The 90's. Sister Marina arrives to El Parral, an orphanage threatened to close. The children are out of control, but the nun captivates their attention with her charisma. When Marina discovers their nightly escapades, she comes up with the idea that will change the orphanage forever: to create a footbal club.

"Y de beber, albóndigas', presented by Santi Alverú, is an interview podcast that you can watch live. Come and enjoy a show in which you can participate and become a participant in all that happens.

A couple of American filmmakers retreats to the island of Fårö, where Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman once lived, in search of inspiration to write their next films. As the summer goes and their fascination with the island's mysterious landscapes grows, the boundary between fact and fiction soon blurs.

Completely overwhelmed when her boyfriend Julian proposes to her, Marie escapes to the countryside in order to collect her thoughts, but instead of finding peace, she is blindsided by her personified thoughts. Things get really complicated when Julian shows up with his own personified thoughts. Ich Ich Ich is a surrealistic story that humorously explores the resilience of a relationship and the pursuit of the true self.

Victor, his wife Annette and their daughter Pamela are about to leave Vienna for Paris. Annette wants to believe that Vienna has a negative influence on Victor, which makes him irresponsible, and hopes that one day he will come to his senses and their marriage will stabilize. However, in Paris the situation takes a definite turn for the worse and they break up. Eleven years later, Pamela, now 17, seeks out her father to try to understand him.

Kotogawa is an weirdo 41-year-old taxi driver with no family and not much attachment to other people. He has conversations with his customers, including a university student who wants to go viral, a nurse who is hiding a secret, an unsuccessful comedian, a street tough and an up-and-coming idol. These conversations lead him to a girl who has disappeared.

Mau is the first-ever documentary about the design visionary Bruce Mau. The film explores his unlikely creative journey and ever-optimistic push to tackle the world’s biggest problems with design. From advising global brands like Coca-Cola and Disney, to rethinking a 1000-year plan for Mecca, Islam’s holiest site. From working with the greatest living architects (Rem Koolhaas & Frank Gehry) to rebranding nations such as Guatemala and Denmark. Bruce Mau is a pioneer of transformation design and the belief that design can be used to create positive change in our world.

The children of the Santiago Apóstol school, in El Cabanyal, do not have a proper school playground. With the outbreak of the pandemic, Valencia City Council temporarily allowed the school to use a plot of land next to the school. The secondary school students participate in the construction of this space with a Service Learning project. Zona Santiago, free to play' is a documentary that has followed the whole process of transformation of this space.

A couple goes to a small French fishing village to try to solve the problems of their deteriorated marriage.

Completely overwhelmed when her boyfriend Julian proposes to her, Marie escapes to the countryside in order to collect her thoughts, but instead of finding peace, she is blindsided by her personified thoughts. Things get really complicated when Julian shows up with his own personified thoughts. Ich Ich Ich is a surrealistic story that humorously explores the resilience of a relationship and the pursuit of the true self.

Below are the short films that you can see on Friday 24th June from 22:00H and Wednesday 29th June from 22:30H at the Rialto Theatre . Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

Max Fisher is a student at Rushmore, one of the most prestigious schools in the country. He is the editor of the school newspaper and the captain and president of numerous clubs and societies, but he is also a lousy student who is always on the verge of expulsion. When Max falls in love with Miss Cross, a young and charming teacher, his conquest is threatened because Mr. Blume, the father of two classmates, also tries to conquer her.

Frances is a 27-year-old woman who has decided to realize her dream of becoming a dancer in a New York company. She lives with her best friend Sophie and enjoys life with joy and carefreeness, even though she wants much more than she has and her innocent spirit is not exactly ideal for surviving in the New York jungle.

