Como el primer año, el festival se lleva a cabo en los cines de Sevilla, España y distribuye películas de Francia, EE. UU., Reino Unido, Turquía, España, Corea del Sur, etc.
The official jury of AIFF 2023
Our team is full of passionate film lovers and filmmakers ready to judge the best films of this edition. We use various criterias to decide the best motion picture and we do it in a fair way so we can assure the best quality wins in our festival.
Fran Exposito
Director, Actor
Pablo Casma
Photographer, Musician
Jesus Green
Photographer
Juan Carlos G.J.
Filmmaker
Selecciones Oficiales
El festival recibió muchas películas especiales y únicas, pero el espacio y el tiempo disponibles no fueron suficientes para proyectarlas todas. El jurado fue muy cuidadoso con cada película y consideró profundamente cada una.
Dirigida por Carlos Jiro
Tóxico
Cortometraje de suspenso/terror
España
Iván y Héctor son vecinos desde hace varios años pero nunca se conocieron hasta que el confinamiento por la pandemia los obligó a quedarse en sus departamentos.
El despreocupado Iván llama la atención de Héctor, un hombre solitario, ambicioso y acostumbrado a conseguir siempre lo que quiere. Los sentimientos de soledad, necesidad y miedo estuvieron muy presentes durante la pandemia, por lo que Héctor pronto intenta aprovechar la situación para acercarse a Iván.
Directed by Susana Alba
Solpor
Short Drama
Spain
A middle-aged man lives in his car after becoming unemployed and moving away from his family.
After some time living in this situation, the same man begins to run out of resources to be able to buy the food he needs to live, and the car starts to break down and won't start no matter how hard he tries. After these incidents, he begins to reconsider returning home and taking control of his life.
Directed by Guillermo Cabot
HABIBI
Short Drama
Spain
A city bus runs through the city. It stops and an Arab couple gets on. He addresses her in a loud, nervous voice. The passengers watch the increasingly heated argument with distrust and concern until one of the passengers decides to intervene: "You, habibi, sit down...".
Directed by Marion Clauzel
The Black Hen
Short Drama
France
In the warmth of the holiday home, four-year-old Auguste feels abandoned by his mother and turns his attention to the black hen. He goes to the henhouse every morning, as early as possible, to be the first to pick up the egg. But one day, the nest remains desperately empty...
Directed by Mario Mariño
La Industrial
Short Drama
Spain
Spain experiences the beginning of its civil war in the summer of 1936, after a coup d'état. In the small city of Logroño, the fascist victory was not long in coming and the majority of republican men and women were arrested. There are not cells for everyone, for this, the provisional government enables improvised spies as a prison. It is in the School of Arts and Crafts of the city, where Pepe, a young school teacher is imprisoned along with other men: peasants and industrial workers. The sound of the outside world will be the only information for him to understand what is happening outside, since his jailers will force them to participate in the macabre game of Las Sacas.
Directed by Kouroughli Sabrina & Vassart Gaetan
Lost
Short Thriller
France
On a sunny day, parents will experience the darkest day of their lives. In this drama, two worlds come together: that of joy, relaxation, beach games of vacationers, and the tragedy of parents linked to the disappearance of their child on the other. Trouville-Sur-Mer seemed to us the ideal setting. Nicknamed “the Queen of Beaches” for its huge sandbar, it is a dangerous beach. Drownings are frequent there, although this seaside resort seems at first glance hospitable and festive with its many fun attractions for children. It was essential that it be a scorching day with the presence of many vacationers. This buzzing hive feeling helped heighten the dramatic tension and accentuate the loneliness of father and mother.
Directed by José Carlos, Jiménez Revuelta & Marta Jiménez Revuelta
Joselito
Short Thriller
Spain
In a small town in the Sierra de Segura, there is an old electronics genius who is capable of fixing anything. The neighbors know him as Joselito, and
Through his wife they trust him with everything that goes wrong. Every day Mrs. Joselito travels the town with his shopping cart collecting the broken devices. Every day she faces her neighbors assuming fragility of her,
disorientation and of course uselessness. Being a woman, an old woman and “from Joselito” is the only one identity to which you can aspire. However, she is much more than that. While their neighbors on the street see her as a useless woman in the shadow of her husband, at home
keeps an incredible secret.
