Don Benjamin: Una Vida Entre Llamas (2024)

Now, the world where he built a home for his family turns to smoke and ashes. Don Benjamín is a raw yet poetic journey through a magical region at risk, the Bolivian Amazon.

Duration: 30″
Genre: Fiction
Year: 2022
Direction: Ivan Zahinos
Production: Medicus Mundi Mediterrànea
Original Soundtrack and Sound Design: Claudia Baulies
Awards and Festivals:
- Silver Dragon to the Best Short Documentary, Krakow Film Festival, 2024
- Honorable Mention at the 8th Panama Human Rights Film Festival, 2024
- Opening Film at Sole Luna Doc International Documentary Film Festival, Italy, 2024
- Best Documentary Award at the 3rd edition of the "Rurales" Rural and Natural Film and Short Film Festival, Spain, 2024
- Best Film in the GREEN section at the Fantástico Festival Cine Della Lessinia, Verona, Italy, 2024
- The Wild Fest Film Festival, Vigo, Spain, 2024
- Garopaba Environmental Film Festival, in Brazil, 2024

Un castell, una fada, una princesa i el Gat

The patience of the mysterious master of this castle has run out; with the prince missing, the princess will be forced to leave. As she searches through the corners of her old home, she will uncover secrets to help her embark on a new path.

Duration: 15″
Genre: Fiction
Year: 2023
Direction: Claudia Vernis
Production: Lamalanga Produccions
Original Soundtrack and Sound Design: Claudia Baulies
Awards and Festivals:
– Currently in distribution.

No encuentro mis últimos sueños (I can’t find my latest dreams)

After his father’s departure, David begins to take medication to try to overcome his grief. He will attempt to stop taking the drugs because of the side effects, but these will cause a series of hallucinations about a lucid world through which he will navigate, trying to understand these internal memory gaps.

Duration: 15″
Genre: Fiction
Year: 2022
Direction: David Espel
Original Soundtrack and Sound Design: Claudia Baulies
Awards and Festivals:
– Currently in distribution.

Cómo filmar a las flores (How to shoot flowers)

“How to shoot flowers” is a personal essay film, where artistic creation and expression, such as the stop-motion animation or the liberating dance, become the medium to overcome a difficult time.

Duration: 14′ 53″
Genre: Essay film, Documentary
Year: 2022
Production: Francesca Svampa
Direction, Photography, Editing: Francesca Svampa
Original score and sound design: Claudia Baulies
Awards and Festivals:
- Best Documentary Short Film, Pennine Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2023
- Special Mention at the 3rd Matiff Matera International Film Festival, Matera, Italy, 2022
- WOEFF – Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Oklahoma, USA, 2023
- UNDER_the_RADAR, Vienna, Austria, 2023
- Official Selection 6th FICAH – International Film Festival of the Americas, Pachuca, Mexico, 2022
- Official Selection ULTRAcinema XI, Morelos, Mexico, 2022
- Official Selection XII Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces, Mexico City, Mexico, 2022
- Lift-Off at Pines, UK, 2022
- KINÉ, International Short Film Showcase, Puebla, Mexico, 2022
- Official Selection 9th Findecoin, Venezuela, 2023
- Official Selection 6th Portoviejo Film Festival, Ecuador, 2022

Agua y más agua (Water and more water)

An oniric portrait of Barcelona –filmed in double exposition and 8mm reversible film– is intermixed with an intimate voice that creates a collage of micro-memories.

Duration: 6′ 12″
Genre: Experimental, Ensayo, Documental experimental
Year: 2021
Production: Francesca Svampa
Direction, Photography, Editing: Francesca Svampa
Sound Design: Claudia Baulies
Awards
- Critics' Award, Catania Film Festival, Italy, 2022
- Best Experimental, FICU Lanterna, Mexico, 2022
- Best Experimental Short Film, Top Indie Film Awards, Tokyo, Japan, 2023

Festivals
- 49th Athens Film + Video Festival, Ohio, USA, 2022
- 14th San Francisco Latino Film Festival, California, USA, 2022
- 8th Bogotà Experimental Film Festival, Colombia, 2022
- 5th Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, USA, 2022
- 5th RPM – Revolutions Per Minute, Boston, USA, 2022
- 9th Intermediaciones Video Art and Experimental Video Exhibition, Medellín, Colombia, 2022
- 25th Ícaro International Film Festival in Central America, 2022
- 9th Cinetekton! International Film and Architecture Festival, Puebla, Mexico, 2022
- 11th Catania Film Festival, Catania, Italy, 2022
- 8th Directed By Women Spain, Madrid, Spain, 2022
- Small Axe – Radical Short Film Awards, Tolpuddle, UK, 2022
- 14th Bugarte Film and Visual Arts Festival, Bugarte, Colombia, 2022
- Kursaal Film Fest, San Sebastian, Spain, 2022
- 10th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece, 2022
- Lift-Off sessions, UK, 2022
- 12th Lanterna International University Film Festival, Mexico, 2022
- 2nd Shorts for Long Times Festival, Colombia, 2022
- 14th Bugarte Film and Visual Arts Festival, Colombia, 2022
- Lanterna International University Film Festival, Mexico, 2022
- Black Cat International Film Festival, Bolivia, 2022
- 15th South Empton Film Week, UK, 2022
- 2nd Knowmad Short Film Festival, Germany, 2022
- 11th International Curtmetratges al Raval La mida no Importa Festival, Spain, 2022
- International Biennial Women and Film (Official Video Art Section), Spain, 2022
- Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Italy, 2023
- 6th Filministes Festival, Canada, 2023
- Latest Vision TV, UK, 2023
- 10th San Luis de Potosí International Film Festival, Mexico, 2022
- GOOD SYMPTOM: A Serial Anthology of Time-Based Disturbances, USA, 2023
- Kalakari Film Fest, India, 2023
- 3rd Curts en femení Festival, Barcelona, Spain, 2023
- 3rd International Independent Film Festival from the Extramuros of the World, Chile, 2023
- Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Mexico City, Mexico, 2023

Para ver lo que quiero ver necesito más que los ojos (To see what I want to see I need more than the eyes)

An orfic voyage. A film buried in winter and dug out the following spring. The death and resurrection of a filme; the celebration of the circular mystery.

Duration: 7'
Genre: Experimental, Video Art
Year: 2019
Production: Arnau Padilla
Direction, Photography, Editing: Arnau Padilla
Original Soundtrack and Sound Design: Claudia Baulies
Festivals
- Festival Punto de Vista, Pamplona, Spain, 2020
- 18º Festival Internacional Signos da Noite, Lisboa 2020
- AT THE FRINGE International Arts Festival, Tranås, Sweden, 2020
- Ull Nu, Andorra, 2021