Panel discussion with Rebecca Windsor (Director of the Warner Bros. Television Workshop).   Rebecca Windsor is the vice president and director of Warner Bros. Television Workshop, the main writing and directing program for artists looking to launch their television careers. As an extension of her role developing new talents, Rebecca helped launch Warner Bros. digital brand Stage13, which oversees the acclaimed Snatchers, which premiered at the Sundance and SXSW Film Festival, and Special, which premiered on Netflix and earned four Emmy nominations. Previously, she was the Creative Production Initiative Manager of the Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program, playing a key role in coordinating Screenwriters and Directors Labs, Episodic Story Lab and Creative Producing Lab and Summit. Prior to Sundance, Rebecca was Development Manager at the television company Samuel L. Jackson, UppiTV, and at Mandeville Films. He began his career as an assistant at the Broder Webb Agency Chervin Silbermann and ICM. A native of San Diego, she attended Northwestern University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in theater. Free admission until full capacity.

Below are the webseries that you can see on Saturday 25 June from 12:00 in Sala 7 (Teatro Rialto). Click on the title of the webseries to see their profile.

Below are the webseries that you can see on Saturday 25 June from 16:00H in Room 7 (Rialto Theatre). Click on the title of the webseries to see their profile.

With Eugenio Viñas (journalist and producer).

Panel with Luke Eve (director and producer of Australian cinema).   Free admission until full capacity.

For her job as an influencer, she wears orange and a broad smile. The "Happiness" brand is her doctrine, but her home is a dark place where brute force has ruled for years. This film shows us what it costs to escape the trap of misogyny.

This is the story of a girl with a terminal pancreatic disease, a boy who keeps her secret and a relationship that still has no name...

Just before her final exams, 19 years old Defne, has to return to her hometown after her father's stroke. His rehabilitation sessions will give the pair a chance to heal their fragile relationship. Slowly drawn into a family drama, she witnesses her aunt's suicide by unprescribed pills she has provided. Buried under her guilty conscience, she slowly finds herself losing her innocence and questioning her own notion of justice.

A personal essay film shot on ravishing DV moves between different times and places with a perambulating logic: a travelogue of quarantine and family journey that draws lines between Graz, China and Myanmar as well as intimacy, memory and politic.

'Tipos que importan' introduces the people who, back in the sixties and with paintbrush in hand, began to fill the streets of Valencia with colour and warmth. A film that gives a voice to the anonymous protagonists who built València's commercial graphics. Professionals of hand lettering, commercial signage and design, personal stories that help us to understand a city and its history.

Mud Frontier follows the studio’s founders, Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, as they return to Rael’s ancestral land to reconnect with the past and forge new methods of creative production. Motivated by both the neglect of traditional adobe houses that once covered the San Luis Valley region and the rise of concrete buildings, the studio has been exploring the use of 3D-printing technology to build adobe structures in Rael’s familial village of La Florida in southern Colorado

The rapid rise 📈 of emoji (Japanese for “picture character”) is a global 🌍 phenomenon without precedent. Their widespread use and ability to convey complex messages have not only cemented emoji's place as an emerging digital language 🗣, but prompted difficult questions 🤔 about the creation of a language and digital communication’s fraught ties 😣 to identity and inclusion

Below are the short films that you can see on Saturday 25th June from 17:30H and Thursday 30th June from 22:30H at the Rialto Theatre . Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

Northern Argentina, carnivals. After a year in the village with her mother, Monica and her partner take up a dance duet. Together they go on a tour of the Andes in an attempt to save their relationship by holding on to a promise: "I won't stop loving what's left of you". What are they doing there?Performing for what, for whom? No one asked them to be there. And yet there they are, isolated, drifting.

Below are the short films that you can see on Saturday 25th June from 22:30H and Friday 1th July from 17:30H 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 25th June at the CCC Octubre from 18:00H. Click on the title of the short films to see their details.  

Marnie is a young recent graduate who must face the adult world, but her addiction to alcohol, her bad taste in the wrong men and her inability to get a steady job won't make it easy for her. It would be sad if it wasn't even funny.

Simon Spiers is a 16-year-old with a normal life, a wonderful family and good friends. But Simon has a secret: he is gay. When one of his e-mails falls into the wrong hands, Simon will see how things become extraordinarily complicated, and he will have to face a situation that will jeopardize the life he had been leading for so long.

