Official Section
X Edición / 2024
A competition with the most daring and original works of the last year, all of them unpublished in Spain. Films of all lengths, genres, formats and nationalities participate. The Official Section of FILMADRID has become one of the key platforms for the discovery and promotion of contemporary talent in Spain.
In previous editions Pedro Costa, Lav Diaz, Helena Wittmann, Bertrand Mandico, Ainhoa Rodríguez, Payal Kapadia, Sergei Loznitsa, Sandra Wollner, Sion Sono, Ted Fendt, Teresa Villaverde, Matías Piñeiro, Diana Toucedo, Alexe Poukine, Júlio Bressane, Nathan Silver, Kevin Jerome Everson, and Nicolas Klotz, among many others, have participated in this competition.
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Critical zone
Ali Ahmadzadeh | 2023 | 99′
Amir leads a lonely life. With his dog for sole company, he drives through the underworld of Tehran
Revolution+1
Masao Adachi | 2022 | 80′
After his father's suicide, his mother joins a religious group and to which he gives a large donation.
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Few can see
Frank Sweeney | 2024| 42′
In the late 1980s, as violence continues in the north of Ireland, censorship is increasingly being enforced on British and Irish television.
FAMILIAR PHANTOMS
Larissa Sansour y Søren Lind| 2023|42′
Familiar Phantoms is inspired by anecdotes from Sansour’s own family history and her old childhood in Bethlehem, making it her most personal film to date.
The garden cadences
Dane Komljen| 2024| 62′
Mollies is a queer-feminist collective that had been living at a trailer park next to Ostkreuz in Berlin for nearly a decade
LA TIERRA LOS ALTARES
Sofía Peypoch |2023| 68′
Sofia returns to the scene of a kidnapping. In the darkness and silence, her hands search the subsoil for traces of a buried memory.
A PAIXÃO SEGUNDO G.H.
Luiz Fernando Carvalho | 2023| 124′
Rio de Janeiro, 1964. After suffering the end of a love affair, G.H., a sculptress from Copacabana’s artistic elite, decides to clean her apartment by herself, starting with the maid’s room
TWO GIANTS THAT EXIST HERE – A GERMAN FAIRYTALE
Gianna Scholten | 2024 | 21′
Two giants that exist here - a german fairy tale confronts us with the right-wing spiritual movement in Germany, which gained a strong following during the Corona pandemic.
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich | 2024 | 75′
Voices haunt an actress and new mother (played by Zita Hanrot) as she embarks on inhabiting the role of surrealist writer Suzanne Roussi-Césaire.
HISTORIA DE PASTORES
Jaime Puertas Castillo | 2024 | 80′
Granada high plateau, year 2027. Among sheep, ruins and drones, a student and two shepherds meet, visit each other and connect around the story of a farmhouse that appears and disappears.
Sections of FILMADRID 2024
Explore the diversity and originality of the films in this edition.
