ALCINE celebrates 'The Shortest Day' by supporting four Madrid titles on their way to the Goya

• One more year, the Alcalá de Henares / Community of Madrid Film Festival joins this international short film festival around the winter solstice, on December 19

• Four short films from Madrid on the Goya Awards shortlist can be seen at the Teatro Salón Cervantes with free admission

• The day before, December 18, at 11:00 a.m., the nominees for the 39th edition of the Goya Awards will be announced and it will be known if any of the Madrid short films screened will be included in the list of nominees in the categories. Fiction, Animation or Documentary

The shortest day of the year is approaching. And, with the winter solstice as an excuse, ALCINE, the Alcalá de Henares / Community of Madrid Film Festival, joins one more year to The Shortest Day [ED+C], an international event with which to celebrate the good moment that the short film is going through in Spain and the passion for this format. It will be this Thursday, December 19 (6:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.), at the Teatro Salón Cervantes, with free admission.

In this edition, and less than two months before the 2025 Goya Awards Gala, ALCINE has selected four short films from Madrid included in the shortlist of 62 nominees of the Spanish Film Academy for El Día más Corto. A shortlist that also includes some of the winning shorts from the 52nd and 53rd editions of ALCINE (qualifying festival for the Goya Awards), or those that have passed through ALCINE 53 this year.

The scheduled shorts are:

• Céntrico, by Luso Martínez: An unexpected crossroads of destinations in the center of the big city with gentrification and the housing problem as a backdrop.

• Ciao Bambina, by Carolina Yuste and Afioco Gnecco: The co-directorial debut of actress Carolina Yuste (The Infiltrator) is a tender and honest documentary about friendship and the right to be who we want to be.

• Semillas de Kivu, by Néstor López and Carlos Valle: In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, women victims of sexual violence arrive at the Panzi Hospital after suffering abuse by guerrillas who control the region's mineral resources. The documentary exposes their stories and the fight for justice and human dignity

• Lola, Lolita, Lolaza, by Mabel Lozano: Through humor and a crazy variety of animated resources, Mabel Lozano recounts her personal experience with breast cancer, demystifying the figure of the “warrior” and showing human vulnerability as part of of the healing process.

One day before, on December 18, at 11:00 a.m., the nominees for the 39th edition of the Goya Awards will be announced and it will be known if any of the Madrid short films screened will make it to the list of nominees in the categories of Fiction, Animation or Documentary.

Once again, ALCINE's programming echoes the awards season. From the winner of the Open Screen category at ALCINE 53, La Estrella Azul, one of this year's safe bets, to independent productions such as Where the Silence Passes, La Hojarasca or The Human Hibernation, nominated in the Arrebato category of the Awards Feroz or the short film Wander to wonder at the European Film Awards.

ALCINE organizes El Día más Corto in collaboration with the Madrid en Corto catalogue, the catalog of short films promoted by the General Directorate of Cultural Promotion of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Community of Madrid and managed by the ECAM distributor.

This international event with short films was born in France in 2011. Two years later, the Spanish Short Film Coordinator joined the initiative, encouraging public and private entities to screen the programmed shorts, and there are already tens of thousands of viewers who Every year they celebrate the winter solstice around the short film. Among them, those of ALCINE, which says goodbye to 2024 with this cultural plan with free admission for Thursday in the heat of the cinema and the Teatro Salón Cervantes, after a 53rd edition that, with more than 17,000 spectators, has represented a record attendance for the festival.