DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM AWARDS / SESSION 3 (99 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.
DISONANCIA (2025, VOSC, 25 min.)
Raquel Larrosa
Fatimetu Bucharaya is a Sahrawi woman who in 2019 founded SMAWT, an association of volunteer women dedicated to the detection of antipersonnel mines in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria).
LES IMATGES ARRIBAREN A TEMPS (2025, VOSC, 6 min.)
Jaume Carrió
The most recent natural disasters have emotionally impacted the filmmaker Jaume Carrió, who reflects on the loss in this essay. Analyzes how society captures and preserves memories, and explores collective and individual memory in the face of the fragility of life.
LA LUZ QUE NOS GUIA (2025, VOSC, 20 min.)
Cristina Rodriguez Paz
The last lighthouse keepers pay tribute to the life in the lighthouse and reflect on a work that has marked their lives. Not only does the trade disappear, but also a way of life. A serene requiem for a world that goes out.
EL LAMENTO DE LOS GIRASOLES (2024, VOSC, 18 min.)
Oscar Vega
A film that narrates the prize obtained by the Spanish composer Eduardo Soutullo in Saint Petersburg in 2022 with Threnus Helianthuses, a work based on anti-war verses from Lessia Ukraïnka. He was the only non-Russian finalist and won the third prize. The work, performed by the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, contributed to it receiving the National Music Award in 2023.
UNA CASA (2025, VOSC, 19 min.)
Constança Amengual
Xisca inherited the house of her aunts, on the coast between S’Illot and Cala Morlanda, where she spent her summers as a child. Despite the sentimental value, he decides to sell it. His daughter Constança, a filmmaker, documents the last summer before the farewell. A reflection on memory, the passage of time and the transformation of family spaces in a neighborhood that also changes.
LOS CHICOS CON LAS CHICAS (2025, VOSC, 11 min.)
Claudia García De Mateos Sanchis
8 in the morning. In the schoolyard, boys play ball; girls watch stickers albums. Claudia hesitates: she likes football, but that makes her “different”. They tell him, they make him feel. Over time, the bodies change and the courtyard becomes more complex. Deep questions arise: who wants to be a woman? Why? What does it really mean to be a woman?