Intimate, emotional stories about individuals navigating complex social / economic / political challenges, trauma, and societal pressures.
We will offer the first award of the festival to the best short film chosen by the audience.
📅 29th March, 3.30pm
📍 Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4EA
Bona nit, rambles / good night, rambles (dir. Maria Bareche and Clara Barfull) – 29 mins
Barcelona’s La Rambla is arguably the city’s most photographed street, with thousands of people walking through it every day, making it a major tourist hub.
But what happens on La Rambla after dark? This is the question two students from Pompeu Fabra University, Maria Bareche and Clara Barfull, wanted to explore when they began filming the street night after night.
Els buits / Gaps (dir. Sofia Esteve Santonja, Marina Freixa Roca, and Isa Luengo) – 19 mins
Can the transmission of words restore a forgotten memory? Can it break the silence perpetuated between generations? At 17, Mariona was arrested and placed in a correctional facility run by the Patronato de Protección a la Mujer, an institution dedicated to ‘regenerating fallen women’ during Franco’s regime and the first years of democracy. In 2023, she and her daughter are trying to put the pieces and gaps of this story back together.
A Hakka Song (dir. Adrià Guxens) – 11 mins
As the elderly pass away and the youth depart for new horizons, only the songs survive, echoing through the deserted villages.
El bon auguri / The Good Omen (dir. Alba Bresolí) – 14 mins
A stone rests in a dry and abandoned place, on the outskirts of Barcelona, in the middle of a mountain that is no longer a mountain. Thousands of years ago it was a place to leave offerings. Sacrifices were made to ask for good omens. The stone remembers the last shepherd in the area, the only one who visited it, before disappearing with his sheep. In an eternal summer, suddenly, a visitor bursts into the stone’s existence.
This screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Alba Bresolí, director of El Bon Auguri. The Q&A will be hosted by Dr. Isabel Seguí, feminist film historian and lecturer at the University of St. Andrews.
Alba Bresolí is a catalan film director and programmer. She studied cinema in Barcelona and Media & Art at the Bauhaus University. She holds a master’s in Creative Documentary Filmmaking from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
“When the Mountain Rumbles” (2022) received local and international recognition and has been shown at many festivals, including IDFA, IndieLisboa, Sheffield, FIPADOC, GoShort, and Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. It won several awards, including Best European Short Documentary at GoShort. Her latest short film, “The Good Omen” (2024), had its international premiere at IndieLisboa.
Since 2021, she has been a film programmer at DocsBarcelona while also conducting experimental cinema workshops at Cinema en curs, an international film education program for public schools.
This event is wheelchair accessible and features descriptive subtitling. This transcribes both dialogue and key sounds from the film, such as [whistle blowing] or [crowd cheering]