Después de las ciudades

Name: Después de las ciudades
Start: 2026-05-28UTC19:00
Location: CINETECA. Sala Azcona

After the Cities

Xacio Baño

Spain

2026

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Synopsis

In After the Cities, the city of Santiago de Compostela is never presented as a stable place, but rather it emerges as an overlay of mediated perspectives: traversed by distortions and depicted through virtual tours or anonymous photographs that blur and displace it. Against this distance created by the image, words break in physically, read in the present yet drawn from postcards written from and to Santiago in times gone by, which imbue the urban landscape with an intimate and tangible density that truly brings it to life. The city thus emerges not as a physical entity, but as a mechanism of memory where diverse temporalities converge. (IC)

Festivals

2026 - Festival de Rotterdam - Harbour Section
2026 - Festival de Málaga - Documentary Competition
2026 - D'A Film Festival - Un impulso colectivo

Director biography

Xacio Baño

Xacio Baño has produced, written and directed several short films, including Ser e voltar (2014), Augas abisais (2020) and Anacos (2012), which have been screened at numerous national and international festivals such as the Locarno Film Festival, San Sebastián International Film Festival, New Directors/New Films - MoMA, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Mar del Plata International Film Festival, BAFICI, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival, Alcine, Málaga Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival and Busan International Short Film Festival, Shnit, Aspen Shortfest, etc. Trote, his first feature film, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2018.

He currently creates and develops film, theatre and hybrid projects at the cultural company Rebordelos, including his new feature film, After the Cities, which premiered in Rotterdam, and the short film 68 metros.