Directed by Alfredo Campos
Eden
Short Thriller
Mexico
An old Eden collect mushrooms and plants in the wood. He remembers that when he was young, met his beloved while the world was being destroyed for the pollution and the nuclear crisis.
Directed by Fabrice Mathieu
In The Shadow
Short Thriller
France
A shadow is telling its life story with his "Wearer", a flesh and bone double, who one day it decides to get rid of...
Directed by Juan Bolea
Pale Monster
Short Thriller
Spain
Pale Monster is a short film inspired by the novel of the same title by Juan Bolea, which was published by Editorial Planeta in 2015. It tells the story of a criminal law firm, their relationships, their ambitions, until a crime will shake them. The victim, a young lawyer, Eloisa Crespo, had a relationship with another colleague of hers, Jerónimo Solans, who will become a suspect in the murder. Fidel Paternoy, head of the office, will be in charge of his defense and, thanks to his success in the last elections, mayor of the city. Despite his good defense, his comrade Jerome will be condemned. But the crime of Eloísa will not really be solved and a surprising final twist will reveal to the viewer the authentic keys of the crime and its true author.
Directed by J. M. Asensio
Like Every Thursday
Short Thriller
Spain
On Christmas Eve 2020, a girl was involved in a robbery at a gas station where she went every Thursday to pick up something very important to her.
Directed by Manolo Vera
Memories Of Blood
Short Thriller
Spain
In the far and unforgiving lands of the West, a young woman survives on her own in the wild. As she faces alone the strange dangers that surround her, the memory of her childhood in her hometown comes to her mind. Being just a child, at the height of the threat, her father strove to teach her to be
strong and fend for herself. Despite to her rejection of his harshness and coldness, when tragedy inevitably struck, the girl was forced to learn the lesson the most painful way. The always heartbreaking conflict between love and discipline, between the
claim of one's own identity and the weight of blood.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Alejandro Bornes
Radio Espectro
Short Thriller
Spain
A boy becomes involved in the lives of his mother and aunt, with whom he works in a neighborhood supermarket. They are two sisters outside the social conventions who decide to play life as they please and without thinking about “what people think”. The two have created a matriarchy in which they make the child participate in their shenanigans (flea markets, garbage collection, scrap metal sales...). The boy focuses his attention on finding his dead father. He decides to approach his uncle, an older man who lives alone in his cottage, whom he will help build a photographic machine that can capture the aura of people and things that are no longer with us.
Directed by Hmoud Faris
This World is Wonderful
Short Drama
Kuwait
Directed by Siro Morcillo
There
Short Drama
Spain
April 2022. A young couple has just moved into an old empty house, Manzano and Pia.
From the first night they spend in it, they perceive that there is something that connects them with that place.
A painting hanging on the wall is the only and solitary object left by the former tenants.
April 1979. Casal, a young artist, is working in his studio on his new painting.
Greta, his partner and muse, poses for him.
The brushstrokes on the canvas will be the testimony of that moment years later.
Directed by David Conill
Under the Hands
Short Drama
Spain
Throughout our life we are born and die many times. During all this time we collect all kinds of experiences
Directed by Soo-min Park
Repeated Memories
Short Drama
Korea
Jong studies in Uzbekistan and works as a part-time carer. Same as always, he spoon-feeds patients, cleans rooms and also toilet. One day, he gets a call from his friend, Ha-yeong. “I have a job for you. There an one old man who is blind and deaf. He is just waiting for his dying day. Your job is acting like his son and eating dinner with him. It’s for 100 dollars for a day. I’ll send you some details.”
Jong-in decides to eat dinner with Ra-him as his fake-son.
