Cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre. Vale. Pero, entonces, eso significa automáticamente que cuando una puerta se abre, otra se ha cerrado. ¿No? Por suerte las carreras cinematográficas no funcionan con esa equivalencia tan barata: trayectorias más largas que el reinado de Isabel II pueden convivir con otras que arrancan sin miedo a…
La relación entre el cine y la música ha sido siempre muy estrecha. Sobre todo desde que en la década de los 50, los directivos de Hollywood (y, más en concreto, los de Paramount) descubrieron lo rentables que salían las películas de Elvis Presley. Diez años antes, Louis Jordan ya hacía cortometrajes para sus canciones.…
Si has llegado hasta aquí, a estas alturas de la película (je) lo más probable es que creas que lo sabes todo sobre el mediometraje. Y seguramente estés en lo cierto. A pesar de eso, el misterio que envuelve al universo del mediometraje es insondable, así que nunca está de más hacer un repaso ágil…
In 1980, the director of The exorcist (1973), William Friedkin, directed Cruising, a controversial thriller that starred Al Pacino and was set in the leather bars of New York’s underworld. Pacino portrays an undercover policeman that infiltrates the gay subculture clubs to investigate a series of sexual crimes that had been taking place night after…
Sally lives committed in an institution with other adolescents where their supernatural powers are treated as if they were mental illnesses. Sally, the main character of this story, dominates telekinesis, and Tingeling, a young sociopath is able to communicate telepathically. The friendship between Sally and Tingeling grows when they decide to rebel against the institution…
“Your place or mine?” is a question that, if they are lucky, night owls ask the girl that they are waiting for at the bathroom door or the boy that paid for those beers, with whom they’ve only just exchanged some funny memes at the bar. This is the idea behind the medium-length film Your…
Like every fortnight, a divorced father picks up his 8-year-old daughter to spend some days with her. Everything seems normal until Lea’s father starts acting strange. This 30-minute long drama by German director Patrick Vollrath is attractive due to its rhythm and the constant growth in tension. The two main characters of this medium-length film…
28-year-old Sarah is an artistic photographer that is obliged to return to her small Irish hometown of Newry where her mother lives, after not being able to build a successful career. She is unable to confront her new reality and decides to leave on a road trip with her two adolescent friends in an attempt…
Stella is 12 years old and lives in a residential neighborhood dominated by a grey cement skate park. Her best friend is Fixer, a BMX enthusiast that she finds charming but slightly disturbing. When Stella’s mother decides to give her dog away to a sinister pair of twins, Fixer offers Stella a strange job in…
42-year-old Freddy is an obsessive trainer of a neighborhood soccer club. His dream is to raise the local championship´s trophy after thirty years of a scoring drought. There are only a few hours left for the important final match and a grave family incident jeopardizes his goal. Hunger is a family drama framed inside a…
Henriette (Andrea Braein Hovig), a highschool teacher, narrates in detail her love story with one of her students, fifteen-year-old Daniel. Throughout the 53 minutes of this medium-length film Henriette is the main character: a fixed shot in the teacher´s kitchen where she monologues about her relationship with Daniel from its beginning. It´s, without doubt, a…
After losing his partner in a mission, while being struck by lightning and getting bit by a Cobra at the same time, Kung Fury, detective of the Miami Police Department develops super powers that will help him defeat the red ninja. When he is assigned a new partner, Kung Fury decides to quit the force…
“Go and take a running jump” is a commonly used expression to get rid of someone that starting to become a bother. But it has also been used by director Mike Leigh as a word game that could refer to sports, an important topic of this medium-length film that was part of a series of…
Christian is part of a scientific experiment with a new psychotropic drug. After the death of one of the participants, Christian and his girlfriend Anna discover that the doctors have covered up the incident. When Anna starts feeling the effect of the medication, Christian decides to escape and look for help. Nobody, nor the doctors…
The word céfran is part of the original title of this comedy (Le dernier des céfrans). It’s a difficult word to translate, since it belongs to French slang, is used by certain immigrant groups and is created by changing the order of the syllables in a word. Céfran is the result of inverting phonetically the…
Thanks to popular culture, sport illiterates are able to get a glimpse of the great sacrifices that dancers and gymnasts – to give some examples – have to make to become successful professionals: dietary restrictions, extreme diets, dangerous injuries and sometimes even hormone treatments. Jockeys, those feeble-looking men that ride horses on races also live…
“Because all great men are Jewish: Woody Allen is Jewish, Spielberg is Jewish, Einstein is Jewish, Jean-Jacques Goldman is Jewish!” After his divorce, Benjamin’s dad doesn’t want to leave his house without reminding his son of his true origins. His mother is a catholic, yes, but his father insists that the blood of the Jewish…
Elisa is 16-years-old and the long summer hours seem never ending in her suburban neighborhood while she plays Truth or Dare and takes long walks with friends. One day, while she’s browsing through her dad’s library, she finds a book that catches her attention: the memoirs of a prostitute that narrates her experiences with her…
A series of egg-shaped objects have started to appear in the junk rooms and abandoned houses of a small rural area where Jose Luis lives with his grandfather. Scientists from all over the world are investigating the phenomenon and, for the time being, they all agree that the origin of these objects is extraterrestrial. Uranes…
Iraq. 2011. Nizar Rawi, the director of a Short-Film Festival in Iraq is preparing the second edition of his event in Bagdad. While revising the list of the short-films selected he realizes that only one comedy has been sent in… and it´s not even funny. That´s when he decides to bring a group of people…
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