Competing Short Films
Short Films Session 1
HDA
Direction: Javier Artigas
9’ – Spain, 2024 (OV Spanish)
Abel is already thirty and he refuses to change to fit society’s expectations. His friend Sandra insists on him looking for someone to settle down with, something that sounds more like an imposition than advice. Both friends witness a wedding ceremony that is not what it seems: the union between the two people involved turns out to be literal, merging into one, a system that Abel refuses to go throug. It’s an extended and radical solution to an overpopulation problem which, in this way, reduces considerably the amount of inhabitants of the planet. Despite the grotesque scene, Abel ends up accepting his destiny when, by chance, he finds someone with whom he believes he could “fit”.
EL MÁRTIR
Director: Alejandro Mathe
30’ – Spain, Germany, 2024 (OV Spanish)
In the summer heat of a small Andalusian village, a young man explores his own sexuality through the semi-nude figure of Jesus Christ. Elías not only gets excited by Jesus Christ and other martyrs’ imaginery, he wants to be like them. For that reason and because of his desire to get closer to God, he begins to develop masochistic tendencies, which will soon get out of hand. He soon realises he will need to do some real physical sacrifices to receive God’s love.
DIENTE DE AJO
Director: Iñaki Aguilar
1’ – Spain, 2025 (Silent)
In the darkness of an enclosed cell, two nuns share a passionate secret. One is a human. The other, not so much. Amid prayers and silences, a dangerous game ignites, where the sacred becomes entangled with desire. When the most innocent one decides to turn things around, what once seemed like a submissive pact may become a crusade of punishment. Who will redeem whom?
IAGO Y TRISTAN
Director: Miguel Ibáñez Monroy
13’ – Spain, 2022 (OV Spanish)
After a few years of their relationship, Iago and Tristán have decided to break up. One afternoon, as Tristán is picking up his things to leave the flat they were both sharing, he receives the unexpected visit of Iago, who shouldn’t have come back until Tristán had left. The uncomfortable reunion becomes a distressing experience when Tristán receives a call that will change everything.
RED WINE
Directors: Míriam Vidarte and Ezequiel Degastaldi Ciccone
5’ – Spain, 2025 (OV Spanish)
Ada, a lonely young woman, meets Eva, seductive and enigmatic, through a dating app. What begins as an innocent conversation becomes a meeting full of mistery. In a night marked by wine and attraction, Ada discovers that Eva knows more about her than she should.
Through the evening, Ada is forced to face hidden aspects of her own nature. A supernatural revelation transforms the night, turning what seemed like a passionate experience in a dark journey to the unknown.
Berta
Director: Lucía Forner Segarra
17’ – Spain, 2024 (OV Spanish)
Berta wants Álex to understand the harm he caused her years ago, and she’ll do whatever she needs to do to make him see it.
Short Films Session 2
Agonía
Director: Eulàlia Ramón
23’ – Spain, 2024 (OV Spanish)
Adela and Rosa were friends in college, but life took them apart. Rosa decided to be a teacher. Adela, on the other hand, dreamt of being a writer, but ended up working as a hit woman for a small-time boss. Shortly after they both turn sixty, both women are disposed of on the same day, because of the lifes they chose to live.
VENGANZA TRAVESTÍ
Director: Tina Paparelli
7’ – Spain, 2024 (OV Spanish)
During the golden age of cabaret, a businessman keeps a love affair with a drag performer who works in his party venue. Facing the fear of being discovered, he ends up killing them, and their ghost asks two other drag performers to avenge their name. One of them will use their seductive weapons to atract the businessman into their claws.
LA CROIX
Director: Joris Fleurot
19′ – France, 2023 (OV French with Spanish subtitles)
On a rainy night and trapped in a traffic jam, Jade, a young graphic designer, receives an urgent call from a client who needs her as soon as possible. The pressure of the moment awakens in her the memory of a forbidden ritual that she performed with a friend, the ritual of the Cross, which brought back her creativity. Caught up in her thoughts, she accidentally runs over a cyclist who has the same mark that she received after the invocation. While she tries to locate the street to report the accident, her eyes meet an old lady’s who is observing her, completely still, from a window. From that moment on, Jade will start to understand the true scope of her acts and the nature of the stare that pierces her.
TUS MUERTOS!
Director: Benja de la Rosa
11′ – Spain, 2025 (OV Spanish)
Mina gets fired from her job and she’s not having the greatest of days. In her way back home, a fascist attacks her near a place where there have recently been murders of trans women. Mina escapes from the aggression, but decides to take revenge in her own hands so no transphobe aggression gets unpunished again.
CAÇADA
Director: Carme Fuentes Aguiló
10’ – Spain, 2024 (OV Catalan with Spanish subtitles)
In the Majorca of the late 19th century, Joana lives opressed and surrounded by distressing, violent and dangerous situations. She keeps a clandestine relationship with the daughter of her masters, thinking that love will provide her with the freedom and peace she needs. However, horror appears where you least expect it.
Sangría
Director: Andrea Segarra Bueno
19’ – Spain, 2023 (OV Spanish)
Jesús (15) is the only child of a very Catholic marriage, who is suffering the bullying of his classmates because of a physical disability that forces him to use a wheelchair. Jesús dreams with the idea that Lara, a classmate, starrs in his first horror feature. On Halloween night, everyone will become a part of his macabre film.
