VIII INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL DONA I CINEMA
FEBRUARY 21 – FEBRUARY 28, 2025
CINES BABEL – CCC OCTUBRE – COL·LEGI MAJOR RECTOR PESET – LA NAU

21.02

19:00 – CCC OCTUBRE
OPENING OF THE VIII INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL DONA I CINEMA
Tribute to the 2023 godmother – PILAR PÉREZ SOLANO
Screening of the short film “Donde el trigo crece más alto”

22.02

19:00h – CCC OCTUBRE

GUEST FESTIVAL SERIES – OLHARES DO MEDITERRANEO – LISBON, PORTUGAL

Festival presentation by its director SARA DAVIS LOPES.

A selection of short films from the festival:

  • For Real by Malou Lévêque | France | Fiction | 2023 | 22’
  • As Cores do Luto by Mariana Lima Mateus | Portugal, United Kingdom | Documentary | 2024 | 19’
  • SARD by Zeina Ramadan | Palestine | Animation | 2019 | 7’
  • CHASING the SUN: El Shatt by Ana Bilankov | Croatia, Egypt, Germany | Documentary | 2023 | 19’
  • Warsha by Dania Bdeir | Lebanon | Fiction | 2021 | 16’

23.02

19:00h – CCC OCTUBRE

WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA SERIES – INÉS PARIS
Screening of the film LA NOCHE QUE MI MADRE MATÓ A MI PADRE and discussion with the director.

  • LA NOCHE QUE MI MADRE MATÓ A MI PADRE, 2016. Fiction Feature Film, Spain, 94’

24.02

12:00h – CM Rector Peset

DEBATE – ERASED MEMORY, REBUILT MEMORY

Discussion with Libertad Zanon, a photographer from Catarroja who lost everything during the DANA, and Laura Oliver, an audiovisual conservator involved in restoring films damaged by the flood. We will talk about the loss of collective memory swept away by the mud and explore strategies to recover and reinvent it through art and community.

Screening of the short film “Volver a pasar” by Bebe Pérez.

Activity with online streaming.

18:00 – 22:00h – CINES BABEL
OFFICIAL SECTION

Session 1 – 18:00h > SHORT FILMS: FICTION, DOCUMENTARY, ANIMATION & VIDEO ART

  • A KNOWING (VA) – Jazzara Jaslyn, South Africa, 12’
  • PARIDAS (VA) – Alba Benlloch, Patricia Azpelicueta, Marcela Guevara, Spain, 3’
  • THE SILENT ROUTE (AN) – Merve Cirisoglu, United Kingdom, 9’
  • TESORO (AN) – Carmen Álvarez Muñoz, Spain, 6’
  • MY MUM RITA (CD) – Qiqi Hou, United Kingdom, 20’
  • 8 DE FEBRERO (CF) – Sara Martínez Sanz, Spain, 12’
  • LUMEN (CF) – Stéphanie Bélanger, Canada, 13’

With the presence of directors Carmen Álvarez Muñoz, Alba Benlloch, Patricia Azpelicueta, Marcela Guevara, and Gemma Fajardo (Fundación por la Justicia).

Session 2 – 20:00h > FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

  • THE EYEBALL PERSON (CD) – Yuri Muraoka, Japan, 12’
  • FERNANDA YOUNG: BEYOND MY CONTROL (LD) – Susanna Lira, Brazil, 97’

Session 3 – 22:10h > FEATURE FICTION FILM

  • LITTLE ONE (CF) – Lindsay Carpenter, USA, 9’
  • DIFFERENT PATHS TO HOLINESS (LF) – Aniela Astrid Gabryel, Poland, 75’

