CORMORÁN FILM FEST
2020
WEDNESDAY
OCTOBER 28
SHORT 1
Laurynas Bareisa (Lithuania, 2020)
Reconstructing a crime can say a lot about a criminal and a hypocritical society.
Between joke and joke...
Catalina J. Alvarez (USA, 2020)
Testimonies of a social struggle, more present today than ever.
Our history is in memory
Pedro Neves
(Portugal, 2019)
Mosquitoes carry a deadly virus.
Be careful, you will be unable to escape from the atmosphere of this short film...
SHORT 1
16:30
OVERSEAS
Sung-A Yoon (South Korea, 2019)
Digital, 91 min.
A shocking portrait of Filipino women forced to go abroad to earn a living as nannies and domestic workers. A mix of black humour and social criticism that exposes a hidden form of modern slavery.
18:00
MY NAME IS BAGDAD
Caru Alves de Souza (Brazil, 2020)
Digital, 99 min.
Bagdad is a slut with her own laws. She lives in a house of strong women and spends her days at the skatepark with her friends, fighting to see who is the most macho.
A vital and powerful look at an environment full of violence, sexism and discrimination, a celebration of solidarity and resistance in the face of problems.
20:00
THURSDAY
29 OCTOBER
SHORT 2
Vytautas Katkus (Lithuania, 2019)
A residential neighborhood. A house to call home.
The most beautiful social symbolism of 2019.
Pau Sibirós (Spain, 2020)
One day you wake up and you don't speak your language.
It makes you shiver, yes, but you'll laugh for a while.
Melisa Liebenthal (Argentina, 2019)
Film essay about what home is.
No matter how close you get, sometimes you're never quite there.
SHORT 2
16:30
KRABI 2562
Suwichakornpong and Ben Rivers last night (Thailand, 2019)
Digital, 94 min.
Krabi, 2562 explores the landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. The filmmakers wish to show this town, a top tourist destination, at this specific moment in time when the prehistoric, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes in disturbing ways.
18:00
LÚA VERMELLA
(Lois Patiño, Galicia)
Digital, 84 min.
In a village on the Costa da Morte, time seems to have stopped. Everyone is paralyzed, although their voices can be heard: they talk about ghosts, witches, monsters. Three women arrive at the place looking for O Rubio , a sailor from the village who has disappeared at sea.
20:00
FRIDAY
30TH OF OCTOBER
SHORT 3
Lasse Linder (Switzerland, 2019)
A man, his three cats and an almost parodic affection. Enough to make this short documentary a masterpiece.
Paul Nouhet (France, 2019)
Does one fall in love differently if one is Parisian?
Two friends wander through the city of light in broad daylight, in an endearing tale of how stupid it is to love.
Maria Palacio (Spain, 2020)
Castile and fake vampires. A reflection on family, cinema and reality. A unique film of its kind.
But zero fangs and zero blood.
SHORT 3
16:30
PREMIERE
NATIONAL!
DRAMA GIRL (Vincent Boy Kars, Netherlands)
Can drama help us to better understand ourselves and the world? Assisted by experienced actors, director Vincent Boy Kars recreates scenes from the life of Leyla de Muynck, a young woman who finds herself subject to some confusion in this intriguing experiment. What remains real and what is fiction?
DRAMA GIRL
Vincent Boy Kars
18:00
THIS IS NOT A BURIAL,
IT'S A RESURRECTION
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (Lesotho, 2019)
Digital, 120 min.
An eighty-year-old in a small village in Lesotho. The death of her son while working. A maternal revenge against a man-eating and money-hungry system. A unique film as vibrant as the beating of a wounded heart.
20:00
SATURDAY
31 OCTOBER
SHORTS NENO
Screening of Local Shorts
16:30
THE PARAMS
Jaime Puertas (Spain, 2019)
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DESTINY DELUXE
Diogo Baldaia (Portugal, 2020)
Digital, 45 min.
A close and universal portrait of the rural gypsy community of Puebla de don Fadrique, Granada. The appearance of a primitive dimension, the announcement of the oracle, the lights of a music bar, dead animals, a fire and a new forest ranger will make Aurora wake up from her winter lethargy.
Digital, 30 min.
The disenchantment of two young people with city life gives way to a journey of destiny where melancholy, memories and imagination alter their reality.
The alternative to the present in a virtual space, a dream-like film in which to fully immerse oneself.
Destiny
Deluxe
PREMIERE
NATIONAL!
18:00
PREMIERE
NATIONAL!
SHOW DANCER
Laurits Flensted - Jensen
Digital, 77 min.
A hit song and 15 years later, Lasse survives a roller coaster of drugs, dancing and jail. After his last trip behind bars, the dancer decides to settle down.
But it has never been easy to lead a quiet life.
20:00
The Cormorant is one of the few birds capable of diving underwater, diving for food, and surfacing, flying again. That is why the Cormorant Film Fest chooses this animal as a symbol of a cinema that searches the depths of the human condition, that immerses itself in our social and emotional ins and outs, to create an honest and strong work, without masks or impositions that hold back the point of view of the author and his team.
This little Coruñés festival is nothing more than an attempt to justify the transgression and positive criticism in the seventh art, the power that cinema has always had to raise awareness and excite.
As Parquet Courts proposes in his recent album Wide Awake , we live in a turbulent time, faced to an uncertain future and very crude at first glance. Therefore, more than complaining, the Cormorant proposes to seek solutions and raise awareness.
Because cinema is sensitivity, and with it, nations can move.
CATEGORIES
Feature films
7 international selections. A category full of beauty and reality.
Feature films
Short
footage
8 selected. From promising youngsters to established filmmakers. The most complex brevity