Works produced between 2023 and 2025. This section is dedicated to films with a running time ranging from 23 to 30 minutes. We will select five mid-length films that challenge the boundaries of audiovisual language, using sound to question, construct, and engage with the image through reflections on silence, death, ritual, landscape, and memory.
Rains Don’t Make Us Happy Anymore (Latin American premiere)
Yashasvi Juyal
2025
India
26:00:00
In the high Himalayas, the village of Lohari, once alive with myth and spirit, is now submerged beneath the waters of a hydroelectric dam. The last boy of the Jaunsari people, living in the remnants of his flooded village, recalls a time when gods roamed the mountains, labourers turned into lizards, and the land pulsed with magic. Through letters to a girl who left long ago, the boy’s tale unfolds, blurring the lines between reality and myth. As the boy navigates the barren landscape, his memories twist into the supernatural: a world where the past lingers, where the living and the dead merge, and where the rains no longer bring joy.
At Times, It is Better Not to Move
Juliana Uribe Gamboa
2024
Bogotá
30:00:00
My family’s photo albums recorded how my father progressively disappeared from our lives as I appeared. The impossibility of a journey and the need to build the image of someone absent are the scenario on which I undertake my journey of searching through memory.
“Mamá” all around (national premiere)
Lucila Podestá
2025
Argentina
27:27:00
Migrate. Seize land. Give birth. Christmas. A neighborhood emerges from southern Patagonia. Houses burn, birds call. What does to build mean? Mothers are reborn from the colors of the steppe. They march. They plant. Their voices hold sheet metal in the wind.
VALERIJA (national premiere)
Sara Jurincic
2023
Croacia
23:00:00
This hybrid film takes us on a journey into a world without men, and further into the underworld, intersecting the present with eternity. On this island women choose the image that will represent them after they are gone, while the rhythm of the ritual connects them with their roots. Through a participatory process, the author silently questions: “How does it feel to have a family tree consisting only of women? What do our ancestress whisper from their silent portraits?”.
Skin of Dead Bull (national premiere)
Aroldo Murguia
2025
Perú
23:40:00
Thousands of years ago, cinema germinated on the slope of a mountain in Peru. The signal of its movement is sustained in the volcanic stone that was once its skin, which changes and transforms without stopping.
