“Visions” is a collaborative film that consists of ten short films made by female filmmakers from the province of Pontevedra. Ten genuine glimpses into which cinema and art merge into intimate, polyhedral production.
Eva Calvar, Sonia Méndez, Olaia Sendón, Claudia Brenlla, Andrea Zapata-Girau, Begoña M. Santiago, Carme Nogueira, Lara Bacelo, Diana Toucedo and Carla Andrade participated in this collective project.Read More »
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An actress playing herself visits the Azores for a theater role, finding locals who mirror Shakespeare’s characters. Reality and fantasy merge as the film explores connections between life, art and imagination.Read More »
A woman in a Galician fishing village is struggling to get by with hard work and rough charm. With her 18-year-old daughter now ready to stand on her own two feet, Ramona begins to question her life up to this point.
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Synopsis
A group of friends share a cinematographical experience in a particular region of Spain, Galicia. The goal is simple- to film what they like, without preconceived ideas about what should be filmed. They want their images to reflect the feelings that unite them with the people they find along the way.
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As Neves is a mountain village where everyone knows each other. The night of the Carnival, the teenagers of the village throw a party where they get high on mushrooms for the first time. The next day, they wake up to the village completely snowed in by a snowstorm and the news that Paula, one of the girls who went to the party the previous night, has disappeared. The village is getting cut off, the Internet is no longer working and it is urgent to find her. The investigation following Paula’s case will cause a deep change in the villagers’ lives and their relationship with the world.Read More »
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Several years after the end of the Spanish Civil War, reticent Anxo returns to the Galician village where he was born. Through casual conversations during his trip, he discovers how war and the new Franco regime have transformed the relationships between people. At home, he is greeted with suspicion by both sides. Voiced in dialogues, and sometimes monologues, are stories about war, fear, captivity, riches, poverty and the importance of freedom. These reflections are based on the memoires of exiled writers, those silenced by defeat and, finally, by political prisoners.Read More »
Costa da Morte is a region in Galicia (Spain), which was considered as the end of the world during the Roman period. Its dramatic name comes from the numerous shipwrecks that happened along history in this area made of rocks, mist and storms. We cross this land observing the people who inhabit it, fishermen, gatherers of shellfish, loggers… We witness traditional craftsmen who maintain both an intimate relationship and an antagonistic battle with the vastness of this territory. The wind, the stones, the sea, the fire, are characters in this film, and through them we approach the mystery of the landscape, understanding it as a unified ensemble with man, his history and legends.Read More »
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A village on the border between Galicia and Portugal, hidden deep in the woods, a world out of time. Documentary moments of everyday life stand alongside dramatized scenes acted by the villagers working in the fields, sitting in the pub, singing traditional songs in the local dialect and telling old tales. Scenes of their own lives are interwoven with quotes from the play „O bosque” (The Woods) by the Galician writer Marinhas del Valle, a parable about the Franco dictatorship. When a fire breaks out in the woods, there are growing signs of an impending apocalypse. Arraianos is a film about remembering and the disappearance of a way of life.Read More »
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For starters the audience must be aware of the fact that this is a film that is part of the DOGME 95 Movement, described as follows: ‘the goal of the Dogme collective is to purify film-making by refusing expensive and spectacular special effects, post-production modifications and other gimmicks. The emphasis on purity forces the filmmakers to focus on the actual story and on the actors’ performances. The audience may also be more engaged as they do not have overproduction to alienate them from the narrative, themes, and mood’ – superficial action such as murders, no special lighting and must be in color, film must be shot on location with hand held cameras, director must not be credited, etc. Given these restrictions the story and the action of DIAS DE BODA (‘WEDDING DAYS’) seem much more immediate and the lapses in fluidity of the story can be forgiven – to a point.Read More »