Saida Benzal

La vida es sueño

Through illness and death a daughter seeks her mother in a dream world and finds her father in limbo. While she accepts the events of the unstoppable life that she runs over with her own rhythm, she searches for her from the feeling of unreality of mundane life.

Nineteen Forty One

In a year in which Marlene Dietrich was breaking all stereotypes as an actress and as a woman by becoming a US citizen and Orson Welles was presenting the best allegation on the loss of power in his masterpiece Citizen Kane, Europe was drained in an all-out war led by big dictators in which treason, death and violence corrupted all layers of society. Nineteen Forty-one is a tribute to one of the hardest years in the history of the twentieth century.

Une sensation de vide

Une Sensation de Vide is a videtart project on dance and partying -- and rage -- whose gentle involving rhythms of movement and light, and a semi-ethereal musical soundtrack from Bell Orchestra, offers a useful counterpoint to the rough and noisy treatment of the club scenario.

Orson West

A film crew arrives at a border town of Alicante and Murcia to shoot a western. This episode will change the routine of the locals, especially in the case of a group of children. Similarly, the shooting represents a return to his homeland of Sonia, who comes to town to star in the film, recalling a series of stories with no end closed

Otra ciudad

Juan Méndez is a high executive in his forties who seems to be a model of middle-class stability. However, amidst a personal crisis, he is contemplating some changes in his life, including changes in his romantic affairs. He moves to Valencia, allegedly for professional reasons, and that causes many troubles for his family: his woman has to quit her job, her daughter is going to be far from her fiancé and his son will have to find new friends.

Pipas

Is there anymore mutual understanding than a bag of sunflower seeds between two girlfriends?

Entre esquelas

Heras Victor is a young man who works as a journalist. Among his occupations is responsible for the obituary section. One day, out of curiosity is one of the burials that have appeared under his name and there he meets a mysterious woman who will become an obsession for him. Try to find out more about it, because the attraction was immediate and totally absorbing.

Checkmates

Candela, the headmistress of an elite school, after a traumatic divorce, returns to her old high school to lead a group of rebellious students through chess. There she will learn that in chess, and in life, it doesn't matter if you are a king or a pawn, because everyone ends up in the same box.

Dishonored Bodies

To love Love, devour Love, being devoured by Love. Video creation about the typical loving perversion, what the subject is love; love and not the object.

Letters to Paul Morrissey

Three celluloid letters sent from different parts of the globe to Paul Morrissey, director of Trash, Flesh and Heat, collaborator with Warhol and agent for the Velvet Underground.

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Mateo invites his friends for a weekend and proposes they play an unconventional game. They’ll each share their best memory of him, and then he’ll choose a winner. Secrets emerge in this exploration of the shared memories that bind us.