Early Came the Stories

An artist goes beyond the current rush we live in and paints a five hundred square meters wall painting that will inspire a creatively blocked songwriter. A short film that claims the synergetic power of art and culture.

Talia is a 13-year-old girl who dreams of becoming a boxer. But there is an obstacle more difficult to overcome than a boxing ring: to live with an abuser.

One night in New York, a young Woody Allen meets an old Woody Allen having a drink in a bar. Briefly amazed by this impossible situation, they immediately begin to talk about love, sex, religion and death.

Palma, 1984. Marçal is a blind young man. He helps his father with the management of their own inn, Hostal Orión. When Marçal meets Luz, the new employee, he feels strongly attracted to her. When the night falls, Marçal walks around the corridors, searching for acoustic thrills coming from the inside of the rooms. Luz and Marçal will start a special relationship based on a mutual complicity and on a not-conventional intimacy. However, their bond will bring unpredictable consequences for them.

Júlia experiences sexual affection relationships very differently from Clara, her partner. This fact will cause her to doubt, making them realize that they no longer share the same lifestyle and, moreover, will end up questioning their own relationship.

Maria travels with her friend Zoe to a village in Mallorca during the winter. During those days away from home, what seemed like a peaceful getaway takes a strange turn. 'Eixam' observes a small part of adolescence through discomfort, desire, and fear.

Rita is a little 9-year-old girl who lives immersed in her own little world, full of illusions and innocence. After secretly hearing her parents say that they may have to leave their home behind forever, without really understanding the situation, Rita will find herself in the need to defend and protect her little world to prevent what she has heard from happening.

For those who should have been to Paris, Paris is an idea, a desire, an emotion. The impossibility of going there becomes a metaphor for unsatisfied longing and stimulus to explore everyday magic from longing for the pending.

Palma, 1999. A widowed and retired man lives an unexpected second youth when he discovers the universe of anonymity offered by Internet chat rooms. With the nickname MOIX and with a personal reality manipulated for convenience, he establishes contact with a young netizen named SUCRE, with whom he will begin a relationship based on less and less innocent conversations. Soon after, expectations take over MOIX and desire transcends his virtual personality: he and SUCRE have fallen in love.

A boy lives with his father in a natural region away from civilization. Isolation and loneliness cause the child to be entertained with anything. The only contact he has with the modern world is the postman's daily visit. The child's boredom and curiosity will push him to commit a mischief that will mark his life.