Although specialized in the short film, ALCINE, the Alcalá de Henares / Community of Madrid Film Festival reserves a special place in each edition for the first feature films of the directors who passed through the festival with their shorts: the competitive Open Screen section . In the 53rd edition of ALCINE (from November 7 to 17), they will feature neighborhood stories, family dramas, unique biopics or science fiction stories, among other precious pieces.
These are the 7 titles that we can see on Open Screen from Monday, November 11 to Thursday, November 14, at the Teatro Salón Cervantes in Alcalá de Henares:
The Blue Star, by Javier Macipe
Monday, November 11, 6:00 p.m.
The atypical biopic of Mauricio Aznar, singer of the rockabilly band Más Birras, authors of the legendary Apuesta por el Rock and Roll popularized by Héroes del Silencio, on his journey of self-discovery through Argentina. One of the revelations of the year, an Academy finalist to represent Spain at the Oscars® and an authentic hymn to music and life.
Neighborhood mythology (preview), by Antonio Llamas, Alejandro Pérez Castellanos and Jorge Rojas
Monday, November 11, 8:30 p.m.
Espírituescalera, the collective responsible for The Coming Insurrection (ALCINE 52), debuts in the feature film with a brief and concise exercise halfway between documentary and fiction that explores the architecture and lives of the Madrid suburbs. He chose the orange brick and the green awning that won the Audience Award in the last Documenta Madrid.
The Human Hibernation (preview), by Anna Cornudella
Tuesday, November 12, 6:00 p.m.
The debut of the artist Anna Cornudella is a science-fiction parable that presents us with a world in which humanity is in a state of underground hibernation from which it only emerges once a year to visit a surface taken over by nature. A slow reflection on the human condition shot with one of the best photographs of the year.
A Whale (premiere), by Pablo Hernando
Tuesday, November 12, 8:30 p.m.
A prominent author of the so-called low cost generation, Pablo Hernando is a regular at the festival with his self-produced shorts and feature films (Cabás, Berserker...). His first industrial feature, just released in Sitges, is a very solid commitment to author thrillers with fantastic elements. Echoes of David Fincher, Jonathan Glazer, Hideo Kojima's video games and the poetics of Melville (both Herman and Juan-Pierre) in the story of a professional assassin played by an icy and silent Ingrid García Johnsson.
The leaf litter, by Macu Machín
Wednesday, November 13, 6:00 p.m.
Macu Machín delves into the deep countryside of the Canary Islands with a story of inheritances and buried friction between three elderly sisters. 70 minutes of extreme naturalism and a side of the archipelago barely represented in the cinema.
The Aspirant, by Juan Gautier
Wednesday, November 13, 8:30 p.m.
The recent news about abuse in senior schools served as an excuse for director and producer Juan Gautier to revisit and update his 2015 short film (AMA award and Best Performance at ALCINE 45) until transforming it into his first feature film. Pure intensity led by a young cast in which the Goya nominee Jorge Motos and the emerging Patrick Criado (The Great Spanish Family, Nights of Tefía, The Red Virgin) stand out and who won the first prize at the last Atlántida Film Fest by FILMIN.
Where Silence Passes (Preview), by Sandra Romero
Thursday, November 14, 6:00 p.m.
Sandra Romero's debut based on her short film of the same name and premiered at the latest edition of the San Sabastián Festival. A young man returns from the capital to his town in the province of Seville to face, among other problems, the illness of his twin brother. An unknown and surprising cast with which words are unnecessary.
