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WANDERING, A ROHINGYA STORY

Mélanie Carrier and Oliver Higgins. Human Rights Doc, 88'. Canadian Screen Award.

In a few months, Kutupalong refugee camp has become the largest in the world. A labyrinth of makeshift shelters, home to 700,000 Rohingyas. In this place out of space and time, is it still possible to exist?

EMPTINESS

Paul Venegas. Dramatic Thriller, 92'. Busan, Bafici Award, Oscar's Candidate Ecuador.

LEI and WONG arrive clandestinely in Ecuador. She has only one objective, to reach New York. In contrast, he longs to bring his son from China. But their fate is in the hands of CHANG, a bipolar gangster who becomes obsessed with her and will set them at a crossroad. Together they will fight for their freedom. EMPTINESS portrays the emotional experience of the migrant in search of their dreams and their struggle to preserve their dignity.

9 SEVILLES

Pedro G. Romero, Gonzalo García Pelayo. New Flamenco Doc, 157'. IndieLisboa and Seville Best Music Doc.

NUEVE SEVILLAS is an immersion in the music, dance and gitano culture of Seville, Spain today. Nine people, nine characters of the city, nine literal walks through Seville, and a sweet trip into the flamenco art and dance world with which it is so closely linked.

RESORT PARAISO

Enrique García. Thriller, 90'.

Eva and Pablo are a married couple going through a sentimental and work crisis. Marked by a tragedy, they decide to move to a hotel that remains closed during the winter. When one of the security guards discovers them, he turns them into his prey. The hotel becomes a cage, but they have nothing to lose.

10.000 NOWHERE NIGHTS

Ramón Salazar. Coming-of-age drama, 113'.

The story of a son who is afraid of everything. Overwhelmed by his dull life, one day he decides to flee. He starts a journey to nowhere, living other lives. And he finds out that if one day you no longer want to grow, it's not all that bad. You just have to learn to fly, to fly far away.

BLACK STAIN

Enrique García. Epoque Thriller, 90'. Feratum Best Latin American Film.

Early 70's in a small secluded Andalusian village. Deep tensions are reignited in the wake of the death of the elderly matriarch, Maria Cisneros, and the arrival of her long-gone son. Facing the threat of destitution, exile, and rejection by neighbors, family power dynamics implode to a tragic end.

BAD FAMILY

Nacho A. Villar and Luis Rojo. Enacted Urban Doc, 80'.

Andrés, a nervous kid, lives waiting for the trial of a crime that took place five years ago; though he is not guilty, he could still be sentenced to twelve years in prison. His friend Nathanael returns to the neighborhood and tries to help him find his way to freedom. To build a future, Andrés must first face the past, and with it, a group of friends crushed by the judicial process who must rely on each other like a family.

THAT WAS LIFE

David Martín de los Santos. Coming of Old Age, 104'. TIFF Tokyo and Cluj, Seville Best Actress.

Two Spanish women from different generations coincide in a hospital room in Belgium. María (Petra Martínez) emigrated decades ago, and Verónica (Anna Castillo) is a girl recently arrived in search of opportunities she never found in Spain. A strange friendship is forged between them which leads María to set out on a return journey to the south of Spain with an unusual mission.

MAD IN XPAIN

Coke Rioboo. Satiric Sci-Fi, Stop Motion, 13'.

A miniature metaphor of epic proportions takes place on a sunny Spanish beach. Stop motion made with scale H0 figures.

THIRTY SOULS

Diana Toucedo. Mystery Thriller Doc, 80'. Berlinale Panorama.

Alba is twelve years old and wants to discover the mysterious, fascinating and unknown reality of death. With her best friend Samuel, she enters abandoned houses, travels through forgotten villages and explores remote mountains that hide another parallel world.

THRICE

Paco Ruiz. LGBTQ Thriller, 20'.

Mario is at home alone. His parents are gone and it will take them a while to return. Enough time for their son to arrange a sex date on the Internet with a total stranger.

DEAR WERNER

Pablo Maqueda. Cinematography Doc, 80'. Torino, Chicago Children's Film Festival.

In 1974 Werner Herzog walked from Munich to Paris, an act of faith to prevent the death of his mentor Lotte Eisner. In 2020, a young filmmaker walks following in Herzog's footsteps in an act of love to one of the best filmmakers of our time. Includes fragments of the book "Of Walking in Ice" narrated by Herzog himself, with the collaboration of La Cinémathèque Française.

THE QUEEN OF LIZARDS

Burnin' Percebes. Sci-Fi RomCom, 63'.

Berta is a single, young, and driven mother. She lives a summer love with Javi, a peculiar man passing through her life and her daughter Margot. Every summer love comes to an end, and this one is today. Everything gets twisted when the ship that had to pick Javi up doesn't show up.

SPACE PYJAMAS

Clara Martínez-Lázaro. RomCom, 80'.

A couple is going through a crisis but after a fight they just go to bed. During the night they dream different versions of what their relationship could be like.

PLANET ASPERGER

María Barroso and Ricardo de Gracia. Social Doc, 85'.

A documentary about Asperger syndrome that will teach you we don't all take the same journey towards happiness.

GOLEM FANTASTIC AFFAIRS

Burnin' Percebes.