Official National Section

Short films selected for the National Official Selection

Below you can consult the National Official Selection of Skyline Benidorm Film Festival 2024.

Be right back

2023. Spain

Maria, a 7-year-old girl, is left alone at home while her mother goes out to buy dinner. The time alone stretches into the evening. When someone knocks on the door, Maria hesitates whether it’s her mother or not.

Before dying, the Wendigo's shadow

2024. Spain

“Before Dying” is the story of Jack, a lone cowboy who, by accepting the robbery of a bank, finds himself entangled in deceit, betrayals, and death. Destiny becomes complicated for him when he comes into contact with a Wendigo or Native American demon that will alter his fate.

handicraft

2023. Spain

Manuel, the owner of a small business in the city center, and his daughter Vicky, a recent graduate from the University of Burgos, are surviving a rough patch in their downtown apartment. But one day, Vicky starts spending beyond her means, arousing suspicions in Manuel. Where is Vicky getting the money from?

Ava

2023. Spain

Ava is a teenager who takes the subway to go to school. When María calls her to ask her how her day went, her daughter’s phone is turned off. Ava never made it to school that morning. Someone had intercepted her on the subway.

BLOW!

2023. Spain

Mar dreams of being able to record the sound of whales. However, when she embarks with a team researching cetaceans, she realizes that to listen to the largest animal in the world, one must be silent.

Car Cemetery

2023. Spain

Ruben and Asir, two great friends who meet every afternoon to play soccer in a car junkyard. One day like any other, Ruben waits for his friend, only to find out that Asir has been beaten up due to racism. Ruben’s unconditional support for Asir reflects the purest form of friendship, although the worst is yet to come.

el Kala

2023. Spain

Juan Carlos Estavillo, also known as “El Kala,” is a survivor. He is one of those individuals whom heroin turned invisible, yet he fights against the pain every day to continue doing the one thing that brings him happiness: going to Calle Laurel to collect dishes and take out the garbage from the bars in exchange for whatever people are willing to give, allowing him to socialize with others.

The Throne

2023. Spain

The Prime Minister, a loyal, scrupulous, and immaculate man, finds himself trapped in a public restroom without toilet paper, right in the midst of an election campaign. Helpless and unable to leave, he discovers the true nature of the people around him. Only if he can overcome his scruples will he be able to save his throne.

This is not Norway

2023. Spain

Jorge’s father’s last wish is to have a Viking funeral: to be cremated at sea in a longship. And for his son, fulfilling his final wish is crucial: not only will it honor his memory, but it will also prove to himself and his loved ones that he is capable of anything, that he is alright now and has overcome the rough patch he was going through.

 
 

Jerusalem

2023. Spain

Two thousand years after Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, Emilio and Sara arrive in Benidorm to spend Easter vacation. After Sara’s mother passes away, father and daughter must learn to live without her. Within the span of a week, much like Jesus, Sara experiences her own episodes of the Passion. These days mark the end of childhood and the beginning of puberty.

The Great Work

2024. Spain

Leo and Diana, a wealthy couple, take a broken television to a recycling point. They encounter Salif and his son, two scrap collectors. Diana asks them to come to their house to pick up more items. Once there, Leo watches them collecting objects with suspicion until they realize that the scrap collectors have something they want.

The Peace of Cemeteries

2023. Spain

Through the eyes of children, ‘The Peace of Cemeteries’ tells a true story of survival and brotherhood amidst the abuses committed by a priest during the post-Spanish Civil War era, in an environment where fear wields its power to silence society.

the pool

2023. Spain

In Madrid, there is no beach, but there are pools. Private, shared, and public, many public ones. The summer heat can be so suffocating that the capital offers anyone the opportunity to take a swim at a very reasonable price in one of its municipal pools.

Long Journey

2023. Spain

Nico turns twelve, and if he wants his gift, he’ll have to climb his grandmother’s tallest dresser or engage in a duel of breadsticks, until he faces his final test: discovering that these are his last moments as a child.

