In tribute to agriculture and fertile crops, Ceres is born, a competitive section aimed at promoting works developed in film and audiovisual teaching and training centers in Spain and Portugal. Short films that explore various trends in contemporary cinema and audiovisuals, such as the validation of sense, perception, rhythm and matter as the guiding principles of cinema; the personal and imaginative approach to contemporary auteur cinema; the relationship between memory, family, cinema and exhibition practice; or the exploration of concepts such as ‘limit’ and ‘threshold’ from a perspective that hybridizes genres and aesthetics make up the Ceres section of the 09 edition of Novos Cinemas.
Spain | 2024 | 7’ | Colour | DCP
GALICIAN PREMIERE
Spain | 2024 | 9’ | Colour | DCP
GALICIAN PREMIERE
Spain | 2024 | 17′ | Colour | DCP
Portugal | 2024 | 08’ | Colour | DCP
SPANISH PREMIERE
Looking into the distance is a film recorded on the island of Lanzarote that focuses its narrative on the observation of the horizon.The film is structured around a series of camera movements (ascending and descending) and proposes different encounters between landscapes-frames, as well as a rhythmic progression that tries to exhaust all possible combinations until confusing what is below with what is above, the sky with the earth, the dark with the bright.
On the periphery, the city’s waste accumulates to form illegal dumps. In these, a new kind of life has emerged. It hides from the lights of humans, but the city reclaims what is its own. It advances and changes everything in its path. In its flight, the shadows remain in time. The thresholds persist. Gentrification, the death of one city and the rebirth of another.
Years before the banquet of TARA, with the institution already established and in a world of increasingly corrupt morals, Gralla, a solitary priestess, embarks on a journey with her wandering confessional preaching a new form of forgiveness… until a mysterious man decides to challenge her.
In an empty house we see the memories of a home, from those who once lived and filled it with joy and love.
Photographer and film director with special interest in exploring the film médium, Marta Lara Pérez (Madrid, 1995) develops her artistic practice in natural environments and focuses her work on film and installation. Degree in Audiovisual Communication (UFV), Master of Author Photography (EFTI) and Master of Contemporary Audiovisual Creation and Practice (LAV). She has participated in group exhibitions such as Soy lo que me sucedió at EFTI (Madrid – 2022) or Frecuencias críticas de fluctuación at ACME (Madrid – 2024). Her work has been screened at festivals such as Diminuto – Festival Internacional de Cine Mínimo (Mexico City – 2023), Begiradak Festival (Basque Country – 2023) or Cinespaña (Toulouse), in collective film exhibitions such as Ultimate form at Artist Film Workshop (Melbourne – 2024) or at LIFT (Toronto – 2024) and institutions such as Cineteca de Matadero (Madrid – 2024).
Sandra del Moral Abolafia (Jaén, 2001), Paolo Natale (Lorca,1997) and Daniel Rodríguez (Ourense, 1966) are three filmmakers recently graduated from the ECAM, where they specialized in Documentary Film within the same promotion. The joint journey began with the piece Configuración de un Umbral, the result of months of collective creative process, exploring common concerns of the filmography of each of the three. The hybridization of cinematographic codes, sensory narratives that aim to fully engage the viewer, cinema without actors… the film is born from these intentions and more.
Rebeca Tella (Ferrol, 2002) and Daniel Filloy (O Carballiño, 2022), both graduated in Communication at the University of Vigo, work in different fields of artistic production, such as drawing, music or literature. In the audiovisual field, they have worked in multiple home and school pieces since their childhood, and they debut as co-directors with TARA, a short film with which they have toured more than a dozen international festivals and with which they inaugurate the TARA UNIVERSE.
Sofia Afonso began her journey in cinema at Escola Artística de Soares dos Reis, where she specialized in video. She interned at the production company Cimbalino Filmes, working on 6 short films, where she was in charge of publicity and production photography. She started her degree in Cinema at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in 2021, where she made several films. Currently, she continues her Cinema degree at Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica do Porto.
