IN BETWEEN WOUNDS & WEAVINGS
SHORTS PROGRAM
Something happens when a community gathers around its own stories: stories that inevitably carry wounds, whether personal or shared. This collection of eight short films by emerging creators from Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Cuba, explores what we do with what we carry. How we transform it. And how, in finding each other, we also find joy. From insects and landscapes, to time travel and queerness, these filmmakers move across documentary, animation, video essay, dramatic and experimental forms. Drawing from memory and the everyday, each film arrives with its own pain, catharsis, and hope. Together, they weave a collective fabric of healing, resilience and belonging.
Curated by María Blanco, Nicolás Serrano, Pablo Betancourt, Ricardo Hardy & Rodrigo Ferrat
Fireflies in Glass Jars
Dir. Aiton Sinézio de Jesus | Brazil, 2025 | Portuguese with English subtitles | 19 min
On the day of his wedding, Robson decides to visit Italo, his ex-boyfriend, at the house where they lived. As their memories reignite, Italo tries to escape, sliding deeper into the house until there is no other option but to confront his former lover.
Brazilian filmmaker who has worked on over 40 short films. His directorial credits include Torrente (2021), Centro, 67 (2022), A Costureira (2025), and Viernes Decide Morir (2025). Currently a student of Sound Engineering at the EICTV film school in Cuba.
Emotional Landscapes
Dir. Mariana López Hernández | Mexico, 2024 | Spanish with English subtitles | 12 min
Emotional Landscapes reveals the consequences of emotional absences: hugs that were not given or words made knots; as well as the eventual reinvention of life through (mis)memory.
Mexican photographer, film director, and director of photography. Bachelor of Film and Visual Arts from Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes. She has also directed the short films I’m my mother, I’m not my mother (2023); Whom did you ask for? (2024), Best One Minute Film on Puebla CineFest 2025.
Molinuco
Dir. Andrés Flores Paredes | Ecuador, 2026 | Spanish with English subtitles | 3 min
A family gets back to the magnificent waterfall of Molinuco where they let the ashes of their passed away mother, just to remember her soul and be embraced by her presence again.
Filmmaker, screenwriter, and executive producer at OYEHAZCINE. Currently developing the fantasy feature film Amen no Amén. His Super8 short film Molinuco received support from the National Film Archive of Ecuador for its digitalization.
Pierced by a Blaze
Dir. Jose Matamala | Argentina, 2025 | Spanish with English subtitles | 19min
In the rebellious nights of Buenos Aires, a travesti force awakens statues, just three months after the far-right has taken hold. Three lives united by friendship, the Ballroom scene, brown trans non-binary existence, and poetry. Killa, Molly and Andy speak of community, resistance, and the transformative power of imagining reality otherwise, together.
Chilean artist who studied Audiovisual Production in Argentina, specializing in documentary from a critical perspective. Her films Devenir virtual, 2028, and Mirar la herida, 2020, received critical acclaim. She founded Queerubin Films, through which she produced her latest documentary.
Friday decides to die
Dir. Aiton Sinézio de Jesus | Cuba, 2026 | Spanish with English subtitles | 3min
With her boss’s permission to die and a pistol, Friday goes to the death registry office to register the text she wrote for her own tombstone.
Brazilian filmmaker who has worked on over 40 short films. His directorial credits include Torrente (2021), Centro, 67 (2022), A Costureira (2025), and Viernes Decide Morir (2025). Currently a student of Sound Engineering at the EICTV film school in Cuba.
Hedgehog
Dir. Tadeo Morales | México, 2025 | Spanish with English subtitles | 5min
Nora is a chronically online, antisocial hermit who has pushed away everyone who has ever cared about her. Now, months after losing her last friend, she must face her own fear of other people in a nightmarish journey with only a digital avatar by her side.
Tadeo Morales is an editor, director and post-production supervisor whose work in a variety of short films, series and music videos has been shown in festivals all around the world. His works explore surreal and experimental themes, usually utilizing alternative technologies.
Chicha The Cicada
Dir. Sofía Alejandra Uzcategui Leon | Colombia, 2026 | no dialogue | 10min
Chicha emerges from the earth for her metamorphosis, only to find the avocado tree where she was born gone. Determined to create a forest, she waits for a new tree to grow, unaware her life will be too short to see it flourish.
Born in Mérida, Venezuela (2002). She emigrated to Colombia in 2015. Driven by a passion for animation, she studied audiovisual arts at the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga. In 2022, she completed her first animated short film, La Macabra, which screened at Chilemonos and Anima Latina.
Kaira and the Temporal Twist
Dir. Wagner Nogueira Mendes | Brazil, 2025 | Portuguese with English subtitles | 20min
In a future where the Chronos Machine-Metropolis controls every aspect of human life and erases any history of resistance, young Kaira lives in hiding, dodging relentless surveillance. Inspired by the forgotten struggles of historical figures, Kaira must become the living memory.
Screenwriter and director from the outskirts of Ceará, Brazil, with a degree in Animation Design and a specialization in Visual Arts. His directorial work includes the short film Alienígena and the feature film Terra Natal (currently in post-production). He was a semifinalist at FRAPA, the biggest screenwriting festival in Latin America.