35 short films from Spain and Portugal will compete at the XXV Iberian Film Festival

The FIC will be held during the week of July 15 to 20, 2019 in Badajoz and at the official headquarters of Olivenza and San Vicente de Alcántara.

A total of 35 short films by Spanish and Portuguese directors will compete in the different sections of the 25th Iberian Film Festival (FIC), a competition that brings together the most representative cinema made in the Iberian Peninsula. The FIC will be held during the week of July 15 to 20, 2019 in Badajoz and at the official headquarters of Olivenza and San Vicente de Alcántara.

On its 25th anniversary, the Iberian Film Festival will focus on the short film as the protagonist of this edition. The 35 works have been selected among the 450 short films that have been submitted to the competition, of which 25 are Portuguese and 17 from Extremadura. Participation in the FIC has been maintained in recent years. In the last edition, 400 works were registered.

In the Official Section 27 short films have been selected -22 Spanish and 5 Portuguese- which will be screened on the terrace of the López de Ayala Theater and at the Olivenza and San Vicente de Alcántara venues.

At the Festival dos Miúdos you can see another 5 short films (one of them, The Ferris Wheel, it is also in the official section). The Festival dos Miúdos is the section of the FIC aimed at children and adolescents (from 7 to 13 years old), in which children will choose with their vote the winning short film of this section, which will receive the Children's Audience Award.

In the Extremaduran Short Film Contest, 4 works by Extremaduran filmmakers have been selected that have been filmed in different parts of Extremadura.

Quality and variety

Quality continues to be the hallmark of the FIC, which has become a reference for filmmakers in the world of cinema. The selection committee particularly highlights the high level of Portuguese short filmmakers.

The only short animation that attends the Official Section is The ferris wheel, the work of Carlos Baena that has won numerous awards. This will also be screened at the Festival dos Miúdos, where it competes with two other animation works, Lifetime y Dry Fly, with a children's theme.
Among the selected works there are some filmed in other countries, such as the USA or France, and in other languages, as in the case of Xiao Xian, by Jiajeie Yu Yan, which is filmed in Chinese and Spanish. The selection committee has seen an increase in the participation of short films from different film schools.

The 27 short films competing in the Official Section compete for the Onofre Award for Best Short Film, worth 3,000 euros, as well as the Badajoz, Olivenza and San Vicente de Alcántara Audience Awards, worth 800 euros each.

The Awards for the Best Male and Female Performance, sponsored by the AISGE Foundation (Performing Artists, Management Society), are endowed with 500 euros, the same as that of the Children's Audience. The Luis Alcoriza Award from the Young Jury, the Onofre Award for best Direction and best Screenplay, the AEC Award for best Photography and the Reyes Abades Award for best Extremaduran short film complete the list.

Selected short films

• Official Section
  ANTXONI, by Rubén Sáinz (ESP)
  BENIDORM 2017, by Claudia Costafreda (ESP)
  BEST SELLER, by Max Lemcke (ESP)
  LOCKS, by Pedro del Río (ESP)
  CLIMBING, by Nacho Solana (ESP)
  FLOTING, by Frankie De Leonardis (ESP)
  HAWAII, by Jordi Capdevila (ESP)
  HOPES, by Raúl Monge (ESP)
  KHURUF, de Kepa Sojo (ESP)
  THE NORIA, by Carlos Baena (ESP)
  THE EIGHTH DIMENSION, by Kike Maíllo (ESP)
  LIMBO, by Daniel Viqueira (ESP)
  MARAS, by Salvador Calvo (ESP)
  FEARS, by Germán Sancho (ESP)
  MOORS ON THE COAST, by Damià Serra Cauchetiez (ESP)
  FLIES, by David Moreno Pérez (ESP)
  WOMAN WITHOUT A SON, by Eva Saiz López (ESP)
  DO NOT AWAKE ME UP, by Sara Fantova (ESP)
  RÉQUIEM, by Juanma Juarez (ESP)
  COW, by Marta Bayarri (ESP)
  WHITE, de David Moya (ESP)
  XIAO XIAN, de Jiajie Yu Yan (ESP)
  The Portuguese short films selected in the Official Section:
  EQUINOX, by Ivo M. Ferreira (PORT)
  NEVOERIO, by Daniel Veloso (PORT)
  BY YOUR WITNESS, by João Pupo (ENG)
  RIVER BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS, by José Magro (PORT)
  SLEEPWALK, by Filipe Melo (PORT)
• The Extremaduran Shorts
  DISPATCHED, by Elena Marcelo
  THE GUEST, by Pedro Díaz
  THE FIGUERA, by Mikel Mas
  A GOOD MAN, by Matías Valenzuela
  Kids Festival
  9 STEPS, by Moisés Romera Pérez/Marisa Crespo Abril (ESP)
  DRY FLY, by Rut Juan Mompó (ESP)
  THE NORIA, by Carlos Baena (ESP)
  LIFETIME, by Ramón Mascarós/Carlos Escutia (ESP)
  NOEL, by Kike Arroyo (ESP)