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During their younghood, many people decided to leave their town and move to the city for a job and prosperity. Now, there are only empty houses and a municipality that needs people. In, ¡Vuelve Al Pueblo! (Return to town), four city youngsters with enthusiasm and in need of a change of environment will match with four elderly people to live together in this municipality. Together they’ll embark on a rural adventure to give a second life to the town where the elderly grew up and start, this way, a new life stage.

A summer night and five teenagers dancing on a beach bar. An idyllic and far memory that contrasts with Cleo’s present sited at her desk in front of the computer and right in the middle of Covid’s lockdown because of the pandemic. She and her other four friends-Laura, Viki, Sara and Lea-spend their time doing video calls and playing always the same online drawing game. In between virtual classes, anguish, fights between Sara and her dad and disagreements with Lea because of her toxic boyfriend Jan, Viki fins Pink Elephant, a game of challenges for TikTok, and starts playing without thinking too much about it. The video of her first dare goes viral on social networks.

Clara, a 23 bisexual girl, lives in a flat with her friend Helena. She wants to find love and starts going on dates, but these always turn out to be surreal, and Clara is mostly bored. Even so, she doesn’t give up and continues meeting with people in an addictive way until she finds a date that overcomes her. On an uneventful day, while hanging out her panties she’ll be surprised by what she’ll discover from this simple task.

Hiroshi, an addicted yakuza to pachinko’s machines of video arcades from their rival clan. After losing it all and thinking he had been scammed decides to regain their honour and money to exterminate the rival clan and collect as many pachinko pinballs as possible.

Mourning is an adaptative process of learning which through all person goes through. The experiences of Agur, Ana, Ane, Alba, Clara, Eva, Gio, Guiomar, Julen, Mónica, Nerea and Paula are different, but at the same time, there’s something in common that they share. In this documentary, the difference unfolds as a strong source of wealth.

After the death of their old leader, their son (the player) will take the leadership to revenge the death of his father.

Cooking with my Ex’ is a revolutionary cooking show, where eight ex-couples will try to solve pending matters in front of the stove. Their goal: be the ex-couple who cook better together and win a price of 100.000€. Will the contact between the couples make love arise? Or, on the contrary, will they throw dishes through their heads? The sixteen participants will live together on a spectacular villa that could be an idyllic scenario or turn into a pressure cooker. Welcome to ‘Cooking with my Ex’: Leave your differences to a side and…TO THE STOVE!

Dartford Street is a jigsaw puzzle on first-hand located on a London house in 1919. The player will put themselves on the role of Arthur Evans, a war veteran that, worried about his team-mate’s disappearance, will travel to his house to reveal the mysteries that hide and reveal what happened to his friend.

Biel just received some news that disrupts him, and he proposes his childhood friends spend a few days at his grandparents’ town: in Santa Cruz de la Serós, Osca, that coincides with the town’s festivities. Abril and Gerard join him, even though lately they are not the same as always. Recently, she was fired from her job as a waitress, and she doesn’t have any future plan that motivates her. Gerard has recently been on an Erasmus in Berlin that didn’t fulfil him, and his arrival in Barcelona and the reunion with his friends is a constant reminder of what he couldn’t have in the German city. During the trip to Osca, the group of friends will have to encounter their own monster putting on test their friendship, even though this could mean the end of their relationship.

NIL is a violinist from a prestigious orchestra. He lives with CARLOS, a retired violinist that doesn’t have any discography that proves it. He was never recorded in any of his interpretations. In Nil’s orchestra, there is a soloist vacancy for the annual recital, and he sees in this recital the opportunity of triumphing on the music’s world. Carlos acts as his mentor and helps Nil to face the favourite for the post, SOL. Even though she’s her rival, Nil falls in love with her. Nil fails to try to conquer Sol, and he’s expelled from the orchestra, after injuring physically his companion. Desperate and obsessed, he shows up the same day to the concert to get back his solo. For fear, the orchestra allows him to play alone in front of the public. When he ends, it’s revealed that who was playing was Carlos, who during his delirium had imagined himself as someone younger with a whole brilliant future ahead of him. Nil was just the fruit of his imagination.

The premise is simple: in a world dominated by hate discourses and white race privileges, what would happen if only the black population started developing their superpowers? And what if foreign unaccompanied minors were the key to human evolution? What would be occident’s reaction? And theirs? Would they try to twist the situation after so many years of white submission?

In every show, three different participants will compete to get the best score from the ranking. At the end of the season, the best three will compete to proclaim themselves as winners. Only the best of them will get the title of Supreme Sexual Master and a big economical price.