Below are the webseries that you can see on Sunday 26 June from 12:00 in Room 7 (Rialto Theatre). Click on the title of the webseries to see their profile.

Below are the webseries that you can see on Sunday 26 June from 16:00H in Room 7 (Rialto Theatre). Click on the title of the webseries to see their profile.

Panel with Adjani Salmon (writer, director, and award-winning actor with his series "Dreaming Whilst Black", now on the BBC).   ADJANI SALMON Hailing from Jamaica, Adjani is an award-winning writer-director and actor who only writes "what he likes". As well as an avid reader, he spends his time people-watching, eavesdropping and randomly chatting up strangers, not putting his Architecture degree to good use. In 2019, Dreaming Whilst Black, as a web series came 2nd in the Web Series World Cup with 36 Awards. The pilot for the BBC3 TV adaptation has also been nominated for multiple awards. Adjani is the 2022 Breakthrough Award Winner for the RTS Awards and BAFTA Winner for the Emerging Talent: Fiction Award as a result of his Television debut for Dreaming Whilst Black.

Giulio has just turned eighteen and lives in the country with his parents. Once again he will spend the summer with his family, without ever leaving his home. In the house next door, uninhabited for years, Lia, a bold and introverted twenty-year-old girl, arrives. Lia starts Giulio into some strange and increasingly dangerous games. Giulio is deeply attracted to her, but he still hasn't understood what she's hiding in that old abandoned house, where no one is allowed to enter.

Grégoire has everything he could wish: a wife he loves, three lovely daughters and an interesting job as a film producer, to which he dedicates most of his time. He only relaxes when he spends the weekends in the countryside with his family, but those moments are as precious as they are fragile. Grégoire arouses people's admiration for his physical presence and his exceptional charisma, but his prestigious production company is on the verge of bankruptcy; so many productions, risks and debts announce the arrival of a storm.

Dovile’s life is shaken by her father’s death. But there is no time to mourn as she must urgently organize the funeral. Trying to make it perfect, Dovile takes care of every detail and finds herself in increasingly curious situations. Her childhood memories are chasing her up.

A fictionalized depiction of the life of Inu-oh ("King Dog"), a 14th-century Japanese performer of music drama at the time of its transition from the folk art of sarugaku ("monkey music") into the formalized traditions of Noh and kyôgen.

Below are the short films that you can see on Sunday 26th June from 17:30H and Thursday 30th June from 17:30H 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 Sunday 26th June from 20:00H and Tuesday 28th June from 17:30H 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 Sunday 26th June from 22:30H and Thursday 30th June from 20:00H at the Rialto Theatre . Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

The monobloc plastic chair is the best-selling piece of furniture that ever existed. MONOBLOC tells the story of how this unsightly chair took the world by storm – and why.

When Chuck buys Harmony, his future robot partner, he doesn't expect her to like books and talk about transcendental subjects. In Japan, the robot Pepper arrives at Grandma Sakurai's house to keep her company, but he turns out to be rather absent-minded... Robots are the new creatures of planet Earth. Are we ready to introduce artificial intelligence into our lives?

Cleo, a young singer, impatiently awaits the results of a medical test. When a fortune teller who reads cards reveals to her that she has cancer and may die, her anxiety increases. Trying to fill her time while waiting for the results, Cleo meets a young soldier, about to leave for military service in Algeria, to whom she confides her fear of death.

A clerk is forced to work in a supermarket during his day off and attend to many peculiar customers.

Robert is an ultra-religious Russian student, a young victim of a mystical crisis in which he is convinced that the world has surrendered to evil and that there is no more ethics. His classmates and teachers no longer know what to make with the certainties of a boy who is guided only by the holy scriptures. Elena, his biology teacher, is the only person who will dare to challenge him on his own territory.

