Kapitalistis

a film by Pablo Muñoz Gomez

SYNOPSIS
"Santa is capitalist. He brings toys to the rich kids and sweat shirts to the poor ones."
Nikos, 5 years old.

Pablo Muñoz Gomez
Pablo Muñoz Gomez studied at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) of Louvain-La-Neuve, in Belgium. He has directed three short films : Jan (2012), Welkom (2013) and Katipalistis (2017).

Awards & Festivals

Medien Patent Verwaltung Prize - Locarno International Film Festival (Switzerland)
First prize - Festival de Cine de Guayaquil (Ecuador)
Best directing - Tournez-Court Film Festival (France)
Award of the Jury and Best Actor Award - Meudon Comedy Short Films Festival (France)
Audience Award and Special Mention of the jury - Namur French Film Festival (Belgium)
First prize - Festival Maipu Cortos (Argentina)
Prisoners’ award - Jean Carmet Film Festival, Moulin (France)
Jury Award - Draguignan Film Festival (France)
Special Mention of the national jury - Les Enfants Terribles Film Festival (Belgium)
Best Short Film - West Nordic International Film Festival (Norway)
Best European Short Film - International Film Festival of Valladolid - Seminci (Spain)
Audience Award - Vevey International Film Festival (Switzerland)
Audience Award - Chicago International Film Festival (USA)
Grand Prix - Mostra of Tan Vila de Noia (Spain)
Audience Award - Fenêtres sur courts, Dijon (France)
SACD Best Script Award and Pierre Richard Comedy Award - Paris Courts Devant (France)
Audience Award - Les Oeillades d’Albi (France)
Audience Award - Aaretaler Kurtzfilmtage, Oberhausen (Switzerland)
Special Mention - Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Flor Azul (Argentina)
Public Award - « Séquence Court Métrage » Festival of Toulouse (France)
Mention Coup de Coeur des Lycées - Cinessonne (France)
Audience Award - Tenerife Shorts (Spain)
Coup de Coeur Award - International Comedy Film Festival of Liège (Belgium)
Student Award - « Le Temps Presse » Festival (France)
Best Short Fiction Film - Short Of The Year Festival (Spain)
Jury Award, Student Award and Public Award - 24 Short Film Festival of the Mans (France)
AudienceAward - International Shortfilm - Palencia Film Festival (Spain)
Best Short Fiction - Solo Para Cortos Barcelona Festival (Spain)
Audience Award and Youth Award - CineMA35 Film Festival (France)
1st Prize Short Film - « Les Rencontres du Cinéma Européen de Vannes » (France)
Audience Award for Professional Writer - Grand Jury Prize Lussas Festival (France)
Audience Award - « Le court nous tient » Festival (France)
Workers of the World Award - Brazilian International Labour Film Festival / Mostra CineTrabalho (Brazil)
Audience Award - Courtivore Mont Saint Aignan (France)
Audience Award - The Very First Time Festival, Tignet (France)
Best Screenplay and Best Short - Alto Vicentino International Shorts Festival Villa Rossi- (Italy)
Best Film and Special Jury Award - Short to the Point North Tatarasi (Romania)
Best Screenplay - International Film Festival Dakino (Romania)
Best Director - International Short Film Festival of San Roque (Spain)
Grand Action Prize- International Film Festival of Contis (France)
Best Music and Best Actor - Redline Toronto International Film Festival (England)
Audience Award - International Film Festival of Vebron (France)
Jury Award for shorts under 15 minutes - Preview Festival Bilbao (Spain)
Audience Award - Concorto Film Festival (Italy)
Best Film - Preview Film Festival (Spain)
Best Comedy Fiction and Best Short Film - International Festival of Cortos de la Cuenca del Salado Bueno Aires (Spain)
Best Film - Timishort Film Festival Timisoara (Romania)
Audience Award - Taratsa Inti Film Festival - (Greece)
Best Film - International Festival De Cine Social De Castilla - La Mancha (Sapin)
Audience Award and Best Film - Armoricourt Festival (France)
Audience Award - « Chacun son court » Festival (France)
Audience Award - « Les 12 Courts de Minuit » Festival (France)
Cinematic Achievement Award - Thess International Film Festival (Greece)
Golden Anteater in the Masters of Genre competition - Lublin Film Festival (Poland)
Best Director and Best Actor - SMR 13 Independent Film Festival (France)
Audience Award - Preview Festival of Cosne sur Loire (France)
Audience Award - « Court en scène » Festival of Troyes (France)
Best Short - Blue Danube Festival of Vienna (Austria)
Etoile d’Or - « Etoiles du Court-Métrage » Festival of Cabestany (France)
Best Comedy Short Film - FINDECOIN - International Independent Short Film Festival (Venezuela)
Special Mention - International Film Festival of Ponferrada (Espagne)
International Jury Award and International Audience Award - « 39e Rencontres du court-métrage Image In Cabestany » (France)
Grand Prix and Best Fiction Short Film Award - Short Movie Club Film Festival (Belarus)
Prize of the city of Autun - Jules Renard Prize Association (France)
Prize of the best film - Pollestres Festival (France)
Best Actor Award - 37th Sulmona International Festival (Italy)

