Sinopsis
At just 23 years old, Carmen Laforet revolutionized Spanish literature with her novel Nada. Her talent promised a long career filled with success, yet she wrote little and gradually fell into silence… Or at least, that’s what we’ve been told. This time, Carmen Laforet (Mónica López) takes the floor and reveals a very different truth: that of an original and rebellious writer who paid with ostracism for her fight for freedom. Her story is the story of all the women who choose to step outside the script.
Director and screenwriter based in Barcelona. Since founding her production company, Al Pati, she has focused on the development and production of films committed to social issues that explore the boundaries between documentary and fiction, while fostering new perspectives on culture, humanity, and society.
Her documentaries have been broadcast on major European television networks, including NTR, SVT, YLE, RAI, RTVE and TV3, among others. With El fill de son pare / His Father’s Son (2010), she received a Special Mention from the Jury at the Prix Europa. Her feature-length documentary Corredors de fons (2014) was awarded Best Director at the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival and Best Screenplay at Europe-Orient du Film Documentaire in Asilah. With the short film La Veïna (2015), she won the Public Freedoms and Human Rights Award at AJIDFF.
She has been a pioneer in exploring interactive documentary with web-based animation, through the webdocs Orgull de Baix (2016) and Orgull d’Horta (2020), produced with TV3 and A Punt Media. Her latest work is the feature documentary Los constructores de la Alhambra (2022), supported by MEDIA Creative Europe, Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales, ICEC, RTVE, Canal Sur, ZDF/ARTE, ORF and Al Jazeera. It was nominated for Best Documentary at SEMINCI 2022 and selected for the Official Sections of the Montreal International Festival of Films on Art (2023), Bogocine (2023), the London Spanish Film Festival (2023) and the Bosphorus Film Festival (2023). It was released theatrically in Spain in November 2022 and in Hungary in April 2023.
Tuesday, Nov. 3rd. 6:30 p.m.
Biblioteca Nacional de España
Free admission until full capacity is reached
Presentation and Q&A with the director and Cristina Cerezales, Carmen Laforet’s daughter.
Year of Production: 2025
Time: 103’
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Director: Isabel Fernández
Cast: Mónica López
Production: Isabel Fernández, Ángeles Horna
Script: Margarita Melgar, Isabel Fernández
Director of Photography: Sandra Roca, Zhana Yordanova
Production Companies: Al Pati Produccions, Imaco Producciones
Distribution: Al Pati Produccions
Best Foreign Director at the Cinerama Canarias Awards of the Festivalito La Palma
Selected at BCN Film Fest
Premiere in Madrid