El vivo retrato (The live portrait) is a project that generates audiovisuals in real-time about a personal image through interactivity. Keeping a direct relation between the subject’s image and the story explained through his voice. It’s developed through experimentations with free software tools creating a language in which they can express the voice as an audio spectrum above the image. It addresses the modifications of the image that leave tracks as the speech advances. The tool intends to capture the most intimate and transcendental part of the image through sound expressions. This allows recreating as many versions of the image as discourses.

A Syrian woman: Fatima Hassan, a refugee from Polykastro’s zone (Greece), will accompany us and explain her experiences as a refugee woman. We’ll live first-hand how she escaped from a war that had been tormenting her for years to arrive at what she thought would be her salvation, but that after will turn into a bad dream. We’ll see how for her, and many other women, the refugee camps are not how we imagined them.

The mountains have their definition for each person. For Suzie, they’re her home, for Arnau, they’re his workplace, and for Pau, they’re the place where he can disconnect from the routine. Sardinia is the place where these three stories unite, and where the three main characters get to know each other to do an adventure in this place. They will be our guides during this extensive travel through the Sardinia, and through their stories will get to know the most spectacular places from the area, a Parador to practice all types of sports the 365 days of the year.

An elderly person decides to get out of their passive routine and dares to do an activity that they had always wanted to introduce to their life, breaking all the age stereotypes. On this journey, they are going to be accompanied by another elderly person, that already did the step to an active life before, they will present as a driving force of inspiration and guidance.

Holotable, a substantial modification of the Reactable which allows to show and modify holograms in real-time without using any type of physical button at any moment.

The project is centred on the planning and creation of a service of reproduction in continued theme and segmentation. It pretends to join and unite the contents of interest to the university community of Catalonia, and especially, to the young people that would like to join.

“Km.nou” is a docu-reality that emphasizes on values of the leisure groups. Five young people from these associations with different personalities go on an introspective and physical journey through nature, where they form a group with whom they must overcome challenges and face adversities. During the route, they will talk about juvenile, social, generational, and human matters like sexuality, religion, climate change or the beauty canons.

“La abstracción de la Naturaleza” (Nature’s abstraction) is a multimedia project in which the artist Núria Melero’s work and its artistic process are explored. The synergy of all the elements of the project help to create a communicative mixt space between the artist’s work, the physical book, and the digital world.

Unai’s life has been marked by a series of responsibilities that most young people don’t have to assume he takes care of Nati, his grandmother. Since they’ve always lived together, they share a particular tenderness and complicity, but at the same time, there are moments in which Unai can’t stand that his life has been conditioned by his grandmother’s dependency. When the opportunity arises for a vacancy on a residence for seniors for Nati, Unai is confronted between love and exhaustion when he must make a decision.

Marcos, a seventeen introverted teenager, has grown up in a very conservative and religious environment, and he has been educated on the traditional gender roles. Marcos is a music passionate; he enjoys creating music with his mixer and composes the trap bases for his high school friends. Marcos goes very frequently to the doctor to attend to his growing problems…or that’s what he believes because his parents always hid that he was born as an intersexual, and what follows is a testosterone treatment. One day, because of a misunderstanding, they punish Marcos with a weird new student: Jesús. After an intriguing conversation, Jesús invites Marcos to go to a mysterious place and ask for “Ava”. When he adventures into this place, Marcos discovers the cabaret world and begins to experiment with his gender identity.

Alex is fed up with her routine, she doesn’t know how to encounter her future, and her familiar cohabitation is getting harder. When she receives the news that her grandmother has passed away and has left an empty flat in Barcelona, she doesn’t doubt moving there with her best friend, Iria. From there, she will have to learn to face her present in the city while she discovers her grandma’s past.

Nemsi’s galaxy is succumbing in front of a strange disease called Nelumbo, which makes their residents lose their memories. The main character sees himself forced to travel through all Nemsi in search of lost memories, to get them back and return them to the residents. It’s through these memories that the player discovers Nemsi’s story and the origin of Nelumbo.

Isabel is José Manuel’s wife and lives in Jaén in a country house during Francoism. In 1951’s spring, they hire a young woman called María as the caretaker of Pedro, the marriage’s son. When Isabel, who is cold and distant, starts to approach her, Maria discovers that her husband is the cause of all her pains, internal and external, and begins to take care of her. Both, needed of affections and care, start to feel unexplainable desires to the other and, some nights, they decide to find each other in secret. Until Isabel, full of guilt and in search of punishment, decides to confess to her husband that she’s seeing someone that gives her what she thinks she deserves. Even so, José Manuel’s punishment isn’t enough for her and Isabel, terrorised to see that she still feels the need to run into the young woman’s arms and that the desire doesn’t cease, decides to poison her.

The story narrates the life of two people (my grandmother and my neighbour) through their personal objects, that took life while they were remembered. It’s born from the constant concern to understand, learn and unlearn from people, with the utopic idea of being able to build a healthier world, more human and less dependent on money, from closeness and competitiveness.

