Miguel Rojas

Joanna Hogg's acclaimed debut takes us on vacation in Tuscany, where a middle-aged woman, invited by a family, spends some summer days and fantasizes with a young Tom Hiddleston.

UK · 27 min

Caprice

Joanna Hogg

The duo Joanna Hogg and Tom Hiddleston once again demonstrates its potential with an acid plot on a wealthy family and their vacations, in a film that reminds Antonioni's cinema.

UK · 100 min

Unrelated

Joanna Hogg

Isa has it all. She is young, pretty, and intelligent. She works at an influencer agency and is in a polyamorous relationship. But not everything is so idyllic, and it begins to become visible... Greta Fernández and Nora Navas star in a rabidly contemporary satire.

UK · 114 min

Archipelago

Joanna Hogg

In the midst of a sociopolitical crisis in Panama, a young North-American girl tries to escape while she is getting into an intense relationship. The new film by Claire Denis is a sexual thriller that won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.

Spain · 94 min

Unicorns

Àlex Lora

A group of pre-adolescents about to enter high school say goodbye to the public school that has seen them grow up. Uncertainties, illusions, lights and shadows will fill their last days of childhood.

France · 135 min

Stars at Noon

Claire Denis

We follow a group of young actors in a prestigious school. There, love, talents and a passion explode, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi portrays it with absolute naturalness and an exceptional cast.

Spain · 108 min

Néixer per néixer

Pablo García Pérez de Lara

Burnin' Percebes return with an amazing cast and an adventure of missing friends and falling pianos. Bruna Cusí, Brays Efe, Luis Tosar and Anna Castillo delve into the absurd, always stimulating, humor of this creative duo.

France · 126 min

La gran juventud

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

We see Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill and Stalin at the gates of heaven. It could be a joke, but it is the new film by the ineffable Alexander Sokurov. A literally and figuratively elevated instant cult piece.

Spain · 95 min

El fantástico caso del Golem

Burnin' Percebes

One of the most important works of recent Chinese cinema comes to D'A in its restored 4K version. An immersive and mesmerizing journey through Shanghai directed by Lou Ye about a messenger in search of his lover. Essential.

Russia · 78 min

Fairytale

Alexander Sokurov

One of the most controversial films of the year, also one of the best according to Cahiers du Cinéma, is this gritty, giallo-tinged thriller about two brothers and the violent legacy their father leaves behind when he dies.

China · 79 min

Suzhou River

Lou Ye

The sisters Joana and Mireia Vilapuig, actresses, meet again after some time away for work. However, everything is unexpectedly cold... A new Filmin series about aspirations, envy and sisterly love.

France · 114 min

Bowling Saturne

Patricia Mazuy

Somorrostro has gone from being the name of a marginal Barcelona neighbourhood to one of the busiest places in the city. A film that reviews this space through three stages and that is at the same time an audiovisual dialogue between a grandfather and his granddaughter.

Spain · 104 min

selftape

Bàrbara Farré

Far from the tourist epicentres, the radial cities struggle to show their own identity, character and dynamics. In l'Hospitalet, a group of young people play and take the incorruptible legacy of a city that does not stop looking for its way.

Somorrostro en tres actes

Marga Almirall Rotés

In this hyperconnected world it seems impossible to go unnoticed. But there are still many people who live below the technological threshold. This is the case of A, from whom no one has heard until a message from Facebook arrives...

Ronda

Marina Rodríguez Colás

When her mother begins to have symptoms of dementia, the director, through calls and memories, tries to reverse a process towards oblivion that seems irreversible. A nostalgic mother-daugther dialogue divided between two cities.

Querida A.

Elena Molina

With the sun as a brush and Barcelona as a frame, Alba Cros Pellisé paints a portrait of the city and its human environment through light. A journey from the intimacy of the rooms to the streets of the Raval and the natural surroundings.

Has estado aquí

Vivian Muñoz Rodríguez

Two brothers have to live with their mother's opioid addiction, and the situation is increasingly toxic and untenable. A sleeper which is also one of the greatest cinematographic sensations of the year, awarded in Berlin.

Anhel de llum

Alba Cros Pellisé

The aimless journey of a young woman through the vast inland territories of the United States is one of the debuts of the year, inspired by the first Terrence Malick films and awarded with Special Jury Award in San Sebastián.

USA · 94 min

Stay Awake

Jamie Sisley

Miyamatsu, who works as a cable car operator, is also a film extra... And that, added to his amnesia, makes all those lives that he has been living mix in a delicious meta-film about pasts that suddenly return.

USA · 78 min

Runner

Marian Mathias

Road movie or feminist western, the first film by Moroccan filmmaker Yasmine Benkiran is a magnificent adventure through the desert where three women escape from everything that oppresses them.

Japan · 87 min

Roleless

Masahiko Sato, Yutaro Seki, Hirase Kentaro

Like an episode of Black Mirror, Plan 75 poses a near future where euthanasia is routinely practised on the elderly... And we follow three characters in this transcendental decision. A disturbing and moving film.

France · 83 min

Reines

Yasmine Benkiran

Zombies and soldiers, colonial pasts and wars of independence in a film that touches many keys and always does it correctly. A uniqueness from Angola that dazzled Locarno and Seville.

Japan · 105 min

Plan 75

Chie Hayakawa

Ana lives her adolescence in a troubled environment. It is 1972, and Romania is under the Ceausescu regime. One night, the secret police break into the party where she and her friends are. Belc debuts with the perfect combination of political drama and coming-of-age music.

Portugal · 119 min

Naçao Valente

Carlos Conceição

The Cannes Critics' Week winner takes us deep into the Colombian rainforest, where we join two young criminals living in an experimental prison. A new sample of the exceptional state of form of Colombian cinema.

Romania · 102 min

Metronom

Alexandru Belc

Switzerland, early 20th century. Elisabeth's sister has died suddenly under strange circumstances, and the young woman will seek answers that will lead her to enter into a web of sex and religious fanaticism.

Colombia · 85 min

La jauría

Andrés Ramírez Pulido

Among the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find –and flee– deeper connections.

Switzerland · 92 min

Foudre

Carmen Jaquier

1988, UK. A homosexual teacher finds herself in serious trouble when a new student threatens to reveal her secret. One of the most remarkable debuts of the season, nominated for the BAFTAs.

Tunisia · 92 min

Entre figueres

Erige Sehiri

Lee Sang-il's new film is bound to spark controversy, with a masterfully filmed story about a kidnapped minor who, years later, wants to meet again the man who held her...

UK · 97 min

Blue Jean

Georgia Oakley

The season's queer romantic comedy takes us to the Parisian stages of drag queen Cookie Kunty. After seeing her, Baptiste falls in love with her... But he will have to find out if he is also in love with the person behind the character.

Japan · 150 min

Wandering

Sang-il Lee

After receiving applause and praise in Venice, this moving story of a girl who, in the midst of a sentimental crisis, finds herself forced to return to her mother's house and confront her past, arrives at D'A.

France · 103 min

Trois nuits par semaine

Florent Gouëlou

Romanian cinema once again demonstrates its good state with this thriller with touches of black humour about a policeman in crisis who, when trying to stabilize his life, sees episodes from the past come back violently.

USA · 110 min

Monica

Andrea Pallaoro

The great winner of Un Certain Regard in Cannes transports us to the outskirts of a French city, but not to tell us about tragic stories but to explain a luminous story about youth and cinematographic creation.

Romania · 106 min

Men of Deeds

Paul Negoescu

Someone is lying. Like a perverse version of Persona infiltrada, there's someone in this filthy rich family who doesn't tell the truth... A film that moves between acid comedy and family thriller.

France · 99 min

Los peores

Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret

One of the most awarded creative tandems in international non-fiction delves into the bowels of a hospital and the human body itself. An exciting and visceral, sociological and biological, exploration of humanity.

France · 125 min

El origen del mal

Sébastien Marnier

When they knock on Ali's door, he is desperate and about to commit suicide. The police search for a young runaway... who will move into his house and change his fate forever. A new example of Iranian cinematographic strength.

France · 118 min

De humani corporis fabrica

Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel

A tragic love story in 16th century Lisbon, with exquisite photography that reminds us of Baroque painting, which explains the adventure between a boy adopted by a wealthy family and the young woman he is in love with.

Iran · 126 min

Beyond the Wall

Vahid Jalilvand

Asja and Zoran meet on a speed date. She seeks love, he wants redemption. And in the background, the indelible consequences of the Balkan War. A magnificent tragicomedy by the director of God Exists and Her Name Is Petrunya.

Portugal · 110 min

A Criança

Marguerite de Hillerin, Félix Dutilloy-Liégeois

The most awarded and prolific Korean filmmaker returns to the screens of D'A with a delicious comedy about a filmmaker and his daughter visiting a building. We accompany them floor by floor, in a game of conversations, glances and intertwined plots.

North Macedonia · 95 min

The Happiest Man in the World

Teona Strugar Mitevska

With his particular style, always lucid and dazzling, Mark Cousins reviews, as an essay, the relationship between cinema and fascism, based on the Italian propaganda film A noi!, where we see Mussolini's triumphant entry into Rome.

South Korea · 97 min

Walk up

Hong Sang-soo

The life of a young couple and their son goes by without problems until a tragic event will mark the return of the child's biological father. An intimate drama in the vein of the best contemporary Japanese cinema that moved the audience at the Venice Festival.

Italy · 98 min

Marcia su Roma

Mark Cousins

The extraordinary and unknown life story of Josef Mysliveček -"Il Boemo"-, one of the most prolific opera composers in 18th century Italy, who inspired Mozart and became his friend.

Japan · 123 min

Love Life

Kôji Fukada

The legendary transgender club The Way Out in London approaches its 30th anniversary, and this documentary approaches to the club looking back at the last 3 decades in the London trans scene, discovering the club's impact.

Czechia · 130 min

Il Boemo

Petr Václav

Honoré's new film adopts a biographical tone to talk about a young gay man from the provinces who, after a traumatic event, travels to Paris to explore his sexuality. A luminous and tragicomic film awarded in San Sebastián.

Spain · 69 min

My Way Out

Izaskun Arandia

France · 122 min

Dialogando con la vida

Christophe Honoré

· 55 min

Simfonies de ciutat I

A line of one hundred meters separates a family after a restraining order separates a mother and a daughter, and this borderline space will become a place of reunion and repair. A sharp tragicomedy with a cast in a state of grace.

· 66 min

Simfonies de ciutat II

The new film by one of today's most recognized and awarded documentary filmmakers takes us inside the walls of Casa Susanna, which was a refuge of freedom for many years for the LGTBIQ+ community in the US.

Switzerland · 102 min

La ligne

Ursula Meier

The surreal, fantastic, comic and disturbing universe of Velasco Broca reaches its maximum expression in this award-winning short film about ophthalmologists, aliens, priests and other creatures of the underworld.

France · 97 min

Casa Susanna

Sébastien Lifshitz

Based on traces that, like diffuse memories, compose a whole, we enter Vera's summer, a girl who, for some obscure reason, doesn't seem to have a good time with her grandparents...

Spain · 28 min

Alegrías riojanas

Velasco Broca

Mikel and Sambou head towards the town of Epiola, but they haven't quite arrived. Through a wonderfully photographed dream trip through various settings, the two friends wander, and talk about past episodes. But... Where were they headed?

Provocadora

Èlia Lorente

The new short jewel by Andrés Duque is Medea's journey to the present, where a group of amateur theater actors rehearse the work of Chantal Maillard. But who are these actors? What is behind their actions and words?

Spain · 32 min

Laiotz

Negu Collective

The olive trees murmur, the stones speak, and the water tells stories from the past. A short film that is like the land and about which it speaks and its people, poetry and folklore.

Spain · 9 min

Medea

Andrés Duque

When Uri arrives at a rave in Montjuic, he doesn't quite find his place. It's his first time... But he will eventually find a way. He needs to find a way. A short about integration at the rhythm of hardcore.

Los espantos

Jorge Castrillo

Teresa de Jesús wants to change her name to Cristina, her favorite saint, the girl martyr. María Pérez Sanz returns to D'A with a short comedy about religious devotion that reminds us of the most playful Bruno Dumont.

Las mechitas

Raul Villalba

Filming can be an act of resistance, an essential witness for collective memory. To remember how a stadium turned into a massive concentration camp, or how a university town turned into a huge trench...

