La boca del lobo
( International Short-Film Festival)
The Madrid-based festival "La boca del lobo" (The wolf´s mouth) and the Instituto Cervantes Dublin have organised an event with a selection of the best short-films from the festival.  With 10 years' experience of organizing festivals under their belt, "La boca del lobo" is an unmissable treat for Wednesday evenings for all those interested in seeing the best  short-films.

Asier Muñiz, from the organization of the Festival, will present the Festival in Dublin, the 7th of May at 18.30, at Instituto Cervantes Dublin

Wednesday, 7th May, 18.30
CHILDREN WHO NEVER EXISTED (Valencia / Spain)
DAVID VALERO SIMÓN
Story that shows the daily routine that consists in survives with the minimum resources.

NIGHTBUS (Barcelona / Spain)
JUANJO JIMÉNEZ
Nightbus is the name of the night bus service in Barcelona

THE LADY ON THE THRESHOLD (Sevilla / Spain)
JORGE DAYAS
France, early twentieth century. When Captain Michel Alban comes back to the city he has new and noisy neighbours. At night, he discovers a fascinating woman standing in the threshold of a large house.

FIRST AID (La Palma / Spain)
ANTONIO MUÑOZ DE MESA
Three hikers find a woman on a rock in the middle of a forest.

SALIVA (Brazil)
ESMIR FILHO    
The mind of a very young girl who is going to be kissed for the first time is full with doubts and fears drowned in saliva.

CATHARSIS (Madrid / Spain)
DANIEL CHAMORRO
A man and a woman talk about their relationships in interviews. Two hearts. Two points of view about life.

Wednesday, 14th May
TRAUMATOLOGY (Euskadi / Spain)
DANIEL SÁNCHEZ ARÉVALO
During Antonio's wedding the oldest of five brothers his father suffers a heart-attack.

ANOTHER WAY TO FLY (Madrid / Spain)
ALFREDO GARCÍA REVUELTA
Through visual metaphors, we see the transformation of our hero after he is bitten by a pesky mosquito.

ELENA WANTS TO (Madrid / Spain)
LINO ESCALERA    
Elena has only one night to make relive her ex-boyfriend the past they had together. A few hours for compensate old mistakes. But that is not only what Elena wants all committed mistakes.

FIVE AGAINST ONE (Sevilla /Spain)
JORGE NARANJO
It's summer once again. Dani is thirteen years old and, like the rest of his bunch, he cannot stop looking at Mónica.

APROP (Barcelona / Spain)
AITOR ECHEVARRÍA
Usual gestures, seen closely, become an extraordinary dance.

PADAM… (Madrid / Spain)
JOSE MANUEL CARRASCO
Pilar doesn't want to be alone, so she decides to go to a dating agency in order to a blind appointment date. What she doesn't know is that her date has others different plans.


Wednesday, 21st 18.30
BREAD AND BUTTER (Madrid / Spain)
AITOR MERINO
Andrés and Elena have just arrived to Quito. Elena, very frightened, breaks down. Andrés tries to calm her down but reminds her that… there is not turning back.

THE ATTACK OF THE KILLERS KRITTERS (Valencia / Spain)
Due to the visit of her mother in law Luisa must choose between clean the house or watches her favorite soup-opera.

FINAL TAKE (La Palma / Spain)
DOMINGO DE LUIS
Life is like a sequence that lasts four minutes.

A QUEER WITH A DOG (Madrid / Spain)
VICENTE VILLANUEVA
From all the objectives that Pablo aimed when he arrived to Madrid, there is one still missing.

BENELUX (Madrid / Spain)
GONZALO MUNILLA
Before, meanwhile, after. Present, past, future. Ready, steady…Go!

HURDY-GURDY (Spain)
ALEGRÍA COLLANTES, ESTIVALIZ BURGALETA
This story is of three weird people. José Luis is a member of the "sinister" gang

Wednesday, 28th May, 18.30
TOOTH FOR EYE (Madrid / Spain)
EIVIND HOLMBOE
One night seven people are brought together through a chain of desperate events, illustrating that in life we do reap what we sow, and that Nature always finds a merciless way to do justice.

DON'T GO (Madrid / Spain)
DANIEL SÁNCHEZ CHAMORRO
Property is not any more what it used to be, it escapes floating in the air. It is not possible to hold down what we do or have. A telephone call interrupts a man's life and intimacy.

ENGINE (Mexico/ Spain)
GABE IBÁÑEZ
Through the pain and the confusion, a girl discovers her new nature and finds the way to achieve the lost harmony.

JESÚS, MY JESÚS (Madrid / Spain)
OLATZ ARROYO ABAROA Y CHARLY PLANELL
Maria and Pilar, two childhood friends, unexpectedly meet one night in a solitary street.

FLY (Argentina)
JUAN MANUEL ARATA
What is time? Why do we depend on a convention invented by ourselves? In historical terms a man's life is nothing.  However, none of us feels it like this. A fly's life, for example, doesn't even reach a month.

A QUESTION OF CHEMISTRY (Madrid / Spain)
JUAN MOYA
Two events have just changed Roberto's life: his girlfriend leaves him and the TV has just announced an important discovery…

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