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Week 10 is here! A brand new selection of 7 Spanish Short Films to help during the quarantine. Here we go: #CinemaAtticCuarentena Week 10, 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 10 | CinemaAttic Cuarentena Shorts where you can watch them, vote and comment for your favorites.

Week 10 and we have a special programme to celebrate it! We prepared a cocktail full of poetry, rockstars, oddballs, aliens, martians and a good dose of Spanish humor(s) with romcoms, a very typical Madrileño mockumentary and a “Paella Space-Revenge-Western”.

Special mention to two multi-awarded shorts straight from the festival circuit: Luis López Carrasco´s VHS bittersweet poem to Tesa Arranz and the Movida Madrileña (‘Aliens’) and Maria Elorza’s ‘Ancora Lucciole’ taking up the baton of Pasolini’s concerns on fading lights…Two films that left us breathless. On the top of that you’ll find films by our beloved Goya-winning animator Khris Cembe and Spanish cinema best kept secret, straight from the Canaries… David Pantaleon!

Every Sunday at 1pm, we wrap up the week together with #CinemaAtticVermouth / Un Vermut con CinemaAttic, a relaxed live conversation with some of the directors on CinemaAttic’s Facebook channel.

If you want to know more about the Films and the Directors, Check our Extended Materials for Week 10 here

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Here are the 7 Spanish Short Films for this week:

Decapoda Shock

by Javier Chillon

Synopsis: An astronaut returns to Earth after a fatal accident on a distant planet.

Festival & Awards:

Leeds Film Festival – Méliès d’Argent, Winner
Knoxville Horror Film Fest – Best Short Film, Winner
Festival de Cortos del Barbú – Special Mention, Winner

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Aliens

by Luis López Carrasco

Synopsis: A portrait of multi-talented artist Tesa Arranz, an icon of the 1980s ‘Movida’ scene in Madrid.

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Festival & Awards:

Locarno Film Festival, TIFF Toronto Film Festival, IFFR – Rotterdam Film Festival

Toulouse Cinespaña – Best Short Film, Winner
Aguilar de Campoo Short Film Festival – Jury Prize, Winner
Festival de Cine de Murcia
Cinema Jove – Valencia Film Festival

Ancora Lucciole // Still Fireflies

by María Elorza

Synopsis: In 1972 Pier Paolo Pasolini spoke of the disappearance of fireflies. A few months later he was murdered. Since then the fireflies have continued to disappear. But there are still people who remember them.

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Festival & Awards:

ZINEBI Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao
Alcine – Alcalá de Henares Film Festival
Málaga Film Festival

Vida en Marte // Life on Mars

by José Manuel Carrasco

Synopsis: Ana and Luis meet again after 20 years and talk about their lives, as well as their past.

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Festival & Awards:

San Francisco Frozen Film Festival – Best International Film, Winner
Festival de Cine de Lanzarote – Special Mention, Winner
Cortogenia – Best Costume, Winner

El Hombre Feliz // The Happy Man

by Lucina Gil

Synopsis: Does the Happy Man Exist?

Festivals & Awards:

2008 Goya Award – Best Documentary Short Film, Winner

Viaje a Pies // Travel by Feet

by Khris Cembe

Synopsis: A night train journey. A wagon full of passengers. An annoying companion in your compartment: what would you be willing to do in order to have a peaceful journey?

Festival & Awards:

Goya Award – Best ShortFilm Animation – Nominee

Bilbao Fantastic Film Festival – Best Basque Short Film, Winner
CAOSTICA Short Film & Video Festival – Animation Award, Winner
Cluj Short Film Festival – Best Animation, Winner

La Pasión de Judas // The Passion of Judas

by David Pantaleon

Synopsis: This film is based on a local tradition of some Spanish and Latin American villages in which, at Easter, a doll representing Judas Iscariot is stoned, lynched or burned for his betrayal to Christ. The third episode of the Cardboard Tales trilogy.

Festival & Awards:

ALCANCES Festival de Cine Documental – Best Short Film, Winner
Oberhausen Short Film Festival – Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Winner
ABYCINE Festival de Cine de Albacete – Jury Special Mention, Winner
DokumentART European Film Festival for Documentaries – Audience Award, Winner

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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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