DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM AWARDS / SESSION 1 (95 min.)
Screening of 16 documentary short films that opt for the Ullastre Award for Best Documentary Short Film, Balearic Award for Best Documentary Short Film of the Balearic Islands, Qualificable at the Fugaz Awards and Aula Doc Award.
The jury will be formed by Juanma V. Villar, director of the festival “Insularia. Islas en Red”, the filmmaker Isabel Andrés Portí and Sandra Reina Sarmiento, winner of the 6th edition of the Ullastre Prize with the film El Bus.
EL MAL D’HÈRCULES (2024, VOSC, 18 min.)
Marta Rodríguez Quesada, Marina Miguel Pavia, Paula Garcia Escola, Ismael Cabrera, Eulàlia Clarós Sidera and Laia Balaguer
A group of people with epilepsy undergoes tests for a week under constant sleep deprivation and surveillance. Stroboscopic lights and intense sensory stimuli seek to provoke the epileptic crisis, a state of loss of consciousness. This process, despite being hard, helps to understand the illness that was formerly associated with divine forces and a spiritual journey between pain and enlightenment.
ZONA WAO (2025, VOSC, 25 min.)
Nagore Eceiza Mujika
For more than 50 years, national and international oil companies have been extracting oil from the most biodiverse Amazonia on the planet, which threatens the life of indigenous communities with the complicity of the government of Ecuador. These are the so-called slaughter zones.
EN EL NOM DE LES FLORS (2025, VOSC, 8 min.)
Josep Alorda Roca
During a slow cinema residency in Ibiza, a filmmaker shares space with other artists in Can Tomeu, where he meets Isidoro and his cat Misina. Faced with the threat of mass tourism, the camera becomes resistant. The documentary combines self-portrait and observation, with simple gestures such as collecting and conserving flowers, symbols of a silent struggle to preserve what disappears.
LA CASA DE ANA (2025, VOSC, 29 min.)
Iker Oiz Elgorriaga
In 2020, the Moriche-Ruiz family recovers the house that the first Francoist mayor took from them in 1936 in Castellar de la Frontera. They discovered that she was from Grandma Ana since 1919. The film reconstructs a silenced past: plunder, repression, female resistance and memory. The house, a silent witness, becomes the protagonist thanks to the family archive, video mapping and expanded cinema.
FUTURO (2024, VOSC, 15 min.)
Amanda Cots Martínez and Ángel Suárez Avila
Daniel and Adrian are two young Cuban friends from a young age. Before Daniel leaves the country, they decide to say goodbye by playing among the ruins of an abandoned building next to the suitcase of Havana, a common meeting place. Between memories and corners yet to be discovered, they revive childhood while facing with nostalgia and disconcert an uncertain future for which they do not feel prepared.