Eleven short films

This is the first time I went to Casa de Colón to see films of any kind. Tonight’s screening was organised by the museum and Asociación de Cine Vértigo. The first five shorts were the winners of the last year’s film contest Visionaria, conceptos de isla. Cristina Yurena Zerr Sarmiento, the director of Kintsugi (the second prize of the jury), was there to say a few introductory words, along the lines “I don’t want to talk longer than a film and my film is really short”. I loved that. To my own surprise, however, my favourite film of the programme was the longest one, the 24-minute Chão de fábrica (Lunch Break) starring Helena Albergaria, Joana Castro, Carol Duarte and Alice Marcone.

Colón Cinema: Selección de cortos iberoamericanos

Casa de Colón, Calle Colón, 1, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Thursday, 26 January 2023, 19:00

1. Superhost (Spain, 2022) by Marine Discazeaux and Víctor Ordóñez
2. Kintsugi (Spain, 2022) by Cristina Yurena Zerr Sarmiento
3. Una vuelta completa / All the Way Around (Spain, 2022) by Zhana Yhordanova
4. Eneagrito (Spain, 2022) by Oscar Santamaría
5. Todo el mundo habla de Javier (Spain, 2022) by Fátima Luzardo
6. Muralla china (Argentina, 2020) by Santiago Barzi
7. Nosotros las bestias (Bolivia, 2021) by Marcelo Landaeta
8. Los puros (Cuba, 2020) by Carla Valdés
9. Terceiro Turno (Portugal, 2021) by Mário Macedo
10. Chão de fábrica (Brazil, 2021) by Nina Kopko
11. Una niña y su sombra (Brazil/Germany/Argentina, 2020) by Vanessa Heeger