Green Years

Green Years continues to be a vital space for cinematic expression. With each edition, we present a selection of works that reflect the essence of the beginning of an expressive journey, celebrating the creative impulse that characterises the first film productions.

This year’s competitive selection includes 18 films from 14 different countries. A complex and significant programme, which includes school works and independent productions.

The opening is marked by Mitología de barrio, by Antonio Llamas, Alejandro Pérez Castellanos and Jorge Rojas, all members of the Espíritu Escalera film collective and former students of ECAM—School of Cinematography and Audiovisual of the Community of Madrid. The film defines a glossary and comprehensively maps Madrid’s working-class neighbourhoods, now immersed in an unstoppable process of displacement and gentrification. A journey through the most inhabited and at the same time most invisible Madrid.

This year, ECAM celebrates thirty years of existence and we are dedicating a focus of three sessions to the most emblematic works made in the context of this institution since the 2010s.

Luca D’Introno

Green Years – Opening Session

One Screening Only
20 Oct / 14:00 / 70’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

A Suburban Mythology

Mitología de barrio
Antonio Llamas, Alejandro Pérez Castellanos, Jorge Rojas

On the outskirts of a city, a man sleeps in his grocery store on a hot summer afternoon. A premonitory dream startles him; tomorrow the…

Green Years 1

One Screening Only
21 Oct / 14:00 / 93’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

Oblivion

Alex Hrytsevich

A lone passenger is reflected in the windows of a train moving towards Minsk. During his absence, the city remains unchanged: frozen streets, long-gone voices…

The Wolf

Naama Heiman

Bela gets lost in the forest, where she follows a wolf through his transformation into a werewolf. Taxidermy, werewolf horror, Digibeta tapes, non-actor students, untrained…

The Dead in Frock Coats

Os Mortos de Sobrecasaca
Manuel Rainha

After a mysterious figure announces the arrival of Bad Times, a group of elderly people comes together to fight it with superstitions and popular wisdom.…

Muyurina – Itzuli Mitzuli

Muyurina - Itzuli Mitzuli
Diana Castro Sánchez

The Cantabrian Sea and Ulia mountain witness the encounter of Quechua and Basque languages, merging in a dance of letters and sounds. Here, the distant…

Green Years 2

One Screening Only
22 Oct / 14:00 / 97’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

Looking Into the Sun

In Die Sonne Blicken
Maximilian Karakatsanis

“After the death of my grandfather, I traveled to his home country of Greece, the Peloponnese. Transitory places, childhood memories, and dreams are interwoven on…

Seven Types of Dust

Danae Io

On a hot summer day, three US archaeologists are studying the de-industrialised plains of Thebes, the city of Antigone and Oedipus. The camera moves between…

Farewell to Snow – Snowplay

Jäähyväiset Lumelle – Lumileikki
Sanni Priha

In Northern Finland, a forest evokes childhood memories. Pleasurable snow play lures a poet into self-creation with nature. Pushing through thick snow, the poet reaches…

Business as Usual

Pedro Vinícius

A satirical look at Lisbon’s housing crisis, now the third most expensive city worldwide. Mass tourism and a lack of infrastructures are transforming the city…

Under Fire

Sous le feu
Jérémie Lamouroux

Bilel is enjoying one last teenage summer with his friends. Their fathers work in the silicon factory where the fire of the ovens never stops.…

Green Years 3

One Screening Only
23 Oct / 14:00 / 93’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

And Still, We Dreamt of Paradise!