La niña mártir

María Pérez Sanz

We follow an artist in his hypnotic musical show. Electronic music, rap. Before, we see him in a theatrical rehearsal, and he explains his thoughts to us. It's ten minutes to midnight, and when the time comes, he'll be gone forever.

La muchedumbre reaparecerá siempre

Carolina Astudillo

We are in Majorca, in a country house. The well seems to want to say something, and no one but Alba seems to perceive it. Until one day she decides to immerse herself... A Balearic tale that swims between social cinema and magical realism.

Diez minutos para medianoche

Mario Sanz

It is rice planting season in the Ebro Delta and Jun, a young man of Chinese descent, works as a seasonal worker. There he will find cultural and gastronomic connections with his origins. A documentary full of edges where the Delta shines with its own light.

Vacua

Margalida Adrover

British teenagers toasted by the god Sun in the Balearic paradise, discos and their divine lights, balconies from which to jump and embrace the holy water... And a short film from the Berlinale about mass tourism and religious experiences.

Spain · 24 min

Un soroll llunyà

Adrià Guxens

La herida luminosa (Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays)

Today Betu will have dinner with his father. It will be the first time, and they will eat sushi. Jaume has never eaten sushi. It will be the first time. And possibly the last. Àlex Monner and Iván Morales join their talents in a powerful film about absence.

La herida luminosa (Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays)

Christian Avilés

Nothing seems to be going right in the life of Eli, a young mother who has met her friends on the beach, but she has no intention of sitting idly by while she watches the rain... A delicious comedy about life itches.

Sushi

Iván Morales

A couple with insomnia hires the services of a young woman to help them fall asleep. The three set sail on a sailboat, but the nights are increasingly feverish and strange. A short about dreams of liberation... and swallows.

La concha

Leire Apellaniz

A sensual kiss leads two girls, monitors of a summer camp, to get away from it all and embark on a passionate adventure of discovery. A film about sensations and first times, hairs on end and the sun caressing the skin.

Sorbeltza

Iban del Campo

A boy accidentally kills a man. It's a secret, no one has to know. Will he bear it? A shocking short film full of sensitivity, celebrated at the Seville and Valladolid film festivals, which talks about the loss of innocence.

Irrits

Maider Oleaga

A camera follows the gestures and matter of an art work by Perejaume, in which thirty tons of dung are covered with gold leaf. A non-narrative short film that oozes art and cinema.

El perro de un torero

Sandra Romero

A couple spends a weekend in the mountains. They ski, have a picnic, swim in the pool, but are accompanied by a strange melancholy. If they had never separated, this magnificent short would not exist.

Femer

Ana Pfaff, Jaume Coscollar

The poor king is far from home, and does not know when he will return. The poor king, we see it on Google Maps and we hear it off in an emotional open letter, lives in an Arab country, where he misses his old life, everything that made him happy.

Si mai no ens haguéssim separat

Marc Esquirol

Querido Juancar o la angustia del Rey en su exilio

Like a lonely tree falling in the middle of the forest, the message that Ana records seems destined not to be heard. Bruna Cusí stars in a film that is as simple in appearance as passionate, about conflicting feelings and idealized memories.

Querido Juancar o la angustia del Rey en su exilio

Alois Sandner Díaz

Pilar Carvalho is a film producer with a lot of headaches, and the last thing she needs is to work on a Sunday... But she has no other choice. A comedy about cinema that celebrates film creation.

Spain · 27 min

Por la pista vacía

Pablo García Canga

Something torments José, and he makes it clear when the tarot reader is reading his cards. It's about a person who is part of his past... And not so past. A sober and enigmatic short, like an echo that never stops.

Pilar Carvalho

Chico Barbosa

Aitana's Madrid party nights are no longer the same since her friend, who is also her great love, is not with her. Now it's Halloween, everyone dances and dresses up and Aitana hopes that, this time, Cleo will show up.

Orbayu

Miguel Ariza

A teenager from a religious school is in love. But not from God, but from the messenger: from the religion teacher. And this love is getting out of hand... A divine comedy.

Cleo vendrá esta noche

Aitana Ahrens, Miguel Guindos

San Borondón is a mythical island, close to the Canaries, which appears and disappears throughout history, and expeditions were even organized to find it... After centuries, it has finally been found.

Spanish · 12 min

Nivel Dios

César Tormo García

After breaking up with her partner, Lara returns home. There she meets friends, former lovers and potential partners, and at the same time increases the feeling of a turning point. A short that breathes life, world premiered in Locarno.

Bloom

Helena Girón, Samuel M. Delgado

Júlia's family is emptying the family house and taking photos of the spaces to sell it. However, she is still processing the loss and, between grief and spite, takes a controversial decision...

Castells

Blanca Camell Galí

Despite not having curbed the creative desires of a generation, the economic crisis of 2008 decisively stopped trajectories and projects. However, this is not a short film of lamentations, but a beautiful chronicle about friendship and creation in difficult times.

Spain · 12 min

Mestral

Cordelia Alegre

Two teenagers meet with a very clear purpose. What they are not so clear about is how to carry it out... Laia Artigas (Estiu 1993) stars in a (sweet) short film about the first times.

Spain2 · 29 min

Ballenas aplastadas por el hielo

Andrea Jaurrieta

A ferry loads cars and people and transports them down the river. And this short film, awarded in Rotterdam, carries ancient symbols and mythologies with an extraordinary treatment of image and sound.

· 14 min

Millor la llengua

Mar Pawlowsky

It's summer. A night out with friends and the couple ends in the worst way for Laia, who sees how her world collapses when a terrible event leaves her hurt and bewildered. What does she have to do? A vivid an forceful short film.

Spain · 26 min

Aqueronte

Manuel Muñoz Rivas

Alicia wants to be an actress, she waits for a casting and in the meantime she gets bored. Or this is what she thinks, because... What does it mean to be bored? World premiere of a wonderful statement about life, youth and everything that happens between hours.

Amb la boca petita

Mór G. Dulcet

The Asturian meadows that we see in front of Ramón Lluís Bande's camera, now silent and empty, hide a past of horrors that left practically no physical trace. But even so, they will not be forgotten...

Alicia fai cousas

Ángel Santos Touza

12 years ago a granddaughter started recording her grandmother: she wanted to capture the time that Alzheimer's was going to steal from her. More than a decade of filmed material is turned into an emotional story about the will to love.

Spain · 27 min

Contracampos

Ramón Lluís Bande

From its mysterious tower, La Panadella awaits the arrival of travellers while its inhabitants maintain a monotonous routine, like wandering souls in an eternal purgatory. World premiere of a short that will not leave anyone indifferent.

Spain · 72 min

Toda una vida

Marta Romero

Tristán is about to leave the apartment he shared with his ex-partner, Iago, when he shows up by surprise. At the same time, Tristán receives a call that will change everything.

La Panadella

Joel Jiménez

Three brothers from L'Hospitalet film their trips to a small town in Castilla between the 80s and 90s with a domestic camera. The director appropriates and redefines this footage to create a portrait of a place and time as fun as original.

Spain · 12 min

Iago y Tristán

Miguel Ibáñez Monroy

In the emptiness of the night, the warm light of a radiator begins to shine in the bedroom of a lonely house. A woman sleeps. Next to her is her son, still awake. World premiere of an exquisite short about absence.

Spain · 24 min

Esta no es una película sobre Cardenete

Paula Martínez Artero

Nazario was a revolutionary of culture and comics, since the seventies, thanks to his daring and sexual cartoons starring queer characters. But what happened to that artist?

Spain · 27 min

El nacimiento de un río

Javier Calvo de Cabrera

A couple talks about the past and dreams. Later, a younger couple has a different conversation in a similar place. And finally, everything connects through words, evocations and poetry. Spanish premiere of the new short jewel by Santos Díaz.

Germany · 24 min

El jardín de los faunos

Pol Merchan

Bruna Cusí and Alberto Ammann star in a tense camera film, awarded at Tallinn Film Festival, about borders and their absurdity, about dark pasts and futures in suspense; about a couple of emigrants and the trance of a customs passage.

Din que non falan

Santos Díaz

It is not a making of or a dance show. It is not a fictional film or a classic documentary. Following the preparations for Sonoma, the play of the famous company La Veronal, the camera follows artists and essays and the result is a magnetic and transgressive film.

Spain · 74 min

Upon Entry

Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vasquez

One night. A city. Five conversations. Nine characters. They tell personal or invented stories and also tell the story of an old Japanese film... World premiere of the suggestive, mysterious and poetic first feature by Pablo García Canga.

Spain · 88 min

Sonoma (Le film, pas le spectacle)

Albert Pons Cabanes, Xavier Lozano Casaoliva

Time does not erase everything, nor does distance. This is what Stillness in the Storm is about, an elegant debut that speaks of returns and unfinished loves in a San Sebastián portrayed in black and white tinged with melancholy.

Spain · 83 min

Las tierras del cielo

Pablo García Canga

La quietud en la tormenta (Gelditasuna ekaitzean)

Astonishing film where the director starts from an enigmatic suicide note from a young incel to enter the bowels of the internet. What we find there is a virtual universe that reflects the sicknesses of the real world.

Spain · 97 min

La quietud en la tormenta (Gelditasuna ekaitzean)

Alberto Gastesi

A random meeting in Benidorm between Belén Esteban and Sylvia Plath is reason enough to get immersed in this fantasy medium-length film, a comedy where the coastal city and its extreme aesthetics embrace two apparently antonymous celebrities.

Spain · 38 min

La mecánica de los fluidos

Gala Hernández López

Sóc vertical però m’agradaria ser horitzontal

The brushstrokes of a summer in an Asturian town, where Marta has returned during the holidays, make us enter a fresh and sensual story of generational dilemmas, sentimental doubts and an incipient relationship in danger.

Spain · 40 min

Sóc vertical però m’agradaria ser horitzontal

María Antón Cabot

A professional driver investigates the disappearance of a client helped by an Italian teacher, a homeless real estate agent and an extravagant painter... These characters configure the new thriller-comedy by Julián Génisson.

Spain · 83 min

Notas sobre un verano

Diego Llorente

Two friends leave on a trip to France by car, in a road movie that is revealed as an escape from a moment of vital inflection and also as a fresh meta-cinema exercise.

Spain · 65 min

Inmotep

Julián Génisson

From six key moments, we see the transformation of a couple when Tomás, a friend of Ada and Mariña, becomes part of their intimate circle. A vivid and sensory film about affections from a tender and wild look.

Spanish · 55 min

Dos dies i l’eternitat

Marc Esquirol

After Berlinale, one of the debuts of the year arrives at D'A talking about identity and acceptance at the hands of eight-year-old Cocó, and a summer that will change her life and lives around her. A luminous drama and one of the films of the season.

Spain · 70 min

Cando toco un animal

Ángel Filgueira

Clausura

Spain · 124 min

20.000 especies de abejas

Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren

The world premiere of the winner of the D'A Film Lab 2022 brings us closer to the end of the world through the innocent look of a girl (Laia Artigas) who decides to organize what could be the last party for humanity.

J, from Los Planetas, immerses us in the avant-garde world of Iván Zulueta, author of the mythical Arrebato, based on unpublished footage by the filmmaker and melodies created expressly for the occasion by the musician from Granada.

Spain · 79 min

Un sol radiant

Mònica Cambra, Ariadna Fortuny

AV Concerts

Spain · 75 min

Fuego Fatuo

João Pedro Rodrigues

Alba Cros and Nora Haddad direct a documentary that portrays, based on interviews and everyday scenes, the LGBTIQ+ community in an heterosexual environment. The result is a film that is both fresh and transversal, opening the screen to other possible lives.

The always transgressive Lav Diaz returns to the D'A with a story of revenge between two policemen, in a feverish and tense thriller that explores the delirium, guilt and moral fatalism typical of Paul Schrader or Abel Ferrara's films.

Alteritats

Alba Cros, Nora Haddad

One of the most charismatic duos in contemporary auteur cinema, Joanna Hogg and Tilda Swinton, transports us to a mansion converted into a hotel. There stay a mother and her daughter, in an atypical and touching gothic ghost story.

Philippines · 187 min

When the Waves Are Gone

Lav Diaz

The mission of two brothers who have to go from Eibar to Mars to carry out an expert report is the starting point of this rabidly independent Iberian science fiction adventure with a punk spirit, in which even Jesus Christ has a role.

