XENTES - OFICIAL SELECTION
XENTES I
PURA | Carmen Méndez
2024 | Spain | Galician | 24′
A woman returns home to remember and recognize herself. She picks up a
camera and films for the first time. The portrait of her mother and grandmother is also her own portrait.
Thanks to them, she is reconciled with the place and the memories.
2024 | France, Portugal | Portuguese | 11′
Set against the backdrop of the sea and urban Algarve, PERCEBES takes us on a captivating journey through the lifecycle of a special shellfish called PERCEBES (goose barnacle). From their formation to the dish, we traverse different contexts that offer insight into the region and its inhabitants.
DEIXA | Mariana Jaspe
2023 | Brasil | Portuguese | 15′ | GALICIAN PREMIERE
A woman lives her last day of freedom before her husband is released from prison.
WESH RIMBAUD Yo Rimbaud | Dimitri Lucas
2024 | France | French | 15′ | SPANISH PREMIERE
Arthur lives in a suburban town where everyone nicknames him Rimbaud, because he has always been a brilliant student. He has also just been admitted to a prestigious school where he thought he would fit in without difficulty. But during an oral exam, his accent will betray his social origins.
XENTES II
Thursday 21 | 8:30 pm | Auditorio Manuel María | 69′
EL REY DE LA SEMANA | David P. Sañudo
2023 | Spain | Spanish | 29′ | GALICIAN PREMIERE
Martín is a divorced man and with a son who works in a cosmetics factory. He takes care of his image and body and feels alone. Desperate, he is part of a seduction workshop that helps people to find a partner. One day he meets Marta and flirting with her becomes his great goal.
A SUMMER’S END POEM | Can-Zhao Lam
2024 | China | Chinés | 15′ | ESTREA EN GALICIA
Shortly before the end of the summer holidays, a country boy spends his savings on his dream of a city hairstyle – with surprising results. A story about bidding farewell to childhood and the poetic end of a summer.
74º Berlin International Film Festival. International Jury Special Award – Kplus Generation
VOLCELEST | Éric Briche
2023 | France | 14′ | GALICIAN PREMIERE
Winter is here. To survive, Fuseline, the little ermine, forced by the lack of food, flees her wild environment and settles near an isolated farm and its chickens. Her arrival threatens the precarious existence of the man who lives there.
77º Cannes International Film Festival. Short films
NEPOTISM, BABY! | Tij D’oyen
2024 | United States | English | 12′ | SPANISH PREMIERE
A fame obsessed young woman fabricates a conspiracy to garner media attention and jump-start her career.
XENTES III
BEAUTIFUL MEN | Nicolas Keppens
2023 | Belgium, France, Netherlands | Dutch | 19′
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
53º Rotterdam International Film Festival
ANNECY International Animation Film Festival. Festivals Conexion & Premio Alexeïeff – Parker Awards
SEGUNDA II | Anita Pico
2024 | Spain | Galician | 17′
Segunda was given her name at birth, but she had other plans. From a small Galician village, this eighty-year-old matriarch has lived her life with the determination and personality of the Roman emperors who conquered the world. In this portrait of a Galician rural woman, we discover the values of those who once dominated history.
SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN | Dahlia Nemlich
2023 | France, Egipt, Lebanon | Arabic | 15′ | SPANISH PREMIERE
After sixty years of marriage, Elias and Christiane live together without actually living with each other. Elias’s illness has forced him into a solitary world, while Christiane’s obligations, responsibilities, and routines lock her in a lonely world of her own. Their love resides in their shared memories. As they delve into those stories from the past, they prepare for a final farewell with an attempt to reconnect one last time. They will find themselves in a world where time stands still, where the atmosphere is warm and the music from their first encounter resounds about them.
XENTES IV
FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS | Mohamad Ali
2023 | India, Syria | Arabic | 28′
Between cold concrete walls, riddled with holes from the ongoing war, a mother tries to protect her son from the loss of his father and keep him away from the attacks raging outside. Left completely to her own devices, she tries to embody both father and mother at the same time and soon reaches her limits.
NENA | Xosé A. Touriñan e Jairo Iglesias
2023 | Spain | Galician | 19′
A family of five members goes through tough times after the death of a woman: a mother, a wife, a daughter-in-law, a sister-in-law… This situation smashes the household life, placing the responsability on a twelve year old girl. A grandfather more concerned about money than affection. An uncle with a child’s hearth, but with an intelectual disability. A father grieving over the loss who drowns his sorrows in alcohol. Because of her family’s lack of ability to go on, a girl takes over and burdens the responsability of the three men’s life.
FLOWER SHOW | Elli Vuorinen
2023 | Finland | English | 8′ | GALICIAN PREMIERE
Girls have been cultivated like flowers for generations. We need more growing seasons to breed new ways into the system.
