Sinopsis
Documentary. The Galician pottery factory Pontesa closed in 2001. Twenty years later, while awaiting a ruling on its pending debt claim, a group of workers remembers the symbol of their individual freedom, their economic emancipation and their union struggle. Nieves, Ester, Manuela, Carmen P. and Carmen A. keep the fight for women's rights alive in 20th century Spain. The story of their lives unfolds in the presence of the sphinx: it reclaims the memory of the textile and pottery workers and preserves it and announces voices and archives that link different times and bodies. Work without compensation? No way!
Margarita Ledo Andión is one of the most relevant figures in contemporary Galician culture. In 2008 she was recognized with the National Galician Culture Award by the Xunta de Galicia. She is a journalist, writer, communication professor, member of the Royal Galician Academy, filmmaker and a tireless promoter of projects in political and cultural activism. In 1991 she founded the Faculty of Information Sciences of the University of Santiago de Compostela, where in 1997 she started the first postgraduate academic program in creative documentary in Spain, co-directed with Romà Gubern and that produces films coordinated by Patricio Guzmán, Joao Botelho or Basilio Martín Patino. As a filmmaker, she made her directorial debut with the diptych formed by Santa Liberdade (2004), the first film in the original Galician version directed by a woman to be released in theaters, and Liste, pronounced “Líster” (2007). In 2012 she directed A cicatriz branca (2012), her first fiction feature film.
Presentation with the film's director, Margarita Ledo, and the festival's codirector.
Sala Berlanga de la fundación SGAE
Spanish Female Authors Competition
Year of Production: 2020
Running Time: 92’
Country: Spain
Language: Galician and Spanish. Original version with Spanish subtitles
Director: Margarita Ledo Andión
Cast: Nieves Pérez Lusquiños, Manuela Nóvoa Pérez, Ester García Lorenzo, Carmen Portela Lusquiños, Carmen Álvarez Seoane, Mónica Camaño, Mónica de Nut, Laura Martínez Iglesias, Xoana Pintos and Eva Veiga
Producer: Margarita Ledo Andión
Production Company: Nós Productora Cinematográfica Galega S.L.
International Sales: L´ATALANTE CINEMA, S.L.U
Main festivals and awards: Winner of the Special Award for the Best Direction of a Spanish Film premiered at Seville European Film Festival. Winner of 2020 Cineuropa Award.
