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From AU we toast the fifth edition of this festival dedicated to short films and which brings us twenty original pieces from all over Spain. A highly recommended programming that shows the good health of the short format in our country. Tapes like Scratch by David Valero, about him bulling, Australia by Tino Escalera, or the beautiful story of childhood The good girls by Clara Roquet are some of the works that can be seen these days. To these, and within the drama genre, pieces like Madre by Rodrigo Sorogoyen (director of Stockholm), about child custody issues after separation, freshwater plum by Roberto Canuto, about identity conflict trans in contemporary China, The broken doll by Dani León Lacave, on child labor exploitation, o Role by Rahmmudi Al-Rahmoun, drama that exposes the couple's conflicts through sexual relations. He thriller will be represented by two high quality works, strangers on the road by Carlos Solano, and the disturbing 9 steps by Marisa Crespo and Moisés Romera, Valencian short awarded with the Méliès d’Argent award for Best European Short Film and that will leave us literally paralyzed. Have you tried to cross that dark hallway?
Also with a Valencian name we can enjoy the latest work by the director of Elche Chema García Ibarra, The disco shines, intelligent reflection on the consequences of the economic crisis in our country. Gender, but, in this case, documentary film, we will enjoy the impressive work of Miguel de Olaso, also known as Macgregor, The Mauritania railway, beautiful piece that brings us closer to an extraordinary event from a plastic point of view: the passage of a three-kilometer-long train that crosses the lands of Mauritania. Around him the dramas of life and death will take place.. On this occasion, the animation has two pieces of high emotional significance., dead horses by Anna Solanas and Marc Riva, about the dramas of immigration and war, and the surreal Morning cowboy by Fernando Pomares who, wordless, shows us the anguish of the daily life of an ordinary man.
The festival starts on the opening day with the screening of the short film The saw by Guillermo Alcalá-Santaella, which will be followed by the performance of the Valencian acrobatic company Vértigo Danza Aerial. This year, The honored director will be Miguel Alcantud from Cartagena., of which the film will be screened black diamonds, Audience Award at the Malaga Festival 2013. Alcantud will attend the contest in a special session. Requena… and action! will close the closing day with a performance by the Italian-Spanish acoustic quartet Decanter. G.LEON