United Kingdom · 96 min

La hija eterna

Joanna Hogg

Helena Wittmann directs a boat trip that smells of the sea and tanned skin, filmed with a delicious sense of color and composition. A hypnotic maritime adventure along the Mediterranean coast led by Angeliki Papoulia (Dogtooth).

Spain · 71 min

Misión a Marte

Amat Vallmajor del Pozo

It chronicles the tumultuous relationship between Pyotr Tchaikovsky, the most famous Russian composer of all time, and his wife Antonina Miliukova.

Germany · 106 min

Human Flowers of Flesh

Helena Wittmann

The new film by Rita Azevedo Gomes brings together Rohmer and Mozart to talk about art and love. A delicious and playful comedy that delves into and intersects the languages of theater, music and cinema itself

Russia · 143 min

La mujer de Tchaikovsky

Kirill Serebrennikov

The mind behind American Gigolo and Taxi Driver closes his celebrated trilogy on redemption with a work about a gardener (Joel Edgerton) to whom the echoes of his murky and violent past begin to resonate when he meets his young and rebellious apprentice.

Portugal · 127 min

El trio en mi bemoll

Rita Azevedo Gomes

United States of America · 110 min

El maestro jardinero (Master Gardener)

Paul Schrader

One of the great referents of French romantic comedy is back with a delicious film about a couple of lovers who will seduce the audience with its unexpected complicity and fresh dialogues full of truth.

Inauguració

France · 100 min

Crónica de un amor efímero

Emmanuel Mouret

The author of La flor delves into an investigation around the architect Clorindo Testa, and the result is a film that happily navigates between reality and fiction by the funniest and most playful Llinás.

One of the film phenomena of the year arrives at D'A. Trenque Lauquen, by Laura Citarella, offers us a road movie of intrigues and crossed lives that makes its four hours go by like an exhalation.

Argentina · 100 min

Clorindo Testa

Mariano Llinás

What had to be a B-series slasher about sex with ghosts ends up becoming, in the hands of Colombian director Theo Montoya, an absorbing and dark portrait of the young queer community in Medellín and, in turn, in one of the films of the year.

Argentina · 260 min

Trenque Lauquen

Laura Citarella

Esteve Riambau ventures into a journey to the past through everyday objects and spaces which seem to remain untouched by the passage of time. With the voices of Josep Maria Pou and Vicky Peña.

Colombia · 72 min

Anhell69

Theo Montoya

Using domestic footage, the director investigates the secrets of her family. Why was the relationship between the father and her first child cut short? What do the images hide? And what's off the field? An award-winning short film at Las Palmas Festival.

Vidres de colors

Esteve Riambau

Iria del Río stars in a film about the conspiracy in times of repression; about the fears of the moment and its reminiscences in the future. A short film premiered at the Clermont-Ferrand festival and awarded at Cortogenia.

Versiones

Claudia Torres Martín

A cat has taken Vicente's canary. His wife, Elena, doesn't like having caged animals. Starting from the idea of freedom —to what extent do we cage ourselves?— the protagonists, the director's parents, talk about life, illnesses... and canaries.

Los conspiradores

Luis E. Parés

La gàbia

Adán Aliaga

La pandemia, las restricciones y los estados de alarma nos han enseñado a vivir más en interiores que en exteriores, aunque solo sea metafóricamente.

Spain · 89 min

Curts Un Impulso Colectivo – Shortcat

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Cortos Un Impulso Colectivo – Confinamiento (s)

La pandèmia, el canvi climàtic, la crisi econòmica, la violència del nou ordre global, estan configurant un món que es transforma a tota velocitat.

Spain · 104 min

Cortos Un Impulso Colectivo – Confinamiento (s)

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Shorts Un Impulso Colectivo – The World To Come

Els vaivens del temps s'han convertit en un dels temes preferits dels nous directors.

Spain · 83 min

Shorts Un Impulso Colectivo – The World To Come

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Cortos Un Impulso Colectivo – Pasado, presente y futuro

Spain · 99 min

Cortos Un Impulso Colectivo – Pasado, presente y futuro

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Un Impulso Colectivo – Reality and Fiction

Del cinema del buit estem passant a un altre cinema ple de personatges i esdeveniments.

Del thriller a la comèdia, del drama al misteri, tots els gèneres són diferents en el cinema actual.

Spain · 94 min

Un Impulso Colectivo – Reality and Fiction

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Shorts Un Impulso Colectivo – New genres

The isolated and quiet life in Escó, a remote village in the Aragonese Pyrenees, is threatened by the imminent construction of a road. The Guallar brothers, shepherds, live there. They are the last resistance of a life model that finds no other relief than cement.

Spain · 87 min

Shorts Un Impulso Colectivo – New genres

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Based on the discarded footage of Rocío, a Spanish film that was victim of censorship in the early eighties, the filmmakers propose a short film that reconstructs History and, eventually, makes a critical rereading of the Spanish Transition.

El día que volaron la montaña

Alba Bresolí

Gilda, a 'transformist' from the most alternative and underground Raval, faces an impoverished and lonely old age. When 3-year-old Chloe and her young mother burst into Gilda's life, her reality is turned upside down.

Descartes

Concha Barquero, Alejandro Alvarado

A couple of filmmakers consider the subject of their next film. However, their daily life, with a little daughter, begins to occupy the space of fiction and ends up becoming the (hilarious) central subject of their work, awarded in Gijón.

Spain · 78 min

Cantando en las azoteas

Enric Ribes

Dominican Republic · 89 min

Una película sobre parejas

Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada

The daily life of a filmmaker and his city, friendships and work, are shot by Adrián García Prado with humor and tenderness in an extraordinary and radical exercise of cinematographic resistance.

The life of a miner on the island of Java changes after his wife leaves him. In the limbo between fiction and reality, between lethargic dreams and the inputs of emerging capitalism, the protagonist walks and we follow him, hypnotized.

Spain · 85 min

Chuck a-luck

Adrián García Prado

Life in the city is not easy for Sương, a Vietnamese girl who has migrated from the countryside to try to make a living in Ho Chi Minh City. A delicate and truthful portrait of a young woman in today's Saigon, and a reflection on migration and family.

Spain · 91 min

Mbah Jhiwo / Alma anciana

Álvaro Gurrea

Cinema and dance merge again, as they did in Con el viento, in front of Meritxell Colell's camera. An award-winning film at Malaga Film Festival about a couple who, on tour in Argentina, face a vital dilemma that will determine their artistic and personal future.

Vietnam · 86 min

La chica de Dak Lak

Pedro Román, Mai Huyền Chi

The outbreak of the Civil War separates a newlywed couple. He goes to the front; she stays, waiting. This is a story of a dead time that seems eternal, based on letters or the lack of them. Of a "woman in the shadow" that are many.

Spain · 107 min

Dúo

Meritxell Colell Aparicio

A father's obsession with his ultimate invention, a machine that summons rain, is the hope of a city thirsty for water and humanity. Meanwhile, the inventor's son becomes dangerously suspicious... An arid, original and disturbing dystopia.

Spain · 117 min

Canción a una dama en la sombra

Carolina Astudillo Muñoz

A French love lesson in which a strange couple searches for the origin of a suicide note. The investigation will make them find unexpected connections... and the audience to discover, in this romantic comedy, one of the great hidden treasures of auteur cinema of the year.

Peru · 85 min

Tiempos futuros

V. Checa

L'arribada de les noves cineastes ha reconfigurat estils i temàtiques, perspectives i punts de vista. Però això no només afecta els assumptes més quotidians, sinó també a maneres de veure el món progressivament complexes i, de vegades, inquietants.

France · 86 min

Petite leçon d’amour

Ève Deboise

Un Impulso Colectivo Shorts – The place of women

Clara lives in a fertile and exuberant natural environment in Costa Rica, but her mother and the people around her restrict any sexual drive. However, little by little primary impulses, like nature itself, begin to make their way into the life of the protagonist.

Espanya · 84 min

Un Impulso Colectivo Shorts – The place of women

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What has happened to the spirit of Barcelona '92? Did it really exist or was it just a dream? For Raquel Barrera, those years marked her relationship with the city. A love that, despite its imperfections, intensified in her most important moment.

Sweden · 106 min

Clara Sola

Nathalie Álvarez Mesén

Barcelona is a mother which, at the same time, is home to thousands of mothers, sons and daughters. Carme Puche draws a parallelism between her body the city, observing it, portraying it.

Pineda’92

Raquel Barrera

A walk through Barcelona, from Torre Baró to Montjuic, accompanied by the sounds of each neighborhood and the improvisation of the saxophone by Laura Ulldemolins, all shot by Meritxell Colell.

Minshara

Carme Puche

With a powerful evocative capacity that could be the most independent side of Jordan Peele's cinema, the director illustrates everyday situations where racism is the latent protagonist. A direct film, full of rage and visceral surrealism.

Spain · 52 min

La ciutat a la vora

Meritxell Colell Aparicio

USA · 72 min

The Sleeping Negro

Skinner Myers

Esa fugaz esencia que dejaron los sucesos

Barcelona is full of vestiges that speak of collective history. This history, however, is almost always told from an official and patriarchal vision. Astudillo looks for, in the corners of the city, those who speak about the ignored role of women.

Between Kiarostami's cinema and Jean Vigo's gaze, the adventures of two Kurdish children to bathe in a swimming pool, to which they are denied entry, are a delight, as subversive as their attitude and as refreshing as the water they wish to swim in.

Esa fugaz esencia que dejaron los sucesos

Carolina Astudillo

Turkey · 93 min

Time of Impatience

Aydin Orak

A piece by the collective La Selva, directed by four directors, in the form of a dialogue between personal diaries with one thing in common: the city as a meeting point, epicenter of views, ways of life and various origins; of individualities and also of synergies.

If the city is built by people and these are built by emotions, what spaces in the metropolis are reserved for our most human part? A lucid and different look towards the urban ecosystem.

Disonar

La Selva Collective

Eva Murgui sets her sights on Cornellà, a peripheral city with which she feels very identified, in permanent metamorphosis, of loyal people and a vocation for the absurdity. A city with the attitude of a village and a village that wants to be a city.

Amalgama

Beatriz Pérez Martín

A mother who cleans windshields at a traffic light stop wants to regain custody of her children, who have been taken by social services. With the help of her niece, a teenager, they will do anything to get it.

Satélites

Eva Murgui

New Zealand · 101 min

The Justice of Bunny King

Gaysorn Thavat

One of the youngest and most powerful talents in current Argentine cinema, Solo Berruezo Pichon-Rivière, returns to D'A with a story about a rigid family mother who, one day, wakes up with the body of a little girl. And, like her own body, her life completely changes.

Italy · 100 min

Nuestros días más felices

Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière

Pedro is scared. Ships take off from Earth, beginning interstellar journeys. However, he seems doomed to stay in a world headed for extinction. Until Eva arrives, and with her, hope. A powerful science fiction story with a Portuguese accent.

Portugal · 79 min

Mar Infinito

Carlos Amaral

One day and one night. This is the time that Marion, a teenager who has just suffered a family loss, spends walking around Paris. On this journey, between lethargy and exaltation, she will come across diverse people who will accompany her to the gateway to a new life stage.

France · 87 min

Ma nuit

Antoinette Boulat

Corsica, in a small town. During a summer, we observe its people: residents and punctual visitors, families and friends reunited... And, with the greatest naturalness, a camera that takes us there. An award-winning debut film in Rotterdam.

France · 127 min

I comete: A Corsican Summer

Pascal Tagnati

Like the scattered images of our mental album of memories, between idealization and nostalgia, Malena Solarz's celebrated solo debut is the vivid chronicle of a momentous summer. The one that two young people, Sol and Pedro, spend before entering university.

Argentina · 82 min

Álbum para la juventud

Malena Solarz

A trans woman is about to go out on the street, showing herself as she really is for the first time. However, what should be a quiet walk is, still, an act of courage that confronts Sara, the protagonist, with the darkest side of society.

Carnival arrives and, in the Barcelona neighborhood of Sants, a Latin American hairdresser tries to convince her daughter Rihanna to dress up as an infanta. The girl, however, does not seem to have the intention of bowing to a tradition that does not represent her...

Valienta, mujer

Marc Vilalta

A girl is heading somewhere accompanied by her mother. There, someone greets her with a familiarity that seems uncomfortable. A film awarded at Malaga and Alcalá de Henares about gender violence and its consequences.

