SLAB PROJECTS

Are You Kidnappable?

Director: Charli Bujosa Cortés
Productores: Charli Bujosa Cortés, Joan Porcel, Manuel Escorihuela, María Boyarizo Martínez, Paola Álvarez
En fase de: Post-producción

In 1977, Carmen went around telling the whole world how “thrilled” she would be to be kidnapped, and one month later, on a flight from Barcelona to Palma, she was part of the longest aircraft kidnapping in history. Since then, she lives happily “self-kidnapped” in a house that suspiciously resembles a plane.

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Ocle

Director: Manuel Omonte
Productor: Bego Palomares
En fase de: Desarrollo

This project shows a day in the life of Jorge, a thirty year old that travels daily to the coast in search of ocle, the prized seaweed that from September until February, the Cantabrian Sea occasionally deposits onto the Asturian coasts. Always looking to the sea and at the mercy of chance, this is a story about waiting and the gestures that emerge from that process.

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The Desire to Kill a Brother

Director: Ismael Sordo
Productor: SINCIO DE PELIS
En fase de: Desarrollo

In a small industrial village in the north of Spain, Daniel (10) begins to feel jealous of his little brother Mateo (8) when his parents’ care for him is overshadowed by Mateo’s fainting spell at his school’s Christmas performance. Upon discovering that Mateo has developed a lump on his head, a corrupt desire arises in Daniel: he wants his brother to disappear. While the black dust from the factory next to his house begins to cover the windows, he unleashes a new spiritual reality in his imagination that interweaves the rural landscapes, the factory, and his brother’s illness. 

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A God Without Dance

Director: Pedro Díaz
Productores: Daniel Froiz, David Casas, Pedro Díaz, Pedro Domingo
En fase de: Post-producción

In rural Galicia in the late 1990s, María sets out to fulfil her mother’s final wish, just months before she dies: to see her granddaughter Lola make her First Communion. But María is an atheist and a single mother, while twelve-year-old Lola hasn’t set foot inside a church since her baptism.

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The Evil Eye

Director: Marta González Gallego
Productor: Marta F. Crestelo
En fase de: Desarrollo

Suffering from sexual dysfunction, thirty-year-old Leticia visits Ultramarinos Geli, an old shop run by the most powerful and unconventional witch in Asturias. Leticia hands over her wedding ring in exchange for a ritual to ward off the evil eye. After the ritual, Leticia returns home full of hope. Little does she know that Busgosu, a terrifying creature who is half-man, half-goat, is waiting for her there. Their encounter will be monstrously satisfying.

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I’ll Be Right Back

Directores: Andrés Khamis Giacoman, Francisca Khamis Giacoman
Productores: Andrés Khamis Giacoman, Francisca Khamis Giacoman
En fase de: Desarrollo

I’ll Be Right Back explores the relationship between Palestine and Chile through textiles, understood as an archive of migration, labour, and memory. Abandoned factories and family archives reveal a connection that persists even after the disappearance of the textile industry in both territories. Through Kamal, a narrative emerges, shaped by the experience of departure and the impossibility of return. His story enters into dialogue with the trajectories of Labibe, Lorice, the Lama Brothers, and the directors themselves, tracing different generations of displacement, return, and absence.

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Decaying Nature

Director: Thomas Woodroffe
Productor: Julieta Juncadella
En fase de: Post-producción

Under the suffocating sun of an exclusive nudist seaside resort, frigid ANTONIA (32), eight months pregnant, succumbs to a strange affliction that begins with nausea and an instinctive craving that may be linked to her pregnancy. When she realises that her friend is on her period, Antonia’s instinct turns into obsession. While their friends sink into a lethargy of nudity and drugs, Antonia stalks the vulnerability of their bodies, until she realises she cannot harm her friends. Her thirst then drives her into the shadows of the beach, where a treasure hunter rumbles around the beach every night. There, under the cold moonlight, she finds the chance to sate herself on a stranger’s exposed flesh, completing her first hunt with impunity.

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An essay about summer

Director: Lucía Estévez
Productores: Brava, Creciente Films
En fase de: Post-producción

In her essay about the summer, Alex (12) reflects on that day with her friends. Past, present and future intertwine through the power of her imagination. She is afraid to share her feelings and, without realising it, she begins to build a protective shell around herself. 

