Sinopsis
A Spanish tourist attracted by postcard images and a disenchanted Ecuadorian, who no longer believes in those country representations, try to cross Ecuador in the middle of a national strike. With humour and irony, the story tells how they manage to dodge the obstacles of collective chaos, but they do not escape the traps of their personal chaos.
Tania Hermida is a screenwriter, director and producer. She is a graduate of the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV, Cuba), where she made her first short films. She has written, produced and directed the feature films: Qué tan lejos (2006), En el nombre de la hija (2011) and La invención de las especies (2024), selected and awarded at Havana, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Punta del Este, Guadalajara, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Rome and Geneva festivals, among others. She combines independent film production with university teaching and research. She has complementary studies in Cinematographic Aesthetics; Creative Writing; and a master’s degree in Cultural Studies. She is currently a PhD student at the Faculty of Arts of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, working on a dissertation on Poetics of the Script. She has been a film professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito SFQ (1996–2007) and director of the Film Career department at the Universidad de las Artes de Ecuador (2016–2017). She currently teaches in the master’s degrees in Creative Writing (UARTES) and Latin American Cinema (UARTES Cuba), and in the Film Career of the UDLA. She has participated as a jury and speaker in film festivals and cultural meetings in various countries. She has been an Assemblywoman of the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly 2007-2008, a member of the Consejo Superior de la Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano and founder and director of the Corporación Ecuador para Largo.
Wednesday, Nov. 5th, 6:30 p.m.
Casa de América. Sala de Cine Iberia.
Free admission until full capacity is reached (60 seats). Tickets will be distributed at the ticket office of the Information Point one hour before the activities.
Year of Production: 2006
Time: 93’
Country: Ecuador, Spain
Language: Spanish
Director: Tania Hermida
Cast: Cecilia Vallejo, Tania Martínez, Pancho Aguirre, Fausto Miño
Script: Tania Hermida
Director of Photography: Armando Salazar
Production Companies: Corporación Ecuador para Largo
Awarded at the Havana and Montreal festivals, selected in Cartagena and São Paulo
