Exit
exit 2024
We celebrate the fourth edition of EXIT, a space to give impetus, visibility and exit paths to non-fiction projects produced in Catalonia. It will be held on Thursday, February 20, 2025 at CCCB Catalunya.
The selected projects are: Al Nervión by Aitziber Olaskoaga Ajuria, Aziza. Fragments of home by Roser Corella, Luna en Escorpio by Maria Corriàs Serra y Aizpea de Atxa Cancel, Los Cangrejos by Rubén Seca and Vegetāre by Adrià Expòsit Goy. The session will be moderated by Margot Mecca. Language: Spanish.
The EXIT laboratory will have two parts. In the morning, a public exhibition of each project, in front of the committee of experts and the public. In the afternoon, one-to-one meetings between the selected projects and the committee of experts. This committee is composed by Alejandro Díaz Castaño, Meritxell Colell and Lur Olaizola. In this edition, a prize of 2.000€ will be awarded to the best project.
Arrival of attendees, 09:15. Start of the EXIT Lab, 09:30. End of the public presentation: 13:50.
Free admission with prior registration: hola@lainesperada.cat
The winner of this edition was Al Nervión by Aitziber Olaskoaga.
Section carried out with the support of:
Al Nervión
Author: Aitziber Olaskoaga Ajuria
Expected length: feature film
About the project: Through a map of Greater Bilbao, people from different continents who have migrated to the region in recent years share their work experiences. Meanwhile, the demolition of the La Naval shipyard, by the banks of the Nervión River, reflects the transformation of an area shaped by its industrial past. Al Nervión, drawing inspiration from the structuralist cinema of the 1960s and 70s in the United States, while creating an ambiguous sense of time, explores the parallels between the present and other eras – between the workers’ struggles of the past and the current fragmented and precarious labour market.
About the author: Aitziber Olaskoaga specialised in cinematography at ESCAC in Barcelona. In 2016 she moved to Los Angeles to study at the California Institute of the Arts. Her medium-length film Smiling on The Phone (2016) has been screened at several international festivals, and received a special mention at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic). In recent years, she has worked as a film projectionist and has undertaken artist residencies at Ikusmira Berriak (Donostia, Basque Country), BAICC at LIFT (Toronto, Canada), and BilbaoArte (Bilbao, Basque Country). She has also been a fellow at the Flaherty Film Seminar (USA). Jo Ta Ke (2021) was her second medium-length film, selected for Visions du Réel 2021.
Aziza. Fragments of home
Author: Roser Corella
Expected length: feature film
About the project: Aziza, a young Afghan woman, uses her phone’s camera to share the challenges she faces as a woman under the Taliban regime. Her small, independent honey business is disrupted by the return of the old regime’s restrictive policies. Her personal videos, which serve as both a diary and a glimpse into life in Kabul, reflect her persistence, yet she must confront a constant dilemma when envisioning the future of her two children: resist or seek asylum in a safer country.
About the author: Roser Corella Roser Corella is an independent filmmaker who lives between Berlin and Barcelona. She studied Visual Arts at the University of Barcelona and completed her studies at EICTV in Cuba and Städelschule-Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Germany. She began her career as an audiovisual producer at Televisió de Catalunya, but her interest in human stories led her to start self-producing her own projects and to develop a personal vision within the field of documentary filmmaking. Influenced by the tradition of auteur cinema, her work blends elements of creative documentary with rigorous research on contemporary social issues, with a particular focus on gender and migration. Her fascination with the documentary genre has taken her around the world in search of stories that deserve to be told – not only to witness but also to challenge and raise critical questions about contemporary societies. Her most recent films, Grab and Run (2017) and Room without a View (2020), have been screened and awarded at festivals such as CPH:DOX, Hot Docs Toronto, Thessaloniki DFF, One World, and DocsBarcelona, among others.
Luna en escorpio
Authors: Maria Corriàs Serra, Aizpea de Atxa Cancel
Expected length: feature film
About the project: A woman narrates her grieving process after abuse, acknowledging the changes in her relationship with intimacy, her body, and the space she inhabits. Luna en Escorpio is a visual and sonic exploration of everyday life through an intimate and fragmented approach. The film, shot in 16mm analogue format, presents a narrative that emerges from the intersection of two subjectivities in different locations. It invites the viewer to reflect on the interconnection between body, space, and time, following a slow, sensory, and contemplative aesthetic.
