71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Javier Rebollo
Spain 
85 min.
Gaby and Carlos decide to spend their holidays in Cuba. Not one to give up easily, Carlos’s mistress, Sylvia, sets off hot on their heels to the island where she spends her time trying to forget her worries by dabbing in a bit of witchcraft. In the meantime, Gaby meets Cacho, a local tourist guide who is her epitome of Caribbean exuberance, colour and heat, and arouses emotions she thought she’d never feel again. Incapable of controlling the situation, Carlos ends up in hospital with a bunch of broken bones and the two women to boot.
Ernesto Tellería
Spain 
90 min.
Zarko, a young illegal Romanian immigrant, lost in Bilbao, has a chance meeting with a Young female photographer. A relationship develops which, for Zanko, may also provide the only way out of the vicious criminal circle in which he finds himself. Inés offers him friendship, maybe love and all her support… until she becomes trapped by the reality of his clandestine immigrant with all its terrible violence, jeopardising he career and her peace of mind.
Nuria Ruiz Cabestany
Spain 
14 min. Short film
Una vagabunda se introduce en la vida de la protagonista provocando situaciones que alteran su vida cotidiana, surgiendo finalmente una complicidad entre ambas mujeres para enfrentarse a todas las dificultades surgidas.
Jose Félix Collazos
Spain 
10 min. Short film
Through the black frame that she contemplates, a woman crosses the threshold that transports her to a reality inhabited by shadows and strange beings. This is the beginning of a journey where the moon will be a witness as to how the night, threatening, comes face to face with her own destiny.
Montxo Armendariz
Sapin - France - Portugal 
105 min.
During the holidays with his brother Juan at their mountain village home, nine-year-old Javi is curiois to find out what's behind the locked door of the room where his father's dead body was found. Captivated by the mysteries of the adult world, Javi doesn't let up, until the fantasies of his young imagination are replaced by lies, passions, love and death. 
Ana Díez
Spain - Portugal - Colombia - Cuba 
93 min.
Marta, a professional stockbroker, has to travel to Colombia when her journalist brother Juan is murdered. But things don't go quite as planned when, instead of simply collecting his brother's ashes, she gets caught up in the violent reality of everyday Colombia and is thrown head first into a complicated intrigue with all sorts of adventures leading from order to chaos. She eventually comes to the conclusion that when everything is dark and life isn't worth a button, it is impossible to tell between victim and executioner, right and wrong, and to know where the truth starts and ends. 
Marí Luz Sánchez, Roberto Francisco
Spain 
13 min. Short film
Our heroin is a housewife called María. The film looks at a normal day in the life of an average family; but, during this “normal” day, the accumulation of “everyday” events makes something explode.
José Luis Serrano
Spain 
9 min. Short film
Doctor Morán gets an early morning emergency call. A young boy has been brought in and needs an urgent operation. Driving towards the hospital, Morán comes across an injured man who hits him and steals his car when he stops to help. The doctor tries to get to the hospital, but…
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