É Verdade, sonhávamos com o Paraíso!
David Falcão, Alexandra Petrovskaya

Cinema as a dance without music, where the actors and the directors themselves are the performers. Problems arise in dealing with the organisation. Hence, the…

The Longest Dream Lasts 45 Minutes

Říká se, že nejdelší sen trvá 45 minut
Juliana Moska, Zdeňka Petrová

A cinematic poem delving into recurring dream epiphanies of a grandmother’s death and the birth of an unwanted child. Říká se, že nejdelší sen trvá…

The Quiver

La Mue
Judith Deschamps

In the basement of IRCAM, one recreates the 18th century aria sung by the Italian castrato Farinelli to the King of Spain to soothe his…

Still Waters

Jil Lange

The last days of a young farmer on a Greek island as he prepares to leave for mandatory military service, navigating the expectations of his…

Green Years 4

One Screening Only
24 Oct / 14:00 / 93’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala M. Oliveira

Reign

Herrschaft
David Graudenz

While model making is usually shown from the creators’ perspective, Herrschaft takes on the perspective of the models themselves. Rarely is the mundanity of this…

Petrolia

Giulia Mancassola

Sergio is a rebel, hyperactive, and chaotic. Sara and Fiori are two sisters who maintain a desire for femininity. They take us to a desolate…

Sidney

Luca Querio, Jonathan Leggett

Sidney is the last apprentice blacksmith for horseshoes in his province. Navigating between his new profession and his life as a rapper, he’s seeking balance…

Oaia Neagră

Renee Schräder

A queer filmmaker travels to remote Transylvania and falls for a single parent who must hide his gender identity from his religious community. Their relationship…

Alto da Eira

Tomás Guedes

Every Sunday, in the borough of Penha de França, Luísa organises a festive gathering at a local community hall. Miguel, a film student who recently…

SCHOOL OF CINEMATOGRAPHY AND AUDIOVISUAL OF THE COMMUNITY OF MADRID

One Screening Only
21 Oct / 11:00 / 63’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

Doll’s House

Wan Ju Wu
Isabela Bianchi

Rachel is a prostitute who changes the colour of her hair according to each client’s taste. This is because she is not an ordinary prostitute…

A Dance for the End of the World

La fiesta del fin del mundo
Paula González García, Gloria Gutiérrez Álvarez, Andrés Santacruz Diaz

Madrid, April 2020. COVID-19. A girl, at home, is bored. A boy feels lonely in his room. They don’t know each other, but imagine each…

Marillu

Abril Vila Truyol

Marillu is 86 years old. Her dream is to become an actress. She left Madrid and with it gave up her dream. 50 years later,…

Lupita from Now On

Lupita de aquí en adelante
Miguel Guindos

What happened to Lupita after the frustrated attempt to get into the dance battle? And what’s up with Huo now, the dancer that Lupita idolised?…

One Screening Only
22 Oct / 11:00 / 65’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

Carmen Asleep, Carmen Awake

Carmen dormida, Carmen despierta
Antonio Llamas

An intimate and emotional journey through the modern city. How to inhabit places in which one always feels like a stranger. We have to overcome…

Future Ruins

Ruinas futuras
Elvira Arbós, Francisco Armenteros, Ran Chen, Carolina Sánchez

Many years ago, a group of friends buried a time capsule in their dorm. Today, new students live there. Flirting tricks, uncertain future, tarot card…

Pup

Cachorro
Jesús Rivera

The lionesses force their young to leave the herd at the age of two. Only the strongest manage to become adults.

Plastic Touch

Aitana Ahrens

Lucy and Mina are two sex dolls living in a doll brothel. Together, they watch TV, their window to the real world. After a while,…

One Screening Only
23 Oct / 11:00 / 65’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

A Summer in Madrid

Un verano en Madrid
Joaquín Hermo, Juan Andrés Cuéllar, Javier Extremera Rodríguez

In 1887, an expedition from the Philippines arrived in Madrid to participate in the Philippines Exposition, a colonial and ethnographical fair held in Retiro Park.…

You Have Complete Freedom to Project

Tienes plena libertad para proyectar
Telmo Basterretxea Seijo

The intense friendship between Nestor Basterretxea and Jorge Oteiza brings them to Irun, province of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country. There, they buy a small piece of…

No conozco la historia del fuego

Sara Domínguez López, Luis Morla, Alberto Ruiz

When time seems suspended, young people meet in the forest.