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When you're born in a sealed context, where is no fresh air or direct sunlight, then you just have one option: look for the exit.

As the city celebrates its big feast, someone gets off the train ready to get lost into the crowd. So, this immutable character begins to discover its place in the world and becomes part of a fire ritual that welcomes the spring.

A young Spanish filmmaker, arriving in Paris from the famous Clermont Ferrand short film festival, feels the need to film. Without filming well, nor speaking French well, he decides to make his homage-parody to auteur cinema.

The death of Juan Pablo II also supposed the end of one of the great characters created by the actor and humorist Xavi Castillo (Alcoi, Spain). That imitation had been decisive in his career: he was censored when he included it in one of his shows. With the pope dead, Castillo had to capture the tics of the new pontiff, Benedict XVI. That is why he put on the pilgrim's outfit and chased the Pope during his visit to Valencia on the occasion of the V World Meeting of Families. In this event the Valencian city council overturned with the visit of the head of the Vatican State, while several citizen groups joined forces to demonstrate against this waste of public money in a secular state. And Xavi Castillo was there. Would he manage to find his pope?

What drives us towards artistic creation? Who do we create works for? Mr. Murati is true to himself, his art is his life, and even more, his life is an artistic act, and he is immersed in it.

Carmen is Samuel's mother. She's 64 and manages a little shop. Carmen is his grandma. She's 87 and is almost blind and deaf. Both are living in El Carmen neighbourhood, in Valencia, Spain. They're stranded in a gray zone without much hope.