Y de beber, albóndigas, hosted by Santi Alverú, is a podcast of interviews that can be watched live. In this 40th edition, Santi Alverú will interview at 12h María Romanillos, the actress who will receive this year's Un Futuro de Cine award and at 13h actor Sergi López, who premieres one of his latest films as a leading actor, La Terra Negra by Alberto Moráis.

A dying palm tree, a doomed romance, and a mother who wants to move on. This will be Alkistis’ last summer on the Athenian Riviera.

*Opening film out of contest.

Suk-jing leads an ordinary life with her husband and in-laws in the New Territories. Becoming a mother upends her familiar routine, forcing her to balance family expectations with career demands. The film offers an intimate look at her journey through the emotional shifts of motherhood, testing her resilience and redefining her identity.

An idyllic south Indian hamlet reveals treacherous political depths when Pathi ends up pregnant after being sexually assaulted. Prabhu, who is set in his mind to be part of the village council, works to cover up the incident lest it stand in the way of his campaign.

With the precision of a meticulously planned thriller and a claustrophobic atmosphere, Natesh Hedge reflects on violence and power, corruption, and politics in an apparently peaceful community in southern India

On the occasion of the Futuro de Cine award to maría Romanillos two of her last films will be screened and will take place the award ceremony with the actress.

Two old friends reconnect over a weekend. Their conversations flow naturally. Trivial matters and deep emotions intertwine as they address the ups and downs of their lives with honesty and a sense of humor.

Two friends and the city of Melbourne as a space to explore that combination of expectations and uncertainties that occurs during your twenties. Sophie Sommerville directs with agile pacing and smart dialogue a fresh dramedy about the hopes of life when you’ve just entered adulthood.

Y de beber, albóndigas, hosted by Santi Alverú, is a podcast of interviews that can be watched live. In this 40th edition, Santi Alverú will interview at 12h María Romanillos, the actress who will receive this year's Un Futuro de Cine award and at 13h actor Sergi López, who premieres one of his latest films as a leading actor, La Terra Negra by Alberto Moráis.

Below we show you the short films that you can watch on Friday, June 20 from 5:30 PM and on Wednesday, June 25 from 5:30 PM at the Rialto Theatre. Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

Below we show you the short films that you can watch on Friday, June 20 from 8:00 PM and on Wednesday, June 25 from 8:00 PM at the Rialto Theatre. Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

Below we show you the short films that you can watch on Saturday, June 20 from 10:30 PM and on Wednesday, June 25 from 10:30 PM at the Rialto Theatre. Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

A selection of series from the official selection to celebrate its 10th anniversary.
Below are the series you can watch on Friday, June 20, from 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM in Sala 7 of the Rialto Building.

Click on the title to view each listing.

By focusing on the peripheral or hidden details of some paintings in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the female narrator relates several stories linked to the social, economic and psychological conditions of the artists, both past and present.

Friday 20 JUN | 17:30 h
Wednesday 25 JUN | 17:30 h

María returns to her family's industrial mill after years of absence, to work alongside her brother Àngel. Her return is met with disapproval from Àngel's friends. Àngel hires Miquel, an ex-convict, to help at the mill. Despite the suspicion and fear surrounding Miquel's past, he and María find solace and connection in their shared isolation.

*Movie presented by its team.  

During the era of the Napoleonic wars, a conflict arises between two of the emperor's cavalry officers when one of them, the aristocratic Lt. D'Hubert, is sent by his superior to deliver the message to commoner Lt. Ferraud that he's to be placed under house arrest. Since Ferraud is with a woman at the time, he takes offense at the intrusion and challenges D'Hubert to a duel. Whenever their paths cross, they continue their battle, fighting a series of six duels over the course of 14 years.

16 years old Juno Macguff faces an unexpected pregnancy. With the help of her bestfriend Leah, she'll look for the ideal couple to take care of the future baby. With her parents support she'll make difficult choices about her future and will discover (or not at all) her place in the world.

While looking for shelter in music during the COVID-19 pandemics, the world famous artist Charli XCX invites her fans to help her on the creation of a new album that will be made in fourty days. The journey will face the musician with mental health issues, renewing the relationship with her boyfriend and the bond with her audience

11h-11:45h: Previous talk with Daniela de Ángel (Content Consulting Executive specializing in Spain, Latin America and the USA). Below are the series that you can see on Saturday June 21 from 11:45 and until 14:30 in Sala 7 of the Edificio Rialto.

