Official selection – Short Film International Competition
ZINEBI Grand Award
Todas mis cicatrices se desvanecen en el viento (All My Scars Vanish in the Wind)
Angélica Restrepo, Carlos Velandia (Colombia, 2022 | 14′ | ANI)
“An innovative and surprising piece of animation, taking viewers on a journey through time, the space and sound of landscapes in the memory, guiding us through painful memories dissolving around us.”Grand Award of Basque Cinema
Wild Flowers
Karla Crnčević (Basque Country – Croatia, 2022 | 11′ | DOC)
” A fully-rounded work, where brutality and tenderness team up to build a deeply sensorial narrative, with precise use of resources as its most striking feature.”Grand Award of Spanish Cinema
Olores (Smells)
Alba Esquinas (Spain, 2022 | 10′ | DOC)
“A fully-rounded work, where brutality and tenderness team up to build a deeply sensorial narrative, with precise use of resources as its most striking feature.”Mikeldi for Best Fiction Short Film
Backflip
Nikita Diakur (Germany – France, 2022 | 12′ | FIC)
“Backflip tosses us into an abyss through comedy, immersing us in the fiction of an overwhelming reality: the virtual avatar of a human being incessantly attempts a backflip, demonstrating pain, failure, discouragement, and learning through mistakes. This is a comical and also painful film with which spectators can inevitably identify. All of us are that wretched figure: its ridiculousness, its pain and its perseverance are ours.”Mikeldi for Best Documentary Short Film
Balls (Lopte)
Gorana Jovanović (Serbia – Slovenia, 2022 | 22’| DOC)
“The tiny details of Balls show us the powerful links between football, war and politics. With some excellent camera and lighting work, the film maintains a latent tension concealing the violence and oppression in male spaces. The film has a mantle under which we can glimpse its context: the patriarchy and the non self-aware claustrophobia it drags along behind it.”Mikeldi for Best Animation Short Film
Searching Heleny (Cadê Heleny?)
Esther Vital García (Spain – Brazil, 2022 | 29′ | DOC/ANI)
“Using a technique with close links to the very history of resistance it recounts, the short film alternates the use of soft, tactile materials, apparently innocent, with the reconstruction of events brimming over with violence and brutality. An exhaustive piece of research and development using a specific technique to show what could not have been shown any other way.”EITB Audience Award
Searching Heleny (Cadê Heleny?)
Esther Vital García (Spain – Brazil, 2022 | 29′ | DOC/ANI)
FAS Cineclub Award
Espera y sedimento (Hold On & Sediment)
Tana Garrido Ruiz (Basque Country, 2022 | 13′ | DOC)
UNICEF Award
Son of the Sun (Atasinin Balasi)
Dastan Madalbekov (Kyrgyzstan, 2022 | 17′ | FIC)
“UNICEF has decided to give its award to the short film Son of the Sun, by director Dastan Madalbekov because it addresses children growing up in loneliness, bereft of the protection and affection of a family or those who are their nearest and dearest.”European Film Awards 2023 Short Film Candidate
Zoon
Jonatan Schwenk (Germany, 2022 | 4′ | ANI)
“The film is a song of praise to the magic of cinema and beauty which needs no message or metaphor to strike a chord. It stands out as a reminder, not to forget that sometimes the prevalence of the enigma and inexplicable fascination can be beautiful.”ZIFF – ZINEBI
International Competition
International Competition
ZIFF Grand Award
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Theo Montoya ( Colombia – Romania – France – Germany, 2022 | 72′ | DOC)
“Not only we fell in love with each of its overwhelming characters; not only we fell in love with its brilliant poetic structure; not only we fell in love with its spectacular formal hybridity and inventiveness; but we also fell in love with the many artistic promises that spring from this magnificent film. Long live Colombian cinema!”ZIFF Special Mention
Nuestra película
Diana Bustamante (Colombia – France, 2022 | 74’ | DOC)
“For her brave insight into Colombia’s historical reality, with some brilliant editing for utilisation of the images to take us to a new dimension of remembrance of and respect for the victims of violence.”ZIFF Youth Jury Award (UPV/EHU)
How to Save a Dead Friend
Marusya Syroechkovskaya (Sweden – Norway – France – Germany, 2022 | 103′ | DOC)
“Director Marusya Syroechkovskaya portrays her relationship with her life partner, Kimi. The idea of bringing back her soul mate from the void culminates in a film which opens up to viewers like an old newspaper. Through the medium of personal records with home-movie aesthetics as a summary of ten years of archive material, we delve into their story and the story of an entire generation. The film shows sensitive contemplation of those moments during the day, apparently insignificant, but which, from the perspective of time and death, come across as immense. There is an astounding quality in the images, the work on sound, and the irony used to address issues such as suicide and drug addiction. Along with the music of Joy Division and Nirvana, the film is a time capsule for a moving story which poses some major questions on the essence of life.”NETWORKING
ZINEBI Networking EITB 2022 Award
Zikuñagako ama
direction Pello Gutiérrez Peñalba | producer Iñaki Sagastume | production Zazpi T’erdi
“Because it comes up with a relevant question for us – Why do we attach more importance to an original image? Because it is a local story with a universal projection. Because the docu-thriller genre may gain it a wider audience. Because of the clarity of the concept and a splendid presentation.”ZINEBI Networking 2022 Award
Elena dio a luz un hermoso niño
direction Chiara Marañón, Juan Soto | producer Ricard Sales, Luis Ferrón, Sandra Tabares-Duque | productionLaCima Producciones
“Because it is a family story, and universal at the same time. Because of the portrayal of Spain through in-depth historical research. Because it retrieves interesting archive images Because it is an encounter between History and story The jury expects to see a different way of using archives and editing in films”Aukera Awards
Aukera-(H)emen Award
Ultramarino
Maren Zubeldia
Aukera-Artistic Creation Award
87 hadas
Beatriz de Silva
Aukera-Artistic Creation Special Mention
Komando Marmitako
Uxue Botas, Ane Nafarrate
Aukera-Bizkaia Council Award
