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| Barely 25 years old, Lourdes sets out on a trip for Obaba and its territories. In her luggage she carries a video camera. She intends to use it to capture the reality of Obaba, of its world, of its people. But Obaba is not the place Lourdes had imagined, and she soon discovers that the people who live there are trapped in a past they can?t -or don?t want to- escape from. Like the young teacher who parades her loneliness through the streets of Obaba; or Esteban, who receives love letters in cream-coloured envelopes. Lourdes uses this material to try and reconstruct the puzzle making sense of their lives and permitting her to capture the reality with her video camera. But there?s always something missing, something that escapes her, that she doesn?t understand. Like the mysterious behaviour of the lizards inhabiting Obaba. A mystery that no-one, not even Lourdes? camera, can solve. |
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| Montxo Armendáriz |
| Olleta (Navarre), 1949. Following his first feature film, Tasio (1984), he won the Silver Shell at San Sebastian with 27 horas (27 Hours, 1986) and the Golden Shell with Las cartas de Alou (Letters from Alou, 1990). His subsequent works are Historias del Kronen (1994), Secretos del corazón (Secrets of the Heart, 1997), with which he won the Award for Best European Film at Berlin and several Goyas, Silencio roto (Broken Silence, 2001) and Escenario móvil (Travelling Stage, 2004). He was a member of the Official Jury at San Sebastian in 1995 and won the National Cinematography Prize in 1998. |
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CINEMA |
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| 15 |
11:00 |
Kursaal 1 |
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| 15 |
21:00 |
Kursaal 1 |
Opening Film
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| 16 |
17:00 |
Warner 6 |
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| 16 |
20:00 |
Warner 6 |
Last screening.
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| DIRECTOR |
| Montxo Armendáriz |
| SCREENPLAY |
| Montxo Armendáriz |
| STORY-LINE |
| Bernardo Atxaga (Obabakoak) |
| PRODUCTION |
| Puy Oria
Oria Films, S. L.
Gran Vía, 71-5º izq.
28013 Madrid
Tel 34 91 540 11 57
Fax 34 91 540 18 87
oriafilms@wanadoo.es |
| COPRODUCTION |
| Pandora Film (Frankfurt)
Neue Impuls Film (Hamburg) |
| PHOTOGRAPHY |
| Javier Aguirresarobe |
| EDITION |
| Rori Sáinz de Rozas |
| MUSIC |
| Xavier Capellas |
| CAST |
| Bárbara Lennie, Juan Diego Botto, Pilar López de Ayala, Eduard Fernández, Peter Lohmeyer |
| SALES |
| Bavaria Film International
Bavariafilmplatz, 8
82031 Geiselgasteig
Tel 49 89 64 99 26 86
Fax 49 89 64 99 37 20
bavaria.international@bavaria-film.de
www.bavaria-film-international.de
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| RUNNING TIME |
| 107 m. |
| COUNTRY |
| Spain |
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