Las infantas

Andrea Herrera Catalá

We are in a humble neighborhood of Almería where the North African and Andalusian cultures are almost inseparable. There, four teenage friends prepare to celebrate the birthday of one of them. A short of immersive naturalism that reminds Kechiche's cinema.

Harta

Júlia de Paz Solvas

Agriculture and robotics merge before Gerard Ortín's camera. The filmmaker composes an audiovisual symphony that is pure artistic avant-garde and, at the same time, a portrait of the new technological frontiers. A short film selected at the Berlinale 2022.

Farrucas

Ian de la Rosa

Using some childhood photographs, the director investigates her past and reflects on the capability of images to reconstruct blurred memories... A fascinating debut that has its world premiere at D'A.

Agrilogistics

Gerard Ortín

Loud music. Colored lights. Dance, talk, sing, drink. The Covid pandemic cut short any possibility of partying, and this is its requiem. An audiovisual ode to a ritual that, after this trance, will never be the same again.

Spain · 4 min

Si tocas una…

Mariana Freijomil

The ghosts of three siblings, former owners of a flat, are invoked by the current tenant, the filmmaker Ione Atenea, through their vital legacy. They are memories in the shape of drawings, pictures and songs, witnesses of a past full of dreams and mysteries.

Spain · 4 min

Réquiem por la fiesta

David Pantaleón

In the Madrid of C. Tangana and Díaz Ayuso, in the midst of a pandemic and spring blooming, a group of young people decide to shoot a film that is a direct and unfiltered reflection of the heartbeat of the city, the basis for rapping and, of course, talk about life.

Spain · 81 min

Los caballos mueren al amanecer

Ione Atenea

A camera observes Plaça dels Àngels. Beyond the clichés, this emblematic Barcelona square is pure human effervescence, where young people skate and sing, dance and express themselves, and where you have to stop, as this film does, to understand the vibrations of the present.

Spain · 77 min

Tener tiempo

Mario Alejandro Arias, Gabriela Alonso Martínez, Nicolás Martín Ruiz

In the middle of the mountains of Colorado a woman camps. She fishes, she listens to the birds singing, her old radio... And she waits for a young love whom she hasn't seen for decades. One of the debuts of the year, a big surprise at Sundance and Berlin.

Spain · 70 min

Fail Better

Eva Garrido

Diana Toucedo returns to D'A with an aesthetically brilliant and conceptually incisive film about shellfish gatherers from a small Galician town. A work selected in Visions du Réel that is, at the same time, a penetrating cinematographic and political statement.

USA · 81 min

A Love Song

Max Walker-Silverman

Matías Piñeiro and Lois Patiño, two great names in current auteur cinema, conjure up their talents to summon Sycorax, a witch, a character ignored from Shakespearean literature who, however, has much more to say than she seemed. One of the shorts of the year.

Spain · 26 min

Tatuado nos ollos levamos o pouso

Diana Toucedo

Like Che's face, converted into a pop icon, hundreds of revolutionary songs have become part of an imaginary that, apparently, distorts their meaning. This is an acid review of the songs of resistance in internet time, selected at DocLisboa.

Sycorax

Lois Patiño, Matías Piñeiro

An Argentine, a Brazilian, a Portuguese and a Mexican tell us about Hipólito, a guy who wants to disappear. And what begins as a classic joke becomes a reflection on the search for identity, applauded, among others, at Márgenes film festival.

Spain · 29 min

Songwar(e)

Miquel Martí Freixas

When Eva returns to the home she once shared, she must confront her ghosts from the past. A subtle and consistent debut about the presences and their lack that has its world premiere in D'A.

El juego del despiste

Marcos García

Points of light and color stain Lois Patiño's dark canvas. It is night, we see the sea of a distant port and we listen to a dialogue that keeps us attentive and immerses us in a poetic and captivating universe. A short premiered in Berlin and nominated for the European Film Awards.

Spain · 7 min

Un susurro

Íñigo Apestegui

The new short film by David Moragas presents a young couple who meet again after one of them has spent a few days away from home. And what could be an everyday situation becomes a transcendental moment for the future of the relationship.

El sembrador de estrellas

Lois Patiño

We delve into one of the most celebrated titles of D'A 2021, Cut!, in a documentary that observes its protagonists and its director, Marc Ferrer, in downtime, between scenes, and key moments behind the cameras.

Demà ho deixem

David Moragas

What could be a simple mission: going to buy a sauce before a dinner with friends, becomes an ingenious cinematographic exercise; a playful thriller where sound has a leading role.

Spain · 7 min

Corto

Ramon Balcells

As night falls, Andrea records a message for Pablo, whom she hasn't seen for months, like a long letter or a 21st-century little novel.

Construcción de un sonido

Cristóbal Arteaga Rozas

Year 2030. Birds begin to behave like people; men no longer communicate or tread the ground. Rosa Berbel's poetry finds its translation into images in a veiled and lyrical science fiction film, far from all pyrotechnics.

Así vendrá la noche

Ángel Santos

In the middle of a global pandemic, a man arrives at an empty hotel where he has an appointment. Wishing to redeem his loneliness, only some curious birds seem to accompany him. First leap into fiction by Víctor Moreno, director of La ciudad oculta and Edificio España.

Las niñas siempre dicen la verdad

Virginia García del Pino

Ángela Cervantes co-stars and Alba Sotorra produces a Pompeu label short film selected in Malaga and Gijón in which three friends meet for a few days in the countryside and, little by little, bring out thoughts and feelings with the aftertaste of a farewell.

Lovebirds

Víctor Moreno

The confinement decreed by the government as a result of the Covid forces the coexistence of two women who have nothing more in common than a working relationship. But what might seem like just another story of the pandemic hides questions... and mysteries.

Les altres coses que ens separen

Elena Ballvé Martín, Àlex Gantzer Soler

It is morning, and Violeta and Nacho are still awake, in the apartment. They laugh, they play, they talk about life projects, movies, they smoke a joint, they finish their beer... And time passes, and maybe next year they'll meet again there... Or maybe not.

Kinka

Maider Oleaga

Human extinction will be a party for the rest of the animals, and the apocalypse, in the hands of María Cañas, is a satirical collage composed by several materials and sources, with absurd videos starring the pets that later, at last, will rule the world.

Spain · 30 min

Está amaneciendo

Guillermo Benet

En el futuro… Predicciones para un presente extremo

What happened that night, when the five friends were sixteen, in that beautiful house by the sea? The first solo film by one of the directors of Les amigues de l'Àgata is a mysterious work that breaks stereotypes and schemes.

En el futuro… Predicciones para un presente extremo

María Cañas

On a nudist beach in Waikiki Bay, a boy looks at the naked bodies of people passing by. As we delve into the images, this summer vision, almost kitsch, becomes a mystical and sensory experience, far removed from banal materiality.

France · 39 min

Les filles du feu

Laura Rius Aran

Arlet returns home to celebrate her 20th birthday. She does not do it willingly: the family is going through a long and agonizing trance that is difficult for her to face. However, little by little, the stay reconnects her with the past and reconciles her with the present.

La quimera de Yemayá

Irene Sesé

On the occasion of the premiere of Tsai Ming-liang's latest short film, The Night, the D'A takes a look at the most unknown facet of the filmmaker, screening it along with three other short pieces that complement his filmography

Espanya · 23 min

Els peixos no dormen mai

Gerard Gil, Aida Martos

The artistic alliance between Michel Franco and Tim Roth is back with a film about vacations and self-destruction; about summer resorts and family hell... An unleashed forward rush of a collapsed man that dazzled Venice's audience.

Taiwan · 89 min

Tsai Ming-liang Shorts

Tsai Ming-liang

A couple of gardeners and farmers fight to prevent an electric tower from being installed on their land. With brilliant images and a suggestive and poetic plot, the winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin with Honey explains a very current conflict that perfectly dialogues with Alcarràs.

Mexic · 83 min

Sundown

Michel Franco

Carmen Machi plays a retired doctor who decides to go to a refugee camp as a volunteer. There, however, she seems like a fish out of water... And what had to be a mission of solidarity seems to become, little by little, an act of dependency.

Turkey · 147 min

La promesa de Hasan

Semih Kaplanoglu

A nun in the midst of an existential crisis abandons her mission and her city, Madrid, to pursue her dream: to become an actress. She settles in Manhattan, where a mysterious danger is watching, from which she can only escape through new devotions.

Spain · 99 min

La voluntaria

Nely Reguera

It all depends, always, on how we look at things. And if a bullfight is observed through a thermal camera, the blood will be white and the bullring, like the end of life, all black. A daring and critical visual experiment seen in Mar del Plata and awarded in Marseille, among others.

Miss Futuro

Antonio Morales

Something happens in the forest, where a group of people gather around a tree. Meanwhile, above, a plane crosses the sky and, inside, a child cries.

La sangre es blanca

Óscar Vincentelli

Fårö, the mythical Bergman Island, is the setting for this summer dramedy about couples and cinema that combines a spectacular cast, a playful and subtle plot, and the graceful direction of one of the great filmmakers of our time.

Spain · 9 min

Brot

Tariq Porter

Each stone that forms the wall of Bancal is indispensable, and Master Santiago knows this well. This is a film that, like the wind that erodes rocks, speaks of gestures, human and natural. How they shape landscapes and our way of seeing them.

France · 112 min

La isla de Bergman

Mia Hansen-Løve

Coinciding with the thirtieth birthday of the Temporada Alta festival, and shortly after the birth of his daughter, Salvador Sunyer presents an amusing self-fiction about the acceptance of the passage of time... and its consequences.

Spain · 29 min

Bancal

Rafael Montezuma

Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes draw upon the exceptionality of the pandemic to propose a playful and sensual work about downtime and the outdoors. A diary of a truncated shoot that is also an oasis to rediscover nature, the sun and the bodies.

Alopècia Androgènica

Salvador Sunyer

Simón's life is not what he imagined when he was young and aspired to become a successful musician. And the return to Barcelona, the reunion with his friends, including the love of his life, makes it more evident than ever... Raúl Portero returns to D'A with a tragicomic and melancholic pop ode.

Portugal · 102 min

Diários de Otsoga

Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes

The nonagenarian Nogami Teruyo talks about her film career alongside Akira Kurosawa in a film that is, at the same time, a pictorial portrait, a view on the filmography of one of the most important filmmakers in history, and a prodigious act of observation.

Spain · 66 min

La cançó pop

Raúl Portero

One of the most prolific and brilliant filmmakers of our time speaks to us, on this occasion, about aging and beauty, cinema and life, through a veteran and renowned actress on her return home. A film of a simplicity that is only apparent and that points to infinity.

Taiwan · 24 min

Autumn Days

Tsai Ming-Liang

The protagonist of Tsai Ming-Liang's film What Time Is It There? comes back from Paris and looks for the man who sold her a watch... But the Taipei that she left behind is no longer the same, and neither are the urban corners that she knew. The Malaysian filmmaker's classic short, now in 4K.

South Corea · 85 min

Delante de ti

Hong Sang-soo

Tsai Ming-Liang proposes a poetic analogy between two famous Taiwanese personalities, the singer Lee Pei-Jing and the actor Chang Feng, and two elements such as the moon and a tree, in a reflection on our relationship with the environment and the passage of time.

Taiwan · 25 min

The Skywalk is Gone

Tsai Ming-Liang

A family car trip becomes a living photograph of the dynamics, customs and problems of current Iranian society. Like his father's Taxi Téhéran, Panah Panahi turns a car journey into the best of film sets.

· 34 min

The Moon and the Tree

Tsai Ming-Liang

When Kate meets Blond—impressive Ruth Wilson and Tom Burke—sparks fly... And what seems like the beginning of a passionate relationship quickly turns into a toxic and obsessive love that drags its protagonist towards a dangerous abyss.

Iran · 93 min

Hit the Road

Panah Panahi

Apocalypse and puppets; science fiction and stop-motion. Harry Cleven's new film is probably one of the most exciting films of the year, with a technique reminiscent of Svankmajer and an existentialist message as dark as Lynch's early films.

UK · 102 min

True Things

Harry Woottliff

Gentrification is the antagonist of this intimate and moving Cambodian social drama produced by Jia Zhangke in which a young man and his entourage have to face the oppressive and invisible harassment of a real estate speculation that wants to kick them out of their home.

