Selected Films at Berlinale 2024

You Burn Me [Tú me abrasas]

Tú me abrasas is an adaptation of “Sea Foam”, a chapter of Cesare Pavese’s Dialoghi con Leucò, in which the Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomart talk of suicide, death and desire. The film not only adapts this dialogue but it also imagines its potential footnotes and detours.

Memories of a burning body [Memorias de un cuerpo que arde]

A lyrical portrait that intertwines and recreates the lives of Ana (73), Patricia (69) and Mayela (71) to discover how they understand themselves as women and how they enjoy their sexuality when the rest of the world thinks it no longer exists. Does desire still exist? Does pleasure diminish? What changes?.

Every You Every Me [Alle die Du bist]

What if the person you love the most suddenly becomes a stranger in your eyes? Nadine, a dedicated factory worker, tries to revive her relationship by reconnecting with her deepest emotions. But who did she once see in him that she can no longer find? EVERY YOU EVERY ME, a romantic social drama about the painful process of falling out of love and the initial magic of falling in love.

Reinas

Surrounded by social and political chaos in Lima during the summer of 1992, Lucia, Aurora, and their mother, Elena, plan to leave and seek opportunities in the United States. Their farewell involves reconnecting with their estranged father, Carlos, adding turbulence to the regrets, hopes, and fears of their emotional departure.

The Major Tones [Los tonos mayores]

It’s winter holidays and fourteen-year-old Ana discovers that the metal plate she has in her arm from an accident she suffered as a child is now receiving a strange message in Morse code.

Cura sana

Spain during the Noche de San Juan festival. Sisters Jessica and Alma are once again on their way to pick up food stamps from the Caritas charity. Although they have experienced violence at home, they both try to break the cycle and treat each other with love.

The Human Hibernation

Starting from the disappearance of Erin, a child who wakes up prematurely from hibernation, Clara, her older sister, will take us on a journey of searching for answers and confronting the narratives pre-established by the society in which she lives. One that hibernates during the coldest months of the year. A reflection on the human being, contradiction and the animal condition.

The Undergrowth [La hojarasca]

The distribution of an inheritance acquired through a supernatural encounter, mires three sisters in a long standing conflict. Their arguments resonate through the land and seem to awaken the island's long dormant volcano.

Nanacatepec

The Nanacatepec rock is traversed by a network that extends without a defined shape. It communicates both below and above the earth with living and dead beings. Its fruits, in the form of rhizomes and branching networks of fungi, are creators and transformers of everything in the world. Using multiple projections of films and objects in a 16mm film performance, the two artists create an irresistible visual eddy of nature shots and shadow plays.

Deprisa, deprisa

All they want is to escape from their way of life, and for that they need money, a lot of money. Whatever happens must happen fast. Fast money. Fast pleasure. Fast love. They are Pablo, “Meca”, Sebas and Angela. For ninety minutes you will see them live. Sometimes, slowly. Almost always, fast, fast.