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Selected projects

Sara Casasnovas

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Documentary, 70’
Production company: The blue house films (A Coruña)
Budget: 1.500.000 €

Synopsis: 'A fan felt in love with the character I played in a soap opera and, obsessed with owning it, tried to kill me'. Alevosía is a film about the fan phenomenon, the collateral damage of fame and the entertainment industry. A portrait of the harassment of media artists, the progressive loss of personal freedom as the public feels that the “character” belongs to them and the consequent invasion of their intimate space, told in first person, by myself.

Director's bio: Sara Casasnovas

Best Actress at the Kimera International Film Festival in Campobasso, Festival de Cine Europeo de Castilla-La Mancha, Festival Dunas de Fuerteventura and the FETEGA Award, among others. Her latest films include Francisco Valdez's Mi Les Paul and Sebastián Eslava's Pepe Cáceres. Director of Escarabana, Official Selection of the Sitges Festival, FANCINE de Lemos Award, FEM and European Fantastic Film Fest Barcelona and A xustiza pola man, Temporada Alta Festival Award in Girona.

Myriam Ballesteros

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Animation, 80’
Production company: MB Producciones  (Álava)
Budget:  7.000.000 €
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Synopsis: Eguzki (14) discovers she can summon nature’s energy, but her strange powers only bring trouble. After a mysterious incident, she’s sent to a reeducation center, where she meets Kari (14), a tech-savvy gamer. A mischievous prakagorri (Basque house-elf) reveals Eguzki’s destiny: she must save Amalur, a mythical world ruled by Gaueko, the Lord of Darkness. Facing dragons, giants, and witches, the girls embark on an epic quest where courage and friendship may restore light to Amalur.

Bio's director: Myriam Ballesteros

Myriam Ballesteros, journalist and specialist in film, TV and animation (NYU, BBC, EAVE, CARTOON), founded MB Producciones and IMIRA Entertainment. She has created, produced and directed series such as Lucky Fred, Sandra Detective de Cuentos and Lola & Virginia, sold in more than 100 countries. She is currently working on Annie Carola, Cenicienta Enmascarada and the feature film Amalur Profezia. Founder of MIA Women in the Animation Industry.

Lina Gorbaneva

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Documentary, 75’
Production company: Eddie Saeta S.A.U. (Barcelona)
Budget: 269.218,98 €
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Synopsis: The Soviet Union lived from its inception in a constant tension between the prefiguration of the “new man” and the expulsion of social types from the past. Soviet cinema was conceived as a museum, where one could contemplate for the last time the "specimens" facing extinction: the aristocrat, the landowner, the bourgeois, and the criminal.

Director's bio: Lina Gorbaneva 

I am the daughter of Soviet diplomats exiled in Barcelona. I am a researcher and professor at UPF and, at the same time, I am an actress and theater director. I am currently staging documentary theater by authors from the Russian-Ukrainian diaspora.

 

 

Bego Alday

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Documentary, 70’
Production company: Ironhuman Project S.L  (Madrid)
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Synopsis: In Ironhuman, Beyond Labels, Bego faces Iceland’s untamed wilderness—raging storms, brutal cold, and relentless winds. Alongside Camino and Celia, they push their limits in a ruthless training for Antarctica. But this journey is more than physical; amid the ice, they uncover their true identity. Ironhuman Project is born to break barriers, prove that man does not define all of humanity, and challenge the impossible.

Director's Bio: Bego Alday

Bego Alday debuts with her first documentary after studying acting, screenwriting, and directing at Estudio Juan Codina. Lider of expeditions at sea and in the mountains. She aims to redefine the Ironman and complete it in Antarctica in 2026.

Claudia Chávez Lévano y Christine Mladic Janney

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Documentary, 75’
Production company: Amazona Producciones (Madrid)
Budget : 400.000€
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Synopsis: Nora de Izcue is Peru's first woman film director. Her documentary Runan Caycu (1973), was banned by the military dictatorship of Peru, but was embraced by Latin American activists with whom he later created the New Latin American Cinema Foundation and later the San Antonio de los Baños Film and Television School in Cuba. Today Nora is 91 years old and continues the search for the original reels of this film, while in Peru new fears of censorship for national cinema appear.

Directors' bios:

Claudia Chávez: (Producer/Codirector) She has produced The Catch, a short film which premiered at Tribeca. She is the producer of Hakuchu Munayta, a documentary supported by Sundance Institute. Her projects have been accepted in DocsBarcelona, IDFA, Dok Leipzig, among others.

Christine Mladic: She is the Director of Runasimiwan Kawsay (Living Quechua), a short documentary that premiered at the Margaret Mead Festival in NYC and went on to screen at over 30 festivals, winning the Award of the Director at the ETNOFILM in Slovakia.

Isabel Fernández

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Documentary, 98’
Production company: Al Pati Produccions S.L. (Barcelona)
Budget: 340.750 €
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Synopsis: Carmen Laforet was hit harder by all the existent prejudices against women who walk out of the script. In 1944, at 23, she revolutionized Spanish literature with her novel Nada. Her talent promised a long career full of success, but it was not to be… Ostracized by the editorial circles, she never stopped fighting for her total creative freedom. Now, she speaks for herself and all of us, the women.

Director's bio: Isabel Fernández

Director, scriptwriter and producer. Corredors de fons (2014) Best direction, Aljazeera International Doc Film Festival, and Best Script, Europe-Orient du Film Documentaire. La veïna (2015) Public Liberties & Human Rights Award. The builders of Alhambra (2022), SEMINCI, le FIFA Montreal, BogoCine,  was the third most watched Spanish documentary in cinemas in Spain in 2022.

 

Celia Galán Julve

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Fiction, 100’
Production company: Quexito Films (Madrid)
Budget: 3.430.600€
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Synopsis: Atenea discovers that the perfect man she loves, Leo, is an android from "True Love." To keep him, she pays for his love but soon sees the dark side of the system. Leo deprograms himself, and their relationship becomes chaotic. Faced with the option of surgery to ensure her happiness, Leo destroys himself. On the verge of giving up, Atenea chooses freedom and leaves Leo in the black market, renouncing her impossible love.

Director's bio: Celia Galán Julve

Director and screenwriter, graduate of the Royal College of Art in London. Her graduation film, Historia del Desierto, won the second prize at the Cinéfondation in Cannes and was selected for over a hundred festivals. In 2004 he was Artist in Residence in Berlin and directed One Minute Past Midnight, winner of the Golden Hugo in Chicago. She has developed projects in Cannes and Rotterdam. In 2011 she co-founded CELOFÁN and is currently working on True Love and Ginoide.