Three Patagonic brothers battle with their issues in a hermetic and violent way. The Younger it’s attracted to a jiu-jitsu male partner.The Middle one has testicular cancer. The Oldest is hooked on cocaine. Meanwhile, the river threatens with a big flood that can ruin their ranch.

Preceded by:
The Siege (Argentina, 17 min. 2022)

Felipe is a teenager who spends his days riding a bike with friends along the empty streets of the beach town where they live, rapping freestyle and taking acting classes behind his mother’s back. Faced with the chance to audition for a film, he escapes to the capital city and meets his paternal grandmother after not seeing her since his father’s death, and puts together the pieces of his past.

A brother and sister return to Argentina, country of their birth, for the first time in their adult lives. Against the backdrop of glamorous tango clubs of Buenos Aires, they uncover dark family secrets and the reason for their parents' emigration to Canada.

Preceded by:
Why do we dance? (Germany, 9 min, 2022)

Presenting:

Mark Of Distinction (Mexico, 37 min. 2022)
Animal Transport (Argentina, 19 min. 2022)
Christian (Spain, 11 min. 2021)
Esmeralda (USA, Colombia 18 min. 2023)
The Cake (Venezuela, 18 min. 2022)
Golem (Colombia, 14 min. 2022)
Blood And Ash (Costa Rica, 18 min. 2022)

A tight group of at-risk students in Southern California fight to overcome family trauma, homelessness and gang violence in an attempt to simply graduate high school. When one of their closest friends is murdered, they struggle to defy expectations and statistics that say they too, will fail or die trying.

Preceded by:
Mountain Dust (Mexico, 19 min. 2022)

In partnership with Aula Cervantes Seattle

August 2020. The lives of three people intersect in the post-Covid 19 lockdown Ibiza where they will try to overcome their personal tragedies, rediscover themselves and move on.

Preceded by:
Frida In The Sky (Canada, 6 min. 2023)
Los Ayeres De Hoy (USA, 12 min. 2023)

Dora, a 45-year-old biologist lives alone in an isolated house, where she conducts an ethically questionable research. Looking for a partner she can trust, she hires a new caretaker, Mateus, not realizing that he is also hiding his own secrets. Gradually, the two grow closer and Mateus finally discovers more about Dora's research: human composting. Mateus, who applied for the job in search of his father, who he believes to have worked at the house before disappearing without reporting, confronts Dora, but she manages to lure him like prey into her office, in the Tree House.

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When The Music Stops (Brazil, 15 min. 2023)

Nicaragua, today. 11-year-old Maria lives with her mother Lilibeth at the edge of a garbage dump. Their future depends on selling a litter of purebred puppies to a local thug. When the deal falls through, Lilibeth must go to the city and drop Maria off at a recycling center where she must stay and work. But days pass and she doesn't return. Maria feels lost, bewildered and angry. One night, Maria meets Tadeo, an imaginative new friend who is determined to help her to reunite with.

In an unknown and immutable microcosm of a southern Italian province, the Pirate, a solitary and blind artist, spies on the life of his fellow citizens who pass in front of his door. They are bizarre characters, left on the margins of our cybernetic and too fast society. They find meaning in their circumscribed universe, accepting with sweet melancholy that inexorable, but salvific, immobility.

After running aground in the middle of the ocean, a couple -owners of a small family tuna company- has survived by eating only canned tuna. She hungers to be saved, sending rescue messages by empty tuna can. He wants her. His efforts to keep her at his side will become the vehicle of her freedom.

Preceded by:
Una Porción Por Envase (One Serving Per Can) (Colombia, 15min. 2023)

Two women, a creepy conversation, where they don't talk about men.

A Latinx barber in a macho world faces a tough road ahead when an attraction develops for a handsome stranger during a hot and sweaty summer in Brooklyn.

Preceded by:
TLG (USA, 6 min. 2023)

Competing:

C'ERA UNA VOLTA A RIBOLLA (Italy, 19 min. 2022)
Oldtimers (Canada, 15 min. 2022)
Papel (Mexico, 8 min. 2022)
Tapuia (Brazil, 19 min. 2023)
The Black Monk (USA & Guatemala, 14 min. 2023)
Another Island (Cuba, 21 min. 2022)
Before Madrid (Uruguay, 19 min. 2022)

Presenting:

Seabreaker (Spain, 24 min. 2022)
Table For 3 (Spain, 12 min. 2022)
Lights (Spain, 6 min. 2022)
Cigarrillos (Spain, 15 min. 2021)
The Bank Loan (Spain, 19 min. 2022)
Back In 5 Minutes (SPOTS PARALELOS) (Spain, 5 min. 2021)
The Life Between Two Nights (Spain, 23 min. 2022)
Text Me When You Arrive (Spain, 4 min. 2022)
Sauerdogs (Spain, 15 min. 2022)

Ana is driving, her face serious and angry. Mateo, her husband, asks her to turn around, returning to the place in the forest where they have left their seven-year-old son. It’s only been two minutes, but he’s gone.

Jesus and Maria are a couple going through a difficult time in their relationship. Nevertheless, they have just become parents. To shape their new life, they decide to buy a new coffee table. A decision that will change their existence.

Preceded by:
Yalecu (Spain, 15 min. 2022)

Presenting:

Frida In The Sky (Canada, 6 min. 2023)
Los Ayeres De Hoy (USA, 12 min. 2023)
Martinez (Mexico & France, 93 min. 2023)

In a small country very, very far away, Julio is frustrated with the life he leads. According to him, he belongs to a generation raised by Disney and divorced parents. Blanca cheated on him and Florencia bore him.

He is a tour guide in Colonia del Sacramento when he meets Claire, an American tourist. After a crazy day in Colonia, She leaves Uruguay and they begin an online relationship that consumes Julio’s life. In an attempt to be together, he asks for a visa to travel to the United States but is rejected. When all seems lost, Claire comes to Uruguay.

Preceded by:
Love On The island (USA, 14 min. 2022)

Fearing for his life, Fernando, a Mexican man with a mysterious past, seeks asylum in the United States. After spending six months in an ICE detention center, he is released with an electronic ankle monitor, awaiting the processing of his status in the country. Fernando finds an illegal job on a dairy farm in Vermont, where he meets other undocumented workers, Pablo, Juan, and Carolina. What could have been a safe haven turns into a hellish situation. Fernando will have no choice but to take matters into his own hands, but his actions will have significant consequences for everyone involved.

Preceded by:
Suficiente / Enough (USA, 3 min. 2023)