53º Rotterdam International Film Festival
XENTES V
2023 | France, Lebanon | Arabic | 20′
Beirut, Lebanon. On the waterfront’s construction site, security agent Raed must
prevent passing by walkers from accessing the seaside. Yet as the horizon becomes each day more stifled by the construction, Raed makes peculiar encounters mere dreams, or symbols of his desires?
80º Venice International Film Festival. Orizzonti Short Film International Competition.
Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival 2024. National Jury Special Award
CAMPOLIVAR | Alicia Moncholí
2024 | Spain | Spanish | 17′ | GALICIAN PREMIERE
Reality blends with imagination in a journey back to the director’s childhood where she returns to the last place she shared with her father, the house in Campolivar.
HISTERIA DO MEU PEQUENO MUNDO | Pablo Fontenla
2024 | Spain | Galician | 6′
In a future dominated by computerized prediction and political and social control, an ordinary citizen questions true human autonomy in a world increasingly controlled by machines.
LES BELLES CICATRICES Scars we love | Raphaël Jouzeau
2024 | France | French | 15′ | SPANISH PREMIERE
Gaspard is still very much in love with Leïla. They meet in a crowded bar a month after she left him. The conversation turns awry and, as he feels tears welling up, Gaspard seeks refuge under the tablecloth, away from prying eyes and closer to his memories…
77º Cannes International Film Festival. Short Films
XENTES VI
2024 | France | Dutch, French, English | 18′ | GALICIAN PREMIERE
A young couple of Flemish tourists take possession of a Parisian apartment, rented for the weekend on Airbnb. A strange noise comes from the kitchen.
2023 | Spain | Spanish | 16′
La Cañada Real, Europe’s largest slum on the outskirts of Madrid, has been without electricity for over a year. In the firelight, Toni, a 13 year old boy, discovers that his best friend Nasser is leaving forever. Amongst Roma legends of a possible future, Toni looks for a way to stay connected to him.
76º Cannes International Film Festival. Short Films
XVIII Goya Awards. Best fiction short film award
BRÖDRASKAPET Men of silence | Bö Parletun
2023 | Sweeden | Swedish | 15′ | GALICIAN PREMIERE
Alex has just received funding for his first feature film. During the kick-off party for the movie, the film’s writer reveals that one of the actors in the main cast has sexually assaulted her.
KAMINHU | Marie Viellevie
2024 | France | Portuguese, French, Cape Verdean Creole | 15′ | GALICIAN PREMIERE
Joanna, a young European traveller, roams around the Cape Verde Islands along with her sketchbook. On her way she encounters Lito, a local fisherman who will spur her to delay her departure from the village of Esperança.
ANNECY International Animation Film Festival
XENTES
OFFICIAL SELECTION
XENTES I
2024 | Spain | Galician | 24′
A woman returns home to remember and recognize herself. She picks up a
camera and films for the first time. The portrait of her mother and grandmother is also her own portrait.
Thanks to them, she is reconciled with the place and the memories.
2024 | France, Portugal | Portuguese | 11′
Set against the backdrop of the sea and urban Algarve, PERCEBES takes us on a captivating journey through the lifecycle of a special shellfish called PERCEBES (goose barnacle). From their formation to the dish, we traverse different contexts that offer insight into the region and its inhabitants.
DEIXA | Mariana Jaspe
2023 | Brasil | Portuguese | 15′ | GALICIAN PREMIERE
A woman lives her last day of freedom before her husband is released from prison.
2024 | France | French | 15′ | SPANISH PREMIERE
Arthur lives in a suburban town where everyone nicknames him Rimbaud, because he has always been a brilliant student. He has also just been admitted to a prestigious school where he thought he would fit in without difficulty. But during an oral exam, his accent will betray his social origins.
XENTES II
Thursday 21 | 8:30 pm | Auditorio Manuel María | 69′
2023 | Spain | Spanish | 29′ | GALICIAN PREMIERE
Martín is a divorced man and with a son who works in a cosmetics factory. He takes care of his image and body and feels alone. Desperate, he is part of a seduction workshop that helps people to find a partner. One day he meets Marta and flirting with her becomes his great goal.
2024 | China | Chinés | 15′ | ESTREA EN GALICIA
Shortly before the end of the summer holidays, a country boy spends his savings on his dream of a city hairstyle – with surprising results. A story about bidding farewell to childhood and the poetic end of a summer.
74º Berlin International Film Festival. International Jury Special Award – Kplus Generation
VOLCELEST | Éric Briche
2023 | France | 14′ | GALICIAN PREMIERE
Winter is here. To survive, Fuseline, the little ermine, forced by the lack of food, flees her wild environment and settles near an isolated farm and its chickens. Her arrival threatens the precarious existence of the man who lives there.