In the occupied Golan Heights, a desperate unlicensed medic subverts expectations when he accidentally encounters a wounded Syrian wartime soldier

Spring 1999. Fifteen-year-old Camille and 19-year-old Sullivan are passionate in love, but he will depart to South America, leaving Camille in pain and despair. Years later, Camille, who is in a strong relationship with Lorenz, will meet Sullivan again. (run into, bump into)

Giulio has just turned eighteen and lives in the country with his parents. Once again he will spend the summer with his family, without ever leaving his home. In the house next door, uninhabited for years, Lia, a bold and introverted twenty-year-old girl, arrives. Lia starts Giulio into some strange and increasingly dangerous games. Giulio is deeply attracted to her, but he still hasn't understood what she's hiding in that old abandoned house, where no one is allowed to enter.

Just before her final exams, 19 years old Defne, has to return to her hometown after her father's stroke. His rehabilitation sessions will give the pair a chance to heal their fragile relationship. Slowly drawn into a family drama, she witnesses her aunt's suicide by unprescribed pills she has provided. Buried under her guilty conscience, she slowly finds herself losing her innocence and questioning her own notion of justice.

Below are the short films that you can see on Monday 27th June from 17:30H and Friday 1st July from 22:30H 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 Monday 27th June from 22:30H and Wednesday 29th June from 20:00H at the Rialto Theatre . Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

Varda, like other French filmmakers 'gauchistes', wanted to go to Cuba shortly after the triumph of the Revolution to see and film what was happening there. Thus, "Salut les Cubains" animates fifteen hundred of more than four thousand snapshots that the director took during her vacations in Cuba. By editing, the filmmaker gets the people portrayed to sing and dance, in what she calls "socialism and cha cha cha".

François is a young carpenter happily married with two children, but when he meets Emilie, he can't avoid be attracted to her and they end up having an affair. The real problem is that he can't make his feelings clear and doesn't know which of the two he loves more.

Wendy moves to Alaska with he dog Lucy, to take a new job in a fish cannery factory. While crossing the state of Oregon, her old car breaks down and she has to take it to a garage, but her economic resources are so limited that she ends up stealing a can of dog food from a supermarket and is discovered and taken to the police station. A few hours later she is released, but Lucy has disappeared and Wendy will then have to recover her dog and pay the garage bill.

Lara Jean Covey, a high school student, writes letters to boys she likes and keeps them in her closet. Her latest letter is to her childhood friend Josh, who is dating her older sister, Margot. When Margot moves out for college, she breaks up with him, but Lara Jean, who has always had a crush on him, doesn't dare say anything to him. What she doesn't know is that her own letters will eventually do it for her.

Rehana, an assistant professor at a medical college, struggles to keep the harmony between work and family. One day, she witnesses a student storming out of a professor’s office, crying. Deeply impacted by this event, Rehana’s life starts to spiral out of control just as she receives a complaint from the school about her six-year-old daughter’s unusual behaviour. Rehana refuses to accept the madness of the patriarchal society she lives in and will put everything at stake, in order to find justice for her student and her daughter.

In the exciting Parisian nightlife of the 1990s, young Paul takes his first steps as a DJ.

EL INFIERNO Y TAL RÁFAGAS DE VIDA SALVAJE COMO YO TE AMO SER E VOLTAR CONDENADOS

When Clara visits her mother with herdaughter Emma, she finds herself confronted with her ideal of an unfettered, self-determined life and the price she must pay for it

Below are the short films that you can see on Sunday 26th June from 20:00H and Tuesday 28th June from 17:30H 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 Tuesday 28th June from 20:00H and Saturday 2nd July from 22:30H 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 Tuesday 28th June from 22:30H and Saturday 2nd July from 20:00H at the Rialto Theatre . Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

A writer and his wife settle on the island of Noirmoutier, where they live with very little contact with the population. The wife lost the ability to speak after an accident and the husband is a writer. Suddenly, disturbing events occur and several inhabitants of the island seem to be losing control of themselves. A retired engineer neighbor manipulates the islanders using a machine of his invention and the writer finds a subject for a fantastic novel.

High school teacher Rainer Wenger decides to do an experiment to explain to his students how a totalitarian regime works. Just a few days later, what seemed to be an inoffensive test based on discipline and a sense of community turns into a situation over which the teacher loses all control.

