Animac Film Festival: Humour and Massacre Stories

Presenting a selection of short films from the Catalan festival, ‘Animac Lleida. International Animated Film Festival of Catalonia’. Organised in collaboration with Cervantes Institute, New Delhi and Decaf Festival, the festival presents a selection of the best short films recently produced in Spain, and from Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina

Decorated (Spain/11 min/2016)
Director: Alberto Vásquez
Short fiction film about the unravelling of a relationship between two people and how it affects the world around them

Carnal Symbiosis (Belgium/2017/10 min)
Director: Rocío Álvarez Varela
Erotic experimental short film where the game and the personal transformation of the characters are more important than the reality of their bodies

Tío (Mexico/2021/12 min)
Director: Juan José Medina
Film in stop motion, set in a dystopian world, it is the story of a twelve-year-old boy Martin and his family of miners

Flesh (Spain/2019/12 min)
Director: Camila Káter
Animation and documentary about five women, and their relationship with their bodies from childhood to old age

Beast (Chile/2021/15 min)
Director: Hugo Covarrubias
Inspired by trues events, Beast delves into the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile 

Selection Process (Spain/2020/3 min)
Director: Carla Pereira
A cat goes to a job interview where his skills are evaluated by three mice

Loop (Argentina/2021/7 min)
Director: Pablo Polledri
In a society where each member has a specific role and performs a certain action in an eternal loop, a couple decide to do