DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM AWARDS / SESSION 2 (92 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.
DOM (2025, VOSC, 19 min.)
Xavi Herrero
Daroga is a Dom, belongs to one of the lowest castes in India and works in public crematoriums. Despite hating his work, he cannot escape the caste system. Through his eyes, the film takes us on a critical journey to the religious framework between death, reincarnation and Hindu spiritual liberation in a Varanasi full of pilgrims during the monsonic season.
LA FENÊTRE (2025, VOSC, 9 min.)
Lucas Ortiz Estefanell
Visually immersive documentary short that blurs the border between reality and synthesis, and explores how artificial intelligence transforms our perception of what is real in art and cinema.
LOS CAYUCOS DE KAYAR (2024, castellà, 29 min.)
Álvaro Hernández Blanco
After 15 years in Spain as an immigrant, Thimbo returns to his fishing village in Senegal, where he is moved by contradictory feelings of nostalgia and uprooting, longing and resentment. In addition, it has to face the dangerous influence it exerts on the young people of the town, who see it as an example to follow and want to imitate it with a highly dangerous boat trip.
DARU/N (2024, portugués, 15 min.)
Benjamin Hindrichs
Every morning, Lucila, an indigenous 80-year-old healer, lights the radio, contemplates the jungle in front of her house and asks herself a question: what will happen when we die, the jungle and me? As forest fires approach her home, she awakens an old dream.
CAUTIVAS (2024, VOSC, 20 min.)
Itxaso Díaz
Today, 24 countries prohibit abortion whatever the circumstance. El Salvador has one of the toughest laws: women accused of abortion can receive up to 40 years in prison. The documentary portrays the case of Cristina Quintanilla, sentenced to 30 years. She was released after four and a half years, but with broken life and criminal record that will accompany her forever.