Lucía

2023. Spain

Lucía and her friends are four preteens eager to have fun and live experiences. Today, they have in their hands, by chance, invitations to a very special party, which will take them out of their routine and give them a new and exciting experience; and although it’s very likely they won’t be allowed in because they’re underage, they’re eager to give it a try.

I'm glad to see you

2023. Spain

Two friends from adolescence meet twenty years later in the bathrooms of a shopping center. One is a successful non-Roma businesswoman, and the other is a Roma woman living in very precarious conditions. Their lives have drifted far apart since those summers in the village. And nothing will ever be the same again.

You lied, Amanda

2024. Spain

Amanda and Virgi are playing in a nearby ravine when a man arrives who arouses Amanda’s suspicion. However, he gains her trust by playing with their dog. Amanda agrees to let the man swing her in the air, but he takes advantage of the situation and touches her budding breasts. Amanda, in shock, decides to leave, but Virgi prefers to stay and play.

My zone

2023. Spain

Paula is driving through the desert when suddenly her car breaks down. The young woman, who is coming from a party, decides to wait for someone to come and help her.

little

2023. Spain

When they are born, they are precious, almost perfect. But they grow so fast. I wish there was a way to forever enjoy that unrepeatable age. Petit Toujour combines the latest advances in gene therapy and selective hormonal blocking to extend your time with the most beautiful thing you have in the world, your baby.

plant

2023. Spain

Prudencio and his workers labor day and night in the field to load the trucks that will depart the next morning. In broad daylight, several thieves break into the estate and steal the oranges. Prudencio loses the contract he had secured and begins to suspect who might be behind the theft.

TO BIRD OR NOT TO BIRD

2023. Spain

To bird or not to bird, that is the question. A critical and kaleidoscopic view of the modern world told through the tragicomic and grotesque experiences of some birds.

Everything is lost

2022. Spain

The Pérez family is a nearly normal family, albeit with somewhat dysfunctional behaviors. The couple is considering fertilizing an egg that she laid last night.

all my colours

2023. Spain

After the death of her mother, a girl loses all of her colors. Will she be able to get them back?

YOUR SCISSORS IN MY EAR

2023. Spain

Desperately looking for a place to get a haircut the night before his wedding, a stylish client walks into a neighborhood barbershop. What he doesn’t expect is for the barber to recognize him as a very important person from his past.

Shitty Therapy

2023. Spain

In 2012, two biology students created fecomagnetism, a parody of pseudotherapies that claimed to cure all kinds of diseases by mixing poop with magnets. All they wanted was a funny review, but shit gets out of hand. How long would it take for people to realize that it was all fake? 

whirlpool 3933

2023. Spain

Txema has been taking care of his disabled wife alone for more than two years without receiving any response to the dependency aid he requested. And it’s too late. It’s time for those who forgot about them to pay. But to do that, he needs the help of Carlos, the neighborhood shopkeeper.

Official National Section

Short films selected for the National Official Selection

Below you can consult the National Official Selection of Skyline Benidorm Film Festival 2023.

[MARA]

2022. Spain

Mara builds an illusion to try to overcome a traumatic event that changed her life forever, forcing her to live with her worst monsters.

Yegua

2022. Spain

A sick mare and a dependent woman test Jaime, a mare farmer from a small village in Navarra, who must face his own ghosts.

Tula

2022. Spain

Tula is in charge of cleaning the bathrooms of a girls’ school. Her day is disrupted when the headmistress’ fourteen-year-old daughter confesses to her that she is pregnant.

Plastic Killer

2022. Spain

Amparo de Dios lives in an old abandoned family haberdashery in the center of Madrid with the only company of Carmela, a plastic bag whom she considers her daughter.

Sisè Primera

2023. Spain

Fina is the owner of a block of apartments in the Eixample district of Barcelona. She has put one of her apartments up for rent and has arranged a visit with several potential tenants. Will they all have the same opportunities?

Sushi

2023. Spain

Tonight will be the first time Jaume, a city guard in a provincial town, will eat sushi. And it will also be the first time, and probably the last, that he will share a few hours with his biological son, Betu, a young man who will soon become a father.