25.02

18:00 – 22:00h – CINES BABEL
OFFICIAL SECTION

Session 1 – 18:00h > SHORT FILMS: FICTION, DOCUMENTARY, ANIMATION & VIDEO ART

  • CECI N’EST PAS SOLVEIG (VA) – Veronica Pamoukaghlian, Uruguay, 11’
  • HAPPY END (VA) – Fátima Luzardo, Spain, 2’
  • THE TOWN OF DEAD DREAMS (AN) – Manisa Hope, Canada, 15’
  • Felina (AN) – María Lorenzo, Spain, 12’
  • ROSE (CD) – Annika Mayer, Germany, 19’
  • 21 HAFTEYE BA’AD (CF) – Nasrin Mohammadpour, Iran, 13’
  • EGOÍSTA (CF) – Teresa Bellón & Úrsula Gutiérrez, Spain, 11’

With the presence of director María Lorenzo.

Session 2 – 20:00h > FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

  • BILLY (LD) – Lawrence Côté-Collins, Canada, 107’

Session 3 – 22:00h > FEATURE FICTION FILM

  • URANITES (CF) – Marina Arenas, Spain, 9’
  • EL VAQUERO (LF) – Emma Rozanski, Colombia, 93’

26.02

18:00 – 22:00h – CINES BABEL
OFFICIAL SECTION

Session 1 – 18:00h > SHORT FILMS: FICTION, DOCUMENTARY, ANIMATION & VIDEO ART

  • FIRST ENCOUNTER (VA) – Marielle Madly Gonier, Australia, 12’
  • Prima che arrivi AL (VA) – Simonetta Barbon, Italy, 5’
  • Plazer bat (AN) – Sonia Estévez, Spain, 4’
  • The Loving Couple (AN) – Mhairi Kerr, Canada, 7’
  • Emilio Barreto: ángeles y demonios (CD) – Cris Arana, Spain, 26’
  • Atrapadas (CF) – María Mondragón, Mexico, 14’
  • SONA (CF) – Zahra Torkamanlou, Iran, 15’

With the presence of Sajedeh Saraei, producer of SONA.

Session 2 – 20:00h > FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

  • INANIMATE OBJECTS (CD) – Aleksandra Markovic & Julia Konarska, United Kingdom, 21’
  • A BOY WHO NEVER WAS THERE (CD) – Kinga Chomać Piechota, Poland, 3’
  • HARD TO BREAK (LD) – Anna-Maija Heinonen & Krista Moisio, Finland, 81’
With the presence of director Aleksandra Markovic 
 

Session 3 – 22:00h > FEATURE FICTION FILM

  • MIERDA PARA MAMÁ (CF) – Rocío Rubio, Spain, 3’
  • LA IMPOSTORA (CF) – Yangxi Chen, Spain, 8’
  • PAULA (LF) – Florencia Wehbe, Italy/Argentina, 89’

27.02

18:00 – 22:00h – CINES BABEL
OFFICIAL SECTION

Session 1 – 18:00h > SHORT FILMS: FICTION, DOCUMENTARY, ANIMATION & VIDEO ART

  • GOLD GROUND (VA) – Elvey Anna Stedman, United Kingdom, 4’
  • THE FAMILY PORTRAIT (AN) – Lea Vidakovic, Serbia, 15’
  • MALEZA (AN) – Carina Pierro Corso, Spain/Brazil/Portugal, 5’
  • LOLA, LOLITA, LOLAZA (AN) – Mabel Lozano, Spain, 9’
  • ZONA WAO (CD) – Nagore Eceiza, Spain, 25’
  • LA PAZ DE LOS CEMENTERIOS (CF) – Raquel Troyano, Spain, 10’
  • SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN (CF) – Dahlia Nemlich, Lebanon, 15’

Session 2 – 20:00h > FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

  • REBELADAS (LD) – Andrea Gautier, Tabatta Salinas, Mexico, 85’

With the presence of Andrea Gautier.

Session 3 – 22:00h > FEATURE FICTION FILM

  • POSTMARKS (LF) – Natalia Nazarova, Russia, 119’

28.02

19:00h – CCC OCTUBRE
CLOSING OF THE FESTIVAL
AWARD CEREMONY

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