Something is moving in the cinema being made in Catalonia, if we pay attention to the two Catalan short films that will premiere at the Berlinale which begins this Thursday: Almost September, by Lucia G. Romero, and Juanita, by Karen Joaquín and Uliane Tatit. And not because they are directed by young women, which is no longer a novelty in Catalan cinema, but because of the naturalness with which they deal with realities that fiction tends to problematize. Almost SeptemberFor example, the conflict in the protagonists' sexual-affective relationship does not arise from the fact that they are women or that one is racialized, but from the other's fear of abandonment. And that Juanita The fact that it is starred by a racialized teenager is a minor detail in the short's reflection on the cultural clash between the aesthetic stereotypes of a migrant family of Dominican origin and those of the host Catalan society.