DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM AWARDS: SESSIONS 1 AND 2
Twelve international documentary short films and four from the Balearic Islands are competing for awards at the 8th Menorca Doc Fest.
OCT 9 / 7:00 pm / SESSION 1 (VOSC, +12, 66 min.):
Dreams for a better past (2025, VOSC, 21 min.), by Albert Kuhn. A photograph, a silent legacy of power and ideological battles that echo across several generations. Searching through the fragments of the past, we glimpse what we choose not to see, what slips through the cracks of our consciousness. How do we inherit what we cannot understand, which forces us to repeat the same gestures over and over?
Diciembre (2025, VOSC, 20 min.), by Diego Poncelet. Ever since Diciembre skates down the Medellín highway, one question keeps echoing: what kind of person does this? Through a journey to Mallorca, this short film uncovers a philosophy centered on what the protagonist calls his own madness.
Wainitai (2025, VOSC, 20 min.), by Pablo García-Vizcarra. In an Awajún community in the Amazon rainforest, Jarumi, a 14-year-old girl, silently learns traditions and household chores, while watching the men enjoy a freedom that seems unattainable to her. Through her drawings and the nature she depicts from her room, a question begins to emerge: whether there is a place for her to be herself.
Pedro Tomás explica el mundo (2025, VOSC, 5 min.), by Kornelijus Stučkus. Pedro Tomás explores the world through his unique gaze and tells us everything he sees. The jungle, ducks, God, or flowers. He also lingers on the strange black desert left behind after the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, on his native island of La Palma.
OCT 9 / 8:15 pm / SESSION 2 (VOSC, +12, 74 min.):
Souvenir (2026, VOSC, 15 min.), by Macià Florit Campins. It narrates the journey of a stone from Menorca, from the moment a tourist takes it as a souvenir, through its seizure at airport security, its storage for an entire summer in a warehouse in Maó’s industrial estate, its classification by a geologist, and finally its return to its natural environment by the Government’s Beach Service.
Princesa 20 (2026, VOSC, 18 min.), by Marina Freixa Roca. A home camera films everyday life from a balcony on Princesa Street, in Ciutat Vella: parties, football, protests and nights that become an unintentional archive of more than a decade of urban transformation. Years in which real estate speculation, mass tourism, and the first online communities began to record the unstoppable change of Barcelona’s city center.
El congelador (2026, VOSC, 20 min.), by Raúl De La Fuente Calle and Amaia Remírez. In the lands devastated by mining in Madre de Dios, southeastern Peru, in the Amazon, a girl manages to escape the mafia holding her captive. After escaping, she begins her search for justice, which will lead her to share her case with the entire nation, drawing the attention of politicians, prosecutors, judges and police.
L’últim vaquer de Hollywood (2026, VOSC, 20 min.), by Jordi Nadal Perelló. We discover the surprising story of Joan Ribot, a young man from Mallorca who, in the 1960s, made his way into the heart of Hollywood through his work with John Wayne. Today, at 85 years old, he could still be living in Los Angeles. The documentary sets out to hear his story firsthand.