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…
No sabemos si en València, en Sevilla o en Bilbao se cumple ese mantra liberal que dice que en Madrid es imposible encontrarte con tu ex. Lo que sí sabemos es que en La Cabina puedes, al cabo de los años, reencontrarte con compañeras de reparto, de equipo. Y lo sabemos porque en esta edición…
La Sección Oficial de La Cabina nunca deja de sorprendernos. Año tras año. No falla. Detrás de todas las extraordinarias historias seleccionadas siempre suele haber, además, personajes a la altura de los mediometrajes. Es el caso de los directores de ‘Mords-les’, cuyo estreno mundial será la proyección en la XIII edición de La Cabina. Benoît…
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.…
La Cabina – Festival Internacional de Mediometrajes de València celebra su X edición del 16 al 25 de noviembre en la que se proyectarán un total de 34 mediometrajes a competición, entre la Sección Oficial (24) y Amalgama (10). Como novedad, este año se entregará a las dos películas ganadoras a Mejor mediometraje un trofeo realizado por la artista Raquel…
Agnes and Otto live far from the world in the old hamlet of their father. Halls, rooms, and corridors seem empty to them … since their mother does not walk them. They don’t know it, but she passed away when they were children. Determined to combat the yearning for their children, each birthday the father pretends…
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…
Javier Tolentino graduated in Communication Science from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and has studied Law at the Salamanca University. He didn’t complete his degree in legal sciences, because he spent most of his days in the Film Club of Serrano street where he realized that films had changed his life. He passed the exam…
“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…
Hélène Vayssières studied Film at the Paris 8 University and at the Free Conservatory of French Film. She has been the assistant director and assistant producer in several filmings and has directed a short-film. In 1991 she became the post-production manager of several program units of La Sept Arte (Shows, Fiction, Documentary, Theme Nights and…
Sergio Caballero is a film, theatre and television actor. He started his career in the street theatre company Visitants (1994-96). In 1997 he started working in theatre, collaborating with companies such as Albena Teatre, La Pavana, Moma Teatre, Teatre Micalet, Teatres de la Generalitat Valenciana (TGV), Bambalina Titelles, Zircó Producciones, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (TNC)…
Áurea Ortiz is a Film History Professor at the University of Valencia. She has been part of the Filmoteca de Valencia team since its inception and her investigation topics -developed in publications, seminars and exhibits- are related to Spanish Film History and the connection between history and the arts. Among her publications, several can be highlighted:…
Pablo Hernández graduated in Audiovisual Communication at the University of Valencia and has a M.A in Film Script Writing from the International University Menendez Pelayo’s Foundation for the Investigation of the Audiovisual (FIA-UIMP). He is a member of the Cinefòrum L’Atalante and of the board of editors of L’Atalante, film study magazine, where he has…
Pedro Uris was an integral part of independent filmmaking in Valencia during the 70s. He has been a journalist at Cartelera Turia (Valencia) since the 80s and has worked as a scriptwriter in several TV series and TV Films, having received the Tirant Best Script Award twice. He has produced two short-films and several feature-films…
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…
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