Category: Best Experimental Film WSXA Barcelona 2023

Original Film Title: RUMBO AL PARAISO FISCAL

Director’s Name: Antonio Bellido Marín

Writer’s Name: Antonio Bellido Marín

Producer: Antonio Bellido Marín

Country of Origin: Spain

Country of Filming: Spain

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 16 minutes

Film Description:

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TRIP TO TAX PARADISE is an experimental silent film feature film, on which a musical with neorealist and humorous touches has been mounted. Based on real events, Antonio Bellido has tried to grotesquely portray the socioeconomic crisis in Spain from 1908 to 1914, where the corruption and greed of its leaders have mortgaged future generations regardless of the consequences.

Original Film Title: Time Waits For No One

Director’s Name: Varoujan Froundjian

Runtime: 8 minutes

Film Description:

TIME is an abstract concept for some and it is an utmost necessity for others. We go through our daily activities always being aware of our deadlines, schedules and our commitments to ensure the ON TIME delivery of our promises and obligations.

This short 8 minutes long film uses digital drawings and fast paced animations and images to allegorically convey the reality and the triviality of TIME and how it affects people with a diverse temperaments and personalities.

Original Film Title: Diálogos de la muerte

Director’s Name: Mauricio De la Maza Benignos

Writer’s Name: Mauricio De la Maza Benignos

Producer: Mauricio De la Maza Benignos

Country of Origin: Mexico

Country of Filming: Mexico

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 1 hour 36 minutes 21 seconds

Film Description:

A tribute to German expressionist cinema, 100 years after Murnau’s Nosferatu, this film is based on the work “Dialogues between a priest and a dying man” by the Marquis de Sade. It explores some of the moral, religious, as well as other philosophical conundra that come across the minds of those who have self-questioned their beliefs and faiths.

Original Film Title: The last poem Stefan Buchwald wanted to write

Director’s Name: Dellair Youssef

Writer’s Name: Dellair Youssef

Producer: Anis Hamdoun

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: German

Runtime: 28 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description:

A poet who lives in Berlin in a voluntary isolation, in addition to the quarantine imposed due to the spread of the Corona epidemic. Stefan Buchwald wants to write a poem that will change the world.

Original Film Title: PERFORMING LAND

Director’s Name: Marielle Gonier

Writer’s Name: Marielle Gonier

Producer: Un jour / Une performance

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: Spain

Language: English, French

Runtime: 15 minutes

Film Description:

Performing Land aims to bear witness to a human experience, deeply nourished and influenced by the energy of Nature. Through processes of exploration and experimentation, the performer will be taken on a sensory and reflexive journey .
It is an attempt to consider the human body as a single living organic substance devoid of any social codes , also a natural moving material capable of giving shapes and volumes to an aesthetic representation , as an offering to mother earth .

In these stages of being, the performer brings to light the temporal in relation to the timeless, questioning the place of nature in the existence of every individual, towards a possible reconciliation between them.

A singular hymn to nature.

Original Film Title: Psyche Obscura

Director’s Name: Craig Oty

Writer’s Name: Craig Oty

Producer: Craig Oty

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 8 minutes 17 seconds

Film Description:

A young woman, captive in a delusional state of mind, is drawn into the depths of a psychotic abyss.

Original Film Title: A Feast That Never Comes

Director’s Name: Maria Juranic

Writer’s Name: Sven Britt,

Producer: Maria Juranic, Sven Britt, Rachel Morgan

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 16 minutes 22 seconds

Film Description:

Four characters inhabit cycles within cycles of contentment, discontentment, inertia, movement, desire, and betrayal. A story emerges—told through the marriage of music (Ex-Fiancée) and dance (ChrisMastersDance)—functioning as a set of nesting dolls, inviting you to uncover as many layers as you wish. Directed by Maria Juranic.