Belgium · 61 min

Zeria

Harry Cleven

The Ukrainian conflict would be less understandable without Oleh Sentsov's cinema, a filmmaker and activist who speaks here about the reality of his country through a merciless criminal thriller set in the 1990s about a criminal in search of redemption.

Cambodia · 90 min

White Building

Kavich Neang

The divorce of her parents, whom she adores, is a process that little Solange contemplates with serene sadness as she faces her transition to adulthood. Axelle Ropert signs a vitalist and melancholic work that seduced Locarno and won the Jean Vigo Award.

Ukraine · 101 min

Rhino

Oleh Sentsov

Religious liturgies and bondage can have many points in common as effective mechanisms of reparation and acceptance. Maja Borg delves into both worlds to exorcise traumas of their past in a compelling and revealing documentary.

France · 86 min

Petite Solange

Axelle Ropert

The hunter becomes hunted in this powerful Russian thriller set in the 1930s about a Soviet national security agent who is the victim of an internal purge. An intense and brutal film that was part of the official selection in Venice.

Sweden · 95 min

Passion

Maja Borg

One of the most unique Italian filmmakers offers an immersive experience in the shape of a journey to the center of the earth. Awarded with the Special Jury Prize in Venice, the film reconstructs the expedition led by a group of fearless speleologists to one of the deepest caves on Earth.

Russia · 111 min

La fuga del capitán Volkonogov

Nataixa Merkulova, Aleksei Xupov

The suicide of her roommate generates in Sachi the need to change her life. She now works in a cafe and, despite the fact that her friend is dead, she still feels her very present... One of the great surprises of this year's Japanese auteur cinema.

Italy · 93 min

Il buco

Michelangelo Frammartino

A young landowner hires a young worker. Both are parents and, despite the social scale, it seems that they can get along... Until, after an incident, the enormous abyss that separates them starts to become evident. A scathing rural thriller from Uruguay.

Japan · 120 min

Haruhara-san’s Recorder

Kyoshi Sugita

This is the portrait of a born killer. Of a singular and terrible case that hit France in 1905. Bruno, an adolescent, has homicidal impulses that sooner or later will have to satiate. When the time comes, blood is spilled and science, like people, asks questions...

Uruguay · 110 min

El empleado y el patrón

Manuel Nieto

When a magician, at a party, turns the protagonist's husband into a chicken, it seems that her world has to collapse. However, the woman soon discovers that perhaps it is not such bad news... A dark —and absurd— comedy coming from Egypt acclaimed at Cannes.

France · 101 min

Bruno Reidal

Vincent Le Port

A new sample of the great poetic potential of Thai cinema through the portrait of a woman over the years that becomes, as well, into a historical chronicle of the country. A beautiful and mysterious film that has been compared to Apichatpong Weerasethakul's cinema.

France · 112 min

Plumas

Omar El Zohairy

Johnny, a ten-year-old boy, stands out for his prodigious emotional intelligence: he maturely faces the adversities of his environment and, little by little, the arrival of adult life. A beautiful, delicate and surprising work that avoids stereotypes.

Thailand · 118 min

Anatomy of Time

Jakrawal Nilthamrong

The routine of a small town is altered by the arrival of a film crew that revolutionizes its inhabitants. However, disagreements between the members of the production soon begin to emerge... A meta-cinematic drama from one of the great new talents of Chinese cinema.

France · 93 min

Petite nature

Samuel Theis

When her son is diagnosed with ADHD, Elena will have to fight against all the stigmas of a deeply insensitive and unequal society. A naturalistic and lucid portrait that flees from tearful temptations about motherhood and mental health.

China · 123 min

Ripples of Life

Wei Shujun

A group of miners arrives in La Paz demanding to be reinstatement of their job. Their time in the city, however, becomes rarefied, starting a psychedelic journey into the heart of darkness in one of the most special cities in the world.

Mexico · 111 min

El otro Tom

Rodrigo Plá, Laura Santullo

Short film in a shape of an urban evocation by one of the great filmmakers of our time, Tsai Ming-Liang, in which Hong Kong is an imposing and ghostly presence in a moment of impasse, between social protests and the covid pandemic.

Bolivia · 85 min

El gran movimiento

Kiro Russo

Neon lights, ultrasonic boats, exacerbated masculinities and Venice in the background. This is the explosive cocktail of Yuri Ancarani, a creator who moves nimbly between video art, documentaries, experimental cinema and nocturnal thrillers.

Taiwan · 19 min

The Night

Tsai Ming-Liang

One of the most caustic and controversial Russian directors of today takes us into a pandemic that is also a psychotropic journey through his country's society. An eclectic and revealing work called to transcend.

Italy · 104 min

Atlantide

Yuri Ancarani

When Christophe Honoré and his actors have their play canceled due to the pandemic, what had to be a stage spectacle becomes, before the camera, a beautiful and fresh story of relationships and reflections of the group of artists.

Russia · 145 min

Petrov’s Flu

Kirill Serebrennikov

Léa Seydoux is France, the most charismatic presenter on French TV, host of the most shocking exclusives and the most sensational reports. Little by little, however, France, like the country, begins to feel a depressing sense of absurdity...

France · 139 min

Guermantes

Christophe Honoré

Suddenly, a child begins to recite a poem that is not written anywhere. The kindergarten teacher, fascinated, begins to transcribe it. However, this innate and brilliant talent becomes an obsession for the women while the world insists on ignoring it.

France · 133 min

France

Bruno Dumont

An impressive directorial debut by Alice Winocour which takes us back to the 19th century to describe the ups and downs of a stormy and feverish relationship: that of a psychoanalyst and his patient, diagnosed with hysteria, a reflection of an obtusely patriarchal society.

Israel · 119 min

La professora de parvulari

Nadav Lapid

A young university student who's convinced that she's a vegetarian begins to feel a strange and irrepressible devotion. Julia Ducournau's debut is a powerful blow to the clichés where the passage to adulthood goes through the flesh... in every sense.

France · 102 min

Augustine

Alice Winocour

Ghosts and mafia, fantasy and laws of silence... A film about teenage love that masterfully combines two apparently incompatible registers and brings us closer to an exuberant and unknown Sicily.

France · 99 min

Crudo

Julia Ducournau

The emotional explosion and sexual tensions of first love are the basis of this celebrated film about the romantic rapprochement and confrontation with the most intimate convictions of a young couple, a Tunisian girl and a French of Algerian origin boy.

Italy · 120 min

Sicilian Ghost Story

Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza

The reappearance of a woman who was considered missing generates both joy and concern among the components of a wealthy family trying to return to normality. An enigmatic psychological thriller, biting and full of visual discoveries.

France · 102 min

Una historia de amor y deseo

Leyla Bouzid

An off-duty police officer fatally runs over a child. He heads to the hospital, where his wife is giving birth. Surrender or avoid justice; take the blame or run? A thriller full of tension that established its director as an incisive portraitist of Russian society.

Poland · 103 min

Fugue

Agnieszka Smoczyńska

When Virginie makes the decision to raise locusts, she doesn't expect the upheaval it will cause in her life: little by little, insects become an unhealthy obsession that will endanger her family and surroundings... One of the most special films of recent fantasy cinema.

Russia · 99 min

The Major

Yuri Bykov

Justin Kurzel's feature film debut caused controversy wherever it was released, with an explosive combination of social cinema and serial killer thriller set in marginal Australia. An overwhelming and fascinating first film.

France · 101 min

El núvol

Just Philippot

César Acevedo signs one of the most powerful debuts of the last decade with an award-winning film about a family that lives from the cultivation of sugar cane in inland Colombia, in a balance as fragile and unstable as the nature that surrounds them.

Australia · 120 min

Los asesinos de Snowtown

Justin Kurzel

The new film by one of the most recognized emerging talents in Spanish cinema tells us about Raphaëlle, who in the search for her own identity faces loneliness and the abysmal difference between the world she projects and the one which actually surrounds her.

Colombia · 97 min

La tierra y la sombra

César Augusto Acevedo

Second part, lighter, brighter and more playful, of Joanna Hogg's autobiographical works. After a painful sentimental break, the protagonist reconnects with life and cinema.

Spain · 98 min

Mi vacío y yo

Adrián Silvestre

A five-way lesbian dramedy, a morality tale that takes place in bathrooms, beds and streets of Barcelona.

United Kingdom · 107 min

The Souvenir: Part II

Joanna Hogg

In a camping, three little girls investigate the disappearance of a kid based on an old rumor. Is Aftersun a summer thriller, a portrait of childhood and learning, or an ironic look at summer holidays culture? It is all this and much more.

Spain · 85 min

La amiga de mi amiga

Zaida Carmona

The first part of Joanna Hogg's autobiographical film confirmed her as one of the most lucid and radical voices in contemporary auteur cinema. Toxic love and artistic researches intermingle in a film starring Honor Swinton Byrne and awarded at Sundance.

España · 70 min

Aftersun

Lluís Galter

The projection of a film in a small desert town awakens, in its director, an internal storm of conflicting emotions towards his country and his people. The new film by the always controversial Nadav Lapid puts its finger on the sore spot in Israeli society.

United Kingdom · 120 min

The Souvenir

Joanna Hogg

One of the great surprises of the Berlinale 2022 is the debut of Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, a film about motherhood and family roles, lucid and emotional, starring Laia Costa.

France · 109 min

Ahed’s Knee

Nadav Lapid

Clausura

Spain · 104 min

Cinco lobitos

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa

A young mother (Vicky Krieps) leaves her husband and children and goes on a trip. Why has she left? Where is she heading to? Mathieu Amalric directs a sophisticated and intriguing road movie premiered at Cannes and awarded in Seville.

The winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2022 takes us to the Lleida countryside, where a family faces what may be their last peach harvest. A majestic portrait of rural life at the gates of extinction.

France · 97 min

Abrázame fuerte

Mathieu Amalric

Inauguració

Spain · 120 min

Alcarràs

Carla Simón

The comedy of the year is Scandinavian and, despite the title, it is not about martial arts. Ninjababy is more of a punk reverse of Juno, a darkly humorous movie about unwanted pregnancies and unfulfilled desires.

The new Terence Davies' film is the passionate portrait of a poet, Seigfried Sassoon, and with him of the 20th century's United Kingdom. The traumas, sexual and sentimental issues and the need for artistic creation seem to merge the poet and the filmmaker into the same person.

Norway · 103 min

Ninjababy

Yngvild Sve Flikke

Through images of an exquisite and evocative celluloid, the award-winning debut by Girón and Salgado transports us to the 15th century, at Columbus' expedition on its way through the Canary Islands, where a series of characters try to cheat death at any price.

United Kingdom · 136 min

Benediction

Terence Davis

Explosive combination of talents, between Weerasethakul and Tilda Swinton, where Colombian landscapes and ancient American civilizations tell us about human existence and its mysteries. Jury Prize at Cannes.

France · 75 min

Eles transportan a morte

Helena Girón, Samuel M. Delgado

A Lebanese family witnesses, between helplessness and the desire to stand up, the destruction of their rural utopia due to an illegal dump on the outskirts of Beirut. Acclaimed feature debut by Mounia Akl co-written with Clara Roquet and starring Nadine Labaki.

Colombia · 139 min

Memoria

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Doble Pletina band stars and is also the soundtrack of this fantastic and absurd musical comedy, directed by Stanley Sunday, which will be accompanied by an acoustic concert by the band.

Lebanon · 106 min

Costa Brava, Líbano

Mounia Akl

Cars, bunkers and outrageous testosterone. The Punto de Vista festival produces Alberto Gracia's new work, a kind of time capsule on absurd contemporaneity in the form of a short film.

Spain · 55 min

Stop

Stanley Sunday

María Rodríguez Soto co-stars in this starkly realistic short film about a teenager hooked on screens and a woman trying to stabilize her personal and family life.

Tengan cuidado ahí fuera

Alberto Gracia

A teenage girl refuses to allow British social services to take her little brother away and decides to take care of him. The director of Suffragettes directs a fresh, BAFTA-winning full urban fable.

Inefable

Gerard Oms

Part of the DAU megaproject on the interiors of a secret research center in the USSR, dedicated to the decline of the center and the attempts of a far-right group to eradicate it. A colossal work destined to make history.