Screening out of competition and meeting with the team.

Marta Serra, a brilliant detective who exiles herself to the quiet island of Menorca, must face the hunt for a serial killer staging murders to look like suicides. During the investigation, Marta and her partner Àlex uncover a real estate corruption scheme orchestrated by the Portuguese mafia, which has chosen the peaceful island of Menorca as a “nursery” for its drug stashes.

Woo-ju meets Seok-young when he saves her from drowning. Their friendship will be tested when Woo-ju makes a momentous decision and walks away to follow his dream.

Intimate and tender, Boy in the Pool depicts the arrival of first love in all its fullness and bittersweetness. A simple story, built around its teenage protagonists, based on those small emotions that the camera unravels with the pool as the setting for their awakening to the world.

Anna is a young single moonlighter mother who, on day, decides to migrate to the USA looking for a better life for her and her autistic son. She risks everything, sells her house and tries to find an american visa to get ahead a new and unknown country.

Two old friends reconnect over a weekend. Their conversations flow naturally. Trivial matters and deep emotions intertwine as they address the ups and downs of their lives with honesty and a sense of humor.

Two friends and the city of Melbourne as a space to explore that combination of expectations and uncertainties that occurs during your twenties. Sophie Sommerville directs with agile pacing and smart dialogue a fresh dramedy about the hopes of life when you’ve just entered adulthood.

France, August 2024. The Olympic Games are in full swing. Blandine arrives in Paris to meet up with her half-sister and to get to know her niece, while she tours a city completely dominated by this extraordinary event.

With the Paris Olympics as a backdrop, Valentine Cadic builds an unusual summer adventure in which her protagonist, lost in the big city, must face her doubts and desires to rediscover herself.

Below we show you the short films that you can watch on Saturday, June 21 from 5:30 PM and on Thursday, June 26 from 5:30 PM at the Rialto Theatre. Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

Below are the short films that you can see on Saturday June 21 from 17:30 and Thursday June 26 from 20h at the Teatro Rialto. Click on the title of the short films to view their file.

Branca visits her grandfather in a village hidden in the mountains of Galicia. With her arrival, the town's reality is transformed. The last inhabitants resist the disappearance of the rural world through their dreams, memories, and recollections.

On their way back to Earth, the spaceship Nostromo interrupts its trip and wakes their crew up when the central computer intercepts the misterious transmission of an unknown and, apparently, inhabited planet. They decide to go straight to that planet to investigate the origin of the strange transmission.

In Ireland live 80000 Gaelic speakers, 6000 live in the North of the country and three of them are about to turn the world upside down with the creation of a new hip-hop band: Kneecap. Rebels and chaotics, they will do whatever it takes to rescue their mother tongue from oblivion.

Bruce Farrer, a retired highschool teacher, assigns a task to his pupils: writing a letter to their future selves in twenty years.

11h-11:45h: Talk with Leo Zimbrón, executive producer and co-founder of 3Pas Studio: Business Trends in the Global Industry 2025. Below are the series that you can see on Sunday June 22 from 11:45 and until 14:00 in Sala 7 of the Edificio Rialto. Click on the title of the series to view their file.  

Below are the series that you can see on Sunday June 22 from 16:00 to 18:30 to  in Sala 7 of the Edificio Rialto with later meeting with their teams. Click on the title of the series to view their file.

18h-18:30h: Meeting with the public and the creators of the Official Series Selection 2025: Co-productions, trends and specificities. Below are the series that you can see on Sunday June 23 from 18:00 and until 20:30 in Sala 7 of the Edificio Rialto. Click on the title of the series to view their file.  

A drifting Chinese American cam girl struggles to navigate an increasingly toxic relationship with one of her clients while rekindling her relationship with her dying estranged father.

Katarina Zhu portrays, through claustrophobic planning, the anxiety of a hyperconnected generation whose emotional bonds reveal a fragility and frustration traceable to family breakdown and the difficulty of facing the transition to adulthood.

Ramya, a young Brahmin, is on her way to adulthood with one goal in mind: to find the ideal man while facing her traditional and strict parents, the imposed morals, and her chaotic adolescent mind.

Varsha Barath directs an energetic coming-of-age comedy that tells the struggle of its protagonist, Ramya, between the desires and longings typical of the end of adolescence and the strict morals and traditions that serve as the social framework in India.

