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A FILM ABOUT COUPLES (UNA PELÍCULA SOBRE PAREJAS)
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Completed - SPANISH, CATALAN - Comedy, Family, Art - Culture - 89 minutes

Log Line

A couple of filmmakers shoot a film about love, problems between the two force them to question their own relationship and the meaning of cinema.

Year of production : 2021

Director(s) : Oriol ESTRADA, NATALIA CABRAL
Cast : Oriol ESTRADA, Natalia CABRAL, Lia ESTRADA CABRAL

Producer(s) : Natalia CABRAL (FAULA FILMS), Pablo MUSTONEN, Oriol ESTRADA (FAULA FILMS)

Synopsis

Natalia and Oriol are a couple of independent filmmakers in their thirties. They direct their films together, they have a little daughter called Lia and they have just finished their last auteur film with many doubts about the sense of making cinema. One day, they receive an offer from a producer friend who happens to have some money to produce a documentary. Oriol and Natalia accept the offer and they begin to imagine together a documentary about couples in love.

Natalia and Oriol visit several couples, some of them are friends, others they just met. They interview them with great interest, always wanting to know more about how they get along and what their most typical problems are. As filming progresses, they themselves begin to question their own relationship as a couple. The process of making the film will open up some wounds of their own relationship, fights and doubts seem to be endless. But at the end they realize that cinema is not only a profession for it can also be a remedy for love.

Production

Country(ies) : DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

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Festivals and Awards

Gijon Int'l Film Fest. 2021 (Award for Best Spanish Feature Film / Best Director / Best Screenplay)
Biarritz Amerique Latine Festival 2021 (Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma Award / Special Mention of the Jury for the interpretation.)
Rome FF 2021 (Official Selection)
Locarno Film Festival 2022 (Open Doors Official Selection)
Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival 2022 (Special Jury Mention.)
Havana Film Festival New York 2022 (Award for Best Screenplay.)


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