Thirty-five short films are up for the Goya Awards

The Film Academy announces the short films shortlisted to compete in the awards in the animation, documentary and fiction categories.

A total of thirty-five short films have been selected to compete in the thirtieth edition of the Goya Awards, which on February 6, 2016 will recognize the best short-term works in animation, documentary and fiction.

Commissions made up of members of the institution's Board of Directors have selected ten titles for animation, another ten in the documentary section and fifteen in the fiction category. These short films will be able to be voted on in the coming weeks by all the academics to decide which ones will finally be eligible for the Goya Awards.

The animation pieces that can qualify for the Goya are Abayomi, by Guillermo López López; Alike, by Daniel Martínez Lara and Rafael Cano Méndez; Aaraan, by Jorge Dayas; Bendito Machine V – Pull the Trigger, de Jossie Malis; Honorius. Two minutes of sun, by Francisca Ramírez Villaverde and Francisco Gisbert Picó; Judge Dredd: Superfiend, by Enol Junquera and Luis Pelayo Junquera; The ocean night, by María Lorenzo Hernández; The Cryptozoologist, by Vincente Mallols Tomás; Journey on foot, by Khris Cembe; and Victims of Guernica, by Ferran Caum.

In the documentary section there are The Oscar, by Isabel Vilallonga Shelly; Children of the Earth, by Axel O’Mill Tubau and Patxi Uriz Domezáin; The Big Three, by Alfonso Díaz Lara; Together for life, by Kike Arroyo; Pink spring in the Kremlin, by Mario de la Torre; Return to Alcarria, by Tomás Cimadevilla Acebo; Robert Janz, Don Quixote in a Fragmented World, by Violeta Barca-Fontana; Trini against gravity, by Manuel Rodríguez González; Windows, by Pilar García Elegido; and tuna wind, by Alphonso O’Donnell.

Finally, those shortlisted in the fiction category are Cordelias, by Gracia Querejeta Marín; The goodbye, by Clara Roquet Autumn; The runner, by José Luis Montesinos; The Red Thunder, by Álvaro Ron; Inside The Box, by David Martín-Porras; Interior.Family, by David Torras, Esteve Soler and Gerard Quinto; lin good faith, by Begoña Soler Ochando; The great invention, by Fernando Trias de Bes; The Carpathians, by Daniel Remón; Namal, by Nacho Solana; The river boys, by Javier Macipe; Oscar out of tune, by Mikel Alvariño Hernández; Sara on the run, by Belén Funes; We are friends, by Carlos Solano; and I'm so happy, by Juan Gautier.