2021 – Official Feature Films Section

🗓 FRIDAY 02.12.2021

Chicuarotes is about 'el Cagalera' and 'el Moloteco', two boys who desperately seek to get out of the situation and their hometown. The journey begins when a friend of theirs tells them about the possibility of buying a place in the electricians union, for which they devise different ways to raise the money and be able to go together with Sugehili, the girlfriend of 'el Cagalera'. This leads them on a youthful adventure that ends in a tornado of the criminal world.

🗓 SATURDAY 02/13/2021

Every December, between Christmas and New Year's, Edgar and Marta host a family celebration at their luxurious beachside summer house. In 2015 everything seems fine, despite some tense phone calls. In 2016 the annual festival is suddenly cancelled. In 2017, their lives are turned upside down. What happens to those invisible people who live in the orbit of the rich and powerful when these lives collapse? Through the eyes of an employee and a forgotten elderly father, both victims of the neoliberal nightmare, we see a portrait of contemporary Brazil just before the tragedy of 2018. The signs were all there, but we didn't know how to read them.

🗓 SUNDAY 02/14/2021

Based on the novel by Jerzy Kosinski, "The Painted Bird" is a meticulous evocation of wild and primitive Eastern Europe, at the end of the Second World War.
The film follows the journey of a boy during World War II, who was left for adoption to his aunt, as his parents were being persecuted. The old woman dies shortly after and the boy is left alone, wandering through the countryside, from the town to the farm. As he fights to survive, the boy suffers brutal violence, imposed by ignorant and superstitious peasants, and witnesses the terrifying violence of ruthless Russian and German soldiers. 
When the war ends, the boy is forever changed.

🗓 TUESDAY 02/16/2021

Bosnia, July 1995. Aida works as a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army occupies the town, his family is among the thousands of people seeking refuge in UN camps. Because she participates in the negotiations, Aida has access to important information. What will happen to his family and his people? Will they be rescued or will they die? What should she do about it?

🗓 WEDNESDAY 02/17/2021

Recorded over three years in the Middle East, in the territory of Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon, "Notturno" shows what daily life is like for those who live between civil wars, brutal dictatorships, foreign invasions and interference, until the homicidal apocalypse unleashed by the Islamic State.

🗓 THURSDAY 02/18/2021

Since an attack against students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College in 2014 that caused six deaths and the forced disappearance of 43 of them, the students' families have been living in limbo with their questions unanswered; His struggle embodies the psychological and emotional cost of the violence endemic to Mexican society.

🗓 FRIDAY 02/19/2021

The Gabarre-Mendoza family celebrates their grandson's birthday when a police inspection interrupts the celebration. In Cañada Real, a shanty town on the outskirts of Madrid, tensions are arising between the authorities and residents, as land has been sold and families are forced to abandon the houses they have built themselves. Meanwhile, the mother, Agustina, goes from being a very happy woman to living tormented by fear; The father, David, a hard-working scrap metal dealer, tries to find a solution, but the bureaucracy of the system fails them. Meanwhile, the youngest members of the family - David Jr., daughter-in-law and teenage mother María and young Alejandro - struggle in their own way with their tightrope lives.