The International Film Festival, organized by the Culture, Tourism, and Sports Area of the Madrid City Council, will take place from May 26 to 31 and is established as a benchmark for non-fiction cinema in Spain.

The opening film is 'Rivisitazione dello sciopero,' by Cosimo Terlizzi and Luca Maria Baldini. The work is based on a documentary by Pasolini about the Rome street sweepers' strike of 1970, a piece believed lost and rediscovered in 2005 without sound.

To mark the centenary of Pasolini's birth, the creators offer a new interpretation of the original images through a live sound intervention. The proposal integrates voices, samples, synthesizers, and analog instruments to create an 'enveloping perceptual experience,' as reported by the City Council.

The work, reduced from 84 to 40 minutes, transforms the material into a 'live audiovisual journey that unites historical memory and contemporary sensibility,' with the collaboration of the Audiovisual Archive of the Italian Workers' and Democratic Movement (Aamod).

Under the theme 'Taking the Pulse,' the edition champions the capacity of direct cinema to immediately record social and cultural reality. The festival maintains its three competitive sections: international, national, and final cut.

The festival offers 36,000 euros in prizes, a distribution award, and a parallel program including retrospectives, special screenings, professional meetings, and workshops. The Filmoteca Española, La Casa Encendida, ECAM, and the Goethe-Institut are among the venues hosting activities.

The visual identity for this edition is by photographer Nicolás Combarro, focusing on Matadero Madrid as a space of memory and creation. The closing event will feature the premiere of 'Vial Matadero,' an unreleased film by Juan Cavestany made for the occasion.

The film offers a perspective on Matadero as a 'symbolic space of urban and social transformation.' The festival's closing will also screen 'A mitad del mar,' a preview of the upcoming documentary from Escuela Dentro Cine, a project by Cineteca Madrid and Matadero Madrid.