INTERNATIONAL SHORTS
16 December
16 De Decembro
Directors
Álvaro Gago
Producers
Mireia Graell
Cinematographers
Lucía C. Pan
Editors
Ricardo Saraiva
Sound
Xavier Souto
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2019
Spain
15 min
Color
Saturday. It is nightfall. The ball moves quickly from side to side. The bodies try to get into the gaps left by the defense. Lucía, twenty-five years old, leaves handball training and goes to look for her brother on a motorcycle under the lights of a city that she thinks she knows.
Director
Alvaro Gago graduates in Audiovisual Communication and Music in Spain, theatre studies in Chicago and filmmaking in London. His first two short films, "Curricán" and "Bombolles", play and win awards at several film festivals. His most recent short film "Matria", received the Grand Jury Prize in Sundance, and and was a 2019 Goya nominee. Xacio Baño’s first feature film ‘Trote’, which he edited, had its world premiere at the 2018 Locarno Film Festival and premiered nationally at the 2018 San Sebastián Film Festival. He also edits Marcos Merino’s second feature film ‘In Memoriam’, which premiere at the 2018 Seville European Film Festival picking up ‘Best Spanish Film’ within the New Waves Non-Fiction category. Currently he is entering post-production of this next short film ‘16th of December’ as well as developing his first feature film script provisionally titled ‘About happiness’.
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