SUMMER SHORT FILM CINEMA 2026

The City Council of Salamanca, through the Salamanca Film Commission, organizes this event; the screenings will take place on Thursdays May 28, June 4, 18, and 25, at 10:15 PM, on Granero street in the Oeste neighborhood.
Residents of Salamanca will be able to enjoy a carefully selected program of 24 short films, and after each screening, they can vote for their favorites, which will compete in the national CortoEspaña contest.
The program includes the short film nominated for a Goya in the Best Animated Short Film category, ‘Carmela’.
The Oeste neighborhood will host a new edition of the Summer Short Film Festival starting May 28. The City Council of Salamanca, through the Salamanca Film Commission, organizes this event, which has been held since 2027, with the collaboration of the ZOES Neighborhood Association. Coordinated by bar Granero and filmmaker Javier Díez, with the help of short film director Miguel Ángel Refoyo, it also has the sponsorship of Mahou.

Residents of Salamanca will be able to enjoy a carefully selected program of 24 short films in free outdoor sessions, in collaboration with the catalog of the Traveling CortoEspaña Festival.

Screenings will take place on Thursdays May 28, June 4, 18, and 25, at 10:15 PM on Granero street in the Oeste neighborhood of Salamanca. Each session will last approximately 90 minutes.

Attendees will be able to enjoy some of the best short films from the current Spanish cinematographic scene, including some of the winning and nominated short films from the latest edition of the Goya awards. Among the programmed short films are works by Pedro Casablanc (Wanting), Vanesa Romero (Aquí no hay quien viva), Ginés García-Millán (Isabel), Rosario Pardo (Cuéntame cómo pasó), Ramón Barea (Five Little Wolves), Marta Etura (Darkbluealmostblack), Nacho Fresneda (The Ministry of Time), Ana Wagener (The Kingdom), Javier Pereira (May God Forgive Us), Luisa Gavasa (The Bride), Nacho Sánchez (Mantícora), Paula Gallego (Cuéntame cómo pasó), Almudena Amor (The Good Boss), Carlos Santos (The Man with a Thousand Faces), Ángela Cervantes (The Fury) or Fernando Colomo (The Happy Life).

The program includes already recognized filmmakers, such as Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, who presents his latest short film, Newcomers, alongside emerging directors with their already awarded first works. In addition to fiction cinema, animation and documentary cinema will have their place in the program with several outstanding works, such as the short film nominated for a Goya in the Best Animated Short Film category, Carmela.

This edition highlights the great variety of genres and themes of the short films, ranging in each session from social drama to the most sensitive melodrama, or from classic horror to the purest humor.

At the end of the last short film of each session, attendees will be able to vote for their favorite short films. Six short films will be presented each day, competing in the national CortoEspaña contest.

The Traveling CortoEspaña Festival gathers in its short film catalog the best short-format cinema works produced in Spain during the last year, projecting this program in dozens of cities and towns across Spain with great attendance success, bringing together thousands of spectators annually.