In order to enhance the local cinema with content related to human rights, we have created a competitive section dedicated exclusively to Valencian shorts and It also recognizes the best short film made by students.
Humans VLC section of short films 2021
🕒 18:00
📍 SGAE
🗓 02/17/2021 – First session
- Hope
- The night of men
- The Ducks
- Looking for love
- The desired
- Petrichor
- Navras
- Scraps
- Swifts
- Where are you?
🗓 02/18/2021 – Second session
- Asha
- Apache
- Stanbrook
- I come from the waves
- And yet
- Limbo
Hope
Address:
Carlos Moral
Duration:
4'
Country:
Spain
The night of men
Address:
Raquel Arias and
Begoña Moret
Duration:
2':48''
Country:
Spain
The Ducks
Address: Angela A. Chavarría
Duration: 6'
Country: Spain
Synopsis: Mari Carmen begins her first day of work at the international sales office with enthusiasm, but not everything will go as expected. A duck has appeared on the balcony, drawing everyone's attention and turning upside down the day that Mari Carmen hoped to start on the right foot.
Looking for love
Address:
Alba Pascual Benlloch
Duration:
30'
Country:
Spain
The desired
Address: Oscar Bernácer
Duration: 17'
Country: Spain
Synopsis: Vicente has had a full childhood. He has been a child loved and desired by his parents. They made it known by celebrating a big party the day the newborn arrived home. Everything in his life is normal, until the news of the stolen babies hits the media and, 38 years later, he discovers that he was bought.
Petrichor
Address: Jaume Soriana Sivera
Duration: 10'
Country: Spain
Synopsis: “The sensations that rainy days awaken can vary in a matter of seconds.” A story of gender violence from the point of view of the most vulnerable.
Navras
Address: Marco Huertas
Duration: fifteen'
Country: Spain/ Germany
Synopsis: experimental documentary about memory and the Eastern vision of life and death. Filmed in five countries over three years, it narrates the director's real experiences.
Scraps
Address: Alba Pascual Benlloch
Duration: 6'
Country: Spain
Synopsis: I have a large collection of super 8 movies from my family, but I don't have videos from when I was little. In that search to put together my own memory, I intertwine the rape and pain of my body and that of my mother. Is memory inherited genetically? Can pain be inherited?
Swifts
Address: Raul Riebenbauer
Duration: 6'
Country: Spain
Synopsis: Between March and April 2020, almost all of humanity has been confined to their homes due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. This confinement of uncertain ending has revealed to many the incalculable value of a simple window. But does everyone have one?
Where are you? (Where were you?)
Address: Maria Trenor
Duration: 19'
Country: Spain
Synopsis: "Where were you?" It challenges us directly to make us reflect on the transversal and universal reality that is violence against women. Everyday violence, subtle or brutal, all terrible and intolerable. Experiences told in different languages and from different countries. A film that harmonizes the rigor of real testimony with the evocation and visual force of animation.
Asha
Address: Alberto Pla
Duration: 30'
Country: Spain
Synopsis: “Asha” collects the testimonies of various women through the journey and voice of Iris Lezcano who have suffered from leprosy in India, as well as the prevention, treatment, support and socio-labor insertion work that Fontilles develops in this country.
Apache
Address: Octavio Guerra
Duration: twenty'
Country: Spain
Synopsis: After 10 years of living on the streets and alcohol, Jesús tries to reintegrate into society through a social program. After two years of obligations, rules and sharing a flat with other users, he begins to realize that he will never have an autonomous life again. His way of fleeing forward and feeling freedom is by running.
Stanbrook
Address: Oscar Bernacer
Duration: 19'
Country: Spain
Synopsis: Port of Alicante, March 28, 1939. The captain of the Stanbrook, Archibald Dickson and his crew wait for the arrival of a shipment. From their ship they witness the last days of the Spanish Civil War and chaos takes over the city. Thousands of people gather in the port waiting for chartered ships to take them into exile. Joan has lost his wife and is waiting, with his daughter, for one of those ships, but they do not arrive. Captain Dickson will assume responsibility for embarking and evacuating almost 3,000 people condemned to suffer Franco's relentless repression.
I come from the waves
Address: Sergio Jaen
Duration: twenty'
Country: Spain
Synopsis: 629 tired and exhausted refugees are heading to Spain on the Aquarius after being denied entry into different countries for 8 days. More than a week trapped in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Now in the Spanish city of Elche, 2 years after the ship will arrive at the port of Valencia, we meet Abdelali, Meryem and Miral, 2 years old, one of the families who were on board this horrible experience, trying to escape. and find a future.
And yet
Address: Abert Fabregat, Cristian Marano, Hanz Rippe and Paula Piñón
Duration: 14'
Country: Spain
Synopsis: Since September 2019, Cuba has experienced a suffocating fuel crisis due to the intensification of the economic, commercial and financial embargo (also known as 'blockade') by the United States. And yet, the population remains strong and eager to move forward. This documentary, far from any institutional discourse, gives a voice to that people.
Limbo
Address: Pablo Esparza Altuna and Juan Paullier
Duration: 13'
Country: Spain/Uruguay
Synopsis: Two families wait in Anguish, a small village in Morocco, for the return of their relatives' bodies. They died while trying to reach Spain in a boat that capsized.