SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The International Short Film Festival [Tenerife Shorts]which celebrates its tenth edition in Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA) on June 23, 24 and 25, will offer the projection of five Canarian shorts on the 23rd and 24th.
Canary Shorts presents as a novelty this year that the short films that are part of the Canarian competition will be screened together with the international short films, something that, in the words of Andreea Patru, programmer and coordinator of the Festival, “offers local shorts, for the first time in the festival, the opportunity to compete within the international section and therefore opt for the Best Canarian Short Film and Culturamanía Award, as well as the Best International Short Film, the latter award endowed with a trophy and a cash prize of 1,000 euros”.
The Canary Shorts selection for this tenth edition is made up of the following five short films: ‘Circe’, by María Abenia, last year’s film that premiered in Tenerife after participating in the Gijón Festival and winning the Best Canary Short Award at the Las Palmas International Film Festival. It is a twenty-nine-minute tape of footage that the director uses to fictionalize the story of Circe, “whose days pass quietly on top of a cliff. With a cave dug into the rock as a home and away from everything, they knows him in the valley for his solitary life, his herding of pigs, and his witchcraft.”
The second tape selected is ‘Chlorine’. Directed this year by Pablo Borges, this fourteen-minute work of fiction investigates the relationship between Manuel and Diego. “They are both on the same water polo team and little by little they will discover that there is more to each other than chlorine.”
‘Diptych of an Ordinary Man, pt. 1’, by filmmaker Pablo Sánchez Díaz-Llanos, is the third film in contention. A short film from this year, recently completed, which makes its world premiere at the Tenerife festival. The etymology of ‘love’ is wrong is the synopsis that surrounds this fourteen-minute experimental work.
The Canary Shorts selection is completed by ‘Dear Juancar or the anguish of the King in his exile’ and ‘Everybody talks about Javier’, by Alois Sandner Díaz and Fátima Luzardo, respectively. The two produced last year and both, like the other three, making their premiere on the island of Tenerife. The first is an experimental tape of seventeen minutes of footage where Sandner points out the following: “because he feels that he no longer has the love of his people, Juan Carlos lives in Nurai, an island very far from his kingdom. Juan Carlos feels dejected. He misses his land.”
The short by Fátima Luzardo, in turn, weaves together in just two minutes a story that is sustained “through the letters to my father during the University, the murder of Javier Fernández Quesada in 1977 by gunshots comes back to my mind. civil guard at the gates of the University of La Laguna in Tenerife. Those were moments when young people wanted change and fought for it. I began to see how things were revealed to me”.
Tenerife Shorts incorporated this Canarian competition to its programming in the third edition (2015). Andrés Nieves, Nayra Sanz Fuentes, Elisa Torres, Silvia Navarro, Miguel G. Morales, Jonay García, Carlos Baena and Octavio Guerra have managed to win Canary Shorts. Likewise, Shira Ukrainitz and Omar Al Abdul Razzak, with La prima cosa, won the Culturamanía Digital Journalism Award last year, an award offered by the cultural website for the best Canarian short film and which complements the official Canary Shorts award.
