Carla Sáiz Lara

A group of amateur filmmakers begins an experimental project that gradually destroys their lives. As they shoot a fiction about a writer who, trapped with a monolith, tries to create real beings through her writing, the characters begin to contaminate the shoot, until no one can tell what is being filmed from what happens behind the camera. Made in Barcelona with the latest AI models applied to VFX, Ruinas Artificiales could be considered part of a Nouvelle Vague, but of the 21st century, that is, with agile methodologies, precarity, quantum physics and tarot. At once satire and dark comedy, it asks what remains of the human when the machine writes and generates images faster than we can think them and feel them.

Samuel, 10 years old, discovers that Hugo, his imaginary friend, no longer wants to play with him. Confused, Samuel spends his last days of summer exploring hidden corners of his town, accompanied by friends older than him, while secretly trying to understand Hugo's gradual fading.

Miguel has met up with his friends, or so he thinks.