With his debts mounting and angry collectors closing in, a fast-talking New York City jeweler risks everything in hope of staying afloat.

Keiko, a young pro boxer, was born with a hearing impairment. Boxing is a real challenge for her, but the club she belongs to is like a second home. After winning two difficult fights, a creeping fear begins to grow inside her. The club chairman, the only person who had accepted her as a boxer, is plagued by health issues and is losing his eyesight. Having learned that the gym is about to close for good, a confused Keiko goes on to her third bout. But perhaps the biggest challenge she faces is trying to understand the true nature and strength of her will to fight.

Yujin, 18, is left alone and opens her eyes to love with no idea of the other side of love.

A personal essay film shot on ravishing DV moves between different times and places with a perambulating logic: a travelogue of quarantine and family journey that draws lines between Graz, China and Myanmar as well as intimacy, memory and politic.

Nathalie is a philosophy teacher at a high school in Paris. She is enthusiastic about her work and divides her time between her students and her family, with her grown-up children and her slightly senile mother. One day her husband informs her that he is leaving her for another woman. This is only the first of a series of big changes that will force Nathalie to reinvent her life all of a sudden.

A girl walks reflexively in a park, observing the activity of the people.

The first documentary to analyse with historical accuracy the "Battle of Valencia", the name given to the social, political and cultural conflict that conditioned the transition to autonomy in the Valencian Community from 1975 to 1982, that is, from the end of Franco's dictatorship until the approval of the Statute of Autonomy. The documentary has been made from an archive of more than 80 hours of interviews with more than 60 people who make up a whole mosaic of opinions and reflections, with as many different perspectives as possible.

Below are the short films that you can see on Monday 27th June from 22:30H and Wednesday 29th June from 20:00H 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 Friday 24th June from 22:00H and Wednesday 29th June from 22:30H at the Rialto Theatre . Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

Documentary based on the arrest of Huey Newton, one of the founders of the Black Panthers, after the presumed murder of a policeman. The film focuses on the protests that brought together more than 5,000 people, in which there were fierce clashes between police and demonstrators.

A complete didactic guide from the IVC, written by filmmaker Alejandro Portaz, which proposes a balance between amateur and professional processes of filmmaking, promoting narrative creativity and play. Tell your story... differently!

Andrew shows up unexpectedly at Ben's place, his old college friend. It doesn't take long for the two men to recover their old heterosexual macho complicity. To show him something different from his conventional life, Andrew takes Ben to a different party, where they all plan to participate in the local amateur porn festival and shoot art-house porn movies.

Five students of different education and interests are punished to spend a Saturday at the institute where they study. They are soon at odds with each other, especially when the principal who watches over them is absent from the classroom.

Dovile’s life is shaken by her father’s death. But there is no time to mourn as she must urgently organize the funeral. Trying to make it perfect, Dovile takes care of every detail and finds herself in increasingly curious situations. Her childhood memories are chasing her up.

After four months of hostage in Syria, Gabriel, a young French journalist, is released. After undergoing medical check-ups and answering many questions, he is able to return to his family and girlfriend, but unable to find a direction for his life, he decides to go to Goa, where he grew up. There he meets Maya.

Keiko, a young pro boxer, was born with a hearing impairment. Boxing is a real challenge for her, but the club she belongs to is like a second home. After winning two difficult fights, a creeping fear begins to grow inside her. The club chairman, the only person who had accepted her as a boxer, is plagued by health issues and is losing his eyesight. Having learned that the gym is about to close for good, a confused Keiko goes on to her third bout. But perhaps the biggest challenge she faces is trying to understand the true nature and strength of her will to fight.

In the occupied Golan Heights, a desperate unlicensed medic subverts expectations when he accidentally encounters a wounded Syrian wartime soldier

Below are the short films that you can see on Sunday 26th June from 17:30H and Thursday 30th June from 17:30H 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 Sunday 26th June from 22:30H and Thursday 30th June from 20:00H 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 25th June from 17:30H and Thursday 30th June from 22:30H at the Rialto Theatre . Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

Christine is a lonely artist who works as a taxi driver for the elderly. Richard, a recently divorced shoe store salesman and father of two, meets Christine, but is afraid of his feelings. Life is not so complicated for Richard's children. Seven-year-old Robby has a dangerous Internet romance, while fourteen-year-old Peter becomes a guinea pig for some neighbor girls.

