Ages of Madness:The howling of the Jinn

In a world on the brink of chaos, where ancient gods threaten to awaken, a motley crew of individuals—a young woman trapped in a sinister cult, a detective who confronts the occult, and a man burdened by the horrors of another age—find themselves connected to a forbidden book that holds the key to humanity's survival or destruction.

ESTOUCHA

In August 1936, more than a hundred women and men of different nationalities arrived in the Basque Country, responding to the Republic's anti-fascist call to fight against the military coup. Among them was Esther Zilberberg, alias ESTOUCHA. Polish, Jewish, communist, and a medical student in Belgium, she was barely 20 years old. Our film follows her exciting experiences in the Basque Country during the war. That eventful period was only the beginning of a personal and collective epic (that of those first internationalists who arrived in our land), buried for decades in oblivion. After the Civil War, during World War II, she was part of the French Resistance against the Nazis, a struggle for which she had to separate from her young son Georges. Estoucha ended up being arrested. She was taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and the Mauthausen extermination camp, but she survived. After being freed, she was able to get her son back, although she had lost her husband during the war. Now, through her son, now in his eighties, we recover her memory, accompanying him on his trip to the Basque Country to visit the places his mother told him so much about. Thus, in addition to being a historical documentary, the film becomes a physical and emotional journey, in which Georges discovers the secrets of that adventure in the fight against fascism.

THOSE WHO ARE

Lucía, imprisoned for drug trafficking, discovers she is pregnant when she receives her first temporary release. Outside, her partner Héctor pulls her back into the same trap that led her to prison. But once behind bars again, Lucía finds something unexpected: a network of women who support her, care for her, and show her a kind of love she had never known. In that sisterhood, her true path to freedom is born.

THE SAINT I DRESSED

1985, in La Ribera of Navarre. Charo is a 35-year-old single woman who works in the family candle-making workshop, a declining trade that her father refuses to abandon. The house-workshop is a peculiar place where several generations have left their mark. Charo, in turn, also leaves hers through the objects she collects from the street and accumulates there. One day, Charo receives a visit from her sister-in-law, Villar, who leaves her in charge of her one-year-old son with Down syndrome, Marcos, for an indefinite period. Charo finds herself trapped between two imposed obligations: caring for others and preserving the legacy of the family trade. Obligations that her family seeks to pass on to her by denying her the ability to choose freely.

FROM THE WARDROBE TO THE SQUARE

This documentary follows the exit of the wardrobe of 10 LGBTIQ+ people in the Basque Country and shows the impact their sexual orientation and gender identity had on their lives, with the contributions of public images. Protagonists: the comic cartoonist Beñat Olea, the presenter Klaudio Landa, the sexologist Aitzole Araneta, the journalist June Fernández, the director of the Euskalduna Palace Iñigo Iturrate, the actors Aketza López and Kimetz Etxabe, the editor Mikele Grande, the professor Iratxe Urkiaga and Jose Antonio Nielfa "La Otxoa" will take part, along with their relatives.

O.P.N.I.

Eider and Mikel, a young Spanish couple from the 1950s, are in a clandestine farmhouse with their friend Susana. She supposedly brings them objects from the United States, the country they both dream of escaping to. Their fantasies are interrupted by the appearance of an unknown object that bursts into the farmhouse, shaking and emitting lights and sounds. After going through several phases — confusion, fear, chaos, curiosity, exploration, and finally communication — they realize that the strange object belongs to Susana, who must explain everything to her friends while dealing with a complicated emotional situation.

SALTPETER

Maite raises her daughter Nerea alone in a shellfish nursery. Their relationship becomes strained with Nerea's adolescence and the appearance of a supernatural crab that disturbs Maite. The conflict escalates, and the crab possesses Maite, leading her to kidnap Nerea. In an attempt to recreate the past, Maite locks Nerea in her childhood room. Nerea fights for her freedom. In the final confrontation, Maite must overcome the internal monster to avoid destroying her daughter and their home.

At the San Miguel festivities of 2018, when a group of boys and girls performed together in the village square, they demonstrated that the tradition of dance was more alive than ever. In fact, that group will be the protagonist of the following documentary: the eight boys and girls who are members of the dance group of Iurreta.Every five years, every local dance group meet at the so-called Urrixena festival that takes place in Iurreta, a village from Biscay (province of the Basque Country). The debutantes will participate in this festival for the first time along with dancers of other generations. The rehearsals, the preparations and the palpable emotion in the square will be the guiding thread of the documentary. Additionally, some testimonies of dancers, researchers andothers will be collected.

STEW COMMANDO

If the right place and time is chosen, a bag of stew can become a terrorist threat.

WAR MATERIAL. Capturing the enemy

The director Nacho Ruiz-Capillas undertakes the digitalisation of over 6,000 photographic negatives, inherited from his grandfather Mariano, a cameraman and graphic reporter from before the Spanish Civil War until the 1960s. While he rescues these from their inevitable chemical fate, his mother Isabel, 88, begins to show signs of dementia, mixing past and present. These two processes of decomposition (that of the celluloid and the human memory) establish an unsettling parallelism that structures the documentary.