Feísmo
Spain | Second feature film
What would happen if the landscape were to recycle its surplus human beings as a way of defending itself?
In Lorena’s project, four zoomers travel to an isolated village in the wilds of Galicia to follow a tourist route through a number of really ugly places. On the second night, one of them posts an ironic message on Instagram, mocking the villagers and all the ugliness. Immediately, all sorts of paranormal things start happening, and it seems that the environment is reacting and defending itself. Will the landscape manage to recycle and turn them all into ugliness?
Me llamo Erik Satie como todo el mundo
Spain, Portugal, Uruguay, France | First feature film
A Spanish woman travels to Uruguay searching for an absent father whom she last saw 12 years ago.
When she was 6 years old, a cassette tape that her mother listened to incessantly and her overflowing childhood imagination made her think that her father was Erik Satie. At 36, this fantasy gains strength again after a surprising result in a DNA test: 29% of her genetics are French.
To solve this situation, she decides to meet her father in a notary’s office and legally recognize him as her father, but she needs to find him first in order to do that.
Púa
Spain | Second feature film
Candela is a DJ in the outskirts of Madrid an she came from his native city, Valladolid, three years ago. Kike is from Missouri, has been in Madrid for two years and is doing a paid internship to get the degree to make orthopedic shoes and insoles. Kike is Candela’s fan and goes dancing every time she has a DJ session. One morning, Kike tells Candela that he came to Madrid to get out of a very toxic scene he got into. “Candela, If I wanted to I could get you to drink from my hand, but I don’t want to anymore.” Candela laughs as if it were a joke, but a memory makes her connect with her past. She has already drunk from someone else’s hand.
Julia de Castro is a multidisciplinary artist. Graduated in Art History (UCM), graduated in Textual Interpretation (RESAD), got Professional Degree in violin (Conservatorio Profesional Arturo Soria) and Resident of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome in 2017-2018. She co-directed, co-wrote, co-produced and starred in On the Go. As a screenwriter, she signed the episode Así de Fácil (2020, HBO Europe) and the medium-length film Exhalación (Filmin, 2020), which she also directed. As an actress, she premiered the TV series Poquita Fe (Movistar Plus, 2023) and the films by Paula Ortiz, Hildegart (2024) and Teresa (2023). She has participated in plays produced for the CDN, Teatro Real, Teatros del Canal, Teatro de la Abadía or the Teatro Español. She is the founder and composer of De la Puríssima (2009-2019), a project that understands Cuplé as an essential performative legacy in the history of female sexuality. In 2020, she released her first solo album La historiadora. She collaborates weekly on Radio 3 and in written media such as Forbes Woman or Icon magazine.
Un dios me ha robado el rostro
Argentina | First feature film
Small towns, bus trips and nights in train stations. The main character finds an old mobile phone in the middle of the mountains and it works better than expected: it never loses the signal and he can listen to other people’s calls. That is how he starts to discover secret connections between his neighbours.