Álvaro Arroba (Executive Director of the magazine Letras de Cine):

"Interchanges of cathodic energy: with regards to 24";

In the addiction to television fiction without complexes lies a path towards cinematic truth. 24 reveals itself as a wide variety where these entwine, opening and closing innumerable simultaneous plots which enrich the fiction cinema.

Jaume Balagueró

In the framework of the Bilbao Fantastic Film Festival (FANT), the catalonian filmmaker Jaume Balagueró will show his work's methods in the fantastic film genre.

Domènec Font (Professor of Audiovisual Communication of the University of Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona):

"In a loney place (the cinema that comes from the East)"

For years Western screens have been lashed by a wind from the East, simultaneously materialistic and spiritual, an echo and memory of a cinema within the confines of Europe which in diverse eras knew how to question the spectator as a man of his time.

Santos Zunzunegui (Professor of Audiovisual Communication of the UPV-EHU):

"Extraterritorial beings and the rest of people of its kind" (from Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet to James Benning )"

The republic of the radicals, filmmakers who explore the lesser-trodden paths of present cinematographic production, is situated to the fringe of conventional cinemas and film proposals which enjoy the approval of the post-modern criticism.

Paulino Viota (Director and cinematographic analyst):

"A lapidary cinema: requiem for a century of cinema-Histoire (s) du cinéma, by Jean- Luc Godard"

The Histoire(s) du cinéma of Jean-Luc Godard rise(s) as an authentic moment to the manner of understanding (and living) the adventure of the cinematograph. Composed as a musical, questioning the past and the future of cinema.

A showing of the selected films for competition in the second edition of the acTÚa International Short Film Festival organised by INTERMON-OXFAM