Official Short Film Section
Short films selected in the National Official Section
Below you can consult the Official National Section of Skyline Benidorm Film Festival 2022.
ASBESTOS
2020. Spain
The truth of the life of a couple who survive selling junk, is revealed when on one of their trips to the landfill, they find an old hedgehog costume covered in asbestos.
KIDDO
2021. Spain
Pablo stays in the neighborhood with his friend Néstor. His mother keeps calling him to come home.
SILENCE CLUB
2021. Spain
An afternoon spent by Martina, a 10-year-old girl, with Alejandra, her mother. Mother and daughter have incredible chemistry, but their relationship is complicated by Alejandra’s harmful contact with drugs.
CHRISTIAN
2021. Spain
Cristiano is a devout young man who wants to train at the seminary to become a Catholic priest, to the surprise that the interviewer responsible for vocations is the former priest of his town, Avelino, an unconventional priest who defines himself as a “modern man.” .
WHEN YOU DO POP
2021. Spain
Alicia and Ruth finally leave Malasaña to play with their group, Las sisters of quality, at a festival. The problem is that they have been left lying in the middle of nowhere and without coverage. Their only way to get there on time is to get into Javi’s car, a young hunter from the area who doesn’t give them a good feeling.
DISPATCHERS
2022. Spain
Pau, an emergency operator for 112, has in mind to quit her job just when she receives a call that seems to be by mistake, but turns out to be a distress call.
ON THE SECOND FLOOR
2021. Spain
Aurora is an old woman who lives alone in her small apartment in Madrid. She leads a monotonous and simple life in which anything that is out of the routine is an event for her.
FARRUCAS
2020. Spain
Hadoum, Fátima, Sheima and Sokayna are four teenagers from El Puche, a suburb of the Spanish city of Almería, proud of their Moroccan and Spanish roots. Together they face their first experiences in institutes outside the neighborhood.
FIGURANTE
2020. Spain
After the crisis of 2008, Socorro Arenas began her career in figuration with the dream of being an actor one day. This documentary tells the story of him and, perhaps, that of many extras.
FRANCESCKA
2021. Spain
The cold night hangs over the old castle of the Frankensteins. Víctor, the scientist willing to challenge science itself, sets out to carry out his most ambitious plan: bring his admired Franceska back to life.
OUT OF THE LAW
2021. Spain
Mario Sánchez is a bank robber who has spent more than 30 years in various prisons in Europe. He is now on the street, but he feels lost in a world that has changed very quickly.
GENETHIC
2021. Spain
For the first time, an adorable creature will go out to see the outside world. There he will find a world full of magic and adventures to go through, but… will everything be as beautiful as it seems?
IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY GOODBYE
2021. Spain
Paula and Raúl, who live with a 7-year-old boy named Dani, could be just another couple. They could be, if it weren’t for the fact that Dani is not Paula’s son, and she faces the daily challenge of proving that she deserves to hold the title of mother.
SAILOR OF LIGHTS
2020. Spain
Vera is not yet 18 years old and has had to lose her virginity having cyber-sex. In her town nobody looks at her like a woman. Everything can change when the possibility of being the “ladies” of the parties arises in her group of friends.
MINDANAO
2021. Spain
Marisol, the mayor of a city in Levante, spends her last hours in freedom surrounded by her entourage. The last party with her most faithful people and her great love, Amparo.
THEY WILL NOT SEE YOU RUN
2021. Spain
During a drug raid on a bar, a national policeman sees something he shouldn’t have seen.
RED GOLD
2021. Spain
Red Gold starts from the denunciation of Moroccan women who pick strawberries in Huelva to build a polyphonic story that appeals to the structural dimension.
OUTSIDE IS FREE
2021. Spain
A cyclist suffers an accident while training. Badly injured and unable to move, he is trapped in the mountain. The appearance of a dog will mark the fate of his survival.
DUST WE ARE
2020. Spain
Ane returns to her hometown to attend her grandfather’s unexpected funeral. Her return brings with it her tense reunion with the women of her family.
LOOSE
2022. Spain
Alba wakes up one morning with two boys. Something happened the night before, but she doesn’t remember anything, just a strange feeling that she can’t define.
THE MONKEY
2021. Spain
1588, a shipwrecked member of the Invincible Army sent by Felipe II from Lisbon to conquer England is captured on a beach in Ireland. There he is tried, found guilty and hanged until his death.
SHE WOLF TOTEM
2021. Spain
Estíbaliz accepts a friend’s invitation to her town’s festivals. What appears to be a fun weekend turns out to be a nightmare.
ONE MINUTE
2021. Spain
An unsettling Skype call turns a young couple’s morning into a nightmare that could alter their lives forever.
WORK IT CLASS!
2021. Spain
During a fancy New Year’s Eve party, two dancers will try to make fun of the upper class audience by changing the song of their performance.