Shorts From Galicia

Programme

As maos da pulpeira | Pulpeira’s Hands | Las manos de la pulpera

• Director(s): Silvia Cachafeiro
• Country, year: Spain | 2025
• Duration: 14 mins
• Language: In Galician and Spanish with English subtitles
• More information: International Premiere

Galicia, 1950s. In a harsh, male-dominated world, Concha and her friend Ramona begin their day before dawn. As pulpeiras—women who prepare and sell octopus—they work at the river and later serve pilgrims. When Concha faces an unexpected problem and her husband is away, her fellow pulpeiras come to her aid. Determined to understand what happened, she sets out to uncover the truth and ensure it never happens again.

Alboroque

• Director(s): Sabrina Fernández
• Country, year: Spain | 2025
• Duration: 14 mins
• Language: In Galician and French with English subtitles
• More information: London Premiere

To protect their villages and restore biodiversity to the landscape of Galicia, a unique collective unites to fight invasive plants and municipal neglect. Activist brigades organise a green-fingered resistance against destructive plants and neglected overgrowth around their villages in Galicia.

Escala un cincuenta mil | Scale One Fifty Thousand

• Director(s): Ángel Suanzes
• Country, year: Spain | 2026
• Duration: 17 mins
• Language: In Galician with English subtitles
• More information: World Premiere

July 1974, Spain was moving towards unpredictable political change. Carmen also changes: her marital status. From a life attached to the father figure, to a life attached to her husband.

Corpo de cristo | The body of Christ | El cuerpo de Cristo

• Director(s): Bea Lema
• Country, year: Spain | 2025
• Duration: 12 mins
• Language: In Galician with English subtitles
• More information: UK Premiere

With an unacknowledged mental disorder, Adela seeks answers in popular rituals. She feels that something is watching and harming her, and only religion seems to understand her.

Butt Face | Cara de cona

• Director(s): Guillermo de Oliveira
• Country, year: Spain | 2026
• Duration: 18 mins
• Language: In Galician and Spanish with English subtitles
• More information: World Premiere

Moncho, a lonely man who develops an irrational hatred for his cheerful new neighbour, Pardavila. What begins as simple annoyance soon becomes an obsession. Determined to get rid of his neighbour, he starts planning the perfect crime. A dark comedy about envy, loneliness, and the absurd lengths one man will go to.