France, August 2024. The Olympic Games are in full swing. Blandine arrives in Paris to meet up with her half-sister and to get to know her niece, while she tours a city completely dominated by this extraordinary event.

With the Paris Olympics as a backdrop, Valentine Cadic builds an unusual summer adventure in which her protagonist, lost in the big city, must face her doubts and desires to rediscover herself.

Every year, Xolani, a lonesome worker, takes part with other men in his community in a xhosa initiatic ritual. Kwanda, a young boy from Johannesburg, who is under Xolani's care, gets bullied by his companions because of his posh origins and his sensitivity. When Kwanda discovers Xolani's big secret, the life of the two men will radically change.

Below are the short films that you can see on Sunday June 22 from 17:30h and Thursday June 26 from 22:30 at the Teatro Rialto.

Click on the title of the short films to view their file.

Below are the short films that you can see on Sunday June 22 from 22:30 and Friday June 27 from 17:30 at the Teatro Rialto.

Click on the title of the short films to view their file.

Novembre 2019. Tyrell Corporation has created a new robot called 'Nexus 6' thanks to the developement of genetis engeneering. This android is identical to humans besides its strength and agility, way more superior. The new robots are known as replicants. After a serius incident, ex blade runner Rick Deckard is called again to service in order to look for four insurgent replicants that are on Earth looking for their creator.

At the Súnion school in Barcelona, ​​​​students organize themselves autonomously in small groups, adapt to changing daily schedules and work independently. The children participate in collective activities such as dance, theater or choral singing, collaborate in cleaning and organizing the school... What is the experience of the boys and girls who live, day after day, the reality of a school so different from the rest?

*Movie presented by its director.

Sobreviure a l'incendi brings us into the universe of Valencian most successful band: ZOO. We will follow its members through an amazing journey of ten years of history full of adventure, joy and challenges. We will live first-hand the farewell of the band.

Mark Thackeray,an unemployed engineer fids a job as a teacher of agroup of conflictive students of the London East End. At the begining, he tries to earn their trust using traditional methods butlater on, he will use less academic resources in order to approach them.

• 10h. Accreditation pick-up.
• 10:30h. Curt Creixent meetings presentation.
• 11h. Pitching: four short film projects will be presented by their authors and advised by a jury of specialists: Aitor Arenas (Emergente CineLab!), Enrique Buleo (filmmaker) y María Manero (filmmaker and animator).
• 13h. One-to-one meetings between producers and filmmakers. The one-to-one are 4 minutes brief meetings between where you can present your project to production companies representatives (Previous registration needed).
• 16h. Pitching: four shortfilms in post-production will be presented by their authors and advised by a jury of specialists: Antonio Arenas (Festival Jóvenes Realizadores de Granada, La Distribuidora de la ECAM), Sonia Bautista Alarcón (Altafulla Film Festival, producer and filmmaker) and Frederico Lobo (filmmaker and PD).
• 20h. Presentation and screening of Curts 2025 Vol. 2 catalog:  Curts program is a biannual Valencian short film selection promoted by the Institut Valencià de Cultura (Access with invitation).

Ramya, a young Brahmin, is on her way to adulthood with one goal in mind: to find the ideal man while facing her traditional and strict parents, the imposed morals, and her chaotic adolescent mind.

Varsha Barath directs an energetic coming-of-age comedy that tells the struggle of its protagonist, Ramya, between the desires and longings typical of the end of adolescence and the strict morals and traditions that serve as the social framework in India.

From Toronto to Oslo, we follow the journey of a young academic: Audrey Benac. Audrey undertakes a quest towards one forgotten woman — the acclaimed early 20th-century Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow — as she simultaneously flees from another: her mother.

Sofia Bohdanovic delivers a film with a glacial aesthetic, unsettling rhythm, and mysterious breath. It’s a portrait of an obsession with music as an emotional landscape and a psychological study of a character marked by a difficult relationship with her mother and a total devotion to that ghostly music she has made her object of study.

Caricaturana (2021, 9'): Based on an idea by Eisenstein, who dreamed of composing the 101 poses of Robert Macaire, a popular French character who personifies the unscrupulous swindler, as depicted in the 101 lithographs of Honoré Daumier's Caricaturana series.

Aferim! (2015, 108'): Early 19th century. Costandin, a local policeman, is hired by a boyar to track down Carfin, a gipsy slave who ran away from his property. Costandin begins pursuing the fugitive, thus beginning a black-and-white road movie about Roma slavery in 19th-century Romania.

