The short film The Beetle At The End Of The Street (El escarabajo al final de la calle), directed by first-time Joan Vives Lozano, has also been nominated for taking part in the Gines en Corto (Gines, Andalusia, Spain).
The opening day of the VIII Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Gines en Corto has come and everything is ready in the town of Gines (Andalusia, Spain) for the 2018 short film competition. The short The Beetle At The End Of The Street (El escarabajo al final de la calle) by Joan Vives Lozano is also ready. This story has been selected and is going to taking part in the contest of the Official Competition of this Andalusian festival.
The festival, which is opening today, Thursday 26th April, and will finish coming Sunday 29th. During these four days, the Gines en Corto 2018 is going to be shown 32 shorts as part of the Official Competition, including of course The Beetle At The End Of The Street, directed by Joan Vives Lozano. 14 more short films will be shown in the "Sección Jóvenes en Corto", the young section of the festival. These shorts have been chosen from the 550 shorts that were submitted to the eighth Gines en Corto.
The Beetle At The End Of The Street by Joan Vives Lozano is going to be exhibited at the Teatro El Tronío, the official venue of this film event, tomorrow, Friday 27th April. The screening will start at 22:00 hours (UTC+2 CEST).
The 32 finalists of the Official Competition, mostly produced in Spain, are:
- Aprieta pero raramente ahoga by David Sañudo (Spain),
- Caronte by Luis Tinoco (Spain),
- Corto pero fuerte by Junaid Chundriga (Netherlands),
- The Beetle At The End Of The Street by Joan Vives Lozano (Spain),
- La madrina by Pedro Sancho (Spain),
- Sputnik by Vicente Bonet (Spain),
- The Box by Dušan Kastelic (Slovenia),
- Vicious Cycle by Michael Marczewsk (United Kingdom),
- La bestia by David Casademunt Izquierdo (Spain),
- Alleycats by Alejandro Jiménez & Bernardo González (Spain),
- Ni una sola línea by Víctor E. D. Somoza (Spain),
- Madre by Rodrigo Sorogoyen (Spain),
- Un cuento familiar by José Corral (Spain),
- Viacruxis by Ignasi López Fàbregas (Spain),
- Pez by Javier Quintas (Spain),
- 9 pasos by Marisa Crespo Abril (Spain),
- Blackout by Maxime Baudini (Spain),
- Cunetas by Pau Teixidor (Spain),
- Epidemia by Alejandro Portaz (Spain),
- Eusebio 80 by Jesús Martínez Nota (Spain),
- Fugit by Marta Bayarri Valls (Spain),
- La teoría del sueño by Rubén Barbosa (Spain),
- Los hombres de verdad no lloran by Lucas Castán (Spain),
- Roake by Juan Antonio Cobos Llaneras (Spain / United Kingdom),
- Amor fugaz by Gustavo García Torres (Spain),
- Compatible by Pau Bacardit (Spain),
- El mal amor by Sergio González Román (Spain),
- Evströnger by Silvia Conesa (Spain),
- Impacto by Héctor Romance (Spain),
- Alicia by Daniel M. Caneiro (Spain),
- Chain of Hurt by Sofia Arias Riego (USA), and
- Julia y Manuel by Iñaki Sánchez (Spain).
The closing gala will end the VIII Festival Gines en Corto on Sunday 29th at 19:00 hours (UTC+2 CEST).