CinemaAttic West Coast: Spanish & Latin-American Short Film Night

How does it feel with a five-year Conservative majority government perspective? Will they help to tackle the severe problem of inequality in British, and by extension Scottish, society? Elections are indeed a tricky democratic tool with a noble purpose, but which have in time shifted to become the perfect mirror in which everyone's fears are reflected, to the detriment of the common wealth.

Our next CinemaAttic session goes beyond the debates between what to choose, what our societies should be driven towards, and why individual self-interest and commodity impede a further evolution of democratic values and civil rights. It's a truly political-societal selection of short-films through which we will also suggest our solution to overcoming such a situation: imagination.

We proudly present a programme of independent short films distributed by OFF ECAM, a project born in one of the most prestigious film schools in Spain.

En directo (Live) tells a commonplace story in today’s Spain. A family about to be evicted from their home desperately seek the help of a TV programme to gather the necessary money to pay off their debt to the bank. The story was originated from the similarities the film’s director felt between the socio-economic situation in Spain and the one he experienced in his native Argentina twenty years ago.

A satire of our current times, La soledad del cormorán (The loneliness of the cormorant) follows Jesús, a man who has been engulfed by his own advertisement persona.

In Nena (Girl), Ana must confront her younger self to take control of her own life. Helsinki shows Carmen and Lola killing the time before the end of their night shift, wondering about a possible encounter with a future inhabitant of the planet Earth.

Biodiversidad (Biodiversity) presents an idyllic setting for a presumably romantic story to unfold…

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CinemaAttic is the platform for Spanish, Iberian and Latin-American cinema in Scotland. Our main purpose is to raise the profile of Ibero-American cinema in Scotland and UK. By collaborating with key venues and institutions, we connect emerging filmmakers from Spain, Portugal and Latin America with British organisations and audiences.

Since 2008, CinemaAttic has produced and organised six different film and arts festivals across Scotland. A Community Interest Company registered in Scotland, at present CinemaAttic runs regular short film nights in the city of Edinburgh and is working towards becoming a keystone company in the distribution of Hispanic and Lusophone cinema in Scotland and UK and a platform for entertainment, learning, cultural diffusion, networking and industry development through arts and cinema. Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network.