77º Cannes International Film Festival. Short films
NEPOTISM, BABY! | Tij D’oyen
2024 | United States | English | 12′ | SPANISH PREMIERE
A fame obsessed young woman fabricates a conspiracy to garner media attention and jump-start her career.
XENTES III
2023 | Belgium, France, Netherlands | Dutch | 19′
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
53º Rotterdam International Film Festival
ANNECY International Animation Film Festival. Festivals Conexion & Premio Alexeïeff – Parker Awards
SEGUNDA II | Anita Pico
2024 | Spain | Galician | 17′
Segunda was given her name at birth, but she had other plans. From a small Galician village, this eighty-year-old matriarch has lived her life with the determination and personality of the Roman emperors who conquered the world. In this portrait of a Galician rural woman, we discover the values of those who once dominated history.
2023 | France, Egipt, Lebanon | Arabic | 15′ | SPANISH PREMIERE
After sixty years of marriage, Elias and Christiane live together without actually living with each other. Elias’s illness has forced him into a solitary world, while Christiane’s obligations, responsibilities, and routines lock her in a lonely world of her own. Their love resides in their shared memories. As they delve into those stories from the past, they prepare for a final farewell with an attempt to reconnect one last time. They will find themselves in a world where time stands still, where the atmosphere is warm and the music from their first encounter resounds about them.
XENTES IV
Saturday 23 | 5:30 pm | Auditorio Manuel María | 55′
2023 | India, Syria | Arabic | 28′
Between cold concrete walls, riddled with holes from the ongoing war, a mother tries to protect her son from the loss of his father and keep him away from the attacks raging outside. Left completely to her own devices, she tries to embody both father and mother at the same time and soon reaches her limits.
2023 | Spain | Galician | 19′
A family of five members goes through tough times after the death of a woman: a mother, a wife, a daughter-in-law, a sister-in-law… This situation smashes the household life, placing the responsability on a twelve year old girl. A grandfather more concerned about money than affection. An uncle with a child’s hearth, but with an intelectual disability. A father grieving over the loss who drowns his sorrows in alcohol. Because of her family’s lack of ability to go on, a girl takes over and burdens the responsability of the three men’s life.
FLOWER SHOW | Elli Vuorinen
2023 | Finland | English | 8′ | GALICIAN PREMIERE
Girls have been cultivated like flowers for generations. We need more growing seasons to breed new ways into the system.
53º Rotterdam International Film Festival
XENTES V
Saturday 23 | 7:00 pm | Auditorio Manuel María | 58′
2023 | France, Lebanon | Arabic | 20′
Beirut, Lebanon. On the waterfront’s construction site, security agent Raed must
prevent passing by walkers from accessing the seaside. Yet as the horizon becomes each day more stifled by the construction, Raed makes peculiar encounters mere dreams, or symbols of his desires?
80º Venice International Film Festival. Orizzonti Short Film International Competition.
Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival 2024. National Jury Special Award
2024 | Spain | Spanish | 17′ | GALICIAN PREMIERE
Reality blends with imagination in a journey back to the director’s childhood where she returns to the last place she shared with her father, the house in Campolivar.
2024 | Spain | Galician | 6′
In a future dominated by computerized prediction and political and social control, an ordinary citizen questions true human autonomy in a world increasingly controlled by machines.
2024 | France | French | 15′ | SPANISH PREMIERE
Gaspard is still very much in love with Leïla. They meet in a crowded bar a month after she left him. The conversation turns awry and, as he feels tears welling up, Gaspard seeks refuge under the tablecloth, away from prying eyes and closer to his memories…
77º Cannes International Film Festival. Short Films
XENTES VI
Saturday 23 | 8:30 pm | Auditorio Manuel María | 66′
2024 | France | Dutch, French, English | 18′ | GALICIAN PREMIERE
A young couple of Flemish tourists take possession of a Parisian apartment, rented for the weekend on Airbnb. A strange noise comes from the kitchen.
2023 | Spain | Spanish | 16′
La Cañada Real, Europe’s largest slum on the outskirts of Madrid, has been without electricity for over a year. In the firelight, Toni, a 13 year old boy, discovers that his best friend Nasser is leaving forever. Amongst Roma legends of a possible future, Toni looks for a way to stay connected to him.
76º Cannes International Film Festival. Short Films
XVIII Goya Awards. Best fiction short film award
2023 | Sweeden | Swedish | 15′ | GALICIAN PREMIERE
Alex has just received funding for his first feature film. During the kick-off party for the movie, the film’s writer reveals that one of the actors in the main cast has sexually assaulted her.
KAMINHU | Marie Viellevie
2024 | France | Portuguese, French, Cape Verdean Creole | 15′ | GALICIAN PREMIERE
Joanna, a young European traveller, roams around the Cape Verde Islands along with her sketchbook. On her way she encounters Lito, a local fisherman who will spur her to delay her departure from the village of Esperança.
ANNECY International Animation Film Festival