‘Alcarràs’ passed the nomination for best foreign film, passing the nomination for best foreign film. the Oscar this year For titles such as “Argentina, 1985”, “The Decision to Leave”, “All Is Quiet on the Front”, “Rebel Empress” and 11 other feature films, but List of 15 selectable shortsFive finalists will come later, entries four Spanish productions.
This first cut is hard to beat, so those responsible for these four short films have already made it. a little victoryand even more so, ‘El limpiaparabrisas’ if you take into account that Spanish director Alberto Mielgo won the award for best animated short statuette, even with a United States co-produced film, in the last edition of the Oscars.
What begins when a community of neighbors decides to replace the elevator in the building slowly turns into a debate about the limits and contradictions of coexistence. This is the subject of one of the short films included in the ‘short list’ consisting of 15 titles. ‘We Vote’ directed by Santiago Requejo – this is his third short film – and starring Raúl Fernández and Miriam Díaz de Aroca. you are working well 12 minutes they competed in the latest Goya awards for best fiction short film.
Also 12 minutes long ‘Tula’ by Bea de Silva. This more recent film is about the woman in charge of cleaning a school’s toilets and the headmaster’s daughter come face-to-face. The wick that illuminates the story: The young woman is pregnant and reveals her doubts and fears to her. It is the debut of Silva working in the directing department of the feature film ‘Akelarre’.
There is a larger curriculum behind Josep Pozo. He directed the animated film ‘The Legend El Cid’ in 2003, and in 2007 he approached Cervantes’ Don Quixote from the point of view of the donkey Rucio in ‘Donkey Xote’. In 2016, he produced the rural thriller “73” and the real-life teen drama “Nick”, which he produced and shot in Andorra. Short ‘Plastic killer’, a 20-minute comedy with absurd overtonesHe also entered the race when he faced the board of directors of an organization that deals with the relationship between a woman living in an abandoned millinery and the plastic bag she sees as her daughter, and which fights against the indiscriminate use of plastic by women. from 15 titles.
fourth and final the shortest in length – nine minutes – is ‘The Cure’. Directed by Alvaro Carmonafeatures several short films and the creation of the series ‘Gente hablando’ (2018), designed from various conversations between two people and starring, among others, Miki Esparbé, Verónica Echegui, Juanra Bonet and Berto Romero. With more than 60 awards at international and national festivals behind it, ‘El tratamiento’ uses black comedy to tell the story of a man who goes to a clinic to solve a serious problem.