Código Marcos

Código Marcos is a moving documentary film, in which through ten years of family archives we follow the life of Liena, a migrant mother facing the challenge of raising her two children in Spain. In the absence of references, Liena films tirelessly as she loves, works, argues and plays. The camera never cuts, never shuts off. From the absolute intimacy of the home, we are privileged to watch Pablo, a bright and sensitive young man, and Marcos, the youngest son, unpredictable and in need of special care, grow up. With humour and authenticity, Liena transforms a stigmatised motherhood into a meaningful life experience.

Patricia Pérez Fernández (Cuba)
Director, scriptwriter and producer. She studied Film Directing at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV), and holds a degree in Theatre Directing from the Instituto Superior de Arte, in Cuba. She has produced and directed several creative documentaries as well as working as an editor on other productions. Her first film, A media voz (2019), co-directed with Heidi Hassan, won the Best Documentary Award at the International Documentary Film Festival (Amsterdam), Best Documentary Direction at the Malaga Film Festival and the Audience Award at DocumentaMadrid, among other important recognitions. She recently founded Free Hundred Media, an audiovisual production company where she develops documentaries and a virtual reality project. In 2024, she was selected for Berlinale Talents. Hay algo en el silencio will be her third feature film.

Liena Cid Navia (Cuba)
She studied dramaturgy at the Instituto Superior de Arte de Cuba (ISA). She moved to Madrid in 2000, where she worked as an acting workshop teacher. In 2009 he completed a Master's Degree in Creativity and Television Scripts at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in collaboration with Globomedia. In 2018, after her young son was diagnosed with autism, she decided to focus on learning more about this neurodevelopmental condition and took a postgraduate course in autism. She also created an audiovisual creation workshop for primary school children. Código Marcos is her directorial debut, which she has been working on since 2018, after years of documenting her family's life through their relationship with ASD. She is currently working on the pilot of a podcast to be called "MMM: Woman, mother and migrant". A space to share the specificities of these three social conditions that affect a collective of women in a situation of under-representation, women who need someone to give them a voice.

Direction and script: Patricia Pérez Fernández and Liena Cid