François is a young French language teacher in a conflictive high school in the suburbs. His students are teenagers and he does not hesitate to engage them in stimulating verbal battles, but learning democracy can involve real risks. Cultural differences clash violently in the classrooms, which are nothing but a microcosm of contemporary France.

When Clara visits her mother with herdaughter Emma, she finds herself confronted with her ideal of an unfettered, self-determined life and the price she must pay for it

For her job as an influencer, she wears orange and a broad smile. The "Happiness" brand is her doctrine, but her home is a dark place where brute force has ruled for years. This film shows us what it costs to escape the trap of misogyny.

Rehana, an assistant professor at a medical college, struggles to keep the harmony between work and family. One day, she witnesses a student storming out of a professor’s office, crying. Deeply impacted by this event, Rehana’s life starts to spiral out of control just as she receives a complaint from the school about her six-year-old daughter’s unusual behaviour. Rehana refuses to accept the madness of the patriarchal society she lives in and will put everything at stake, in order to find justice for her student and her daughter.

Screening of the short films 'Sociales', 'La sangre seca' and 'Cuando haces pop'. Presented by Jorge Silvestre, Premio A Futuro de Cine 37th edition.  

Below are the short films that you can see on Saturday 25th June from 22:30H and Friday 1th July from 17:30H at the Rialto Theatre . Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

Raphi writes poems and dreams of falling in love with a Prince Charming. From her homeland France, she moves to Barcelona, where reality is far from what she projects to be. After being diagnosed with gender dysphoria, she will begin an arduous journey to come to terms with her true identity. Doctors, colleagues, artists and men she meets will give her their own advice, but only time and experience will help Raphi to find her place in the world.

Below are the short films that you can see on Monday 27th June from 17:30H and Friday 1st July from 22:30H at the Rialto Theatre . Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

Charlie, a shy and loner young student, writes a series of letters to an unidentified person in which he deals with issues such as friendship, family conflicts, first dates, sex and drugs. Charlie will have to face certain difficulties as he struggles to find a group of people with whom he can fit in and feel comfortable.

Yujin, 18, is left alone and opens her eyes to love with no idea of the other side of love.

Yui, a 17-year-old runaway girl, and Hiyori, 8 years-old, who has lost her voice after losing her parents in an accident, have something in common: they are both homeless. It is then that they meet a mysterious old woman, Kiwa, and decide to go and live with her in an old traditional house known as Mayoiga on a cape. Thanks to Kiwa and the Mayoiga's care, their wounded hearts begin to heal.

This documentary tells the story of the first 25 years of Luis García Berlanga's life, from the time he was born in Valencia on 12 June 1921 until he decided to go to Madrid to study film in 1947. A vital and important period in order to understand the personality of a genius. A convulsive time when monarchy, republic, democracy, dictatorship, peace and war take over from one another; when cinema is winning the day over other forms of entertainment and where both the protagonist and his world and his city are undergoing a continuous process of transformation. From the hand of his grandnephew Chechu García-Berlanga and Luis' own memories, we will travel through the childhood and youth of an extraordinary and creative man who did not yet know that he was called to be one of the great directors of Spanish and European cinema.

Below are the short films that you can see on Tuesday 28th June from 22:30H and Saturday 2nd July from 20:00H 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 Tuesday 28th June from 20:00H and Saturday 2nd July from 22:30H at the Rialto Theatre . Click on the title of the short films to see their details.

Cher and Dionne are two of the most popular girls in a Beverly Hills high school and maintaining that status is their priority. But Cher also has an innate need to help everyone else and spends her time acting as a matchmaker for her strict parents and helping her new friend Tai.

Living in a Persian family and confessing that you are bisexual may not be the best of ideas. But try explaining it to your girlfriend, a fierce defender of sexual liberation.