Technical specifications:
Short film, 2020
Original title: Another Sex Dimension
Genre: Adult
Director, writer: Sally Fenaux Barleycorn
Production: Erika Lust Films (XConfessions), Alba Sotorra Cinema Production
Technical specifications:
Short film, 2020
Original title: Blind(ed) Date
Runtime: 31 min
Genre: Adult, Terror
Director, writer: Sally Fenaux Barleycorn
Production: Erika Lust Films (XConfessions), Alba Sotorra Cinema Production
Based on Robert Wyatt's album, Rock Bottom is a tormented love story between a young artist couple immersed in the creative and groundbreaking whirlwind of the post-hippie culture of the early '70s. Drugs will turn a dream summer into a nightmare through a dreamlike journey set to Wyatt's soundtrack, taking us from desolation to a search for hope. A universal story about the transformative power of art and music.
Technical specifications:
Animated Feature Film
Original title: Rock Bottom
Runtime: 87'
Genre: Animation, Drama, Musical
Director, writer, animator: Maria Trenor
Production companies: AlbaSotorra, Jaibo Films, GS-animation, Empatic
Countries: Spain, Poland
Original soundtrack by: Robert Wyatt
A misunderstood teenager is locked up in a juvenile detention center from which she plans to escape with her newfound friends to perform in a trap music contest.
Technical specifications:
Feature Film
Original title: Salen las lobas
English title: Wolf Grrrls!
Estimated runtime: 85 min
Genre: Drama
Director, writer: Claudia Estrada
Production: AlbaSotorra, Novak Prod
Countries: Spain, Belgium
Confinement due to COVID-19 leads Fernando to think about all the time that he did not spend with his family. In the form of a letter, the director of this essay film reflects on life priorities and the time we devote to our loved ones.
Technical specifications:
Essay Film. Short.
Original title: Carta a un ser querido
International title: Letter to a loved one
Release date: 2020
Runtime: 07:23’
Genre: Essay film, Drama
Director, writer and editor: Fernando Sánchez Martín
Writer: Fernando Sánchez Martín y Javier Calvo Garcia
Translations: Clàudia Martori
MARTA flees from the suburban city she grew up in to seek success in the art world in Barcelona. Following a series of unfortunate situations within her modern universe, she is forced to face her worst fear: going back to her home town. There, she reencounters life in the suburbs and her childhood friends, Soraya, Desi and Bea; with them she relives the truest, most sour, and loyal friendship. In this tumultuous return to her roots, Marta discovers that her greatest complexes can become her greatest strengths.
Technical specifications:
Fiction feature
Title: Chavalas
Estimated runtime: 90’
Genre: Dramedy
Director: Carol Rodríguez Colás
Writer: Marina Rodríguez Colás
Executive producer: Marta Figueras
Script editor: Isa Campo
Direction Assistant: Eva Murgui
Raphi, from France, fantasizes about romances with princes, and about starting a traditional family. But in reality, things aren’t like that. She works in a call center in Barcelona, struggles with at times embarrassing dates, and is diagnosed by her therapist as having gender dysphoria. During this confusing, yet valuable period, we follow this trans woman as she makes her transition, as well as in her everyday life. She talks candidly with colleagues, queer friends, and the men she meets through apps. In spite of all the advice she receives, it turns out that it is mostly time and experience that will help her embrace her place in this world.
Technical specifications:
Feature fiction
Title: Mi vacío y yo
Genre: Drama
Director: Adrián Silvestre
Producers: Marta Figueras, Javier Pérez Santana, Alba Sotorra Clua
Executive Producer: Eva Murgui
Writers: Adrián Silvestre, Carlos Marqués Marcet , Raphäelle Pérez
DOP: Laura Herrero Garvín
Casting department: Mercè Espelleta
Production department: César Martínez
Assistant director: Pedro Telechea
Cast: Raphäelle Pérez
Best Documentary [Nominee]
– Cleveland International Film Festival
Best Adapted Screenplay [Nominee]
– Premis Gaudí
Best Film Special Mention [Winner]
– D'A Film Festival Barcelona
Feroz Arrebato Award [Nominee]
– Premios Feroz
Special Mention [Winner]
– Festival Mix Milano
Best Feature Film [Winner]
–Guadalajara International Film Festival
Performance in an International Narrative Feature [Winner]
–L.A. Outfest
Special Jury Award [Winner]
–Festival de Málaga
Best Spanish Film [Nominee]
–Festival de Málaga
Best Feature Film [Nominee]
–Queer Lisboa: International Festival of Queer Cinema
VPRO Big Screen Award [Nominee]
–Rotterdam International Film Festival
Best Film [Nominee]
–San Sebastián International Film Festival
Best Documentary Film [Nominee]
–Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Documentary Competition [Nominee]
–Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Mermaid Award [Winner]
–Thessaloniki Film Festival
Best Film [Winner]
–Festival de Cine de España de Toulouse
Best First Film [Nominee]
–Festival de Cine de España de Toulouse
Violette d'Or [Nominee]
–Festival de Cine de España de Toulouse
Best First Film [Nominee]
–Festival de Cine de España de Toulouse
Honorable Mention Documentary Feature [Winner]
–Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBT Film Festival
With the support of :
Festivals & Awards
Jana, Alba and Zoe go on a creative retreat in a house in the countryside to finish their university final projects. The time they spend together and the questions of that arise in this final stage, will end up tinging the days in the house with nostalgia and an imminent farewell.
Technical specifications:
Short fiction film
Title: Les altres coses que ens separen
Genre: Drama
Directors: Elena Ballvé , Alezandra Gantzer
Writers: Elena Ballvé and Alezandra Gantzer
Production managers: Carlota Darnell, Júlia Parés
DOPs: Clara de Ramón, Laia Borrás
Composer: Martí Juan
Art director: Mar Puigbert
Editors: Anna Asensio, Júlia Gaitano
Sound manager: Albert Guimerà
Assistant director: Júlia Parés
Starring: Angela Cervantes, Laura Roig, Ivet Zamora
Festivals:
READ MY BREASTS is a documentary about the FEMEN activist Inna Shevchenko. Women who give everything, change our world with their political actions and reap contradictions, these are FEMEN –and Inna is at the centre of this new feminism.
Technical specifications:
Documentary feature
Title: Read my breasts
Genre: Documentary
Director: Anja Salomonowitz
Executive producers: Peter Drössler, Alba Sotorra
Production companies: Golden Girls (Austria), Alba Sotorra Cinema Productions (Spain)
Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, a female Kurdish fighter guides her fellow fighters in the resistance to defend their city, Kobane, from the deadly threat of ISIS. A real story of war, sacrifice, love and hope that kept the whole world on tenterhooks.
Technical specifications:
Feature film
Genre: Drama, war
Director: : Özlem YAŞAR
Production houses: Rojava Film Commune (North-East Syria) ; Alba Sotorra Cinema Productions (Spain) ; Demkat (Iraq) ; ArtRecords (Germany)
