ADOSSAT HAD ALREADY ANNOUNCED IT
Semi-detached: when cinematographic fiction dialogues with the social reality of Ibiza
EIVISUAL Producer, based in Ibiza, presents Semi-detached, a short film that has begun a notable international journey and that, paradoxically, has found an unexpected echo in the recent IB3 news about homeless people who spend the night in the municipal cemetery of Sant Jordi. The coincidence between fiction and reality is not accidental: is symptomatic.
The image of citizens sleeping between niches and tombstones could seem like a visual metaphor devised by a director with an expressionist vocation.. But it is, simply, what is happening. In Ibiza, where housing has become a scarce and often inaccessible commodity, The border between living spaces and dying spaces has become disturbingly porous..
That's why, from EIVISUAL, we read the news not as an anecdote, but as a scene that confirms what Semi-detached I already proposed: Housing precariousness has ceased to be an emerging problem and has become a cultural landscape.
Released on 2 June 2025, at the Teatro Espanya (Santa Eulària des Riu) Semi-detached, from Ramon Mayol, is a short film that uses irony as a narrative tool to explore the fragility of the right to housing. The piece portrays characters who try to “attach themselves” to any possible space., in an absurd and at the same time deeply human choreography. The film does not seek to ridicule reality, but to show how reality has become ridiculous on its own.
Despite being a work deeply rooted in the Balearic context, Semi-detached has been celebrated in various international festivals, who have recognized their ability to turn a local problem into a universal reflection.
Some of the international festivals that have highlighted the short film include:
Clermont-Ferrand — Official selection The jury highlighted “his lucid view of the European housing crisis”.
Raindance Film Festival — Shorts Competition Valued for its direction and the subtlety of its black humor.
Morelia International Film Festival Criticism pointing out “the ability to make poetry with precariousness”.
Rhode Island International Film Festival — Official Selection With special mention to its visual narrative.
Mediterranean Short Film Showcase — Premio del Público The public connected with his honesty and irony without cynicism.
This tour confirms that Semi-detached It is a work that transcends borders: talks about Ibiza, but it challenges any city where housing has become a silent battlefield.
A work that wants to open conversations, don't close them
'Adossat' is a short film that denounces, in a little more 8 minutes, The problem of housing emergency and LGTB discrimination. With script and direction of the creator Ibizan Ramon Mayol, It is starring Carol Brest and Nuria Santos. The rest of the cast is formed by Olivia Gajetzki and Luis Ávila while Manolo Matosses stands out in the Technical Team in the Photography and Edition Directorate. The original music of Mon&Marcel ingeniously accompanies the emotions that go through history, reinforcing the critical and social dimension of the work.
The short film is based on the story 'Petit adossat amb vises', published by Edicions Isoladas in 'Inside offers and other stories‘, written by the same director, Ramon Mayol, with images by the artist Marga Guasch and which corresponds to volume number 14 from the Anacrèptica collection of Narrativa.
From EIVISUAL, We understand cinema as a space for dialogue. The coincidence between the fiction of the short film and the reality shown by IB3 is not cause for celebration, but of reflection. If a cemetery can be perceived as a housing resource, It is evident that culture—and cinema in particular—has the responsibility of making visible what has been normalized too quickly..
Semi-detached es, in essence, an invitation to look again. To look with irony, Yeah, but also with conscience.
EIVISUAL Producer
