Sinopsis
Fiction/Documentary. The Gabarre-Mendoza family is celebrating their grandson’s birthday when a police inspection interrupts the party. In La Cañada Real, a shanty town outside Madrid, tensions are running high between the officials and the inhabitants given that the land has been sold and the families must leave the homes they put up with their own hands. The mother, Augustina, once full of laughter, is now tormented by fear; the father, David, a hardworking scrap merchant, tries to find a solution but is let down by the bureaucratic system. Meanwhile, the younger members of the family—David Jr, the adolescent mother and daughter-in-law Maria and the young Alejandro—struggle in their own way with their lives in transition. Debut film.
Isabel Lamberti (Bühl, Germany. 1987) studied Film Theory and Directing at the TISCH School of the Arts in New York and at the Netherlands Film Academy. Although she initially focussed on directing documentaries, while studying she developed a cinema of in-betweenness combining reality and fiction. Her short films Volando voy (2015), which received the Nest Film Students’ Torino Award in San Sebastian, Amor (2017) and Father (2019) were selected for and won awards at several international film festivals. In 2018 she codirected the Dutch remake of the successful teen series Skam for public television. Last year she sat on the New Directors jury in San Sebastian. La última primavera (Last Days of Spring) is her first feature film.
November 8 th 2020. 5 pm
Cine Estudio del Círculo de Bellas Artes
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Section: Competitive
Year of Production: 2020
Running Time: 77’
Countries: Netherlands and Spain
Languages: Spanish
Director: Isabel Lamberti
Cast: David Gabarre Jiménez, Agustina Mendoza Gabarre, David Gabarre Mendoza, Ángelo Gabarre Mendoza, María Duro Rego, David Gabarre Duro, Isabel Gabarre Mendoza, Angelines Gabarre Mendoza and Alejandro Gabarre Mendoza
Production: Steven Rubinstein Malamud and Omar Razzak
Production Companies: IJswater Film & Television and Tourmalet Films
International Sales: Loco Films
Main Festivals and awards: Winner of the New Directors Award in San Sebastian. Selected in Cannes (ACID Programme 2020), at Agora WIP in Thessaloniki 2019 and at BoostNL 2017