Radu Jude will visit Valencia to receive the Luna de València award, which acknowledges his contribution to contemporary cinema, and to accompany the retrospective dedicated to his work.

16 years old Eryk lives with her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother in a small Polish village. He keeps a very intimate relationship with his ravager and manipulative mother. The consequences of that bond arise when Eryk falls in love with his neighbour Klaudia.

Below are the short films that you can see on Monday June 23 from 17:30 and Friday June 27 from 20h at the Teatro Rialto.

Click on the title of the short films to view their file.

Asturian director Pablo Casanueva conducts a research process into the memory of his family, who were nearly wiped out during the Civil War and the Franco regime, uncovering their story "on the borders, in the fields, and in the prisons."

* Movie presented by its director.

Brendan Frye is a lonesome and clever student that fears not to back his words with action if the situation demands it. He tries to stay aside things until his ex girfriend Emily suddenly returns to his life just to dissapear shortly after.

• 10h. Guest festival: D'A Festival Cinema Barcelona. Delivered by Carlos Ríos (D'A director). Moderates Carlos Madrid (director of Cinema Jove).
• 11h. International Film Festivals Panorama: Carlos Ríos (D'A), Pilar Almenar (Humans Fest), Andrea Diéguez (Semana del Cine de Medina del Campo) and María Ruíz-Falcó (FIC Bueu). Moderates Beatriz Hernández (Skyline Film Festival, short films coordinator).
• 13h. One-to-one meetings: the one-to-one are 4 minutes brief meetings where you can show your own project to festival responsibles attending to the seance (Previous registration needed).
• 16h. Co-op Production: conersation between Àlex Badia (Barret Films Cooperativa) and Frederico Lobo (filmmaker and  Rua Escura coordinator). Moderates Santi Hernández (cooperativist and cinema critic).

Two young NEET and one indie guy talk about cinema. Hosted by Marc Martínez-Campayo, Alejandro Piquer, and Aitana Roda, they will interview Carlos Madrid, director of Cinema Jove.

Below are the short films that you can see on Tuesday June 24 from 17:30 and Friday June 27 from 22:30 at the Teatro Rialto.

Click on the title of the short films to view their file.

A double love story: that of the woman behind the camera, and that of her parents. A narrative voice that reflects on the images and weaves a shared story. And one central question: can cinema change a life? With this material, Paula Veleiro crafts her first feature film—a dizzying narrative about love and breakups.

* Movie presented by its director.

Below are the short films that you can see on Tuesday June 24 from 22:30h and Saturday June 28 from 17:30 at the Teatro Rialto.

Click on the title of the short films to view their file.

From Toronto to Oslo, we follow the journey of a young academic: Audrey Benac. Audrey undertakes a quest towards one forgotten woman — the acclaimed early 20th-century Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow — as she simultaneously flees from another: her mother.

Sofia Bohdanovic delivers a film with a glacial aesthetic, unsettling rhythm, and mysterious breath. It’s a portrait of an obsession with music as an emotional landscape and a psychological study of a character marked by a difficult relationship with her mother and a total devotion to that ghostly music she has made her object of study.

In a remote village in Xinjiang, a young Kazakh boy named Arsin finds solace in the company of plants. He soon meets Meiyu, a spirited Han girl whose unpredictable nature reminds him of a rare, otherworldly plant. As their friendship blossoms, it becomes a delicate dreamlike allegory that blurs the lines between reality and the enchanting world of botany.

With an aesthetic that combines meticulousness and an approach that plays with the poetry of intimacy, The Botanist explores, from the children’s perspective, the changes and transformations—both rural and urban—that shake contemporary China.

Below is the list of short films selected by Curt Creixent as part of the D’A Film Festival Barcelona program.

The D’A Film Festival Barcelona is an event dedicated to auteur and independent cinema, presenting the best of contemporary film every year across several venues in the city

February 23, 2022, a small town near Kyiv. Taras and Olia spend the first night in their new apartment. At dawn, they are waken up by the explossions.They fail to leave the town on time and the Russian troops arrange headquarters in their building. The couple finds themselves trapped in their flat with no electricity, water, and mobile connection.  

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine reflected from the most intimate perspective. Zhanna Orzina makes her feature film debut with a movie in which the personal and the historical intertwine through the lives of newlyweds trapped in their apartment while, outside, the war shatters their reality.

