CATALAN SHORT FILMS / CATALAN FILM FESTIVAL 9 – 2024
In the ninth version of the Catalan Film Festival, short films will not be the exception. As in previous years, the Cinemaattic team has selected 11 exquisite short films made, produced, or filmed by talented filmmakers from the Catalan universe. In these short film programs presented in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee, viewers will be able to find a wide range of stories in different formats and genres that will show you a vibrant tapestry of Catalan filmmaking.
Short films made by both legendary filmmakers and brilliant and promising Catalan filmmakers. This year the programme travels between love, comedy, memory, and nostalgia. Some films made with analogue formats, others with found – footage and others recorded in other geographies like the basin of the Danube River, the Balearic Islands or Croatia, will allow to weave borders and have a broader panorama of what Catalonia is (or what is not) and what their filmmakers desire to express in the always surprising short film format.
The films selected in this version have had recognition or have been exhibited at very important festivals such as Cannes, Berlinale, DA (Festival Internacional de Cinema d’Autor de Barcelona), Sundance, Locarno, among other very important ones.
Take a look at the titles and be encouraged to join us in this incredible cinematic adventure.
SCREENINGS
Accessibility:
SDH captioning
English subtitling
Wheelchair accessible
EDINBURGH:
When: Saturday 23rd March 2024 – doors open at 19:00, screening starts at 19:30 (Time TBC)
Where: St Peter’s Episcopal Church Hall (14 Lutton Place, Edinburgh EH8 9PE)
GLASGOW:
When: Thursday 4th April 2024, doors open at 19:00, screening starts at 19:30 (Time TBC)
Where: CCA (350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD)
CRAIGMILLAR
When: Wednesday 10th April 2024 – 17.45 (Time TBC)
Where: Craigmillar Library, 101 Niddrie Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH16 4BG
DUNDEE:
When: Saturday 13th April – 15:30 (Time TBC)
Where: DCA (152 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4EA)
SHORT FILMS SELECTION
LA CASA OBERTA
The Open House
Dir. Julieta Lasarte / 2023 / 19′
The open house is an imaginary reconstruction. A timeless narrative with protagonists from different times. The house as a theatre of memory. Times encapsulated in a house. Multiple layers shot one on top of the other on 16mm film open the doors of the family memory. A journey through death, mourning and birth as a reflection on presences and absences. An attempt to bring the family together once again.
LA HERIDA LUMINOSA
Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays
Dir. Christian Avilés / 2022 / 24′
Driven by their desire for light and warmth, British teenagers take a trip to the Balearic Islands. They must absorb the sun and store it in their bodies to take it back to their cloud-covered kingdom. A surreal film about the real phenomenon of “balconing” which, in recent summers, has led to tragic, self-inflicted accidents particularly among young people travelling to Spain.
SUSHI
Dir. Iván Morales / 2023 / 20′
Tonight will be the first time that Jaume, a local police from a provincial town, will taste sushi. And it will also be the first time, and surely the last, that he shares a few hours with his son, Betu, a young man who will soon be a father.
MUSSOL
Dir. Juanjo Giménez / 2022 / 15′
Synopsis: The owl has not seen the glass.
Clip: https://vimeo.com/846235393
TIGRE MÍSTICO
Mystic Tiger
Dir. Marc Martínez Jordán / 2023 / 15′
After suffering a mysterious accident, a man acquires the ability to transgress time/space. However, the unbridled use of this gift will inevitably lead him to discover the true reason behind his power.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/747782945#_=_
DIE DONAU
The Danube Rivers
Dir. Jaume Claret Muxart / 2023 / 18′
A writer travels along the Danube in search of the river’s origin. It is said that its waters come from a badly closed tap in a house. On the way he meets a young fugitive who escapes from his house by descending the river. Does the Young Fugitive come from the source of the Danube? What is his story? A film inspired by Claudio Magris’ Danube tales.
SOMORROSTRO EN TRES ACTES
Somorrostro in Three Acts
Dir. Marga Almirall / 2023 / 16′
Through three different moments, between the sixties, the nineties and the present, the director portrays an emblematic place in Barcelona that has gone from being a marginal corner to becoming one of the epicenters of mass tourism. Somorrostro, now the beach, before the neighbourhood, is the object of this dialogue between archival and current images that is also the reunion, between frames, of a granddaughter with her grandfather.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5c-q-Oocis
THE REAL TRUE ABOUT THE FIGHT
Dir. Andrea Slaviček / 2023 / 14′
Between school trouble, mean girl drama, catchy lyrics, and a mysterious blue car, teenage Lena, sometimes distracted or interrupted, tells us the real story behind The Big Fight. But what isn’t she telling us?
El BUS
The Bus
Dir. Sandra Reina / 2022 / 30′
A bus picks up some passengers on Friday morning to travel the route that brings them closer to the weekend, with their plans, their reflections and their fears. The same bus will pick them up on Sunday afternoon to return them to where they came from.
ANHEL DE LLUM
Longing for Light
Dir. Alba Cros Pellisé / 2023 / 11′
Through a radically personal look, the director explores Barcelona and its light. The sun as a brush that naturally highlights the intimacy of the rooms, friends, lovers and the people around her: her chosen family.
TIMECODE
Dir. Juanjo Giménez / 2016 / 15’
Luna and Diego are the parking lot security guards. Diego does the night shift, and Luna works by day.