The Short Film Industry Association (AIC) and the Madrid City Council are holding this year’s Madrid. Distrito en corto, a programme of short film screenings in municipal public spaces.
Around 86 sessions will be screened between June and December. In addition to the sessions in June, the programme is completed with two more dates: 6 October, Spanish Cinema Day, and 21 December, the Shortest Day.
The activity is open and free of charge with the aim of bringing the great national talent around short films to the public.
The initiative is carried out within the framework of Emergente CineLab, whose eighth edition will be held in November 2024.
All the short films selected have had an important trajectory, including winners or nominees at the Goya and Oscar Awards.
The activity was presented last Wednesday, 12 June, at the Centro Cultural Casa de Vacas in El Retiro with the intervention of Ana Julia de Miguel, Director General of Institutional Relations and Strategic Projects of the Madrid City Council; Mario Madueño, President of AIC; and María Inmaculada Sanz Otero, Deputy Mayor of Madrid City Council.
This is the first step in the organisers’ commitment to explore new spaces, infrastructures linked to administrations such as cultural centres or public libraries, for the screening of quality independent short films. In this way, both the public spaces and the talent surrounding national short films are given value.