United Kingdom · 93 min

Rocks

Sarah Gavron

Part of the DAU megaproject on the interiors of a secret research center in the USSR, dedicated to the decline of the center and the attempts of a far-right group to eradicate it. A colossal work destined to make history.

Germany · 138 min

DAU. Degeneration (Part 3)

Ilià Khrzhanovski, Ilià Permiàkov

The mix between two concepts such as giallo and queer cinema, added to the direction of Marc Ferrer, one of the festival's favorite directors, can only result in an explosive and wonderful film that premieres worldwide at D'A.

Germany · 127 min

DAU. Degeneration (Part 2)

Ilià Khrzhanovski, Ilià Permiàkov

Chapter of DAU megaproject, on the interiors of a secret research center in the USSR, dedicated to the waitress in the downtown cafeteria and the relationships, intimate or everyday, that are established between the characters. Silver Bear in Berlin.

Spain · 78 min

¡Corten!

Marc Ferrer

Part of the DAU megaproject on the interiors of a secret research center in the USSR, dedicated to the decline of the center and the attempts of a far-right group to eradicate it. A colossal work destined to make history.

Germany · 134 min

DAU. Natasha

Ilià Khrzhanovski, Iekaterina Oertel

In the 17th century, in Córdoba, there was a revolution led by women of which little is known and there is no painting or illustration. This documentary tries to review the facts and also to speak of a systematic invisibility. Selected in Malaga, Lisbon and Gijón.

Germany · 122 min

DAU. Degeneration (Part 1)

Ilià Khrzhanovski, Ilià Permiàkov

Raymond Carver's verses are intertwined with images of extreme minimalism and the result is a surprising and evocative audiovisual poem.

Una revuelta sin imágenes

Pilar Monsell

Toward Morning I Climb Down and Wander Back Into the House

We all have a pending call, and Eva is about to make it... A comedy with echoes of The Human Voice with a background of veiled science fiction, directed by Dimas Rodríguez (Invisible Harvey).

Toward Morning I Climb Down and Wander Back Into the House

Carlos Balbuena

After the annual wave of summer tourism recedes, a backwash arrives that leads to recollection and introspection, and this year especially affects Lola when she sees her younger sister prepare a new life. A beautiful and subtle short.

Spain · 7 min

Todavía no conozco tu letra

Dimas Rodríguez

Fantasy as a tool of resistance and body expression to speak of anger, pain or desire. An elliptical short film full of audiovisual findings on the feeling of absence, produced by Lluís Miñarro.

Tardor

Helena Oller Biurrun

Zaida Carmona, actress of several Marc Ferrer films, directs a casual and pop chronicle of the strangest months of confinement, with love affairs, heartbreaks and WhatsApp audios.

Records d’un arbre

Sònia Abella

Documentary short film that follows the celebration of an old Galician pagan ritual just before the arrival of Covid-19. An impressive carnival of dances, drums and masks that has passed through IDFA, Clermont-Ferrand and Gijón.

Son ilusiones

Zaida Carmona

How can things like this happen? This is the question the director asked himself to pose this original and disturbing animated thriller based on a real episode of abuse and humiliation.

Os corpos

Eloy Domínguez Serén

Carolina Astudillo returns to the D'A with a documentary short film that delves into the past of a German family through photographs until she comes across a series of sordid discoveries.

Spain · 29 min

Orders

Aleix Pitarch

The music of Pau Vallvé, Tachenko and Za! complements this series of urban prints that speak of the gentrification of traditionally popular neighborhoods in Zaragoza. An audiovisual requiem about a dying city.

Spain · 6 min

Naturaleza muerta

Carolina Astudillo

Through a trip through Chicago, the director connects family intimacy and skyscrapers, cinema and urban monuments, to relate contemporaneity with the workers' struggles of the 20th century, in an ingenious and militant essay.

Spain · 32 min

Luciérnaga

Aitana Enciso Membrado

Hope is the last thing you lose, but this is not always good if it turns into an obsession. A visually vigorous and argumentatively daring short film about feverish sex and tortured love affairs.

Los ladrillos

Tito Montero

The director seeks, through a dreamlike journey, to reconnect with her prematurely deceased parent. A hypnotic and genuine proposal from the co-writer of Letters to Paul Morrissey (D'A 2019).

Larrua jo

Erik Rodríguez Fernández

The confined life of 2020 accentuated creativity and this short film is proof, with a witty and humorous approach to the days of domestic closure and general uncertainty.

España · 11 min

La vida es sueño

Saida Benzal

The residents and homes of the popular Barcelona neighborhood of Bon Pastor, in a process of demolition, serve as a basis for speaking, in the key of a creative docu-fiction and through a unique sense of humor, about the degradation of the city's communities.

La nueva normalidadLa nueva normalidad

Manolo Vázquez

Cannes, Gijón or Vila do Conde are just some of the festivals to which this hypnotic short film about interfamily love affairs has traveled, a powerful story between tenderness and the need for discovery.

La forastera

Valeria Stucki

The present, the past and the oneiric come together in this chronicle of the dream (or nightmare) of two Syrian immigrants trying to reach the West. A powerful combination between the adventure story and the political manifest that won at SEMINCI Festival.

Forastera

Lucía Aleñar Iglesias

The clash between tradition and an agitated and hyperactive contemporaneity is the object of this documentary short film with a sailor spirit that, without the need for tendentious speeches, knows how to find poetry in every detail.

El màrtir

Fernando Pomares

Short film that questions the absurd and ancient sexual dysphoria of religion through a nun who rediscovers her body... and intimacy. A work of subtle humor and full of sensorial evocations.

Derivas

Nayra Sanz Fuentes

To get immersed in the sea of History; to explore the seabed as an academic reviews the Civil War or someone investigates his family background. A short film that dives into the collective past and that has illuminated Clermont-Ferrand or Aguilar del Campo.

Daucus Carota

Carla Linares

A three-year-old girl who has a special bond with animals and difficulties with human language will have to decide which of these worlds she wants to belong to. A sensitive and luminous short film that takes us back to childhood for a few moments.

Augas abisais

Xacio Baño

A little girl's fanciful reinterpretation of a communion ceremony can become the ultimate humorous monologue (or short film). A hilarious film that skillfully moves between satire and the tender counter-chronicle.

Animal salvatge

Maria Besora

Some pieces about the present, the challenges it poses and the world that is drawn.

A comuñón da miña prima Andrea

Brandán Cerviño

Shorts Un Impulso Colectivo – The Day of Today

Exercises about that past that never leaves us.

Spain · 70 min

Shorts Un Impulso Colectivo – The Day of Today

VVAA

Curts Un Impulso Colectivo – La memòria viva

Spain · 86 min

Curts Un Impulso Colectivo – La memòria viva

VVAA

Curts Un Impulso Colectivo – Life is dream

Speculations about what to expect.

Spain · 96 min

Curts Un Impulso Colectivo – Life is dream

VVAA

Curts Un Impulso Colectivo – The Forthcoming World

Nao Albet plays Ove, a boy who has been raised in a herd of sheep and who acts like one. Yet the day comes when he begins to wonder... A delightfully surreal comedy performed by an ESCAC senior choral team.

Spain · 75 min

Curts Un Impulso Colectivo – The Forthcoming World

VVAA

Each time has its tools to collect information. This film, twice awarded at the Márgenes Festival, brings together audiovisual files recorded with different devices and techniques to reflect on identity, memory and their contexts.

Spain · 63 min

Ovella

Marc Puig Biel, Júlia Marcos Lázaro, Daria Molteni, Sergi Rubio González

If in a film society the sovereignty belongs to the public, in this story it belongs to a group of friends who want to make a film... about a film society. Metafiction, celluloid, music and friendship are the ingredients of this fresh comedy.

Spain · 80 min

Los continentes

Pedro Kanblue

Cinematographic essay that reflects on the representation of human violence through ships, bulky vehicles that transport history. A philosophical documentary of unusual lyricism, with music by Elle Belga.

Spain · 94 min

Cineclub

Mireia Schröder, Carles Gorres

The director, a member of Los Hijos collective, makes his solo debut to reveal an unknown and terrible episode in the history of colonial Spain in which the head of a Guinean opposition group was assassinated by the invading authorities.

Spain · 79 min

Barcos. Doce cartas náuticas

Vicente Domínguez, Elle Belga

Collective work within the framework of the Dentro Cine school of Matadero in Madrid in which fragments of life of a series of characters intersect forming a complex and radiant, beautiful and devastating puzzle.

Spain · 88 min

Anunciaron tormenta

Javier Fernández Vázquez

Neo-noir musical constructed in reverse: starting the film from the music, which connects the 9 episodes of the film. An effective and stimulating cinematographic experiment that was awarded in Gijón.

Spain · 72 min

Amor sin ciudad

Pedro Sara, Violeta Pagán

All body fluids come together in this tense erotic thriller about a toxic and addictive love triangle, directed by the winner of the D'A 2015 Critics Award and co-starring Natalia Tena.

Spain · 85 min

9 fugas

Fon Cortizo

A seemingly ridiculous contest can become the greatest evidence of the dehumanization of a society. It is demonstrated by this scathing satire about a group of people who compete to take a car even if the price is health and dignity.

Argentina · 102 min

Sangre

Juan Schnitman

With an aesthetic proposal and allegorical potential worthy of the best Black Mirror, the film approaches to a woman with a critical allergy picture that prevents her from leaving home. When a psychiatrist offers to help her, everything seems to turn upside down.

Germany · 120 min

One of These Days

Bastian Günther

A young man falls in love with a girl and decides to follow her to the south of France. Between the road movie and the romantic comedy, this is a gratifying ode to summer frugality that smells like vacations and a longed-for existential lightness.

Hungary · 153 min

Eden

Ágnes Kocsis

As the title implies, this is a story of simple passion that turns into devotion and, later, into an obsession for the pleasures of the flesh. An extreme and subversive revision of the classic pink story that was selected in San Sebastián.

France · 95 min

¡Al abordaje!

Guillaume Brac

The great Romanian director Cristi Puiu returns with a magnificent work, winner of the Seville Festival, where a group of bourgeois meet in a mansion and spend the day debating, in a conversation that increases in tone and intensity, with echoes of Buñuel.

France · 99 min

Passion simple

Danielle Arbid

An energetic and bleak, murky and bright three-day trip to the backstage of social media fame through Sylwia, an attractive fitness influencer desperately seeking an oasis of intimacy.

Romania · 201 min

Malmkrog

Cristi Puiu

The young Suzanne Lindon writes, directs and stars in a vivid portrait of adolescence, shiny as its title and mature as if directed by a celluloid veteran.

Poland · 105 min

Sweat

Magnus von Horn

A deliciously fresh and rabidly youthful film about Simon, a teenager bored by the bickering of a decaying family who yearns to drop everything and travel to the United States. Premiered in San Sebastián.

France · 73 min

Seize printemps

Suzanne Lindon

In twenty-four hours a lot can happen, and that's what happens to Martijn the day he knows that his son's murderer will be released and decides to take revenge. A content and sophisticated drama stained with dust and blood and set in inner Mexico.

Portugal · 84 min

Simon chama

Marta Sousa Ribeiro

A young filmmaker returns to the neighborhood of his childhood, in Washington, and finds a completely different environment from the one he knew. A powerful and poetic portrait of gentrification and urban alienation premiered in Venice.

Mexico · 90 min

Ricochet

Rodrigo Fiallega

The tensions and miseries of an entire society are concentrated in a movie theater when a fascist group boycotts the projection of a queer film and a protester recognizes Cristi, a homosexual policeman who tries to stop the assault.

USA · 90 min

Residue

Merawi Gerima

From Poland comes one of the most eccentric comedies of the year, about the insubordination of a woman dominated by patriarchal and ultra-conservative laws. A delicious kitsch exaltation of postmenopausal debauchery awarded at Fantasia and Gijón.

Romanian · 81 min

Poppy Field

Eugen Jebeleanu

The young Argentine director presents a dreamlike and feverish coming-of-age where a girl who has just lost her sister has to enter the adult world at the hands of her cousins. Special mention in Berlin.

Poland · 80 min

Marygoround

Daria Woszek

The vacation of a young couple begins to fall down when Ruth feels estranged, sentimentally and sexually, from her boyfriend. A psychological thriller with fantastic touches that has emerged as one of the most acclaimed debuts in recent British cinema.