In competition :

Bruxelles Short Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium) - in competition
« Le Court Dit Long » Festival (Paris, France) - in competition
Festival Off-Courts Trouville (Trouville, France) - out of competition
Cyprus International Short Film Festival (Nicosia, Cyprus) - in competition
Fifigrot 2017 (Toulouse, France) - in competition
Brest European Short Film Festival (Brest, France) - in competition
Oaxaca Filmfest (Oaxaca, Mexico) - in competition
« Un Festival C’est trop Court » Festival (Nice, France) - in competition
Izmir Kisa Film Festival (Izmir, Turkey) - in competition
French Films International Festival, Tübingen/Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany) - out of competition
Court de Villeurbanne Film Festival (Villeurbanne, France) - out of competition
« Combat » International Short Films Festival (Josselin, France) - in competition
« L’oeil du Voisin » Family Film Festival (Paris, France) - in competition
« Tous Courts » Festival (Aix en Provence, France) - out of competition
Mestre Film Fest (Mestre Venezia, Italy) - in competition
Interfilm International Short Film Festival (Berlin, Germany) - in competition
Un Poing C’est Court, Vaulx en Velin Short films Festival (Vaulx en Velin, France) - in competition
Cine Festival of La Solana (La Solana, Spain) - in competition
Todos Somos Otros (Mexico) - in competition
Verín International Short Film Festival VIA XIV (Ourense, Spain) - in competition
International Short Film Festival of Roberto Di Chiara (Bueno Aires,Argentina) - in competition
Brussels Mediterranean Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium) - out of competition
Beloit International Film Festival (Beloit, USA) - in competition
Short Film Festival of Loubens Lauragais (Loubens Lauragais, France) - in competition
8e Tournai Ramdam Festival (Tournai, Belgium) - in competition
The Great Picnic Competition (Bucharest, Romania) - in competition
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (Tokyo, Japan) - in competition
International Short Film Festival of Uppsala (Uppsala, Sweden) - in competition
« Festival de Cinéma Européen des Arcs » (Paris, France) - in competition
Clap 89 (Sens, France) - in competition
Landshut Short Film Festival (Landshut, Germany) - in competition
Les Magritte du Cinéma - in competition in the Best Fiction Short Film category (Brussels, Belgium)
Cortisonici International Short Film Festival (Varese, Italy) - in competition
Sophisticated Films Festival - 3rd Edition (Saint Michel sur Orge, France) - in competition
« Traversées » Film Festival from Pays de Lunel (Lunel, France) - in competition
European Film Festival of Lille (Lille, France) - in competition
European Cinema Film Festival « Mamers en Mars » (Mamers, France) - in
competition
ClujShorts Film Festival (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) - in competition
Lussac Short Film Festival 2018 (Lussac, France) - in competition
Ennesimo Film Festival (Ennesimo, Italy) - in competition
Go Short Film Festival (Nijmegen, Netherlands) - out of competition
Film Festival of Badalona (Badalona, Spain)- in competition
20MinMax Film Festival (Ingolstadt, Germany)- in competition
FastNet Film Festival (West Cork, Irland) - in competition
Courtivore Short Film Festival (Mont Saint Aignan, France) - in competition
East End Film Festival (Docklands, England) - in competition
Skepto Film Festival (Cagilari,Italy) - in competition
Long Night Short Film of Kiev (Kiev, Ukraine) - in competition
Concours de Courts Film Festival (Toulouse, France) - in competition
Grasse Festival (Grasse, France) - in compétition
CinéMistral (Frontignan La Peyrade, France) - out of competition