Roberto has lost his wife and moves to Ciudad de México with his teenage daughter, Alejandra. Everything seems normal in Alejandra's new life until a sex tape of her and a friend comes out and she becomes the target of harassment.

Following the success of his album El Madrileño, the popular Spanish singer C. Tangana is faced with the challenge of creating the most ambitious tour of his career and shaking up the concept of the live performance. From the birth of the album in Cuba to the conceptualisation of the show, the hostility of the negotiations, the rehearsals, the awkward conversations, the behind-closed-doors events and the whirlwind of concerts throughout Spain and Latin America.

• 10h. Masterclass Pre production On Track: delivered by Lorena Torres (Producer at The Fly Hunter).
• 12h. Music for short films: Arnau Bataller (composer), Isabel Latorre (composer) and Francisco de Zulueta Dorado (composer and Audiovisual Music and Sound Design UPV professor). Moderates Nieves Pascual (Palau de la Música Ass. Manager).

16h Amateur sreening session

• Catalina i Magaluf. Maria Pujalte Aleñar (Palma, Mallorca, 9'). 
• Pocas nueces. Paula Rodrigo (Madrid, 12'). 
• KillJote. Ángel Villahermosa (Ciudad Real, 12'). 
• Lirio. Itzá Mendy (Valància, 13'). 
• TOU. Pol Alvaro Puig (Girona, 15'). 

• Confesión. Manuel de Sobrón (Madrid, 6').
• Rapan. Álvaro Leivas (Valencia, 13'). 
• ¿Dónde estás?. María Moreno Novoa (Pamplona, 14').
• Patrimonio. Aitor Abio (Durango, Bizkaia, 14'). 
• Lencería Milagros. Jana Moreno (Barcelona, 14'). 

February 23, 2022, a small town near Kyiv. Taras and Olia spend the first night in their new apartment. At dawn, they are waken up by the explossions.They fail to leave the town on time and the Russian troops arrange headquarters in their building. The couple finds themselves trapped in their flat with no electricity, water, and mobile connection.  

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine reflected from the most intimate perspective. Zhanna Orzina makes her feature film debut with a movie in which the personal and the historical intertwine through the lives of newlyweds trapped in their apartment while, outside, the war shatters their reality.

Below is the list of short films selected by Curt Creixent as part of the Rua Escura program.

Each year, Rua Escura stands out for presenting unique proposals that explore new ways of narrating and experiencing contemporary cinema, establishing itself as a benchmark for auteur and independent film in Portugal.

Radu Jude will visit Valencia to receive the Luna de València award, which acknowledges his contribution to contemporary cinema, and to accompany the retrospective dedicated to his work. On the 25th, he will be at La Filmoteca to present Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, the film that won the Golden Bear at the 71st Berlin Film Festival, held in 2021.

A high school teacher must cope with rejection and attacks from those around her when a pornographic video starred by her is leaked online. Divided into three episodes, the film includes a self-contained middle section that serves as a dictionary of concepts interpreted from a corrosive outside perspective.

Woo-ju meets Seok-young when he saves her from drowning. Their friendship will be tested when Woo-ju makes a momentous decision and walks away to follow his dream.

Intimate and tender, Boy in the Pool depicts the arrival of first love in all its fullness and bittersweetness. A simple story, built around its teenage protagonists, based on those small emotions that the camera unravels with the pool as the setting for their awakening to the world.

By focusing on the peripheral or hidden details of some paintings in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the female narrator relates several stories linked to the social, economic and psychological conditions of the artists, both past and present.

Friday 20 JUN | 17:30 h
Wednesday 25 JUN | 17:30 h

Abel is the leader of a group of low-level thieves who live on the fringes and whose philosophy is to live without ties or ties. One day, he decides to plan one last heist with the intention of retiring. *Movie presented by its team.

Below we show you the short films that you can watch on Friday, June 20 from 5:30 PM and on Wednesday, June 25 from 5:30 PM at the Rialto Theatre. Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

Below we show you the short films that you can watch on Friday, June 20 from 8:00 PM and on Wednesday, June 25 from 8:00 PM at the Rialto Theatre. Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

Below we show you the short films that you can watch on Saturday, June 20 from 10:30 PM and on Wednesday, June 25 from 10:30 PM at the Rialto Theatre. Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

This medium-length film follows the story of the singer Amaia Romero through her experience in the making of her first album (Pero no pasa nada, 2029). We will see the artist on tour around Spain whilst combining he rpiano studies and her new life in Barcelona.

