As 2025 draws to a close, ALCINE celebrates short films and the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice, with ‘The Shortest Day’: a day dedicated to showcasing this agile and powerful format with the screening of four of the best titles from the Madrid en Corto catalog. Among them is Insalvable, one of the 48 shortlisted films for the Goya Awards, which are also just around the corner. The event will take place this Thursday, December 18, in two sessions at 6:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., at the Teatro Salón Cervantes, with free admission.
This is the program for ‘The Shortest Day’, the last stop of ALCINE 54, the Alcalá de Henares / Community of Madrid Film Festival:
‘Agony’, by Eulalia Ramón.
Spain. 2024. Color. 23 min. Fiction.
Adela and Rosa were friends in college, but life pulled them apart. Rosa became a teacher. Adela, on the other hand, dreamed of being a writer, but ended up as a hitwoman for a small-time drug lord. Shortly after turning sixty, both women are discarded, on the same day, by the lives they had chosen.
‘Dogs Bite’, by Eva Vázquez de Reoyo.
Spain. 2025. 14 min. Fiction.
Our protagonist's life unfolds without major ups and downs, but things seem to get exciting when a stray dog ??crosses her path, appearing to be the ideal companion. Unfortunately, the initial attraction soon fades, and after a period of intense love-bombing, the dog reveals itself to be a controlling egomaniac and a genuine son of a bitch. Dogs Bite is a dark comedy about emotional dependency, psychomagic, narcissism, and a handsaw.
'Hydra', by Samuel Hurtado.
Spain. 2025. 19 min. Fiction.
Miriam is the favorite to dominate her last junior swimming competition. But something is lurking in the water, a dark presence standing between Miriam and the scholarship that could turn her into a professional. For the first time in her career, she finds a rival worthy of her. Her success and her life are at stake.
‘Unsalvable’, by Javier Marco.
Spain. 2024. 18 min. Fiction.
Mauro has arranged to have dinner at a luxurious restaurant with Ángel, the stranger whose life he saved a few weeks ago.
