Alicia dreams about being an actress while she wastes her talent and strength dressed up as a clown in a travelling circus. A circus that takes her to a remote mountainous region far from her hometown of Cuba, to a town where there is no electricity and an old-fashioned circus show is quite the event.…
On Friday September 9 La Cabina organizes his first party of the 9th edition of the festival, which will take place from 3 to 13 November in Valencia. The party will be in Las Naves from 20.30 ( doors open at 20 h ) , and attendees will see exclusive premiere of one of one…
On July 22 the poster of the 9th edition of La Cabina was presented in a party held at La Fábrica de Hielo. The presentation ceremony was attended by the author of the poster, Jorge Lawerta; the designer has been commissioned to put the image to the next edition of La Cabina, which will be…
Lawerta receives the baton of Escif and will design the sign of La Cabina’s 9th edition, that will take place from 3rd to 13th November 2016. Jorge Lawerta (Valencia, 1983) works as an illustrator from 2011. After having worked as a graphic designer and art director in several agencies, he started his personal project focused…
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…
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…
“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…
Young Abdulay has just lost his brother in a car accident in Paris. Without thinking much about it, he decides to take his brother’s body to Mauritania to bury him close to his family, in the cemetery in his parent’s village. Three friends accompany him in this dangerous journey by car through the desert to…
Ze’ev has been left by his wife, who has started a relationship with another man. Ze’ev, that has just turned 60, is not used to solitude and, after his wife’s departure, jealousy and memories take over him. But couldn’t this also be the beginning of something new? Isn’t there a faint thread of hope whenever…
If one wanted to exaggerate, one could say, that, indeed, everything is connected with everything. But that is not entirely true. The grand world net is spun with infinite delicacy… In the living room of the Klose family invisible twines are running together, which, when someone is handling any item in the room, cause…
A broken heart mostly happens as a consequence of a false image that we build ourselves regarding our loved one. In I Love You Deception (Je t’aime deception), Héloïse Haddad, director of this 40-minute long medium-length film, shows the audience four types of deceptions in love and life: the lost love (disappointment), betrayal, the search…
When they hear sinister bangs on the wall followed by roars, a mother and her two kids decide to run to the forest. «Let’s play a game. We pretend we´re escaping the house». 8-year-old Simon decides to take his pyrite, while his mom chooses a family picture. The three of them leave the house walking…
At the end of the 18th Century, French troops are eradicating the last focal points of a nationalist insurgence in the mountains of Corsica. In the midst of the combats, a young laundress, who lives in an isolated house in the mountains with her parents, sees her life change when she decides to help a…
Hajo is 19 years old and a year ago he became a dad. Suddenly his life has given an unexpected turn and he must find a job and earn money and support his small son. Hajo has a plan, but it will put his infant son in danger. The difficulties of becoming an adolescent father,…
Jurek is 23 years old, a History student and he lives with his auntie, who does everything possible to feed and support the young man. Sick of the monotony in his life and blaming his aunt of his existential boredom, Jurek decides to change his destiny and kill her with a hammer. This medium-length film…
Taram Tarambola is the story of Émilie and Anna, two sisters, nine and six years old, that wait in a bar for their father to pick them up. Time passes by and their father doesn’t arrive. The wait becomes long, while the usual clients of the bar come and go. Anna, in the meantime, escapes…
In the border between Iran and Kurdistan, a police sergeant and a soldier have to bury the unidentified corpse of a man who committed suicide. When they try to bury it in a nearby town, they run into the opposition of the villagers. This will happen several times while they go from town to town.…
The main characters of By Chance (Slučajno) run into each other after many years with no contact. An afternoon of conversation and long walks will take them back to the past and a time they shared long ago. Tanja Golić, the director of this 40-minute long medium-length film, explores the way relationships work through these…
Lembo has fallen in love with Liisu, a beautiful young girl. They both live in a small rural zone in Estonia, where vodka and dreams about happy marriages in the city come together. Lembo has decided to declare his love to Liisu, although her family doesn’t think that a boy like him, a bit dreamy,…
Paweł Burak is a very frustrated Theology student, incapable of seeing the positive side of life because he doesn’t have a girlfriend, money or any idea of what to do with his future. On top of that, his parents hate each other and are about to file for divorce. His life is a mess. One…
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