When her family moves from downtown to the suburbs, Margaret, an 11 years old girl, will find new friendships, new emotions and ultimately a new life stage: adolescence.

10 h. Children's session screening

• El espejo. Colegio Ágora (Madrid, 15').
• Jo també compte. CEIP El Crist (Meliana, València, 10').
• Guapa. Taller de cinema del CEIP Garbí (l’Eliana, València, 7').
• Una exclusiva. Taller de cinema del CEIP el Garbí i CEIP Virgen del Carmen (l’Eliana, València, 12').

• Desfase. Viktoria Miladinova (València, 14').
• La silla. IES Ramón y Cajal (Lorca, Murcia, 6').
• Because you’re mine. Enrique Llanos Álvarez (Valladolid, 7').
• El jardín de los reencuentros. Sumati Tekchandani Paryani. (Las Palmas, 6').
• #YOMEAMO. IES Las Canteras (Madrid, 10').
• Donde llora la piel. María Mascarell Espinosa (València, 2').
• Manitas. Fran Caballero (Marchena, Sevilla, 10').

A drifting Chinese American cam girl struggles to navigate an increasingly toxic relationship with one of her clients while rekindling her relationship with her dying estranged father.

Katarina Zhu portrays, through claustrophobic planning, the anxiety of a hyperconnected generation whose emotional bonds reveal a fragility and frustration traceable to family breakdown and the difficulty of facing the transition to adulthood.

Radu Jude will be visiting Valencia to collect the Luna de València Award, which recognizes his contribution to contemporary cinema, and to accompany the retrospective dedicated to his films. On the 26th, he will be at La Filmoteca to present I Do Not Care If We Go Down History as Barbarians, movie that won, among others, the Best Director and Best Film awards at the 56th Gijón International Film Festival, held in 2018.

"I don't care if we go down history as barbarians".  These words, spoken by the Council of Ministers in the summer of 1941, launched ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.
Mariana, a young artist, attempts to reconstruct the anti-Semitic Odessa massacre of 1941. As she develops her spectacular project, she is forced to confront and overcome all the objections that arise, both from the authorities and from the residents she hires as extras.

Suk-jing leads an ordinary life with her husband and in-laws in the New Territories. Becoming a mother upends her familiar routine, forcing her to balance family expectations with career demands. The film offers an intimate look at her journey through the emotional shifts of motherhood, testing her resilience and redefining her identity.

Set over the course of a tense day at an isolated boarding school, this moral drama follows a boy's desperate fight to save his sick friend in the face of a strict and rigid bureaucratic system.

16 h. Amateur session screening.

• De tanto usarlo. Iván Melguizo (Madrid, 9').

• El otro lugar. Roberta Chávez (Madrid, 13').

• La cura. Rosendo M. Diezma (Sevilla, 15').

• Huesos. Luis Paredes (Madrid, 14').

• Utopia. Una casa es una casa. Mateo Baselga (Madrid, 14').

17:15 h. Amateur session mentoring.

IKEA First times contest finalist shortfilms.

Below we show you the short films that you can watch on Saturday, June 21 from 5:30 PM and on Thursday, June 26 from 5:30 PM at the Rialto Theatre. Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

Below are the short films that you can see on Saturday June 21 from 17:30 and Thursday June 26 from 20h at the Teatro Rialto. Click on the title of the short films to view their file.

Below are the short films that you can see on Sunday June 22 from 17:30h and Thursday June 26 from 22:30 at the Teatro Rialto.

Click on the title of the short films to view their file.

Carlo, an eccentric watchmaker, seems to have the power to influence the inhabitants of his town, pushing them to their limits and challenging them to take control of their own crazy destinies. How will a misunderstood hypochondriac react when confronted with the news of his impending death? Will a girl be able to overcome the question of whether her relationship is more of a burden than a blessing? What will happen when a peaceful yoga teacher is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious new neighbor? What if a dream vacation turns into a nightmare? Will our protagonists be prepared to overcome their small ordeals?

After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel ways, couldn't agree more and they strategize murdering Bobby, with a group of willing and unwilling participants in a small Florida town.

