100 SPANISH SHORT MOVIES YOU MUST WATCH (VII)

Back to our list and as in previous issues we offer a selection made of known filmmakers: Jaume Balagueró, Pablo Berger, Juanma Bajo Ulloa and new prodigies: Gerardo Herrero, Alice Waddington and Iván Villamel

Let’s highlight the presence of ALICIA, filmed in an innovative style very typical of its age and Mr. Dentonn, Villamel’s successful short breaking records in nominations and awards at fests, and Mama, by Pablo Berger in which we have Alex de la Iglesia as artistic director – a work similar in some ways to Acción mutante.

On the other hand, I pretended not to choose more than one movie per director but I needed to break my rule with Chema García Ibarra, an influence filmmaker since his very beginning. Impossible not to have his great El ataque de los robots de Nebulosa 5.

Alicia (Jaume Balagueró, 1994)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrolHJtgqeU

El reino de Víctor (Juanma Bajo Ulloa, 1989)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hazep6nHd0c

Mama (Pablo Berger, 1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFTcqrYIsDc

El ataque de los robots de Nebulosa 5 (Chema García Ibarra, 2008)

https://vimeo.com/2425258

Mr. Dentonn (Iván Villamel, 2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DqZT8b-dnU

Picnic (Gerardo Herrero Pereda, 2011)

https://vimeo.com/88108646

Broken Basket (Rodrigo Ruiz Céspedes, 2015)

https://vimeo.com/144278399

Abuelo (Borja Muñoz Gallego, 2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTqLXcx4dn0

Yanindara (Lluíz Quílez, 2009)

https://vimeo.com/25860516

Disco Inferno (Alicia Waddington, 2015)

https://vimeo.com/139450503

________________________________________________________________________

Rubén Íñiguez Pérez is a Spanish literature scholar. He has written different articles about horror cinema for several media and he is part of the headquarters of La Mano Film Festival.