Sinopsis
Teresa waits patiently for the arrival of the Inquisitor to be judged. Her future will depend on his visit and his words: freedom, prison or the stake. Adapted from the play "La lengua en pedazos" by Juan Mayorga, based on the figure of Teresa of Avila. "Teresa is not a woman, there are a thousand women. It is not just a portrait of the contradictions of herself or of a certain time. It is a landscape, a desire, a doubt, a determination to love, uniting tradition and modernity - Teresa's time and ours, the dialogue between the sixteenth century and our time."
Paula Ortiz, PhD, is a Spanish director, researcher, and a lecturer in the area of Film Studies and other Audiovisual Media. She graduated in Hispanic Philology and holds a master’s degree in Film and TV Writing. She also learnt film directing at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University (NYU) and completed her screenwriting studies at UCLA. She participated in the Screenwriters Expo in Los Angeles and other screenwriters’ forums in Spain and the United States. In March 2012, she released her first feature film, “De tu ventana a la mía” (Chrysalis), receiving numerous national and international awards and achieving commercial success. In 2015, she released “La novia” adapted from Federico García Lorca’s play “Bodas de Sangre.” Both films, highly successful in the Spanish box office, were distributed in more than 20 countries. She has also directed series such as “En Casa” (2020). In 2021, she filmed “Across the River and into the Trees”, based on the Ernest Hemingway’s novel. Her next project is the feature film “Hildegart”, from a screenplay by Eduard Solà, an original production for Prime Video with Najwa Nimri in the leading role.
Friday, November 3rd, 2023. 7:30 pm
Palacio de la Prensa
Entrance by invitation only.
Director: Paula Ortiz (Spain)
Genre: Fiction
Country of production: SPAIN/PORTUGAL
Year of production: 2023
Running time: 100’
Language: Spanish
Cast: Blanca Portillo, Asier Etxeandia, Greta Fernández, Consuelo Trujillo, Luis Bermejo, Claudia Trissac
Production: Spain/Portugal
Screenwriter: Paula Ortiz, Javier García Arredondo y Juan Mayorga
Director of photography: Rafa García
Production companies: La lengua en pedazos AIE, Bluebirds Films and Inicia Films, Spain. Nu Boyana, Portugal
International sales: BTeam Pictures
Festivals/Awards: selected at the 2023 SEMINCI, Valladolid International Film Week
Premiere in Madrid.
