Irene Ruiz

Despite not having stopped the creative desires of a generation, the economic crisis of 2008 decisively stopped trajectories and projects. But this is not a short film of lamentations, but a chronicle about friendship and creation in difficult times.

Alba vient d'avoir trente ans et se prépare à passer un week-end à la campagne avec ses amis. Seulement, ses projets de fête tombent à l'eau lorsqu'elle se retrouve soudain piégée dans une boucle temporelle. Ce n'est pas un recommencement sans fin mais un compte à rebours. Que se passera-t-il quand le temps sera définitivement écoulé ? (The incredible shrinking wknd)

Ana, une jeune femme espagnole issue d'une famille bourgeoise, est sur le point de terminer ses études et de se marier, mais elle n'est pas heureuse. Après un événement très improbable, sa vie bascule et tout change.

As the life of Charles of Habsburg is told since his arrival to Spain, it can be seen how the heir to the crowns of Germany, Burgundy, the Netherlands, the Free County, Artois, Nevers and Rethel, of the territories of the Crown of Aragon and its related Italian territories, and of the territories of the Catholic Monarchs in Castile, North Africa and the Americas, matures as a statesman and gets stronger in face of menaces around him and good and bad advice from his counselors.

Manuela is a young woman who lives in a cabin where she studies the Andalusian wetlands. Her life revolves around watching birds. A few kilometres away, Alba lives completely neglected, a seven-year-old girl whose mother, Yolanda, works at night.