Argentina · 65 min

Mamá, mamá, mamá

Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière

A couple helping people who have lost their pet accidentally runs over a dog. Janis Rafa's debut feature, official section in Rotterdam, walks between the disturbing strangeness of the best Greek cinema and the squalor of Central European drama.

United Kingdom · 96 min

Make Up

Claire Oakley

A Documentary where two renowned filmmakers, Catalan Meritxell Colell and Argentinian Lucía Vassallo, cross the Atlantic through letters full of intimacy and a moving audiovisual poetics.

Holland · 91 min

Kala azar

Janis Rafa

Shortcat is the annual program for the International promotion of Catalan Short Films.

Spain · 116 min

Transoceánicas

Meritxell Colell, Lucía Vasallo

An irreversible incident during a police intervention causes a deep crisis in a group of friends. Guillermo Benet proposes a forceful and tense narrative mosaic that was awarded in Seville.

Spain · 89 min

Curts Un Impulso Colectivo – Shortcat

VVAA

The lives of various people intersect in this urban story of truncated ambitions and hidden desires that is also an acid and sharp vision of Chilean society.

Spain · 100 min

Los inocentes

Guillermo Benet

The D'Innocenzo brothers shoot everyone in this set of Roman tales bathed in caustic humor and Solondzian aesthetics. An ode to mediocrity in the realm of appearances.

Chile · 80 min

Gran Avenida

Moisés Sepúlveda

The family mourning for the death of the mother becomes a disturbing return to the past for Mateo, who is reunited with his father and his childhood demons. An inner journey full of suggestive and dark dreamlike images.

Italy · 98 min

Queridos vecinos

Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo

At the time of becoming a widow, a woman realizes that her husband was leading a double life. A story that is also a cross between culture, gender and religion and has become one of the great surprises of recent British cinema.

Mexico · 93 min

Estanislao

Alejandro Guzmán Alvarez

The unexpected visit of a young mother to an adoptive family causes an emotional earthquake in all those involved. Lucid approach to the dimensions of motherhood from the hand of one of the great Japanese directors of all time.

United Kingdom · 89 min

After Love

Aleem Khan

With a delicate and precise approach, the film delves into a summer camp where an introspective boy faces a traumatic event that will condition his life. Seen at SEMINCI and Alcine.

Japan · 140 min

True Mothers

Naomi Kawase

The most untamed and imposing Pyrenees are the home of Armugán, a legendary and mysterious being whose profession no one wants to talk about and that Jo Sol represents through poetry and images as disturbing as delicious.

L’estrany

Oriol Guanyabens

Miss Marx is a punk, anachronistic and rebellious portrait of Eleanor Marx, daughter of the communist ideologue, who contributed feminist theses to the workers' struggle.

Armugán

Jo Sol

Clausura

Italy · 107 min

Miss Marx

Susanna Nicchiarelli

Gemma lives and paints in a studio in Greece. Her mother, Queralt, also a painter, tries to contact her from Barcelona, but she does not succeed. A film full of brilliant images about communication and art.

Through a skillful montage of archive images, Ramón Lluís Bande reconstructs with sensitivity and emotion the republican resistance to Franco's military uprising in Asturias. Selected in the festivals of Gijón and Márgenes.

Ella i jo

Jaume Claret Muxart

Matías Piñeiro, always fresh and bright, once again weaves contemporaneity and Shakespearean dramas in a story about two actresses seeking funding to build a play. Awarded in Berlin, Mar del Plata and Xixón.

Vaca mugiendo entre ruinas

Ramón Lluís Bande

Hong Sang-soo once again gives us a minimalist jewel full of charming situations, conversations between friends that under the apparent lightness hide an incisive vision of society. Best Direction in Berlin.

Argentina · 80 min

Isabella

Matías Piñeiro

The brilliant Lithuanian director Sharunas Bartas goes back to the 1940s to place us in the Soviet military invasion and the Lithuanian resistance movements in a war drama that is, at the same time, a hymn to freedom.

South Korea · 77 min

The Woman Who Ran

Hong Sang-soo

A former yakuza tries to reconnect with life, and also with his mother, after being released from prison. The highly praised performance of Chicago-awarded Kôji Yakusho humanizes and gives strength to an atypical and stimulating premise.

Lituània · 126 min

En la oscuridad

Sharunas Bartas

Kelly Reichardt returns to the rural areas of the United States to build, through a refined simplicity, a story of friendship between two men and a cow. A deeply beautiful and atypical western and one of the indie films of the year.

Japan · 126 min

Under the Open Sky

Miwa Nishikawa

A trans man has to decide whether to stop his hormonal treatment in order to become pregnant. Noémie Merlant (Portrait of a Woman on Fire) and singer Soko star in an energetic and moving drama that shatters clichés.

USA · 122 min

First Cow

Kelly Reichardt

With the arrival of new technologies, all brutality can be registered. A fierce and breathtaking documentary, nominated for the César Awards, about the monopoly of violence and police excesses in Macron's France.

France · 108 min

A Good Man

Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar

The journalist Javier Tolentino makes his debut behind the cameras with a docudrama produced by Lluís Miñarro that follows the footsteps of a young Kurdish artist through the streets of Tehran, where tradition and modernity, mystery and culture coexist and confront each other.

França · 88 min

The Monopoly of Violence

David Dufresne

A producer accompanies a filmmaker in decline on a journey that seems to have a very different destination from the film it was meant to be. Lluís Miñarro produces a jewel in the form of an existentialist road movie.

Spain · 80 min

Un blues per a Teheran

Javier Tolentino

The last projection of a movie theater is also the last opportunity for the presences that inhabit it - people or spirits of celluloid? - to exchange a look or a word. Restored version of one of Tsai Ming-Liang's must-watch modern classics.

Italy · 88 min

La veduta luminosa

Fabrizio Ferraro

The father of an anorexic adolescent uses the services of a therapist who also happens to be a medium. Berlin awarded dramedy on the meaning of bodies in our society.

Taiwan · 82 min

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Tsai Ming-Liang

The face of a young worker is disfigured during the construction of a colossal monument to Christ, and the subsequent operation seems more a divine than a scientific matter. An incisive dark comedy, Grand Jury Prize in Berlin.

Poland · 90 min

Cuerpo (Cialo)

Małgorzata Szumowska

A dark, haunting and horror-playing psychological thriller set in a patriarchal cult dominated by a tyrannical and abusive leader who ends up leading a teenage girl into rebellion.

Poland · 91 min

Mug

Małgorzata Szumowska

A series of family and sentimental misfortunes lead Julia, a renowned photographer, on a dazzling descent into hell, in a tragicomedy that was awarded in Locarno and became a big success in Poland.

Ireland · 96 min

The Other Lamb

Małgorzata Szumowska

Mourning and family inheritance are the background themes of this chamber drama co-starred by Bruna Cusí, where the relationship between two brothers and their partners becomes as suffocating as symptomatic.

Poland · 100 min

33 Scenes From Life

Małgorzata Szumowska

The life of two Spanish emigrants — masterful Petra Martínez and Anna Castillo — is turned upside down when they strike up a friendship that will make them change perceptions and undertake an intimate journey towards their origins.

Spain · 107 min

Mía y Moi

Borja de la Vega

Qurbani's third feature film is a capital work about the most degraded Berlin, stained with blood and neon light, where Alfred Döblin's modern classic becomes a contemporary drama at the hands of an immigrant forced to become a criminal.

Spain · 109 min

La vida era eso

David Martín de los Santos

The aftermath of the tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011 is the main base for this road movie about a teenage girl who lost everything and is now looking for answers. A cathartic film about collective mourning.

Germany · 183 min

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Burhan Qurbani

New major work from one of the great filmmakers of Asian cinema. Love, the passage of time and Bangkok are the backdrop for a story about the intimate encounter of two lonely souls who travel through a city that ignores them.

Japan · 139 min

El teléfono del viento

Nobuhiro Suwa

The arrival of an attractive immigrant from the East causes, in a wealthy Polish community, a great impression due to his almost miraculous gifts as a masseur.

Taiwan · 127 min

Rizi (Days)

Tsai Ming-liang

Heterodox biopic of the writer Shirley Jackson, author of The Haunting of Hill House, where the horror is as real as inspiring. A Martin Scorsese production starring Elisabeth Moss.

Poland · 113 min

Nunca volverá a nevar

Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert

The tragedy of a sick mother looking for her unknown child becomes, at the hands of Albert Dupontel, a hallucinatory and psychedelic journey with echoes of Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

USA · 107 min

Shirley

Josephine Decker

Inauguració

France · 87 min

Adiós, idiotas

Albert Dupontel

The director of Bad Lieutenant leaves the urban maelstrom to enter the Siberian steppe, where Willem Dafoe plays a hermit who has to face inner demons and ghosts from the past.

The French movie of the year. A delightful display of French cinema savoir faire portraying the complexity of romantic relationships in a colorful and moving dramatic comedy.

Italy · 92 min

Siberia

Abel Ferrara

Las cosas que decimos, las cosas que hacemos

Christina Rosenvinge stars in this dazzling, minimalist approach on the African journey of settler and writer Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen). An exquisite miniature that has become one of the surprises of the most recent Spanish cinema.

France · 122 min

Las cosas que decimos, las cosas que hacemos

Emmanuel Mouret

Versió restaurada de l’obra magna de Béla Tarr, de set hores de durada, a la qual un misteriós personatge que s’havia donat per mort torna al seu poble poc després de la caiguda del comunisme. Una obra de culte imprescindible.

Spain · 60 min

Karen

María Pérez Sanz

Una noia entra a la cuina i es prepara un sandvitx. Aquesta acció aparentment banal es converteix, en mans de Hausner, en una sublimació obsessiva tant absurda com existencial.

Hungary · 440 min

Satantango

Béla Tarr

Àustria · 47 min

Toast

Jessica Hausner

Thriller amb aires existencials, guardonat a Canes, Torí i Rotterdam, entre d'altres, sobre un policia retirat que s'acaba de quedar vidu i comença a sospitar que la seva dona li era infidel.

Iceland · 109 min

Un Blanco, Blanco Día

Hlynur Pálmason

Quan una família es queda atrapada en una petita illa deshabitada, apareixen les seves bèsties interiors. Una de les obres més pertorbadores de l’any, guardonada a Sant Sebastià.

Chile · 98 min

Algunas Bestias

Jorge Riquelme Serrano

Un retrat femení únic a través del personatge de la Mami, una dona que es dedica a tenir cura del backstage d’un dels cabarets més mítics de Ciutat de Mèxic. Un microcosmos on, nit rere nit, té cura de les seves ballarines.

Spain · 79 min

La Mami

Laura Herrero Garvin

Una noia perseguida pels fantasmes emocionals d'una antiga relació torna a Barcelona i es troba una ciutat transformada pel turisme i la gentrificació.

France · 15 min

Pol·len

Blanca Camell Galí

L'obra mestra desconeguda del Nou Cinema Gallec, dirigida pel director xilè Cristóbal Arteaga, és un thriller immòbil que té lloc en un petit poble on un misteriós crim desencadena tota mena de reaccions.

Spain · 74 min

As Mortes

Cristóbal Arteaga Rozas

This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

Una de les perles ocultes de la temporada, propera a Bacurau i al cinema de Pedro Costa, que per via de la faula reflexiona sobre el progrés i el capitalisme a Lesotho.

Lesotho · 116 min

This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese

Un matrimoni en crisi i la seva filla somnàmbula viatgen per passar el cap d’any en una casa de camp amb la família. Un cop allà, no tardaran a sortir draps bruts, recels, amenaces i baralles.

Uruguay · 107 min

Los Sonámbulos

Paula Hernández

Una cèlebre actriu (Gong Li) viatja a la Xangai ocupada per a actuar en una obra de teatre una setmana abans de l’atac japonès a Pearl Harbor. Un melodrama d’espionatge en un blanc i negre imponent.

China · 127 min

Saturday Fiction

Lou Ye

Film que es distancia, amb humor i fantasia, dels típics drames socials i que explica la història d’una adolescent que veu en el circ la seva esperança per fugir del context en el qual viu.

Italy · 87 min

Nevia

Nunzia De Stefano

Diari íntim d'una dona de classe benestant il·lustrat per filmacions casolanes. Però fins a quin punt tot això és real? Sorprenent film fet a partir d'imatges d'arxiu que va triomfar a Rotterdam.

