Robot Dreams, art directing in modern animation

Association of women working in the audiovisual sector and scenic arts in the Basque Country.

Lorea's reference points are her mother and her grandmother. Through these two generations she observes the bond that women have experienced around motherhood. Now it is up to her to decide whether or not to become a mother herself and to look for answers to pending questions.

In the theatre of the Cold War, astronauts lost in the Darien Gap are besieged by their deepest fears when surprised by an indigenous person. Did they think they were going to be decapitated, or eaten by a wild cannibal? A deconstruction of film and propaganda archives from tropical survival training challenges the colonial narrative inscribed in the conquest of space.

After his death, Fernando Ruiz Vergara left dozens of film sketches that he was never able to make. The Andalusian filmmaker had only directed one documentary, Rocío, heartbreaking and fascinating, cursed after its judicial censorship in the early years of democracy in Spain. Since then, his projects have remained latent in imagination and desire. In this film, we fabulate with those dreamed projects to bring them to the cinema from the present, as a gesture of resistance.

Prequel to the popular story Mateo Txistu: Basque Country, late 19th century. In a small village, parish priest Mateo disappears without trace. As locals tattle, the Archbishopric sends two priests to get to the bottom of the occurrence.

A discussion by female programmers at a number of film festivals on their operations, in order to dispel myths on how films succeed in becoming part of their programming, and the functioning, objectives and challenges faced by each of them.