Irene Quirós

A 19th century drummer nicknamed “Hedgehog” is part of an anachronistic military expedition composed of a quixotic general and three soldiers through the inhospitable Liberian pampas, in search of the filibuster inn with the aim of burning it with an improvised torch. The aridity of the terrain, the lack of food and hygiene and the subtle line between the real and the fantastic will determine the destiny of the platoon.

In a near future, vegetation has mysteriously stopped reproducing. A scientist monitors the sound frequencies of an oak tree, until one day she hears a new sound.

“Hada committed suicide” – this WhatsApp sentence broke the hard news to some of her old school friends. Like all of them, she was 23 years old and although they had lost track of each other recently, they had been on the same basketball team since they were eight years old. Hada was the captain. Amid the emotional earthquake, her friends propose to pay tribute to her. The proposal is not received in the same way by everyone; each one has reasons for or against it. Among them, Sara is especially hurt because the last time she met Hada, she was in the audience, and she was performing a suicide on stage.

Agustín, a 70-year-old retired baseball player with a serious heart problem, faces a strong dilemma: whether or not to return to the baseball field.

Sicily records one of the highest rates of UFO sightings in Italy. Three witnesses recount their experiences: Danilo recalls his abduction, Elita shares a luminous event witnessed with her family, and Stefano—a former journalist—describes an encounter on Mount Etna, backed by a mysterious picture. In Sicily, where the future often feels like a futile wait, a UFO sighting becomes an opportunity to measure the distance between reality and hope. An ironic exploration of the human need to believe and the urge to look beyond.