Films from Edition 2023

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Hanka Nobis

2022 /
83 min
Antek is a young Pole raised in a religious, far-right family. Everything changes when he falls in love and begins to doubt religion and homophobia.
AdolescenceGender diversityLGBTQI+Religion
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Marie Sizorn

2022 /
14 min
‘After the red’ delicately portrays the inhabitants of a village in Corsica and their experiences of the great fire they witnessed.
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Ricardo Íscar

2022 /
93 min
Two professional freedivers, in a high-risk sport that means overcoming the urge to breathe, also fight for their survival out of the water.
MigrationSport
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Clare Weiskopf

2022 /
84 min
A group of girls from a shelter in Bogotá imagine the life of a fictional friend named Alis, with whom they get the chance to dream of a better future.
AdolescenceSocialTechnologyViolence
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Efthymia Zymvragaki

2022 /
85 min
Efthymia Zymvragaki agrees to film a man named Ernesto who confesses to being a perpetrator of domestic violence and who confronts her with her own family.
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Dhanraj Barkote

2023 /
30 min
Dhanraj, a Nepali filmmaker, returns to his home village after twenty years, in search of answers and of the truth about his past.
Family
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Ante Zlatko Stolica

2022 /
14 min
‘Babajanja’ is a dreamlike journey back to the memories, the fairy tales and the legends that were part of the childhood of Ante Zlatko Stolica, the short film’s director.
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Marta Espar

2022 /
73 min
Three dancers want to create a piece of choreography about the threshold between sanity and madness and invite three women diagnosed with a mental disorder to take part.
DanceMental healthSocial
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Ana Sofia Fonseca

2022 /
94 min
Cesária Évora dissects the life of the singer who broke through on the world music scene in her fifties and took Cape Verdean morna everywhere.
BiographicalMusicWomen
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Ahsen Nadeem

2022 /
98 min
A Muslim filmmaker in the middle of a crisis of faith visits a monastery in Japan where a Buddhist sect lives in seclusion. There he confronts the conflict between spirituality and worldliness.
ComedyCultureFamilyReligion
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Yevhen Titarenko

2023 /
98 min
Yevhen and his friends volunteer for the first-aid battalion in the war in Ukraine, filmed without intermediaries and in all its harshness.
AdventureFamilyWar
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Ferran Ureña

2023 /
80 min
Thirty-three years after the disappearance of the Orrit siblings from the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Manresa, the case remains unsolved.
Crime
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Pau Faus

2023 /
74 min
In a forest on the outskirts of Barcelona, a shepherd and his flock live next to an animal health research centre where a Covid-19 vaccine is being developed.
AnimalsCultureEnvironmentHealthScienceTechnology
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Zsuzsa Debre

2022 /
28 min
‘It has passed, and it’s fine’ moves between archive material and the daily life of a hairdressing salon to tell us the collective memory of the women who worked in the metalworking plants of Ózd, before they closed.
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Josep M. Cívit

2023 /
30 min
An exhibition at La Pedrera brings together the exceptional artistic talent of two great Catalan creators, Antoni Gaudí and Jaume Plensa.
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Helena Třeštíková

2010 /
90 min
For 14 years we follow Katka in her struggle to overcome her drug addiction. When she becomes pregnant, a horizon of hope seems to open up in her life. *The film contains images that some viewers may find disturbing.
Mental healthSexualitySocialViolenceWomenWork
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Aina Palomer Sitjà

2023 /
24 min
‘L’art de l’antídot’ takes us into the story of Agus and her photographic practice as a therapeutic art form after an accident that changed her life and her relationship with her body.
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Paloma Zapata

2022 /
90 min
Antonia Singla, raised on Barcelona’s Somorrostro beach, went deaf shortly after birth. Even so, she became an acclaimed flamenco dancer.
DanceDisabilityEthnic minoritiesMusicViolence
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Núria Ubach, Marta Codesido, Dubi Cano i Ulrika Andersson

2023 /
20 min
A brilliant, witty portrait of village life in Cabrianes: the grandmothers’ daily walks, the church, the vegetable gardens and the parties for older people.
Social
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Pedro Speroni

2022 /
74 min
Iván Bilbao comes home after five years in prison. As he takes up boxing and his work as a moneylender again, he tries to rebuild his family.
FamilyGender diversityHuman rightsViolence
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Alison Millar

2022 /
92 min
In 2019 the Irish investigative journalist and LGBTIQ+ activist Lyra McKee was murdered by the New IRA. The film looks into the reasons behind her tragic death.
LGBTQI+PoliticsWar
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Mariam Chachia

2023 /
73 min
Abastumani is a century-old mansion where people with tuberculosis live in isolation. One day an oligarch discovers the building and decides to buy it.
HealthHistorySocial
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Asier García Sánchez

2023 /
4 min
“Monstruo” is Asier’s search, through film language, to find meaning in his existence and to claim his trans identity.
LGBTQI+
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Alexander Mihalkovich

2023 /
92 min
While Nikita is conscripted into the Belarusian army, Svetlana fights for redress for the suicide of her son, a victim of a military tradition of violent hazing.
Mental healthSocialViolenceWar

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