Spain · 74 min

My Mexican Bretzel

Núria Giménez

Els nens d'una família immigrada de Mèxic als EUA esperen que la seva mare torni de treballar mentre observen el seu nou i insegur barri des de la finestra i somien poder anar a Disneyland.

Mexico · 95 min

Los Lobos

Samuel Kishi Leopo

Una pel·lícula que juga amb diferents narratives, estètiques i gèneres al voltant d’una mena de ciència-ficció afrofuturista. Un Matrix en àcid.

Spain · 82 min

JESUS SHOWS YOU THE WAY TO THE HIGHWAY

Miguel Llansó

La directora parteix d’un fet autobiogràfic i de les actuacions de familiars i amics per construir un film sobre la crisi psicològica que va patir durant un estiu a la seva ciutat natal.

Romania · 85 min

IVANA THE TERRIBLE

Ivana Mladenović

Enginyosa i sexi comèdia al voltant d'una crisi conjugal per on van desfilant els amants del passat, amb quatre protagonistes en estat de gràcia. Premi a Chiara Mastroianni a Un Certain Regard de Canes 2019.

France · 90 min

HABITACIÓN 212

Christophe Honoré

Buenos Aires, anys noranta. Una nena de deu anys viu alternadament amb els seus pares divorciats. Quan la mare li proposi marxar d’Argentina, ella s’hi negarà i posarà en marxa en pla per quedar-se.

Argentina · 86 min

LAS BUENAS INTENCIONES

Ana García Blaya

Un drama psicològic sobre el pes de la violència que va ser una de les sensacions de la Setmana de la Crítica de Canes. Una de les pel·lícules més contundents i hipnòtiques de la temporada.

Algeria · 135 min

ABOU LEILA

Amin Sidi-Boumédine

Des de Polònia ens arriba aquesta impactant coming-of-age, retrat sobri i rigorós sobre una adolescent que ha hagut de madurar a la força, entre orfenats corruptes i famílies d’acollida disfuncionals.

Poland · 99 min

ALL FOR MY MOTHER

Małgorzata Imielska

Comèdia fresca i subversiva sobre un adolescent que coneix la noia dels seus somnis, però es troba amb un petit inconvenient: ella es pensa que és un noi trans. Un dels films indie de l’any.

USA · 96 min

ADAM

Rhys Ernst

AZNAVOUR BY CHARLES (LE REGARD DE CHARLES)

Una mena de vídeo-diari personal de Charles Aznavour, gravat per ell mateix, que el cineasta Marco di Domenico ha transformat en un film introspectiu i avantguardista.

France · 75 min

AZNAVOUR BY CHARLES (LE REGARD DE CHARLES)

Marc Di Domenico

Diari en primera persona sobre la identitat en aquests temps precaris i sobre la possibilitat de sobreviure gràcies al cinema, amb reminiscències de l'Arrebato d'Iván Zulueta.

Spain · 60 min

ACTOS DE PRIMAVERA

Adrián García Prado

Sòlida òpera prima, misteriosa i atmosfèrica, que segueix la relació d'amistat secreta entre una noia adolescent i un home de més de trenta anys que està obsessionat amb ella.

United Kingdom · 86 min

NOCTURNAL

Nathalie Biancheri

El director fetitxe del D'A torna al festival amb la seva darrera pel·lícula, El corazón rojo, amb Louis Garrel com a McGuffin de luxe i l’aparició especial dels Hidrogenesse i Masoniería.

Spain · 31 min

EL CORAZÓN ROJO

Marc Ferrer

Un retrat generacional sobre la joventut europea actual, perduda i frustrada per la situació de crisi dels darrers anys que remet a la trilogia Antes de... de Linklater.

Spain · 112 min

UNA VEZ MÁS

Guillermo Rojas

Kurosawa segueix, en el seu nou film, a una presentadora de televisió que es posa a prova a si mateixa filmant un programa de viatges a l’Uzbekistan. Una raresa fascinant i ombrívola.

Japan · 120 min

TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Documental que explora la vida i obra de Tarkovski: els seus records, la visió que tenia de l'art, les opinions i reflexions sobre el destí de l'artista i el significat de l'existència humana.

Russia · 97 min

ANDREY TARKOVSKY. A CINEMA PRAYER

Andrey A. Tarkovsky

Després d’una nit de festa, dos amics encaren un nou dia quan de sobte apareix una desconeguda que ho farà trontollar tot. Un curt sobre les contradiccions de tota una generació.

Spain · 8 min

GREATA (NÀUSEA)

Gerard Gil, Jana Jubert

Autoficció sincera, descarnada i poètica sobre la infància, el primer amor, el compromís sentimental i la feina en el context de la crisi econòmica. Un dels grans debuts del cinema espanyol d'enguany.

Spain · 65 min

LA EDUCACIÓN SENTIMENTAL

Jorge Juárez

Periple nocturn amb tocs surrealistes d’una dona immigrant que s’adorm a l’últim trajecte de metro, amb Brussel·les com a microcosmos de la diversitat europea actual.

Belgium · 85 min

GHOST TROPIC

Bas Devos

YO SIEMPRE PUEDO DORMIR PERO HOY NO PUEDO

Partint d'una sèrie de textos literaris, diverses microhistòries componen un mosaic fascinant sobre la solitud, la necessitat de comunicació, el record i la memòria.

Un cineasta espanyol camina pels carrers de Vigo i pensa en una possible pel·lícula, que acaba sent filmada per dos cineastes argentins.

YO SIEMPRE PUEDO DORMIR PERO HOY NO PUEDO

Andrea Morán, Fernando Vílchez

Argentina · 12 min

UNA PELÍCULA HECHA DE

Malena Solarz, Nicolás Zukerfeld

Miguel Rojas Palencia filma, en precioses imatges de súper-8, el que sembla un diari i en el fons és una exploració del món, exterior i interior.

Spain · 6 min

LA TRAVESÍA

Miguel Rojas

Basada en un cas real, aquesta història parla de les víctimes de la violència feixista, però també del dolor d'una família que no aconsegueix superar la mort d'un dels seus membres.

Som en un poble, però podríem ser a la fi del món. I seguim una dona que no sabem on ens portarà… Una inquietant mescla de drama social, cinema fantàstic i comèdia absurda.

NI OBLIT NI PERDÓ

Jordi Boquet Claramunt

Spain · 43 min

LOS PÁRAMOS

Jaime Puertas

Un home sobreviu entre les ruïnes de la seva vida evocant els records que li queden amb les seves mans. Un poema fílmic amb una fotografia evocadora narrat per José Sacristán.

Seleccionat a la Berlinale, Panteres és un potent film sobre el cos de la dona i les maneres en què es representa, sobre una mirada i el que pot deduir-se a través d’ella.

RESTOS DE COSAS

Salvador Sunyer, Xavier Bobés

Vagi on vagi, sigui on sigui, sembla que al Juan no li surti mai res bé, sembla que sempre se li aigualeixin els plans. Un curt divertit i commovedor sobre la relació d’un home amb l’aigua.

PANTERES

Èrika Sánchez

Un noi oriental arriba a Los Angeles carregat de somnis i es topa amb la crua realitat. Una petita joia d'animació precisa i elegant que és també un manifest generacional.

OS PREXUIZOS DA AUGA

Santos Díaz

Spain · 8 min

LOST IN LA

Eric Monteagudo, Orió Peñalver

LOS PEREGRINOS (NOTAS Y FRAGMENTOS DEL VIAJE)

Notes sobre un viatge que es converteixen en reflexions sobre el temps, la vida que passa, el món que ens envolta… Un mosaic visual enlluernador i fascinant.

Spain · 24 min

LOS PEREGRINOS (NOTAS Y FRAGMENTOS DEL VIAJE)

Maria Riera Peris

Un dia assolellat, una piscina, un grup de gent que gaudeix del temps d'oci… Tot resulta quotidià i divertit fins que passa una cosa que ho canvia tot.

Una nit de festa entre un grup de nois i noies agafa, a mesura que avança, un to tèrbol i inquietant. Una pel·lícula sobre els comportaments heretats, les relacions sexuals i el rol de la dona.

LEYENDA DORADA

Chema García Ibarra, Ion de Sosa

El debut de Maria Espinach és un retrat estiuenc del pas a l'edat adulta fet en contra de tot, amb una ràbia que s'expressa amb un estil tan rigorós que no pot deixar indiferent ningú.

GANG

Alex Sardà

Distopia sobre un exsoldat amb estrès post-traumàtic que s’unirà a una missió per exhumar les víctimes d’una guerra amb Rússia que ha destruït Ucraïna.

CUANDO ACABE EL VERANO

Marina Espinach

Ukraine · 108 min

ATLANTIS

Valentyn Vasyanovych

El trajecte en moto de la Lucía per a trobar-se amb el seu germà una nit de dissabte es converteix en un viatge cap a una experiència atroç. El nou curt d'Álvaro Gago no deixarà ningú indiferent.

En una habitació d'hotel, una dona manté una conversa telefònica amb algú i desgrana l'argument d'una pel·lícula que li ha servit per prendre's les coses d'una altra manera.

16 DE DECEMBRO

Álvaro Gago

France · 16 min

LA NUIT D’AVANT

Pablo Garcia Canga

Un curt d'animació revolucionari que aborda la qüestió del cos femení i de com representar-lo, i que va ser un dels films més polèmics del passat Festival de Locarno.

Brazil · 12 min

CARNE

Camila Kater

Comèdia minimalista, divertida i lleugera, que segueix les passes d'una jove becària a l'estiu, en una petita editorial, enfrontada als dubtes que provoquen l'amor i el desig en l'era del WhatsApp.

Spain · 88 min

VIOLETA NO COGE EL ASCENSOR

Mamen Díaz

Un viatge a la infància de la directora a través de velles cintes de vídeo que contenen un univers que potser no és el que ella recorda... Una pel·lícula de misteri que és també un exorcisme.

Spain · 71 min

VIDEO BLUES

Emma Tusell

La història d'amor més trencadora del cinema espanyol recent la protagonitzen una mare soltera i un extraterrestre interpretats per Bruna Cusí i Javier Botet i dirigida pels Burnin’ Percebes.

Spain · 63 min

LA REINA DE LOS LAGARTOS

Burnin' Percebes

Entre el documental i l'assaig, l'observació detinguda i el comentari polític, aquesta pel·lícula parla del barri barceloní de Sant Antoni, de la gentrificació i de les persones que habiten la zona.

Spain · 101 min

GIRANT PER SANT ANTONI

Pere Alberó

Fascinant documental d’autoficció mil·lennista, que ofereix una radiografia pròxima i sense tabús sobre l'amor i les relacions modernes.

Sweden · 93 min

MATING

Lina Maria Mannheimer

L'Alan es veu obligat a cedir una habitació del seu pis a l'amic d'una amiga que s'ha quedat a terra per un vol cancel·lat. Un film que s'acosta a la qüestió gai sense traumes ni complexos.

Spain · 75 min

A STORMY NIGHT

David Moragas

Després de deu anys casats, un matrimoni comença a replantejar-se la seva relació i fins i tot la seva sexualitat. Un film naturalista i absorbent que transcorre durant 24 hores a la ciutat de Bucarest.

Romania · 116 min

MONSTERS

Marius Olteanu

Festival d’humor marcià i surrealista que ha portat a comparar el debut d'aquest director canadenc amb un encreuament entre Guy Maddin, David Lynch i John Waters.

Canada · 90 min

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Matthew Rankin

Un jove carnisser de Letònia arriba a Brussel·les amb l’esperança de poder guanyar-se millor la vida, però és traït per un col·lega. Una impactant pel·lícula sobre immigració i esclavitud moderna.

Latvia · 108 min

OLEG

Juris Kursietis

Una sorprenent i provocativa coming-of-age sobre la relació entre joves, el ball disco i el fanatisme religiós on brilla la interpretació de Josefine Frida Pettersen, coneguda per la sèrie Skam.

Norway · 95 min

DISCO

Jorunn Myklebust Syversen

Una potent road movie en què un pare i el seu fill petit transporten el cadàver del fill gran, mort durant el conflicte entre Ucraïna i Rússia, per enterrar-lo a la seva regió natal, Crimea.

Ukraine · 96 min

HOMEWARD

Nariman Aliev

Film about the life of a family for a year in the city of Fuyang, in the southeast of China. One of the most impressive Asian films of the year, with echoes of Hou Hsiao-hsien's cinema.