Historias Breves 23

The Historias Breves (Brief Stories) Contest can be considered the first entryway for young directors and comprehensive filmmakers to INCAA and is part of the framework for the promotion of new directors in the field of national production. Directors of the stature of Lucrecia Martel, Vanessa Ragone, Bruno Stagnaro, Daniel Burman, Adrián Caetano, Rodrigo Grande, Hernán Belón, Santiago Loza, Andrés Muschietti, and Mónica Lairana, among many others, had their first experiences thanks to Historias Breves. In this national edition of the contest, applicants presented short films from all over Argentina and its territories.

These are the first two feature films that show the quality and originality of the audiovisual creations that reside in every corner of our Nation.


Viudo
Bonzo Villegas - 13’
José, a farm owner in the early 20th century, is holding his dead wife's funeral in his home. While grieving, he discovers an entity that resides inside his room's mirrors.

Felipe
Melina Andrea Dulci - 12’
Oscar is a 79 year-old widower who spends his days with Felipe, a drooling bulldog for whom he has little patience. The most obvious option is to get rid of him, and he does; but everything changes when he finds himself alone.

El desentierro
Ezequiel Forte Rodríguez - 14’
Akapana, of the indigenous Qulla people, makes tamales with her family to sell at the carnival "burial" ceremony, while the radio broadcasts news of mysterious attacks across the country.

Mamá: membrillo, dolor y sangre
Ana Clara Bustelo - 14’
On a sweltering San Juan night, an earthquake sends a tremor through the land, sparking a conversation between a mother and her daughter that helps them free themselves and re-enter the house to cook quince paste.

La Nena
Josefina Lens - 14’
La Nena transports Itatí to the leprosy hospital on Cerrito Island. Everything seems to pass calmly, until Itatí regrets returning to the Island. La Nena and the Island will become both a magnet of attraction and of escape.

Donde revientan las luciérnagas
Miguel Ángel Papalini - 14’
A mother and her two preteen children escape the heat of the city and a situation of domestic violence to the sierras of Córdoba. But rest and peace do not seem to be part of the landscape.