NORTH • 2020
DIRECTOR: Francesc Nogueras
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '18
SYNOPSIS: Seheno is 10 years old and admires his teacher. In his small rural village in central Madagascar, what he likes most is going to school, but poor harvests cause his father to force him to undertake a trip to the Big City in search of opportunities. The smoke, the noise, the hectic pace of life and the tall buildings raise doubts for the girl about the idea that adults have of development. Is the North the best place to live? Which way of life should you choose? NORTH is a journey of life that speaks of child labor, education and dreams. A life journey that questions the idea of Development, under the gaze of a 10-year-old girl.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
SHORT FILMS
WHEN THE WIND IS SOUTHERLY
• 2020
DIRECTOR: Pedro Henrique Ferreira
COUNTRY: Brazil
RUNTIME: '25
SYNOPSIS: An unexpected accident of a pigeon at his window makes Biel try to revise his privileges within a left-wing folk bourgeoisie and seek some sense beyond that social space.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
DIRECTOR: Jordi Clusella Arimany
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '11
SYNOPSIS: Lucia, a young aspiring actress, earns a living at LOVEOVER, an agency specialized in breaking up relationships on demand. Tatiana, a girl who believes to be living a dream relationship, is left through Lucia, although the end is not what was expected.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
LOVE OVER • 2020
DIRECTOR: Eva Muñoz
COUNTRY: France
RUNTIME: '28
SYNOPSIS: Tonight, Ana is finally about to meet Mathieu's friends, her lover. Everything goes well until Mathieu's childhood friend Marie arrives - who Ana has never heard of and who seems to be more than a friend to Mathieu, judging by how he looks at her.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
HANNYA • 2020
DIRECTOR: Neal Engelbrecht
COUNTRY: Australia
RUNTIME: '11
SYNOPSIS: Patricia, AKA ‘Honey’, a timid, Canadian backpacker tries her luck dancing in an Australian strip club. Struggling to find a friend, let alone a fortune, opportunity presents itself when she least expects it.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
LAND OF HONEY • 2020
DIRECTOR: Elİf Hamamci
COUNTRY: Turkey
RUNTIME: '19
SYNOPSIS: As the gravedigger prepares for the next funeral, every time he digs a hole he wonders about his own death.
Leyla has passed away that day and her family, gathered at the funeral, upset. In tears, Leyla's son, who is preparing to lower the body notices a white cloth inside the grave. When he tries to remove the cloth, he realizes it's a dress. As he digs the ground, he finds a buried young female body.
Who is that woman takes a deep breath and opens her eyes when the soil on her face is removed?
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
RE-TRANSFORM • 2020
DIRECTOR: Michaël Gauthier
COUNTRY: France
RUNTIME: '29
SYNOPSIS: Allen is unable to mourn his relationship with Jenjira and becomes increasingly isolated from his social and professional life. To overcome the lack of this separation, he acquires a device that allows him to pilot dreams. Allen lives and relives lost moments with his beloved, between Bangkok and Paris. He explores the dark side of this new technology and its daily use. Anita, the artificial intelligence in this device, will act like a drug, between pleasure and addiction.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
THE PERFECT DREAM • 2020
DIRECTOR: Ana Marina Sanz
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '14
SYNOPSIS: CONSCIENCIA explores various individual points of view on the perception of the social environment; the current moment, the nostalgia of the past and the vision of the future as a society. The "actors", artists musicians who participated in the last edition of the Mallorca Live Festival 2019, expose their personal points of view that, in some way, build a global framework of our Present, Past and Future, talking about topics like the technological revolution, social media or climate change.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
AWARENESS • 2019
DIRECTOR: Bernardo Hernández Conejero
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '15
SYNOPSIS: We live in moments of uncertainty, immersed in a race against the elements in which anything goes, without weighing in the secondary effects that this can bring. This is the story where humans are used as laboratory mice. And worst of all: they volunteer themselves.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
SIDE EFFECTS • 2020
DIRECTOR: Cédric Dubourg
COUNTRY: France
RUNTIME: '7
SYNOPSIS: Why are you running?
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
RUN • 2020
DIRECTOR: Isaac Zambra, Jose Luis Gil
COUNTRY: Mexico
RUNTIME: '14
SYNOPSIS: In the near future humanity lives isolated from nature. For several generations, a hypersensitivity disorder in perception has developed, causing confusion and chaos in people. Survivors live in isolation, in underground places depending on artifacts and biotechnologies to balance the senses. Daniel 2 a clandestine scientist has proposed together with a network of collaborators to reverse this process out of sight of the system that governs the place. Everything happens after his last experiment has failed and in the midst of an emotional crisis Daniel 2 and Magda 0 his colleague and closest friend make a desperate decision: Go out to continue what they have started.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Short Film
HIPERSENSORIA • 2019