Directed by Rubén Garcerá Soto
Re-Animal
Short Thriller/ Horror
Spain
A series of crimes is devastating the city and there is only one person who is capable of finding the culprit: Toni Clues. When Mr. and Ms. Mendoza are murdered, their family decides to hire him. But time is against him as new victims begin to appear and the police are nowhere to be see. He will have to use all his track-hunting skills to try to solve the mystery: who is behind such gory deaths?
Dirigida por Yordana Romero
Nimeni
Cortometraje de suspenso/terror
España
La historia de Nimeni parte del propio nombre del protagonista: Nimeni, un pronombre de origen latino que encierra en la lengua rumana dos significados estruendosamente opuestos: Nadie y Alguien. En este oscuro drama esta ambivalencia envuelve el alma del protagonista, con un impacto que llega a límites siniestros.
Dirigida por Óscar Villarroya
Cuéntalo todo
Drama corto
España
“Cuéntalo todo” es la historia de una despedida entre un padre y su hija. El espíritu de la madre fallecida regresa a casa para rescatar los últimos momentos que pasaron juntos, recordándoles que el tiempo se acaba y que es necesario desatar los nudos, reabrir la coraza y levantar el dique de todo lo que quedaba por decir. Óscar Villarroya compone sutilmente este íntimo retrato familiar en una España rural de los años 80 donde decir adiós es un misterio y donde el miedo a la soledad se convierte en un hermoso verso que canta al amor y la eternidad.
Dirigida por John Doe
luz del mar
Drama corto
España
Un farero anciano se ocupa de lo que ha sido su hogar durante años. Viejo y apartado de la sociedad, se ve perturbado por misteriosas cartas embotelladas. Estos y un mal funcionamiento inesperado le hacen dudar de su trabajo, de su vida y de su existencia.
Dirigida por Alexis Neret
Vicente
Drama corto
Francia
Cuando un pintor no reconocido se vuelve loco, tiene visiones de una musa que intenta guiarlo hacia la redención.
Dirigida por Köksal Içöz
Kor
Drama corto
Pavo
Mehmet y Pablo se reencuentran después de mucho tiempo. Lo que en un principio parece ser una reunión para celebrar que Pablo será padre, terminará convirtiéndose en un asunto muy diferente. Todo cambiará para Pablo después de que Mehmet le pida un favor que marcará su vida para siempre.
Dirigida por Carlota Callén
mi primera opción
Drama corto
España
Blanca cree que abrirse sobre los problemas sexuales que tiene con el padre de su hijo podría ayudar a calmar a su amiga que está a punto de someterse a una prueba médica.
Sin embargo, Julia, a quien le han diagnosticado cáncer de mama, se permite ser francamente honesta y decir libremente lo que piensa sobre la pareja actual de su amiga.
El hecho de que ambos se desnuden por completo el alma hace que reconsideren sus relaciones personales y su propia amistad.
Dirigida por R. Ruvens
Todavía hay polvo bajo el Congo
Drama corto
España
David y Roberto, una pareja de periodistas destacados en la República Democrática del Congo, se refugian de la guerra en un refugio lleno de escombros. Allí se toparán con Badou, un niño asustadizo y simpático con el que rápidamente, y gracias a la fotografía, entablarán amistad.
Los corresponsales de guerra están preocupados por hacer sufrir constantemente a sus familias. Siempre fue su objetivo contar lo que nadie se arriesga a contar, pero lo que nunca imaginarían es que el peligro acecharía entre esos muros devastados. ¿Ha llegado el momento de que se retiren?
Dirigida por Sergi González Fernández
como cualquier otra persona
Drama corto
España
Esteban ha perdido a su esposa y está a punto de perder a su hija. Sin embargo, dejarla ir puede ser la única forma de recuperarla.
Dirigida por Julen Higuera Lozano
albóndigas
Cortometraje de suspenso/terror
España
Una madre y su hijo sobreviven a duras penas a cargo de un restaurante en declive. Su sórdida relación llega a su fin cuando llega un cliente extraño pero importante, que promete sacarlos de su miseria. Insaciable, este cliente acabará con todos los suministros del restaurante. Sin embargo, insatisfecho y en busca del plato perfecto, hace un último pedido; albóndigas con salsa…