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Week 12 is here! A brand new selection of 7 Spanish Short Films to help during the quarantine. Here we go: #CinemaAtticCuarentena Week 12, brought to you by CinemaAttic, Instituto Cervantes, Spain Culture & Science UK, Film Hub Scotland and The National Lottery’s Awards for All 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 12 | CinemaAttic Cuarentena Shorts where you can watch them, vote and comment for your favorites.

This week we bring a multidimensional programme of proper cult classics and award-winning shortfilms. It includes films by maestros from Colombia, Chile, Argentina or Brazil. You will find the old and the new, opera primas that got their authors on their track to amassing awards and works from prestigious filmmakers coming back to the original format, the short film. Animation, documentary, fiction and then, a mix of all of the above. Sit back and enjoy a rather eclectic programme as only CinemaAttic can bring to you.

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. You can also see previous Interviews with Directors on our YouTube channel.

If you want to know more about the Films and the Directors, Check our Extended Materials for Week 12 here

Here are the 7 Spanish Short Films for this week:

Yo no Soy de Aquí // I Am not from Here

by Giedrē Žickytē & Maite Alberdi

Synopsis: An 88-year-old Basque Country native, Josebe, lives in a nursing home in Chile. She’s obsessed with finding out where the rest of the elder people she lives with come from. Everyone tells her that they are Chilean, not Spanish as she is. Josebe insists on thinking about her youth in the Basque Country.

Festival & Awards:

2016 European Film Awards – Best Short Film, Nominee
Lithuanian Film Awards – Best Co-Production, Winner
Ljubljana Film Festival – Best Short Film, Winner
Docudays UA Documentary Human Rights Film Festival – Best Short Film, Winner
Budapest Documentary Festival – Best Short Film, Winner

Bancos // Banks

by Alberto Rodríguez & Santi Amodeo

Synopsis: “Many mornings I plan a robbery. A proper robbery. I do it meticulously, planning and evaluating unforeseen situations. No improvisations in my theft.”

Below Vimeo version. There is a version with Spanish subtitles CCd here

Festival & Awards:

Locarno Film Festival – Special Jury Mention, Winner
Krakow Film Festival – Best Fiction Film, Winner
ASECAN Cine Andaluz – Best Short Film, Winner
Bergamo Film Festival

El Pasajero de la Noche // Night Passenger

by Doctor Carlos Eduardo Santa García

Synopsis: The narration of the unpleasant trip and the adventures that happened to Mr. Isaac Ink and to his dead body.

Festival & Awards:

Festival de Cine de Cartagena – Best Screenplay, Winner
ZINEBI Bilbao Festival of Documentary and Short Films
New York Short Film Festival
Montecatini Short Film Festival

Efímera // Ephemeral

by Diego Modino

Synopsis: Alicia dreams of becoming a ballet dancer. In the cozy windmill where she lives with her grandmother, she impatiently waits for the moment to go for the long-awaited audition. But out there the world is not as idyllic as she thinks…

Festival & Awards:

Bilbao Fantasy Film Festival – Audience Award, Winner
Medina Film Festival – Best Director & Best Costume Design, Winner
Miami Short Film Festival – Best Narrative, Winner
WorldFest Houston – Special Jury Award , Winner
Cortopolis, Festival de Cortometrajes de Madrid – Audience Award, Winner

El Empleo // The Employment

by Santiago “Bou” Grasso

Synopsis: A man performs his usual trip to work, immersed in a world where the “use” of people is an everyday thing.

Festivals & Awards:

CinEuphoria Awards – Freedom of Expression – Honorary Award, Winner
Mar del Plata Film Festival – Best Argentinian Short Film, Winner
Hiroshima Animation Festival – Audience Award, Winner
Lleida Latin-American Film Festival – Best Short Film, Winner
Tirana Film Festival – Special Mention, Winner

Apuntes sobre el Otro // Notes on the Other

by Sergio Oksman

Synopsis: Each summer, a crowd of Ernest Hemingway doubles meet in Florida to choose his best impersonator. There was a day in 1924 when the real Hemingway also wanted to be someone else. Notes on the Other is the story of this hypothesis.

Festival & Awards:

IDFA – Amsterdam, KVIFF- Karlovy Vary, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

Warsaw Film Festival – Best Short Film, Winner
Medina Film Festival – Best Editing, Winner
Iberoamerican Short Film Competition – Best Cinematography, Winner

Paseo

by Arturo Ruiz Serrano

Synopsis: Gabino has never declared his love to a woman.

Festival & Awards:

2008 Goya Awards – Best Fictional Short Film, Nominee
New York City Short Film Festival – Best of Fest & Audience Award, Winner
Málaga Spanish Film Festival – Audience Award, Winner
Lleida Latin-American Film Festival – Best Short Film, Winner
Bahia Days of Cinema – Best Actor (José Sacristán), Winner

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CinemaAttic Cuarentena | 90 Essential Spanish Short Films of the Last Decade is an initiative organised by CinemaAttic with the support of The National Lottery’s Awards for All Scotland, 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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