PROGRAMME

AS MAOS DA PULPEIRA
Pulpeira’s hands | Las manos de la pulpera
dir. Silvia Cachafeiro
International Premiere
Spain | 2025 | 14 min
In Galician and Spanish with English subtitles

Galicia, 1950s. In a harsh, male-dominated world, Concha and her friend Ramona begin their day before dawn. As pulpeiras—women who prepare and sell octopus—they work at the river and later serve pilgrims. When Concha faces an unexpected problem and her husband is away, her fellow pulpeiras come to her aid. Determined to understand what happened, she sets out to uncover the truth and ensure it never happens again.

ALBOROQUE
dir. Sabrina Fernández
London Premiere
Spain | 2025 | 14 min
In Galician and French with English subtitles

To protect their villages and restore biodiversity to the landscape of Galicia, a unique collective unites to fight invasive plants and municipal neglect. Activist brigades organise a green-fingered resistance against destructive plants and neglected overgrowth around their villages in Galicia.

ESCALA UN CINCUENTA MIL
Scale One Fifty Thousand
dir. Ángel Suanzes
World Premiere
Spain | 2026 | 17 min
In Galician with English subtitles

July 1974, Spain was moving towards unpredictable political change. Carmen also changes: her marital status. From a life attached to the father figure, to a life attached to her husband.

CORPO DE CRISTO
The body of Christ | El cuerpo de Cristo
UK Premiere
dir. Bea Lema
Spain | 2025 | 12 min
In Galician with English subtitles

With an unacknowledged mental disorder, Adela seeks answers in popular rituals. She feels that something is watching and harming her, and only religion seems to understand her.

CARA DE CONA
Butt Face
dir. Guillermo de Oliveira
World Premiere
Spain | 2026 | 18 min
In Galician and Spanish with English subtitles

Moncho, a lonely man who develops an irrational hatred for his cheerful new neighbor, Pardavila. What begins as simple annoyance soon becomes an obsession. Determined to get rid of his neighbor, he starts planning the perfect crime. A dark comedy about envy, loneliness, and the absurd lengths one man will go to.