Filmadrid International Film Festival (June 5-13, Madrid) is a newborn festival with the "determination to discover new paths in the landscape of contemporary cinematography". And as such, in its very first edition, presents a very strong commitment with experimental cinema. Eighteen works, feature and short films, will participate in the avant-garde competition, including pieces by Basma Alsharif, Laida Lertxundi,  Juan Daniel F. Molero, Pablo Marín and Aura Satz, among others. Four 'guest programmes' complement the avant-garde section, featuring a series of animated non-fiction shorts curated by Elena Duque ('The missing image'); a programme curated by Albert Alcoz & Alberto Cabrera Bernal, filmmakers and editors of the Angular DVD label, who will also present its first release; a session dedicated to veteran filmmaker Adolpho Arrietta; and a series of works on the poems of Galician poet Xosé María Díaz Castro titled 'Proxecto Nimbos'. The Vanguardias Live section challenges several artists to create performative works in ways that they haven't thought of/worked with before; this edition will include performances by Juan Barrero, Lois Patiño and Salomé Lamas.

The experimental film scene in Buenos Aires is growing from personal meetings of the artists of different field and different places and cultures. So the screening of films from Buenos Aires will present the oeuvres of the artists who are currently based in the capital of Argentina even when they’re coming from different places of Latin America and beyond. The experimental film scene is a part of the widest alternative art scene which during the time after economical, social and political crisis in Argentina (1999-2002) figure out the surviving strategy in such situation for the artistic activities. The other part of the entire scene are the different DIY branches from music, theater to contemporary video-art and performance. The majority of the scene is grown up from the lack of the mental and physical space for the spontaneous creative gesture as well as from the absent field for the reflection of contemporaneity.

With works by Mario Bocchichio, Andrés Denegri, Benjamin Ellenberger, Lisandro Listorti, Azucena Losana, Pablo Marín, Pablo Mazzolo, Maximiliano Sans and Sergio Subero.