Main floor 2ªB is the flat where two friends live, Marta (24) is an honest and crude person, and Andrea (24) is a liberal girl with strong ideals. Both have personalities and styles of life different, but with a good relationship. Sara joins the flat, a girl particularly cheesy, very different to the other two main characters. There is a strong clash of personalities and styles of living and if Andrea and Marta already had problems dealing with Sara, all of this gets worse, Mateo is a peculiar person and difficult to stand, a generator of conflicts from whom they won’t be able to get rid of. After disagreements and hints from Marta and Andrea to Mateo to leave, Andrea gets Covid-19 on one of her (many) dates and this means they’ll have to live together (at least) for fifteen more days, even though after the confinement they are still together because on the main floor 2ªB the problems never end.

Repath tells the story of Kaede, a girl that grew up in a united and loved family. Nevertheless, everything changed when she started growing up; his dad rarely went to her house except to eat or rest, turning out to be a dispensable person for her. On the other hand, Akiko, her mother, is quite the opposite; she loves her daughter with insanity and tries to dedicate as much time to her as to her work. The parents have a business that builds robots. Renzo wants to be the “PR” and face of the business, taking him all the credit. Nevertheless, Akiko takes care of all the planning and building of the robots. Even though his work offers him high profits, Renzo hides a big secret; he’s the owner of a mafia located on the shantytown of their city, which organizes clandestine battles of robots, and he takes care of it fighting in these illegal tournaments, hiding his identity to not be found out. The operation of these fights is done thanks to the union between human and robot; the human in question enters a cabin that allows them to connect their body to their companion through a neuronal connection who is the same that handles it during the battle. The fighter body stays motionless until the connexion ends, and all the damage suffered by the robot can be felt on a psychological level by the human, but to a lesser extent. Kaede builds there her own occult workshop, where she builds her companion. From a start, she finds herself totally comfortable in this new world and easily turns into one of the best fighters. Kaede realizes that these fights are not a game when she finds out that the magic that controls the battles has threatened all the habitants, and for that reason, she promises she will do everything possible so that this mafia stops tormenting them.

From the paradigmatic environment of the Ebro Delta area, “Rèmore: Èxode i Gènesi de les ombres” is born as the beginning point and pilot episode inside an ethnographic audio-visual marc, to drive and shape the essence of the Catalan territory. Looking for moving and expanding this idea to different locations to raise awareness of the silenced places of our lands that have a story to tell, either from landscapes, traditions, or myths and legends explained by their people, always having the land as the backbone inside the constellation of stories intended to generate.

Submergits: un viatge terrestre per un somni sota el mar (Submerged: terrestrial travel for a dream under the sea) follows the story of Pere Forès and Carme Parareda, a couple of engineers that decide to accomplish their biggest dream: to build a scientific submarine, the Ictineu 3. Inspired on the essence of a road movie, the documentary articulates from a trip by wheels where the main characters relive in front of the cameras all the process of construction of the Ictineu 3.

The rise of the values of extreme productivity and economic growth on the occidental contemporary society, pressure the individuals to very exigent values. In the last years, we have found a rise of illnesses and disorders that mean a high factor of risk of public health. This project is about anxiety disorder, observing the cause and symptoms to create a relation with the narrative strategies of the interaction of the videogame, to adapt them to a system of activities destined to project the feelings of frustration and player’s anxiety.

TechnoCrafts, through every chapter, shows the story of an artisanal and technological company from the Catalan territory. Therefore, every episode is auto conclusive, and in this way, it will open the doors to the spectator to know the world that involves these “technocrafts” like the ideation, design and manufacture processes of their creations.

The game is about how an alchemist does challenges with people less important for society, like homeless people, transferring their soul to one of the two automatons to do an ensemble of challenges with the hope of finding the cure to an illness that her daughter suffers from.

Go on a mysterious adventure while you accompany the ex-official Hans Novikov on their mission to locate the lighthouse keeper of a remote island in the North of Ireland. But Hans’ luck will be affected when a trip on which he was travelling was shipwrecked and appeared on an island disoriented. On the search for survival, Hans will adventure on an island and reveal the dark secrets, together with the secrets of the lighthouse keeper a long, long time ago.

Eruga Ei is a virtual avatar of 2D characteristics created for the creation and distribution of audiovisual content on streaming platforms like YouTube or Twitch. Specifically, it’s an illustration separated into layers which, through a process of rigging, answers to the movement of the user, and it allows them to move their facial expressions to a virtual avatar. The goal of this project consisted of the search of information inside the area of VTubers, and also of the later application of this knowledge to the animation software Live2D Cubism, which hides a big potential.