Juan F. Arévalo

Ousman Umar is a young Ghanaian man who leaves his village, drawn by the idea of ​​the "land of the white people"—a distant place that fuels his curiosity. After a journey fraught with obstacles, he arrives in Barcelona and discovers that life there is not as he had imagined, until he meets Montse, who welcomes him into her family and offers him—along with love and support—the possibility of a future.

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.

A young film festival juror uncovers a bizarre conspiracy behind a film everyone but him seems to enjoy.