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Ajyal Short Film Programme 1: Hidden Layers
As climate collapse unsettles the forest, a beech tree suffering from a strange form of anorexia carves a diary into its own bark, searching for a way to let go.
A beech tree suffering from a strange form of anorexia carves a diary into its own bark. In a world unsettled by climate collapse, its fragile body becomes a mirror of our own struggle to adapt. As the seasons pass, the tree wavers between holding on and letting go, searching for a way to live when both the world and the self feel unstable. A quiet fable in which human and plant wounds echo one another.

Credits

Director
Adrià Expòsit-Goy
Screenwriter
Adrià Expòsit-Goy
Producer
Adrià Expòsit-Goy
Editor
Adrià Expòsit-Goy
Sound
Xabier Erkizia
Associate Producer
Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola

About the Director

Adrià Expòsit-Goy
Born in 1998, Adrià Expòsit-Goy is a Catalan filmmaker working in documentary and hybrid forms. His first short, ‘Mater inerta’ (2022), premiered at Visions du Réel, followed by ‘Pneuma’ (2025), which screened at DocumentaMadrid. ‘Vegetare’, his third short, continues his exploration of the ties between human and more-than-human worlds. He holds master’s degrees in Filmmaking from EQZE and Creativ