IKUSMIRA BERRIAK 2025: SHORT FILMS

IKUSMIRA BERRIAK 2025: SHORT FILMS

Presentation of short films made by the directors selected in the Ikusmira Berriak residency programme and who are currently developing their new film projects at the Tabakalera Film and Audiovisual Laboratory:

Basque category

TODO LO CUBRE LA SAL, Joana Moya Blanco, Basque Country, 16 min

Fifty-seven is the number of net-makers who work on the coasts of the Basque Country at a traditional task that they continue to carry out as if time had stopped. With their hands covered in salt they weave unceasingly and in silence. They are part of the sea and its mystery. The alert from a boat breaks the quiet of the night, a lighthouse illuminates everything with its light, a sailor travels adrift through the thoughts of the water, and hands dance and dance until they merge with the nets. The short film was part of the Kimuak catalogue and was programmed at festivals such as Doclisboa, Zinebi and Malaga.

Spanish category

LOS PÁRAMOS, Jaime Puertas Castillo, Spain, 2019, 45', OV ES

These lands once had another name. They were populated by other beings. It is said that these beings founded cities. It is said that the prophetic stones with which they were lifted had an old power. It is said that this dark power keep us all locked in a mirage that make us believe that we really exist. But nobody remembers anything anymore.

International category

COWBOY BILLI, Fede Gianni, Italy, 2024, 15 min

It is the late 1960s and dozens of western films are shot in the Roman countryside, next to the construction sites of the flourishing working-class suburbs. Billi is twelve years old, rides a horse and dreams of being a cowboy.

International category

BAD FOR A MOMENT, Daniel Soares, Portugal, 2024, 15 min

Special Mention from the Cannes Film Festival Jury. A team-building event goes wrong and pits the owner of an architecture studio against the lower-class neighbourhood that his firm is gentrifying.

Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola category

IRENE, Alexandra Latisehv, Costa Rica, 2014, 27 min

Irene is a single mother who works in a photocopier’s. She lives with Santiago, her seven-year-old son, and her controlling mother, Dinia. One day she meets Diego, they go out, she gets drunk, and the unsuccessful date triggers a crisis in Irene that relates to her sexuality, her motherhood and her relationship with her mother.

Nest category

SOMBRAS NADA MÁS, Kathy Mitrani, USA, 2023, 18 min

On the anniversary of the death of Marisol’s husband, the neighbour’s works reveal human remains. The coincidence of this discovery terrifies Marisol, a superstitious visionary, making her face her own mortality. Short film winning awards at Leeds and Bogoshorts.