Miguel Ángel Blanca

Exercises to see God is a survival reality show. Accompanied by a television crew, three women with so-called visionary mystical gifts are sent to the mountains as contestants on a survival reality show. In the loneliness of abandoned landscapes, they will have to find a televised prophetic revelation with the goal of finding a new Spirit Age in primetime. The three women will be judged in a televised media trial, where the bishop will question the protagonists about their visions related to the desire, the truth and the price of eternal salvation.

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A science fiction tale about inhabiting other life forms and the legitimate right to be dysfunctional. Somewhere between ethnographic first-person documentary, Grand Theft Auto and end-of-the-world everyday life, here is the survival diary of someone trying to communicate in vain, whoever is on the other side.

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Berta Prieto and Belén Barenys write, together with Miguel Ángel Blanca (Magaluf Ghost Town) this series about the vital moment of a generation, of which five episodes will be screened. Autodefensa is about two friends who have a great time together without having to ask anyone's permission. The film is about being in your twenties, living in Barcelona and wanting to step over every possible emotional red line to discover who you really are. It's about the adventures of two cheeky lunatics who don't want anyone to tell them how to do things, creating their own world in order to be queens. Actually, Autodefensa is about two girls who are really scared and having fun in self-defence. They say they're sorry, it was all 'self-defence', they were just too scared.

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At the height of the summer tourist season, the Spanish beach town Magaluf turns into a hellscape of the low-cost travel industry. For eight weeks every year, over one million mostly British vacationers ride an alcohol-soaked tide of public urination, fisticuffs and ambulance sirens for recreation. Instead of assembling a clip-reel of "balconing," when drunk idiots jump into hotel pools from their balconies, filmmaker Miguel Ángel Blanca crafts a far deeper and atmospheric look at a place where visitors and locals alike are driven by pleasure. Long-time resident Maria has little time left, so she takes in a seasonal lodger who listens to her relive her glory days. An enterprising real estate agent peddles an extravagant development, while a young gay man drifts without any plans beyond robbing a tourist for kicks. Part ghost story, part foreboding parable, this is a stylish and vivid impression of people and a place dreaming of escape. Myrocia Watamaniuk (Hot Docs)

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The gang advances through the darkness of an abandoned city. While the world asks for help, they only seem troubled by destroying the past and burning the roots. They dream of being the primal generation and not belonging to anything. They want to be the new art, to find eternity and finally to disappear. Teenagers, lo-fi science fiction, nihilism, and to cross to the other side.

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In this short film, M.A. Blanca, together with the co-director Jordi Díaz Fernández, continues to explore the visual style of Quiero Lo Eterno, and also partially retakes the reflection on the impact of the human being in the environment through technology, solitude, death... and taxidermy.

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After carrying the silence of a teenage abortion for years, filmmaker Marta Duran Lozano gathers the anonymous testimonies of women who have lived through similar experiences. Alongside teenage girls who have recently had abortions, she embarks on a collective creative process, revisiting, embodying, and reimagining these intimate stories.

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Júlia arrived some time ago in Glasgow fleeing from Barcelona; she wanted to start from scratch. Years have passed and she seems stuck: in the mornings she tries to pursue her career as a photographer, at night she cleans dishes in a restaurant. One afternoon, while taking portraits of pedestrians crossing a bridge, one of her eyes begins to fail. As illness begins to spread Júlia will begin a search into the past to the depths of Glasgow and its history. The river will carry her towards a memory: the day she met a mysterious group of men who pulled objects from the depths of the water and among them a strange Indian boy, Shubham, who also came to the city from far away in search of a new life.

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Exercises to see God is a survival reality show. Accompanied by a television crew, three women with so-called visionary mystical gifts are sent to the mountains as contestants on a survival reality show. In the loneliness of abandoned landscapes, they will have to find a televised prophetic revelation with the goal of finding a new Spirit Age in primetime. The three women will be judged in a televised media trial, where the bishop will question the protagonists about their visions related to the desire, the truth and the price of eternal salvation.

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A science fiction tale about inhabiting other life forms and the legitimate right to be dysfunctional. Somewhere between ethnographic first-person documentary, Grand Theft Auto and end-of-the-world everyday life, here is the survival diary of someone trying to communicate in vain, whoever is on the other side.

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