Masculine fragility
and other horror stories

November 28 – 6:30 PM – Cinemes Girona

A Dying Tree

Duration: 0:16:42

Director: Vincent René-Lortie

Choreography: Charles-Alexis Desgagnés

Country, Year: Canada, 2025

RRSS: IG @vincentrenelortie Fb @vincent.rl IG @la.distributrice.de.film

Synopsis
Spanish Premiere. As the day ends for a 45-year-old office worker, he encounters the mysterious gaze of a chimpanzee, sparking a silent exchange that prompts him to make an irreversible decision.

Cuando todo se destruya (When Everything is Destroyed)

Duration: 0:18:32

Director: Antonio Barrero

Choreography: Roger Paredes, Carolina Aldunate, Indira Conde

Country, Year: Bolivia, 2024

Synopsis
In a city on the brink of destruction, different characters survive, oblivious to the fate that awaits them.

Clown

Duration: 0:01:40

Director: Shanshan Jiang

Choreography: Artlist, Jessy Cheung

Country, Year: United Kingdom, 2025

RRSS: LN @jessycheung

Synopsis
Spanish Premiere. In a surreal fusion of live-action and AI-generated imagery, the film centers on a talented clown who gradually loses her sense of self in pursuit of audience approval.

My Name is the Sound I Use to Introduce Myself

Duration: 0:09:00

Director: Albert Rask

Choreography: Albert Rask

Country, Year: Netherlands, Denmark 2023

Synopsis
A group of young men waltz in pairs as an allegory of growing up.

Syncope

Duration: 0:21:00

Director: Linus von Stumberg

Choreography: Sarafina Beck, Linus von Stumberg

Country, Year: Switzerland, 2023

RRSS: IG @linus_vonstumberg IG @sarafina_beck

Synopsis
After Whim makes it through an unconventional audition for the dance piece Syncope, the choreographer remains unsatisfied with her full commitment. But what she and the other dancers experience in rehearsals is only a glimpse of the dark vision he will impose on them.

Better Not Kill the Groove

Duration: 0:06:36

Director: Jonathan Leggett

Choreography: Jonathan Leggett

Country, Year: Switzerland, 2024

Synopsis
In search of his identity through scootering and self-development, a young boy explores his relationship to his body and emotions. Composed of footage collected online, the film chronicles the character’s attempts to navigate his existential dismay.

Crepitar

Duration: 0:05:19

Director: Leo Carreño

Choreography: Anjah Ki-Hai

Country, Year: Colombia, 2022

RRSS: IG @teatrolaconspiracion

Synopsis
The skeletal body suspended, observing itself as a creaking and decomposing corpse, weaves in its last breath the memory of a life fractured by the impotence of idealizing itself amidst a contaminated system, where it seeks to recompose itself from poetic planes that allow it to grant liberation through the transfer and re-signification of its own life experience.

Picturam

Duration: 0:08:06

Director: Eva Rezová

Choreography: Eva Rezová

Country, Year: Czech Republic, 2025

RRSS: IG @evellinar IG @krystof_____cizek

Synopsis
Catalan Premiere.The film is inspired by the theme of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. The painting becomes only a starting point of inspiration; we try to transfer it, transform it and find a way to it through the language of film. It explores boundaries in the presence of several objects – the pictorial composition, the five dancers, their bodies and their movement.

no Hello

Duration: 00:00:33

Director: Tatiana Ziryanova

Choreography: Tatiana Ziryanova

Country, Year: Russia, 2024

Synopsis
Each of us has a spark inside! A little irony in the plot of the cult film The Ring by Gore Verbinski.