This year ushers in
the big four-oh, a long
trip to Poland, and the
end of a decade; the ideal moment to
take a look in the rear-view mirror and check out the best from the last ten years of film addiction. And there are a handful of novelties set alongside the mainstays of
ALCINE40; those sections repeated year in year out, which always come up trumps.
Along with
Open Screen for New Directors, the
National and European Competitions comprise the three
competitive sections at the
Alcalá de Henares / Madrid Region Film Festival. The latter two categories get underway as soon as the festival is opened. The
National Competition brings together a total of
39 Spanish-produced short films from the 6th to the 8th of November. The work is divided into
six blocks screened in the
Teatro Salón Cervantes, with sessions scheduled for
17:30, 19:45 and 22:00.
Among those selected for the
National Competition there are directors who are well known in Alcalá such as
Jaume Balagueró, the director of ‘REC’, who is presenting
‘Miedo’ this year. The remaining films up for competition in this section are as follows:
‘360º’ (Maja Djokic); ‘
Ahate Pasa’ (Koldo Almandoz); ‘
Ámár’ (Isabel Herguera); ‘
Caníbales’ (Juanma Carrillo); ‘
De caballeros’ (Adrián Orr), ‘
El cortejo’ (Marina Seresesky); ‘
El extraño’ (Víctor Moreno); ‘
El pabellón alemán’ (Juan Millares); ‘
El premio’ (Elías León Siminiani);
‘El segundo amanecer de la ceguera’ (Mauricio Franco); ‘
Emetreinta’ (Gonzalo de Pedro and Javier Garmar); ‘
En el insomnio’ (José Ángel Alayón), ‘
Estar aquí’ (Silvia González); ‘
Exlibris’ (María Trenór); ‘
Gracias’ (Jorge Dorado); ‘
Homeland’ (Juan de Dios);
‘Immersió’ (Neus Ballús); ‘
Interiorismo’ (Chema Grueso and Hernán Talavera); ‘
La autoridad’ (Xavi Sala); ‘
La piñata’ (Manuel Arija); ‘
La playa de Berlín. Cannon Beach’ (Manuel Calvo); ‘
Las remesas’ (Juan Carrascal); ‘
Les bessones del carrer de Ponent’ (Marc Riba and Anna Solanas); ‘
Marina’ (Àlex Montoya); ‘
Me llamo Roberto Delgado’ (Javier Loarte); ‘
Morir cada día’ (Aitor Echeverría), ‘
Odeon; el tiempo suspendido’ (Jo Graell); ‘
Pablo’ (Nely Reguera); ‘
Puerta 6’ (Avelina Prat); ‘
Qué divertido’ (Natalia Mateo); ‘
Santiago Martínez, cazador de ovnis y alienígenas’ (Manuel Ortega); ‘
Sinceridad’ (Paco Caballero); ‘
Subir y bajar’ (David Planell); ‘
Tacones’ (Benjamín Villaverde); ‘
Te quiero’ (Sergi Portabella); ‘
Todo el tiempo’ (Jesús Hernández); ‘
Una cullera a la butxaca’ (Mireia Ibars); and ‘
Vértigo50’ (José Cabrera).
The
Teatro Salón Cervantes and the
Cisneros Cinema will share the screenings of
the European Competition, a total of
32 short films from the four corners of the continent. The section will include the participation of
three Spanish productions, ‘Ámár’, ‘El pabellón alemán’ and ‘La playa de Berlín. Cannon Beach’. The other works selected are as follows: ‘
Arachmaninoff’ (René Lange); ‘
Babel’ (Hendrick Dusollier); ‘
Believe’ (Paul Wright); ‘
Centipede sun’ (Mihai Grecu); ‘
Colivia’ (Adrian Sitaru); ‘
Der Da Vinci Time Code’ (Gil Alkabetz); ‘
Der Schübling’ (Visar Morina); ‘
Erään hyönteisen tuho’ (Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen); ‘
Fundacja Kultura’ (Rafal Kapelinski); ‘
Hanoi-Warszawa’ (Katarzyna Klimkiewicz); ‘
Hranice’ (Györzy Kristóf); ‘
Höstmannen’ (Jonas Selberg); ‘
Krajobraz nizinny z kolyska’ (Arkadiusz Biedrzycki); ‘
L’abri’ (Antoine Duquesne); ‘
L’oeil du paon’ (Gerlando Infuso); ‘
Le joueur de citernes’ (Emmanuel Gorinstein); ‘
Le portail’ (Liam Engle); ‘
Logorama’ (F. Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and L. Houplain); ‘
Madagascar, carnet de voyage’ (Bastien Dubois); ‘
Mobile’ (Verena Fels); ‘
Mrdrchain’ (Ondrej Svadlena); ‘
Muzorama’ (E. Brehin, R. Calamote,
M. Carraro, M. Cazaux, E. Davaud, L. Monneron, A. Tillement); ‘Nach den Jahren’ (Josephine Links); ‘
Pixels’ (Patrick Jean); ‘
Premier anniversaire’ (Pascal Rambert); ‘
Rita’ (A. Piazza and F. Grassadonia); ‘
Vivre encore un peu…’ (David Lambert); ‘
You and me’ (Karsten Krause); and ‘
¿Dónde está Kim Basinger? ’ (Edouard Deluc).
