Following in the footsteps of other competitions, The Sant Joan d'Alacant Film Festival has moved online this year. Here you can find a very good selection of the most interesting national short films. for that, Just register on the website and enjoy for free a selection that is most interesting..
The program is divided into six sections where we can see up to thirty short films of all genres and formal proposals. In the first of them, We already found a good dose of what we can find here. Pieces like Feet and hearts by Adán Aliaga from Alicante who, after going through the feature film with Fishbone and the documentary The fourth kingdom. The kingdom of plastics, returns to short format with a story about poverty, marginality and survival. A is, they follow him Ours by Laia Foguet, an endearing family portrait, or the thriller any car by David Pérez Sañudo with the Basque conflict as a background. The animation will this time be represented by pieces such as Blue & Malone: impossible cases by Abraham López Guerrero, an ambitious project whose viewing has been possible thanks to the collaboration of Movistar+, and now in the field of short films made by film schools, we find Judoka by Daniel Belenguer Guerrero, in which its young protagonist channels frustration through the exercise of judo.
In the second session we found very interesting pieces such as Watermelon juice by Irene Moray, film that explores the inhospitable corners of female sexuality and was awarded the Goya for best short film in 2019. Social networks will be the protagonists of Crocodile by Jorge Yúdice, and how to approach death with the help of technology I'm dying to return by Javier Marco, tape that pairs as a student project with The Apaches by Asier Ramos. The animation will be represented this time by The terrible girls, a fascinating fantasy short film anime directed by David Orellana.
The horror genre is represented in the third block by Polter by Álvaro Vicari, Award for Best Fiction Short Film at the Sitges Festival 2019. In 16 by Ana Lambarri, short premiered at the Medina del Campo Film Week, we are faced with a youth drama focused on a rape case, while Expenses included by Javier Macipe explores the psychological consequences of its protagonist when looking for a home. These works will be accompanied by the tapes Miserable yo by Águeda Sfer and, from the Higher School of Professional Drawing, y Oldie but goldie, another interesting animation proposal directed by the illustrator and animator Nacho Subirats.
The fourth session starts with Vera by director Laura Rubirola Sala, selected at the New York Tribeca Film Festival and in which a classical music fan works as a nighttime cleaner. The issue of sexual abuse returns in 16 December by Álvaro Gago, while in They all look alike from afar, Rafa de los Arcos tells us about the return of his protagonist to his neighborhood in an attempt to recover his lost life.. The session is very rounded with the tape Benidorm 2017 by Claudia Costafreda, winner at the Malaga Festival 2019, y Colrun work carried out by the school of the University Center for Technology and Digital Art and that, from animation, tells us about the extraction of coltan in the Congo, the new “black gold” necessary for today's technology, especially with mobile phones.
And we are going to the fifth session in which we will see works such as Afterwards too by director Carla Simón (Summer 1993), short film nominated for the Gaudí Prize and, again, tells us about the problem of AIDS. María by Paco Ruiz, will tell us about the difficulty of surviving in society with certain mental problems, He meets by Breixo Corral and Pablo Alén present us a piece of humor and Cracks by Alberto Gross, addresses the difficult decision of choosing one of your parents after a divorce. Close the block, Mycosis by Juan Luis Brea, graduation work in the Master in Animation of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, A very interesting idea about the present situation when addressing the case of an infectious disease caused by microscopic fungi that can affect any part of the body..
The last block of short films starts with mountain snails by Víctor Cerdán who dives into a case of abuse in a nursing home, theme that is linked to the central knot of Thrice, Paco Ruiz's debut that tells us the story of a boy who dates a stranger online. Filmed in Malaysia, The girls are alright from Gwai Lou comes to talk to us about the role of women in the Asian country, tape that is followed Mateo's mother by Aitor Arregui and Jose Mari Goenaga, authors of feature films such as Handia y The infinite trench, o prelude by Adrià Guxens, last of the works in competition and which tells the story of a boy who suffers from an emotional block that prevents him from playing the violin. GERARDO LEON
