‘Per bruixa i metzinera’, selected for the Cannes Film Festival
ESCAC Films is pleased to announce that the short film Per bruixa i metzinera, the master’s final project of Marc Camardons, made with a team of ESCAC graduates, has been selected to participate in the prestigious Le Cinef section of the Cannes Film Festival.
This is the fourth time a short film by ESCAC Films has been included in this section, which selects between 15 and 20 films each year made by students at film schools around the world. In two previous editions, ESCAC’s short films received awards at the festival.
Per bruixa i metzinera is a short film with a fantastical tone, set in the Catalan Pyrenees. It draws us into the story of Cebriana, a woodcutter disturbed by a strange vision. The film moves between rural memory and folk legends, focusing on family tradition and the reinterpretation of a collective past.
Shot at various locations in Alt Urgell, el Solsonès and Oliana, the project has a technical crew made up entirely of young professionals who graduated from ESCAC.
Cebriana is convinced she saw a bonfire on the mountain during the night. There is no trace of embers and no witnesses to confirm what she saw. Her grandmother, a former trementinaire, will try to help her see beyond the flames.
ESCAC Films is ESCAC’s academic production company. It manages and coordinates undergraduate and master’s final projects, as well as collective feature films developed at the school, fostering emerging talent and the professional development of students.
Marc Camardons (2000, Andorra la Vella) is a film director and producer. He trained at ESCAC, where he completed the Degree in Cinematography (2017–2020) and later the Master’s in Film Directing (2020–2022). Since 2023, he has been part of the management team of the UllNu Festival, which is dedicated to showcasing emerging audiovisual talent and contemporary creative work.
He combines his work as a filmmaker with teaching, giving classes on cinema and queer theory in audiovisual media, an area that also informs much of his research and artistic work.
He began his career with the short film Estàtua de sal (2021), a reflection on the desire to belong and personal discovery through sexuality, recurring themes in his filmography. In subsequent works, such as Crisàlides (2022), Traca (2024) and L’últim mort (2024), he experiments with new narrative forms, paying particular attention to his homeland and family roots. The exploration of queer identity and the affirmation of difference become recurring threads in his work, with characters moving through spaces of transformation and self-discovery.
He is currently developing the screenplay for his first feature film.