About the authors:
Maria Corriàs Serra specialised in film creation at ESCAC and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola. Her artistic practice focuses on analogue and magnetic formats, exploring materiality in both still and moving images. Her interests include the study of feminist autofiction in literature and cinema, with a critical approach to gender and representation. Among her recognitions are the ephemeral installation Spatium fugit, created for Llum Barcelona and Escola Massana, the Emporia Silver Award 2016 and Emporia Selection 2016, the scenographic proposal Jesús de Nazaret: spaces of a film project, with the archive of the Det Danske Filminstitut, based on the unfinished film by C.T. Dreyer, and the short film Quan soparem ja serà tard, selected for the Acció Curts programme.
Aizpea de Atxa Cancel holds a degree in Art from UPV/EHU, with a postgraduate degree in Cinematic Creation from Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola. She was co-coordinator of the 11th edition of Cine_Ilegal at Bulegoa z/b alongside Akane Saraiva. She is a co-founder of the art association HANKA and an active member of the cultural society LABA. She contributed to one of the Memoria de los Encuentros 72-22 of the Pamplona 72-22 Meetings, exhibited at the Palacio Baluarte. In 2019, she received the Premio Joven Eusko Ikaskuntza-Laboral Kutxa. Her work has been exhibited at Le Larraskito Kluba, Esta cxsa no se habita… (Uholdeak, Centro Huarte), Museo de Navarra, and at the Young Art Meetings of Navarra on several occasions, among others.
Los cangrejos
Author: Rubén Seca
Expected length: feature film
About the project: After the death of his grandfather Donato, a notebook with the memories of his great-grandfather Eloy during the Civil War in Soria, of which he had no record, comes into the director’s hands. He discovers the hardships his family endured during the war and its aftermath. This revelation drives him to investigate further, uncovering how little this episode has been spoken about in Soria and how events in this region unfolded differently. He also seeks to reconstruct the story by visiting those places to film them in their present state.
About the author: Rubén Seca studied a degree in Film Direction at the Escola de Cinema de Barcelona (ECIB). During his time there, he made numerous short films, including Finca Règia (2020) and Esculpiendo en la memoria (2018). The latter won 80 awards and selections at festivals and was the winner of Notodofilmfest 2018. He has directed and written around fifteen short films, which have accumulated over 200 international selections and earned 30 awards. In 2021, he founded his own film production company, Shoji Films, to produce his projects as well as new auteur cinema ventures from emerging directors. He is currently financing and producing two documentary feature films: Los Cangrejos and El proyecto Pisoft.
Vegetāre
Author: Adrià Expòsit Goy
Expected duration: short / medium-length film
About the project: Vegetāre delves into the reflections of a beech tree that writes on its bark about the transformation it has undergone over the course of a year marked by its battle with an invisible illness: a form of forest anorexia that prevents it from nourishing itself properly. Blending autofiction and speculative fable, the piece invites reflection on the fragility of life in the Capitalocene. While deeply personal, this work also builds bridges to the reality of forests in the context of the climate crisis. My aim is to create a space for reflection where the human and the non-human intertwine, weaving connections that challenge traditional species hierarchies and explore new forms of interspecies coexistence within the framework of the Chthulucene.
About the author: A filmmaker with a degree in Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication from EU ERAM, Girona. His final degree project, Mater inerta (2022), was selected for Visions du Réel, the Las Palmas International Film Festival, FICUNAM, and the Festival dei Popoli, among others. In 2022, he completed a Master’s in Documentary Creation at Pompeu Fabra University, where he began the project Foresta, which has received varied support, including backing from ICEC for its development phase. He is currently pursuing a Master’s in Cinematic Creation at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE), where he completed the short film Pneuma (2025), which is pending its premiere at international festivals. After three years of experience working at the production company DDM Visual as head of production, he has begun his career as an independent film producer by founding the production company Cultum Films.
