Feature Film Competition 2024

All selected feature films in alphabetical order:

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Cast: Álvaro Lucas, Dunia Rodríguez, Alba Tissera, Alberto Lucero, Paula Motoso, Daniel Jaen, Elena Foronda, Gonzalo Validiez, Delia Seriche, Néstor Circolone, Andrea Veguez, Nadal Bin, Aldara Fernández, Jorge Roelas.

Jon is an aspiring filmmaker who decides to shoot a movie with his friends. On the filming set, he will meet Darma – a mysterious girl. From the first moment, Jon realizes that Darma is unique and that he will end up falling in love with her.

Feature Film Competition | Film Genre: Fiction / Comedy, Drama | Recommended Ages: 14+
FESTIVAL SCREENING ROOM: 5 A

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Cast: Paula Almerares, Omar Sanchez, Ana Maria Haramboure, Nelida Serpentini, Violeta Bongiorno, Eugenia Games, Vanina Anahí Borda, Maria Fragueiro, Homero Perez Miranda, Fernando Sansivery.

A theatre appears like a magical space – but, over time, it becomes a labyrinth of anguish and representations of reality. Those who see the falseness of the theatre sets from behind the stage may fail to find any magic in it and may see it as a labyrinth or as a cage – which some do not want to leave, while others just cannot leave.

Feature Film Competition | Film Genre: Art, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Thriller | Recommended Ages: 12+
FESTIVAL SCREENING ROOM: 4 A

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Cast: Javier Ballesteros, Rosa González, Antonio Romero, Emilio Parada, Ana de Sardi, Rocío Arias, Carmen Mateos de Tejada, Anush Mir, Beli Queros y Carrie Fernández.

One Day, Bruno receives a strange chess box on his doorstep. His life will change forever, as he has been chosen at random to play a deadly game where nothing is what it seems to be. And he will discover a very frightening truth.

Feature Film Competition | Film Genre: Fiction / Thriller | Recommended Ages: 14+
FESTIVAL SCREENING ROOM: 6 A

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Cast: Mariana Lombard, Marcela Ferreirós, Elvira Gonzéz Folgar, Cristina Gumuzio Irala, Enzo Bizzotto, Daniel Martini, Reidun Trondsen, Miguel Angel Rodriguez, Helge Matland.

What would happen if a solar storm similar to the one that occurred in 1859 were to happen
in our current world, so dependent on technology? A personal and cinematographic
introspective and cathartic journey of a film editor who suffers power cuts in Buenos Aires
and who enters a futuristic, near dystopia.

Feature Film Competition | Film Genre: Fiction / Drama | Recommended Ages: All
FESTIVAL SCREENING ROOM: 7 A

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Benda, a young Sahrawi woman of the diaspora wonders about the future of her people’s children and women.

Feature Film Competition | Film Genre: Documentary | Recommended Ages: 12+
FESTIVAL SCREENING ROOM: 3 A

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Cast: Jordi Maria Macaya, Genisa González Carricondo.

Professor Macaya’s mechanisms are the perfect time machine to transport the audience
to a magic world. A tribute to simplicity, to the objects and the beginnings of the cinema.

Feature Film Competition | Film Genre: Documentary | Recommended Ages: All
FESTIVAL SCREENING ROOM: 2 A

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Cast: Felipe Catalán Arcos, Alonso Reyes Rojas, Fernando Rojel Vargas, Sara Imilmaqui Aguas, Rodrigo Lausen Marty, Paz Muñoz Valeria, Alejandro Utreras Imilmaqui, Vicente Díaz Zapata, Alejandro Parra Santibáñez, Amaru Rojel Aguilar, Lucas Antoine León Ch.

Wentru travels along the ancient route of the southern region, crossing the valleys of the
Chilean Andes, but this ancestral journey will become a spiritual path that will challenge
him to raise the memory of his people in front of Wenteyao.

Feature Film Competition | Film Genre: Fiction / Drama | Recommended Ages: All
FESTIVAL SCREENING ROOM: 7 B

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Cast: Nitercílio Ferreira de Morais, Otacílio Ferreira de Morais, Maria Ferreira de Morais, Paulo Araújo, Neucilene Ribeiro.

In “River’s Thirst”, we are led through the emotional journey of Nir, a riverside dweller whose
life is deeply intertwined with the waters of the majestic São Francisco River. Every year, Nir
embarks on a poignant river pilgrimage to Bom Jesus da Lapa, a town known as the “Mecca of the Sertanejos”, in a touching tribute to those who lost their lives in the river he so dearly loves.

Feature Film Competition | Film Genre: Documentary | Recommended Ages: 12+
FESTIVAL SCREENING ROOM: 8 A

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Cast: Tulio Villavicencio, Perla de la Rosa, Leo Gándara, Laura Ángel, Sophia de la Parra.

After six years in prison, Carlos will have to face his past, reunite with his family, and decide between submitting to the conditions imposed by the one who betrayed him – in order to be able to see his own child – or leaving everything behind forever.

Feature Film Competition | Film Genre: Fiction / Drama | Recommended Ages: 12+
FESTIVAL SCREENING ROOM: 1 A

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