« Longue Vue sur Court » Festival (Montreal, Canada) - in competition
« Le Court Nous Tient » Festival (Saine Saint Denis, France) - in competition
Funcinema Festival (Mar del Plata, Argentina) - in competition
ArtFilmFest Kosice (Trenčianske Teplice, Slovak republic) - in competition
« Plein la Bobine » Festival (Sancy, France) - in competition
GEA Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain) - in competition
International Short Film Festival of Cine a la Calle (Barranquilla, Colombia) - in competition
Festival Corti a Ponte (Ponte San Nicolò, Italy) - in competition
International Film Festival of Vébron (Vébron, France) - in competition
ONE country ONE film festival (Issoire, France) - in competition
Sardinia Film Festival (Sassari, Italy) - in competition
Utah Arts Festival, Fear No film (Salt Lake City, USA) - in competition
International Festival of Palm Springs (Palm Springs, USA) - in competition
International Festival de Cine Bajo la Luna Islantilla Cinefòrum (Huelva, Spain) - in competition
Alto Vicentino International Shorts Festival (Alto Vicentino, Italy) - in competition
Cerdanya International Film Festival (Cerdanya, Spain) - in competition
Hidalgo International Film Festival (Hidalgo, Mexico) - in competition
Internacional Cine Festival of Calzada De Calatrava (Calzada de Calatrava, Spain) - in competition
RIR International Comedy Short Film Festival (Ourense, Spain) - in competition
Open Air Filmfest Weiterstradt (Weitserstradt, Germany) - in competition
Norman Film Fest (Oklahoma, USA) - in competition
Hendaïa Film Festival (Hendaïa, France) - in competition
Festival de Cine de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) - in competition
Adana Film Festival (Adana, Turkey) - finalist
In Short Film Festival (London, England) - in competition
Festival Comedy Cluj (Cluj-Napocca, Romania) - in competition
Mamers en Mars Festival (France) - in competition
Festival du Court-Métrage d’Auch (Mamers, France) - in competition
Short Film Festival of Auch (Auch, France) - in competition
Cortogenia (Madrid, Spain) - in compétition
Paragon Festival (Los-Angeles, USA) - in compétition
Daroca y prision Film Fest (Daroca, Spain) - in competition
Enkarzine Film Fest (Zalla, Spain) - in competition
FinCortex - Festival Internacional De Cortometrajes Experimentales (Tunja, Colombia) - in competition
Teknochat Film Festival (Spain) - in competition
Mud Film Awards (Rada, Italy) - in competition
Short Film Festival of Villamayor of Santiago (Santiago, Chile) - in competition
International Cinema Festival of Neuquén - FECINEU (Neuquén, Argentine) - in competition
Newport Beach Film Festival (Newport Beach, USA) - in competition
BUZZ IFF Festival (Buzau, Romania) - in competition
Pollestres Festival (France) - in competition
Tashort Fest (Spain) - finalist
Détours en cinécourt (France) - in competition
Cinéma en liberté (France) - in competition
Festival du Lama (France) - in competition
Festival Bourg en Bresse (France) - in competition
Chacun son court (France) - in competition
Sunsète Festival (France) - in competition
_Film Festival of Aubagne (France) - in competition
Akbank Film Festival (Turquie) - in competition
Association Les Vidéophages - Soirées mensuelles (France) - out of competition
ShortCup Film Festival - Short World Cup (Brazil) - finalist
Association La Jeanne d’Arc CINEDORI - Short Films Screenings (France) - out of competition
Association Photo Vidéo club Georges-Méliès (France) - out of competition
International Independent Film Festival - Publicystyka (Poland) - in competition
Sulmona International Film Festival (Italy) - in competition
Drim Short Film Festival (Macedonia) - in competition
Solo Para Cortos (Spain) - in competition