Completed - SPANISH - Musical, Jewish, Art - Culture - 95 minutes
Film between documentary and fiction. La Moneta, a flamenco dancer, travels to Auschwitz in order to find inspiration for her new show, inspired by a book of the poet Félix Grande.
Year of production : 2022 Director(s) : Emilio BARRACHINA Cast : Fuensanta LA MONETA, Miguelo GARCIA Producer(s) : Rebecca ARROSSE (Hemisphere Films), Javier ESPADA (Tolocha Films)
Fuensanta “La Moneta” is a contemporary flamenco dancer and choreographer. In her dance studio she prepares a new show with her students, however, everything changes when one of her students, Israeli and Jewish, gives her the book "La Cabellera de la Shoá" that Félix Grande wrote during his visit to Auschwitz and that marked his work to the point of being his last book.Fuensanta devours each poem by Félix Grande and doesn't stop thinking about those tons of accumulated hair, about the captive gypsies and the Jewish women marching towards certain death. It is then that she turns her show around and her goal is to visit Auschwitz to imbue herself with silence and look at it head-on.After convincing her manager, Raúl, she starts a retrospective in her show to mix dance, literature, music and the silent interpretation of millions of silent lives.Choosing three students in the cast will not be a comfortable task and each one will discover that "La Cabellera de Shoá" is a greater bond than they imagined
Country(ies) : SPAIN
Florence International Film Festival 2022 (Best Feature Film)Tokyo Film Awards 2022 (Best Documentary)Punta del Este Jewish Film Festival 2022 (Audience Award)Adolph Zukor International Film Festival 2022 (Best Documentary and Special Jury Award)The Artist Forum festival New York 2022 (Best Narrative Film)International Art Film Festival Birgmingham 2022 (Best Feature Film)San Sebastian FF 2023 Film Library (not in selection)New York City International Film Festival 2023 (Best Documentary)New Delhi International Film Festival 2023 (Jury Special Award)Buñuel Calanda Film Festival 2023 (Best Documentary)Parai Musical International 2023 (Best Musical Film)