HE Aspe Small Film Festival not so small anymore. The competition fulfills its purpose first ten years and celebrate it this week with projection shorter than previous editions, It has decreased during the pandemic years, with the number of titles received similar or higher than before 2020.
open auditorium Alfredo Kraus As a phase, it will operate between Monday and Thursday – on Friday wagner theater– to show, among others, some of the most outstanding short films ever made, including Special Jury Award winner at the Sundance Film Festival (USA) in 2021 –Criminalsfrom Turkish serhat karaaslan– Received 27 awards at international festivals.
Compared to the 871 works entered in the previous edition, the competition received an overall rating this year. 1,362 short films from various parts of the world, including Türkiye and Egypt some of the top contributing countries – choosing from others, holy motherEgyptian Hussein Hussein– anyone Denmarkparticipating in the official Pig (Jorn Leewerink) And toner (crazy koudal).
However “little cinema” de Aspe is first and foremost a showcase showing a good selection of the world’s best short films in short format. spanish cinema, With special emphasis on cinema produced in the province of Alicante and in the Community of Valencia. in this edition tenth anniversary Four works by the filmmakers were selected for the competition. alicantinos like eternal liferelated to david valeroenvisioned this Monday on the first day; hard corerelated to Adem Aliaga (this Tuesday); The kisses I lostrelated to Mark Chanca (Wednesday); And Boy, related to alex rey (Thursday).
other short films Valencians highlights loversrelated to Joan Vives; african childrenrelated to Julio Perez del Campo And Carlos Bover; mararelated to Daniel Allue and Josep Cister starring Ana Polvorosa; shit therapyrelated to javier polo; Anticlimaxrelated to Nestor Lopez and Oscar Romeroaward-winning in Malaga, starring Manolo Solo and Belén López; anyone masqueraderelated to Ana Maria Ferriwinner of the Best Short Film Script Award in the 2020 edition of the festival and entered the competition directly when it was over.
All projections Free admission limited to a capacity of about half a thousand people, which is usually full “because we have a very loyal audienceAnd there are those who come every year since the first edition,” he says. Juan TorresHe remembers that during that first meeting, “projections went on for more than four hours in a row, and many people got tired and left because they finished too late. We started so stronge, we also went down and left in two hours as we are now”
predictions Monday to Thursday to start 22 hourswhile closing, FridayIt will begin at 20:00 at the Wagner Theatre. 20 hours. Three local short films that participated in the competition that day are shown: Let’s get wind! related to Sarah Aguilera; what cakerelated to Maria Gonzalez Navarro; And prostitute’s chairrelated to Navarro Seathose who aspire to an annual distribution award on a platform where films are registered at festivals.
After the screening, the decision of the festival is celebrated with the award ceremony of the winning works and ends with the exhibition of the winners in different categories. They are distributed in total 2.500 Euro reward: jury, public, Valencian Community, equality, 500 euros eachin addition to the award for best screenplay.
Also this year, the poster is dedicated to the North American filmmaker. john ford, death in September fifty years.