- The Youth Audiovisual Meeting begins its intensive mentoring programme for participants.
- The Young Greta Gerwig cycle concludes with a surprise screening selected by a regular festival attendee.
Tomorrow, 26 June, Cinema Jove presents to its audience a rare sci-fi gem: the feature film by American filmmakers Jack Auen and Kevin Walker, ‘Chronovisor’, woven around an intricate bibliophilic investigation.
Its premise centres on the investigation of an enigmatic device designed to photograph the past and enable time travel. Characterised by its minimalist mise-en-scène, 16mm cinematography and intimate atmosphere focused on the intellectual obsession of its protagonist, the film arrives following praise for its “radical imagination” at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
“The aspects of ‘Chronovisor’ that first revealed themselves to us were primarily atmospheric and aesthetic: cosy Gothic libraries, endless bookshelves, bloodshot eyes, staying up all night reading, forgetting to sleep, questioning everything—including your own sense of reality—all set against the wintry backdrop of Manhattan’s timeless institutions,” explain the filmmakers.
At the heart of the film lies the mystery surrounding the controversial invention attributed to Italian monk Pellegrino Ernetti in 1972. Auen and Walker spent months scouring the internet until they compiled what they believe to be the world’s most comprehensive private archive on this myth. They ultimately integrated genuine analogue materials directly into the film’s footage.
Shaping the Future at the Youth Audiovisual Meeting
Cinema Jove continues its strong commitment to emerging talent through its founding section, the Youth Audiovisual Meeting (EAJ), taking place tomorrow. This year, the festival has made a special effort to strengthen its amateur section by bringing all competing projects together into a single category aimed at creators aged between 16 and 25.
Room 7 of the Rialto Building will bring together the filmmakers behind the 13 selected short films, coming from the Canary Islands, Catalonia, Cantabria, Galicia and the Valencian Community, for a day of intensive mentoring. These tutoring and technical analysis sessions will be led by director, screenwriter and lecturer Gabi Ochoa, alongside director and screenwriter Begoña Soler.
The Film Greta Gerwig Would Love and the Podcast That Includes Us All
As a demonstration of Cinema Jove’s close relationship with its audience, the final session of The Young Greta Gerwig cycle, programmed at CCCC (Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània), will be a surprise screening chosen by a regular festival attendee, Carolina Serra.
The selected work will maintain a strong conceptual or aesthetic connection with the filmography of Greta Gerwig, whose evolution from the most radical independent cinema to leading major studio productions has made her a reference point for new generations.
Snapshots of Spanish Short Films and Non-Normative Bodies
The industry programme concludes tomorrow with the presentation of the study ‘Presentación Estudio: el cortometraje español en 50 datos’. This pioneering report, promoted by the Spanish Short Film Coordinating Body with the institutional support of ICAA, DAMA and EGEDA, provides a detailed analytical map featuring updated data through 2026. This quantitative and qualitative overview will encourage reflection and sector-wide debate among attendees.
Finally, Fnac will host the live recording of a special episode of the podcast promoted by the Observatory of Diversity in Audiovisual Media (ODA), ’Podcast Oda: ¡corten! descodificando la ficción’. The event has been made possible thanks to the collaboration between Cinema Jove and the Summer Campus of the Spanish Film Academy.
The discussion will be moderated by Jorge Gonzalo (ODA) and Jesús Blanquiño (Podium Podcast), who will join actresses Patty Bonet and Celia Morán in analysing the challenges surrounding the representation of non-normative bodies within contemporary fictional audiovisual narratives.
