Sinopsis
Fiction. It is summer and the Setién family is joined by a foreign student –Mina, 22–, whose stay in the house has arranged a university. Mina will live with the family and, in return, will give language classes to the children. Mina hides a tortured, contradictory and lying personality; she is a homeless girl-woman desperately seeking to be part of a normal family and fleeing a mysterious and painful past.
Pilar Ruiz Gutiérrez holds a degree in Journalism from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Master in Screenwriting from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with a scholarship from the Fundación Viridiana and the Ibero-American Cooperation Institute. She also has a Diploma in Film Direction from the ECAM (Official Film School of Madrid). She won the second prize of the 1994 Marqués de Bradomín Prize for Theater Texts with the play "The three wounds", in 2001 she obtained the 1st. award at the 32nd International Festival of Potsdam (Berlin) and the Canal + France Award for the best short film at the 22thI International Festival of Cretéil (Paris) with her short film “El Infanticida”. She has co-written several film scripts and made numerous commercials. In 2005, she directed his first feature film, "Los nombres de Alicia"
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Section: Films by Women at 8madrid TV
Year of Production: 2004
Running Time: 103′
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Director: Pilar Ruiz Gutiérrez
Cast: Ana Moreira, Pep Molina, Gracia Olayo, Santiago Ramos, Héctor Tomás, Carolina Petterson and Pepa López
Producers: Montserrat Bou, María Crespo, Santiago Matallana and Alicia Tellería
Production Companies: Producciones Cinematográficas and Teatrales El Espejo S.L.
Main Festivals and Awards: Nominated for Best Sound at the Goya Awards. Special Mention at the Malaga Festival.
