SHORT FILMS Session 1

Pálpito

Spain, 2025, color, 17’

Direction and script: Marisa Crespo, Moisés Romera

Nomination to Best Fiction Short Film+¡

A tarot reader becomes obsessed with the feeling that a terrible misfortune is going to happen and will do anything to prevent it.

Carmela

Spain, 2025, color, 15’

Dir: Vicente Mallols

Script: Helena Sánchez Bel

Nomiation to Best Animation Short Film

After the Spanish Civil War, Carmela joins the militias alongside thousands of other women. Her struggle is twofold: to confront fascism and defend the freedoms won during the Second Republic. In combat, a homemade grenade amputates the hand she had used to uphold her ideals and wield her weapon in defence of her rights.

Arcén

Spain, 2025, color, 11’

Dir: Pau Colomina

Script: Pau Colomina,Borja Navarro,David Pascual

Nomination to Best Documentary Short Film 

CV-500 Highway. Valencia. A video artist walks along the roadsides, filming the people he encounters. People carry stories, but also objects. A stick in the road. A photo and a bouquet of flowers. What story lies behind it? On the roadsides, only misfortune and death find a place.

Los chicos con las chicas

Spain, 2025, color, 11’

Direction and script: Claudia García de Mateos

Nomination to Best Documentary Short Film

8 o'clock in the morning, 7-year-old boys and girls entering the school playground: the boys go to the left to play with a ball, the girls go to the right to look at a sticker album. Claudia doesn't know which side to go to because she likes to play football. She “isn't like the other girls”: that's what they tell her, that's how they make her feel. Shortly afterwards, bodies change and the school playground becomes bigger and more complex. This raises some questions: Who wants to be a woman? Why would we want to be women? What does it mean to be a woman?