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Week 9 is here! A brand new selection of 7 Spanish Short Films to help during the quarantine. Here we go: #CinemaAtticCuarentena Week 9, brought to you by CinemaAttic, Instituto Cervantes, Spain Culture & Science UK and now also with the support of Film Hub Scotland. Every week, we share a new Programme of 7 Spanish Short Films available with English subtitles online. The Films are available until Sunday on our website and in the Facebook event Week 9 | CinemaAttic Cuarentena Shorts where you can watch them, vote and comment for your favorites.

All these shorts made it big in the international film festival circuit. Essential Goya winning directors (Alberto Vazquez, Luiso Berdejo & Jorge Dorado or our beloved Alenda Brothers), Malaga Film Fest winners (Susana Casares) and also some of our favorite modern filmmakers representing the so called “Otro Cine Español”: Lois Patiño, Sergio Oksman or Koldo Almandoz. What a line-up once again!

This was our Sunday Vermut and chat with with Koldo Almandoz, Jose and Cesar Alenda. Live Euskera and Spanish interpretation by Claudia Torralba Rubinos.

If you want to know more about the Films and the Directors, Check our Extended Materials for Week 9 here

Here are the 7 Spanish Short Films for this week:

Deus et Machina

by Koldo Almandoz

Synopsis: The employee faithfully sees to his monotonous tasks every day. Today, however, he has made a decision.

Festival & Awards:

Festival de Cine Fantástico de Bilbao – Best Short Movie, Winner
Festival du Film d’Amiens
ALCINE. Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henare
San Diego Latino Film Festival

La Guerra // The War

by Luiso Berdejo & Jorge Dorado

Synopsis: World War II. There’s a boy in a wardrobe.

Festival & Awards:

2007 Goya Awards – Best Fictional Short Film, Nominee
Festival de Cine de L’Alfàs del Pi – Best Cinematography & Best Screenplay, Winner
Medina Film Festival – Special Jury Award, Winner

El Orden de las Cosas // The Order of Things

by Alenda Brothers

Synopsis: Julia’s life takes place in the bathtub. Drop by drop she will gather the courage to change the order of things.

Festival & Awards:

2011 Goya Awards – Best Fictional Short Film, Nominee
Elche Independent Film Festival – Festival Prize, Winner
Medina Film Festival – Audience Award, Winner
Warsaw Film Festival – Special Mention, Winner

A Story for the Modlins

by Sergio Oksman

Synopsis: After appearing in Rosemary’s Baby, Elmer Modlin fled with his family to a far off country and shut himself away in a dark apartment for thirty years.

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Festival & Awards:

2013 European Film Awards – Short Film, Nominee
Goya Awards – Best Short Documentary, Winner
Sundance Film Festival
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival – Grand Prix & Audience Award, Winner
Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema – Best Short Film, Winner

Decorado

by Alberto Vázquez

Synopsis: An existentialist ironic dark tale about the sins of society and of human relationships presented in a traditional fable setting.

Festivals & Awards:

2017 Goya Awards – Best Animated Short Film, Winner
Cannes Film Festival

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Milan Film Festival – Audience Award, Winner
Elche Fantastic Film Festival – Special Mention, Winner

Montaña en la Sombra // Mountain in Shadow

by Lois Patiño

Synopsis: Contemplative look towards the snowy mountain and skiers activity on it. The vastness of space contrasts with the insignificant that people look like, almost invisible by distance.

Festival & Awards:

Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival – Special Jury Award, Winner
Bucharest Experimental Film Festival – Best Cinematography, Winner
Rome Film Festival
Les Arcs European Film Festival

Curtas Vila do Conde

Tryouts

by Susana Casares

Synopsis: Being a teenager isn’t easy, especially for Nayla, a Muslim-American girl who wants to join her new high school’s cheerleading squad.

Festival & Awards:

Málaga Spanish Film Festival – Best Short Film, Winner
ATAS Foundation College Television Awards – First Place, Winner
Palm Springs International ShortFest

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See you on Sunday for our #CinemaAtticVermouth / Un Vermut con CinemaAttic

CinemaAttic Cuarentena | 90 Essential Spanish Short Films of the Last Decade is an initiative organised by CinemaAttic with the support of Instituto Cervantes centres in London, Manchester and Leeds  and the Office for Cultural & Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London and now also with the support of Film Hub Scotland.

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