If shorts are your thing, make a good note of Monday February 13th. The candidates for Best Short Film will be screened at 8pm followed by an open talk with directors, distributors and members of the jury.
New this year, the short films in the Official Section will be screened in Aragó Cinema. In this way, the festival continues to weave new links in the city and add voices to the defense of human rights through culture.
The theme that structures the section in this edition is «Right to asylum and refugees«. Among the candidates are productions from Germany, Poland, Italy or Spain with durations ranging from a brief (but powerful) 60 seconds to 24 minutes. The format of the stories is diverse: documentaries, fictions, even an animation proposal. This will be the “short” program of the night.
20:00 – Screening of the candidates for Best Short Film
- Mayday Relay (Florian Tscharf, 2016)
- Eisen (Benjamin Kahlmeyer, 2015)
- Safe Space (Zora Rux, 2014)
- Gurugu (Telmo Iragorri, 2016)
- Border (Paolo Zucca, 2016)
- invisible (Xavier Satorra, 2016)
- Dent de lleó (Jorge Bellver, 2016)
9:30 p.m. – Meeting with authors, distributors and jury
After the screening, an informal meeting will be held in the Aragó cinema cafeteria about the short film's ability to break borders. We are convinced that despite being a "small" format, short films can tell very big stories.
Some realities would not have any visibility without these brief cinematographic pieces that travel around the world through festivals like ours. Sometimes, a few minutes are enough to excite, surprise or make you reflect. They will participate:
- Jorge Bellver, director of “Dent de Lleó”, candidate for Best Short Film
- Irene Cubells and Álvaro Yebra, from the distributor Some Like It Short
- And the jury of the Official Short Film Section, made up of Giovanna Ribes, film director and head of the Dona i Cinema festival, María Escalona, education coordinator of Amnesty International in the Valencià Country and Nanguan Manzam, Head of Volunteering and Advocacy of the Spanish Commission of Aid to the Refugee (CEAR).