We witness the vertiginous rising of Bad Gyal as a generational icon. The camera follows the catalan singer in her way towards the conquest of maintream world during the creation and presentation of her new album La Joia. Light and shade of an emotional journey of a sassy diva who is conscious about the music business traps.

11:00 h. Screening of The Fireman (1916, Charles Chaplin) with live music.

12:00 h. Awards ceremony of the 40th edition of the Audiovisual Youth Meeting of Cinema Jove.

An idyllic south Indian hamlet reveals treacherous political depths when Pathi ends up pregnant after being sexually assaulted. Prabhu, who is set in his mind to be part of the village council, works to cover up the incident lest it stand in the way of his campaign.

With the precision of a meticulously planned thriller and a claustrophobic atmosphere, Natesh Hedge reflects on violence and power, corruption, and politics in an apparently peaceful community in southern India

Radu Jude will be visiting Valencia to collect the Luna de València Award, which recognizes his contribution to contemporary cinema, and to accompany the retrospective dedicated to his films.

An overworked and underpaid production assistant must drive around Bucharest to film the casting call for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company. One of the interviewees says something that sparks a scandal, and she has to reinvent the whole story.

Very early in the morning, Marian, a 7-year-old boy from a small Romanian village, wakes up his father and persuades him to go to the city to fix their old TV set. The father and son begin carrying the TV set there, hoping they will find Bichescu, a specialist, who will fix their problem.

Rehana, an assistant professor at a local medical college, finds herself in a difficult position after witnessing a sexual assault in which she knows both the victim and the perpetrator. Rehana will try everything she can to have this abuse recognized by the faculty just as she receives a complaint from the school about her six-year-old daughter's unusual behavior.

Below are the short films that you can see on Sunday June 22 from 22:30 and Friday June 27 from 17:30 at the Teatro Rialto.

Click on the title of the short films to view their file.

Below are the short films that you can see on Monday June 23 from 17:30 and Friday June 27 from 20h at the Teatro Rialto.

Click on the title of the short films to view their file.

Below are the short films that you can see on Tuesday June 24 from 17:30 and Friday June 27 from 22:30 at the Teatro Rialto.

Click on the title of the short films to view their file.

Palabra de Guionista is an event that allows screenwriters to share their experience about the writing process of a project, from the initial idea to the premiere, including the development phase, rewrites, shooting, etc. In this 40th edition, we will talk with the screenwriter and director Alberto Morais, who presents in Cinema Jove his latest film, La Terra Negra. The meeting will be moderated by Miguel Marcos.

Below we present a selection of short films awarded the Luna de València at Cinema Jove in previous editions.

Alex, a teenage skateboarder, accidentally kills a security guard near Paranoid Park, a notorious public park in Portland. However, he chooses not to tell anyone.

This documentary is an intimate portrait which combines personal archives, close interviews and key moments in the life of Williams brothers and their journey around the world. Raúl de la Fuente follows both of them during the two most crucial years of their lives marked with their choice of playing for different football selections: Ghana and Spain. The director of the film leads the audiience through an emotional and sporty story while discussing topics like migration, racism, identity and family connectionsfrom a human and universal perspective.

In a remote village in Xinjiang, a young Kazakh boy named Arsin finds solace in the company of plants. He soon meets Meiyu, a spirited Han girl whose unpredictable nature reminds him of a rare, otherworldly plant. As their friendship blossoms, it becomes a delicate dreamlike allegory that blurs the lines between reality and the enchanting world of botany.

With an aesthetic that combines meticulousness and an approach that plays with the poetry of intimacy, The Botanist explores, from the children’s perspective, the changes and transformations—both rural and urban—that shake contemporary China.

After her lover death, Watako should come back to her marital life keeping for herself a full past of cheating. Old and buried emotions start to arise and she decides to face the reality.

Below are the short films that you can see on Tuesday June 24 from 22:30h and Saturday June 28 from 17:30 at the Teatro Rialto.

Click on the title of the short films to view their file.

From London to Paris, from L.A. to Seoul, members of BTS share their ups and downs during their band tour travels. Revealing their vulnerabilities and emotions, the corean band members speak about their personal llives and how different they are from the characters that they perform on stage.

Nora, a seven years old kid, witnesses the harassement that his older brother, Abel, suffers in school. Th elittle girl wants to warn the adults bur her brither stops her and make her promise that she will remain silent. The rumour spreads through the entire scholl and soon she'll had to face an ethical conflict beyond the children universe where she belongs