ZINENTIENDO
CORTOLÍTICOS
ZINENTIENDO
FRIDAY 16 JUNE · 23:30H · LA CATALÍTICA
Zinentiendo is an international film showcase of LGTBQI (lesbian, gay, transsexual, bisexual, queer and intersexual) cinema organized by the Towanda Collective. Dedicated for years to advocating for diversity in sexual orientation and gender identity, its main objective is to make this reality visible through the universal language of cinema.
Cinema is a perfect communication channel to show different forms of resistance and fight against LGTB-phobia, patriarchy, sexism, and heteronormativity; It also supports movements like transfeminism and celebrates the diversity of emotions, desires, and sexualities.
SIN ZERO
SIN ZERO
Spain. 2022. 17’. Fiction
Director: Adán Aguilar. Script: Adriá Triana. Production: Adán Aguilar, Mireia Boté. Executive Producer: Adán Aguilar. Editing: Fer González. Photography: Didac Sáez. Original music: Carlos Bianchini. Sound: Joan Li. Cast: Adrià Escudero, Xeui Jiménez, Maribel Ibarz, Adán Aguilar
Iván, 32 years old, lives in a town where everything remains the same, and begins to question his identity as a human being. Is he the result of his own circumstances? Has he decided who he really is? How honest is he with himself? Through different social and family atmospheres, he will manage his feelings, his life.
ADÁN AGUILAR
Adán Aguilar has a long career as a Stage Director, Artistic Director and Co-Choreographer, as well as a career as a Dancer and Actor for more than 25 years.
He has worked behind the screen directing all the events he organized with A dos Manos Creations, a performing arts platform, and KmO, Teatro Urbano.
On this occasion, being a first-time Film Director and Executive Producer, he dares to tell a story based on an original idea of his, in addition to writing and interpreting the theme song of the short film “Mi Espejo”.
IAGO Y TRISTÁN
IAGO Y TRISTÁN
Spain. 2022. 13’. Fiction
Director: Miguel Ibáñez Monroy. Script: Miguel Ibáñez Monroy. Production: Marta Ramírez (Coming Soon Films). Editing: Queralt Gonzàlez. Photography: David Valldepérez. Original music: Natasha Arizu. Sound: Nacho Ybarra, Laia Casanovas. Cast: Lluis Marquès, Quim Àvila.
After several years of relationship, Iago and Tristan have decided to separate. The afternoon that Tristan is collecting his things to leave the apartment they shared, he receives the unexpected visit of Iago, who was not meant to return until Tristan had left. The uncomfortable reunion between them becomes a distressing experience when Tristan receives a phone call that will change everything.
MIGUEL IBÁÑEZ MONROY
Alicante (Spain), 1978. Graduated from ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya), he has pursued a career mainly in the field of script writing, both for cinema (La mujer dormida, 2022; Els encantats, 2022; Les distàncies, 2018), and for television (Boca Norte, 2019; Cites, 2015-2016). Iago and Tristan is his first project as a director.
CONFUSION OF THE AFTERNOON
CONFUSION OF THE AFTERNOON
Taiwan. 2023. 2,50’. Animation
Director: Yung Chieh Lee. Script: Yung Chieh Lee. Production: Yung Chieh Lee. Executive Producer: Chiao-Fang Lin. Editing: Yung Chieh Lee. Cinematography: Sheng-Chun Huang. Original Music: Yen-Hao Tu Sound: Yen-Hao Tu
On a boring afternoon after class, two boys play poker. The inadvertent physical contact and eye contact affect one of the boys. This indescribable feeling sparks his imagination, and he starts to feel as if those faint touches were a dance. However, in these games when gay men obsess over heterosexual men, they finally have to confront the moment when the dance ends.
YUNG CHIEH LEE
Taipei (Taiwan), 1993. After graduating from the Department of Radio and Television, National Cheng-Chi University in 2017, he is engaged in video post-production, animation and motion design related cases. Since he is very interested in the field of experimental animation, he is currently studying at the Graduate Institute of Animation and Film Art, Tainan National University of the Arts.
CLEO VENDRÁ ESTA NOCHE
CLEO VENDRÁ ESTA NOCHE
CLEO IS COMING OVER TONIGHT
Spain. 2023. 14’. Fiction
Director: Aitana Ahrens, Miguel Guindos. Script: Aitana Ahrens, Miguel Guindos. Production: Aitana Ahrens, Miguel Guindos, Luis Ortas. Executive Producer: Aitana Ahrens, Miguel Guindos, Luis Ortas. Editing: Miguel Ariza. Photography: Sofía Colodrón. Original music: Blanca Morote. Sound: Isabella Salvo, Ángel Rojas. Cast: Aitana Ahrens, Marina Pérez, Rosa Caldito, Prince Ezeanyim, Gonzalo Herrero, Leonor Segovia.
Aitana throws a huge Halloween party at her rooftop, hoping that the girl that she is still in love with comes over. Is Cleo coming over tonight?
AITANA AHRENS
She studies animation in Palma de Mallorca’s UIB, and also does a documentary course in the New York Film Academy, which grants her a particular vision on directing. Thanks to her eclectic references, she experiments with genre and formats in her steps through the Filmmaking degree in ECAM, giving her work a rich space full of irony, self-referentiality and a huge political drift.
She is currently distributing Plastic Touch, which premieres in the LesGai Film Festival in Madrid, while she works as first assistant director in shootings.
MIGUEL GUINDOS
Miguel Guindos studies Filmmaking in ECAM and during his formation he has made shortfilms such as Lupita From Now On, Not The Beach But It’s Not That Bad, A Summer, The Cat And The Vulture, etc. He is currently distributing his latest work, Lupita From Now On (premiered in BUFF Mälmo, Sweden, and selected in the 2cool4school of Cannes Film Festival, Abycine, FEST, and other international festivals).
After his studies, he entered Cinezeta, a Madrid’s council project of young programmers that bring to Madrid cutting-edge cinema. In that line, he has also launchds a filmmaking course for teenagers called Filmmaking Is Easy.