When the Light Breaks
dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson
IS, NL, HR, FR, 2024, 82′
Teenager Didi wants to unravel his love triangle so he plans on telling Klara that he has fallen in love with the art student Una. On the way, however, he is killed in a tragic traffic accident. Una struggles with the terrible loss when she meets Klara, who still believes that she was the only love of the dead young man. The two girls grow closer, but one of them does not know the truth. The latest film of Icelandic director Rúnar Rúnarsson, an old cquaintance of the Cinehill audience, is a minority Croatian co-production that opened the Un Certain Regard program in Cannes.
Foreigner
r. Carlos Violadé Guerrero
ES, 2018., 27’
Mark has just arrived for his holiday in Spain. Lunch with friends, the beach, the boat, the sea, and a stranger… the most beautiful vacation will turn into the most extreme experience of his life when he decides to try diving, but he is dragged away by a fast and dangerous current. What follows is a game of chance for survival. The film was nominated for the prestigious Goya Award for Best Short Fiction.
