anger when her husband, Alfonso, asks her to buy him some cheese.

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THE AUDITION

Emil Zabala

Nina is a young actress from Merida. After a long wait, finally comes the day to make an audition for the theater director who most admires in her life, a date she longed for ...

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PARTY OF TWO

Eugenia Llaguno

A couple's anniversary dinner takes an unexpected turn when a series revelations derail their happy relationship.

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DIRTY LININ TO THE SUN

Ramiro Zamorano

Silvana arrives to the south of Chile in search of her father.

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Loose

Javier Pereira

Alba wakes up one morning with two men. Something happened the night before, but she doesn't remember anything. Just a strange feeling that she can't define.

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Kellys

Javier Fesser

There are things that are hidden even from your best friend.

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Road to Damascus

Enio Mejía

Candela and Pepa are two gardeners from the Almudena cemetery in Madrid. They are on a break, smoking and hanging out.

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Loop

Pablo Polledri

In this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society…

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Parking Lot

Jorė Janavičiūtė

Martyna y Kamile solían ser mejores amigas.

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Bulldozer

Mads Koudal

Three friends are hanging out at the marina. When they notice an autistic man, the “alpha girl” in the group, Agnes, starts to exploit the man’s good-natured way of being.

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SOWING

Javier Barbero Montes

Prudencio is a Sevillian farmer known in his village.

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SUSHI

Iván Morales

Tonight will be the first time that Jaume, a local police from a provincial town, will taste sushi.

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FIONA

Rafa Cortés

Even Ray himself doesn't seem to know what he's doing at this party where everyone knows each other except him. But Ray really likes that girl. He has to give it a try.

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A FRIEND

Marta Matute

Lucía takes Paloma to her family's country house for the first time.

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SAVAGE TALE

Pierre Dugowson

Por la noche, una madre lee a su hija “Ricitos de oro y los tres osos”.

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