Paris 70

2023. Spain

Jan’s life suddenly changes when Angela, his mother, becomes ill with Alzheimer’s disease. He must take care of her and test his commitment and endurance. Every day she asks him about his father, but when she learns that he died some time ago, she becomes sad and has a hard time. Is there an alternative so that his mother does not suffer?

Hàbitat

2023. Spain

Every day, Marisa observes that house from the street: the building, the balcony, the life that goes on behind the window. One day Marisa decides to do what she was not allowed to do: say goodbye.

Titán

2022. Spain

October 17, 1986. Big day, the president of the International Olympic Committee will announce the city that will host the 1992 Olympic Games. The day of joy for Barcelona will become for Carmen the day “after”. The world will no longer be a safe place.

A Rabia

2022. Spain

Filomena’s life is tinged with poverty and a sad shadow of calamity and torment. The terrible events of her childhood, in a Galician village at the end of the 19th century, will mark the character of her existence. In spite of everything, will she have a chance to change her destiny?

Cuentas Divinas

2022. Spain

Monica is a normal woman with a normal life in a normal place in these modern times. However, one fine day, because of an unimportant detail that could have been solved as any other previous disagreement, she kills her husband. Thus she discovers crime as a substitute for anxiolytics, the liberation from all moralism.

Anticlímax

2023. Spain

Jaime and Rocío are a married couple settled in routine, the passion between them has long since disappeared. They never talk about it openly, they have never been able to face reality. One night like any other, they fall asleep and start dreaming. Then they will have to face the truth that they are not able to face.

Cosas de Chicos

2022. Spain

The 1990s. Summer begins on the outskirts of a sunny rural town. Marta, a cheerful and innocent 12-year-old girl, enjoys playing soccer with her friends, swimming in the river, riding her bike and building the same cabin as every year.

Dios te salve María

2022. Spain

Alicante, year 1939. In the last moments of the Civil War, in the midst of the massacre and terror, the Air Raid Shelters became the safest place to save the lives of thousands of people during the bombings.

Heleno

2022. Spain

Sergio and Elena are a happy couple. One night, Elena starts talking and acting strangely. The next day, the two take it as a joke.
Things start to get complicated when Heleno shows up in their life.

El pensamiento Mágico

2022. Spain

Despite the disconcerting reality in which he grows up, for Pablo every day is an opportunity to discover the world and understand it in his own way.

Cuando crece la hierba

2022. Spain

To question is to grow. Because not everything is easy to understand… even when you’ve grown up.

Dear Michael

2022. Spain

On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson died in Los Angeles. Ten years later, filmmaker Marcos Cabotá writes him a letter to tell him everything he could not in life.

Mothertruckers

2022. Spain, UK

As the transport crisis grows in the UK, Lisa, a truck driver and writer, dreams of escaping reality. The cab of her truck and the constant road trip will give her access to an out-of-this-world imagination.

Hardcore

2022. Spain

For more than 15 years, Rafa has been bedridden with his mother who takes care of him day and night. He spends his time composing hardcore music and listening to videos about Taoism. For the last few years the pain has been so unbearable that Rafa is seriously thinking of asking for assisted death.

Diari D´un operador Cinematogràfic

2022. Spain

This is the story of my grandfather, Tiago Florit, who for 50 years was a film operator at the Teatro Principal in Mahón, Menorca.

A true love story of cinema.

Amarradas

2022. Spain

Mother and Daughter are bound for life by an eternal bond that heals and wounds, and which is perpetuated when Daughter becomes Mother.

Sandwich cat

2022. Spain

Just another day. David is lying on the couch watching his favorite series: a Christian fantasy, while Sandwich Cat does his thing.

Becarias

2022. Spain

New to 21st century co-living, three young friends face the challenge of paying the rent each month.

Kafka´s doll

2022. Spain, Portugal

Inspired by an unproven myth, Kafka’s Doll is a short animated film that blends fact, fiction, fantasy and myth into a single poignant story about loss.