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A Berlinale Generation 14plus nominated short drama.
In the near future, in another reality, an abandoned building becomes the silent witness to the extinction of humanity. Through the memories engraved on its walls and echoes, it narrates the tragic story of how humanity succumbed to addiction to a drug that, by eliminating the feeling of loneliness, led to devastating isolation and, finally, to its disappearance. The story is narrated by an artificial intelligence voice to give it coldness and accompanied by a minimalist jazz soundtrack to bring warmth, recorded inside an empty church, resonating with the ghostly beauty of everything that was left behind.
Bruno, a misunderstood teenager, has developed an obsession with burning objects, recording them, and uploading videos to the internet to deal with his father’s death. When his lonely mother starts dating another man, Bruno escapes from home. He goes to another town to live with Daniela, a young pyromaniac he met online and with whom he has an epistolary relationship. During the painful separation from his mother and his best friend Ian, he begins to question his sexuality and capacity to overcome his father’s loss.
A heartless poet wants to rewrite his lost stories while talking with Ines, the woman who takes care of his fundamental needs.
Chucho is taken care of by his mother Alma for a few days, during which they will grow closer.
La GĂĽera, a young rapper from Mexico City, struggles with her ability to rap after a heartbreak. Despite attending freestyle sessions with friends, she struggles to regain her lyrical prowess. Seeking solace, she turns to a forest-dwelling shamanic friend for unconventional healing. Through a transformative encounter with forest crickets, she confronts her pain and emerges with newfound liberation.
Beach is a summary of conversations in Super 8 and Super 35mm that narrates, in a experimental way, the 21 year relationship of a couple up to ther separation. A reflection on how we decide to build our own memories, the testimony of a generation that lives creating memories to share and that feels nostalgia for memories they adapt from other generations, even. This short film is imagined as a memory or a dream that anyone could incorporate into their own memory.
A couple of teenage factory workers spend their afternoons consuming chemical substances in a self-constructed shack. The ecstatic trips and the visions they experiment make them forget for a moment about their noisy industrial city life. But when Alexandra disappears right before his eyes, Lucas must deal with a corrupted system. His visions decay, just like the monster that imprisons them.