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Vitorino

Director: Adrián Cores
Productor: Elisa Celda
En fase de: Post-producción

In a small Asturian farming community threatened by industry, animals fall ill. Vitorino, a traditional animal healer and reaper, tries to preserve a vanishing way of life. His defense of nature pits him against factories and loggers in an increasingly quixotic rebellion.

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Danza Prima

Director: Amalia Ulman
Productores: Amalia Ulman, Carmen Roca
En fase de: Desarrollo

Cimadevilla, 1976. Sole, a young cigar maker, lives fearing that her husband will die at sea. At her friend Rafa’s drag show (based on Rambal), she meets a rich heir and becomes his lover to buy a safer boat, only to be torn between desire and shame.

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Luna en Escorpio 

A woman narrates her grieving process, recognizing the changes in her relationship with intimacy, her corporeality and the space she inhabits. The plot explores modifications of everyday life, capturing transitions between the mundane and the intimate with static and moving images, sound and text. In the last variation, the protagonist heads towards the mountain; Voices in Basque and Catalan begin to intertwine, dismembering the single point of view, to confront the complexity of two subjectivities (re)inhabiting spaces.

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NO GHOST INSIDE

Toni is a Spanish immigrant who makes a living as a fake gypsy performing all kinds of improvised spells and exorcisms for the inhabitants of New York. She shares an apartment in Brooklyn with her little son Austin, 3, and herExtravagant friend Savannha. The unexpected arrival from Philadelphia of her friend Regan once again confronts Toni with the problems of her past, which will turn into a nightmare when her friend disappears with the child.

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El desencanto

International title: The disenchantmentDirector: Marta MartínProduction: Carlos J MataScript: Maria Lorente (Mar Nantas) Production company: Persi Motion Pictures and ESCAC FilmsEstimated running time: 20 minGenre: Drama. 1970s.Budget: 23.000€. Person de contacto: Marta Martín Email: eldesencanto.film@gmail.com Telephone: 607 84 94 42 Sinopsis After the death of her mother, Inés moves with her father, Eudald, to a […]

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Como Manolete en la víspera de su muerte

A young filmmaker discovers that his great-uncle (Manolo) was killed in Jerusalem by Zionist militias in 1948 on diplomatic service, shattering his prejudices about the Middle East. Invited by Tel-Aviv University to screen a short film, he comes into contact with present-day Israel as he investigates Manolo’s death over the years, befriending international researchers and being present in Jerusalem on 7 October 2023 when the last hostilities break out.

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I’m in love with my Testo

In Juno’s video calls to her therapist, the fears, desires and hopes of her hormonal transition process are highlighted on the screen. As her body and voice transform, she searches for her identity in a corrupted video game that she has decided to fix.

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Woman Bites Dog

Xia He, a serial killer who lives in the Madrid neighbourhood of Usera, is followed at all hours by two filmmakers, who record in 16mm all her actions and reflections to show them in a documentary in favour of the liberation and care of canines. The team is unaffected by Xia He’s actions, until an unexpected event turns the tables. Also dialogue with industry experts where that exchange helps to improve the editing of the film.

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ZORAvsKONG

Título internacional: ZORAvsKONGDirección: Paola Álvarez y Manuel EscorihuelaProducción: Paola Á. FilmproduktionGuion: Paola Álvarez y Manuel Escorihuela Empresa de producción: Paola Á. FilmproduktionDuración (estimada): 75minGénero: Comedia, thriller, MeeTooxploitationPresupuesto: 80.000€ Persona de contacto: Paola Álvarez Peregrina Email: paolaalvarezfilmproduktion@gmail.com Teléfono: +49 17162562133 Sinopsis Ce (Lorena Iglesias) es una activista feminista que busca por Europa a la exterrorista feminista […]

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Lídia de Cadaqués

September 1904, Lídia, an illiterate fishmonger and daughter of the last witch of Cadaqués, takes Eugeni D’Ors into her home. Her fascination with the world he represents, so far removed from her own, becomes an obsession for her, which leads to delirium to the point of her believing she is the Ben Plantada, the protagonist of one of the author’s works.Septiembre de 1904, Lídia, una pescadera analfabeta e hija de la última bruja de Cadaqués, acoge a Eugeni D’Ors en su casa. La fascinación por el mundo que él representa, tan alejado del suyo, se convierte en una obsesión para ella, que desemboca en un delirio hasta el punto de creerse la Ben Plantada, protagonista de una de las obras del autor.

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