Candela Cruz

In the 1990s, Rafa and Álvaro are quietly in love, forced to keep their relationship hidden from those around them. As they navigate the pressures of secrecy and societal judgment, a seemingly small mistake—Álvaro leaving behind a pair of socks—leads Rafa’s grandmother to uncover their connection. Her discovery triggers a series of events that unravel long-held family secrets and reveal unexpected truths about the past Rafa and Álvaro thought they understood.

In a desperate attempt to reach Europe and crouched before an airstrip in Cameroon, a six-year-old boy and his older sister wait to sneak into the holds of an airplane. Not too far away, an environmental activist contemplates the terrible image of an elephant, dead and fangless. Not only do you have to fight against poaching, but you will also have to meet the problems of your newly arrived daughter from Spain. Thousands of kilometers to the north, in Melilla, a group of civil guards prepare to face the furious crowd of sub-Saharan people who have begun the assault on the fence. Three stories linked by a central theme, in which none of its protagonists know that their destinies are doomed to cross and that their lives will no longer be the same.

Pablo, a bit of an oddball – shy and obsessed with analysing the risks involved in any situation – has been waiting a year to attend a massive anime event. When the big day finally arrives, his troublesome brother asks him for a life-or-death favour: he has to go to ‘Las Tres Mil Viviendas’, Seville’s most dangerous neighbourhood, to retrieve a rucksack. Pablo will have to decide whether to put his life on the line to save his brother or attend the event he’s been waiting for all year.

Alba is a young journalist who, after talking to her friend Lidia, decides to take control of her life and start her own digital newspaper. However, an everyday decision in her routine will cause her life to end suddenly, unfairly, and senselessly.

Six girls receive the call of a force that attracts them to undertake away to begin a sensory ceremony. Between skirts of polka dots and guitar chords, all of them prepare to say goodbye one of them. Far from being a mere representation of the myth of witchcraft, this short film combines fantasy and criticism of a phenomenon as fictitious as it is real.

Cheating the tax man was just too tempting for Andrés. Besides, what are the chances of him getting caught? Well, as it turns out, pretty high! And that’s exactly what happens when a couple of tax inspectors turn up at his company to inform him that he owes the IRS a lot of money.