New Generation Popular Vote

Nine of the 13 short films selected as candidates for finalist status by popular vote are available for viewing and voting through our Instagram account @navarrafestival until August 8, 2023. There will be one post for each short film. To vote, each person must “Like” their favorite short film and follow the festival account @navarrafestival. If the person who “likes” them does not follow the festival account, the vote will be invalid.

Enjoy childhood, life follows

Mauro Maroto Megino

On a normal morning, a humble woman experiences a sudden pregnancy and delivery, which occur in a matter of minutes. After the birth of her son, a man in his fifties, the family experiences a dispute in which the newborn confronts his parents for bringing him into the world. Meanwhile, a certain admiration for life is awakened in him.

Charon

Gina Stephan

An old woman is forced to descend into the Underworld, where she must leave all her worldly belongings behind before embarking on her final journey with the ferryman of the dead. She tells him openly about her past life and even manages to make the sinister ferryman stop his routine and laugh out loud. When they reach the other shore, the woman is ready to let go and leaves the ferryman with a smile.

Not eligible for popular vote

El Vídeo De Brais

Victor García

A precocious 12-year-old about to start high school records a video interviewing members of a calçotada to learn how to grow up.

Ground

Pedro Vargas

At a construction site in São Paulo, Leonardo, a young worker, begins to hear a strange sound coming from the ground.

Not eligible for popular vote

Lonely Country

James Perry

In rural Ontario in the 1950s, Eugene, a gay man, encounters Jack, a handsome young hitchhiker. When Eugene offers Jack a place to stay for the night, he is forced to question how much of his true self he is willing to reveal.

It is not eligible for a popular vote

Monito

Marcos Crisostomo

A five-year-old girl accidentally finds a revolver in her father's office.

Plastic Touch

Aitana Ahrens

A sex doll named Lucy wakes up in the bedroom of a doll brothel. She lives with Mina, another doll. Together they watch television: their window to the real world. They imagine themselves living far away. After a while, Lucy wants to escape. But Mina doesn't want to leave. Lucy has to choose between freedom and the doll she's in love with.

Prion

Maya Patrich

A dejected character struggles to balance self-acceptance and self-loathing when his worst fears manifest in the form of a sickly deer.

Not eligible for popular vote

Saboteur

Maria Rios

Diana has everything she needs to be happy, but like her own saboteur, she'll slowly shake her self-esteem and the relationships she loves. Breaking out of the cycle of self-destruction will only be possible by confronting herself.

Sin un amor

Diego Marcos

Arsenio is an 80-year-old man trying to win the hearts of Herminia, a woman his age who seems uninterested in him.

"Without a Love" is a story that seeks to vindicate those lives that seem forgotten before their time. Those of the people who never left and are still there. When we talk about places at risk of depopulation, we tend to do so from a purely demographic perspective and rarely stop to consider the daily lives of its inhabitants, often elderly.

Si me querei, irse

Sofía Muñoz

Juana prepares paella like every Sunday surrounded by her family. The news of her husband Pepe's retirement turns another celebration into a heavy burden.

Tears come from above

Margaux Fazio & Manon Stutz

13013 tattooed on the arm, death marked with barbed wire, a pink triangle sewn on the chest, hope fled on the rails of deportation, followed by liberation 60 years later.

Not eligible for popular vote