Official short film section

In the courtyard of the old prison of Mataró

31st May at 21:00 h – M|A|C Prison

Entrance: 4 €

Open-air cinema in the courtyard of the old Mataró Prison with the screening of the short films competing for the Panòptic Awards 2024:

  • Blood Like Water (Dima Hamdan, Palestine, 2023, 14 min)
  • March 8, 2020: A Memoir (Fırat Yücel, Turkey, 2023, 15 min)
  • Escribiendo… (Pablo Olewski, Spain, 2024, 3 min)
  • All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ (Flesh.Webm, Spain, 2023, 4 min)
  • Kumbang (Gwai Lou, Spain, 2023, 14 min)
  • L@ cita (Itziar Castro, Spain, 2023, 10 min)

This session will open with the screening of the short film Silenciades made by 4th ESO students from the Institut Escola Artístic Oriol Martorell in Barcelona.

Blood Like Water

Based on true stories. When Shadi embarks on a secret adventure, he accidentally drags his proud Palestinian family into a trap where they only have two choices; either collaborate with the Israeli occupation, or be shamed and humiliated by their community.

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Direction: Dima Hamdan
Country: Palestine
Year of production: 2023
Genre: Fiction
Duration: 14 min

 March 8, 2020: A Memoir

A video essay about the Feminist Night March protest in Istanbul in 2020, created entirely from screen recordings of the event and its aftermath, deconstructing and repurposing tourist and surveillance footage.

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Direction: Fırat Yücel
Country: Turkey
Year of production: 2023
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 15 min

Escribiendo…

Santi knows all too well that reviewing your bosses work as a writer, even when requested by her, is a path full of boobytraps…especially his day and age.

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Direction: Pablo Olewski
Country: Spain
Year of production: 2024
Genre: Fiction
Duration: 3 min

All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ

This iconic phrase from the 2004 video game GTA San Andreas, which later became an internet meme, is the title of this work by Flesh.Webm. After dusting off the PlayStation2, an old family console, the artist finds intact the archive of GTA San Andreas games played by her father back in 2009.

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Direction: Flesh.Webm
Country: Spain
Year of production: 2023
Genre: Videoensayo
Duration: 4 min

Kumbang

After accidentally cutting himself during one of his live-streaming sessions, Farid, a boy from rural Malaysia, is offered money by one of his fans to do it again.

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Direction: Gwai Lou
Country: Spain
Year of production: 2023
Genre: Fiction
Duration: 14 min

L@ cita

Is it a myth that famous people date more, or is fame a repellent to the game of love? Romantic comedy based on almost real events.

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Direction: Itziar Castro
Country: Spain
Year of production: 2023
Genre: Ficción
Duration: 10 min