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Explora

Works of any genre and nationality. A section that focuses on the search for new filmmaking signatures. Pieces that can hardly be catalogued in specific genres, and that dilute the traditional idea of cinema by exploring innovative avenues that are close to video art, documentary or avant-garde cinema.

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Teatro Principal

Length: 82m 08s

Uluru

Uluru

Alberte Pagán

  • 2018
  • 06:51
  • Spain
  • EXP
  • COL

There’s no way of escaping Uluru’s magnetism. That huge red wall full of history and song draws you into its core, invites you to become one with it, to sink into it. Native land, cathedral of the Anangu. 
 

Word for Forest

Word for Forest

Pia Rönicke

  • 2018
  • 22:00
  • Denmark
  • DOC, EXP
  • COL, B/W

The film records a seed’s displacement from Mexico, where it was collected by the botanist Frederik Liebmann in 1842, to the Botanical Garden in Copenhagen. In Santiago Comaltepec, the forest is taken care of by the community, which has long resided in this area, but has not always had the right to use the land. The film invites one to listen to the rhythms of the language and the sounds of the forest and to absorb the variations in the many ferns. 

Screen

Screen

Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller

  • 2018
  • 17:34
  • Germany
  • EXP
  • COL, B/W

“While he mused on the effect of the flowing sands, he was seized from time to time by hallucinations in which he himself began to move with the flow.“ (Kōbō Abe) . Liminal zones. Floating particles. Fire, water, earth, air. Voices of fictional characters: sometimes suggestive, sometimes strict, leading the viewer away from the here and now. Who's talking? The relationship between the hypnotized subject and the hypnotist is mirrored in the spectator's relationship to the screen.

Spanish premiere

Mountain plain mountain

Mountain plain mountain

Yu Araki, Daniel Jacoby

  • 2018
  • 21:00
  • Spain, Japan, Netherlands
  • DOC, EXP
  • COL

Shot it in Obihiro, Japan, at the last standing venue to host a rare kind of draft horse races known as Ban'ei. Putting together a mix of motionless, contemplative shots and hard-edge, rhythmical, gibberish-rich montages, the slowness of these bizarre races is twisted to its limit. The overall timeline, thus, mimics the track's topography poetically described by a veteran trainer as "a small and a big mountain."

Galician premiere

Optimism

Optimism

Deborah Stratman

  • 2018
  • 14:43
  • USA, Canada
  • DOC, EXP
  • COL, B/W

The urge to relieve a winter valley of permanent shadow and find fortune in alluvial gravel are part of a long history of desire and extraction in the far Canadian north.

Galician premiere