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Schedule

MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 10

Date

2025. 05. 03

Time

17:00

Code

359
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KE
All
GV
MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 10

Date

2025. 05. 05

Time

13:30

Code

536
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KE
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GV
MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 4

Date

2025. 05. 09

Time

14:00

Code

914
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KE
All

Credit

  • Director Elena LÓPEZ RIERA
  • Producer Rafa MOLÉS, Pepe ANDREU, Eugenia MUMENTHALER, David EPINEY
  • Screenwriter Elena LÓPEZ RIERA
  • Cinematographer Elena LÓPEZ RIERA, Alba CROS, Agnès PIQUÉ
  • Editor Ariadna RIBAS, Ana PFAFF
  • Sound Alejandro CASTILLO
  • Cast Cristina PÉREZ

Overview

Mature women speak about their marriages, their first time, and their intimate relationship with sexuality. Through the repetition of these ancestral rituals, the director questions her own lack of marriage and children, reflecting on a chain of mother-daughter relationships that is gradually disappearing.

* This film will be screened alongside Les Habitants in the Expanded Cinema section.

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Review

In this documentary, the filmmaker looks through her mother’s wedding photos, a simple act that leads her to reflect on the social status of women at the time and her own personal history. Through a series of interviews with elderly women, the film shares stories of marriage, intimate relationships, and children, showing images of women getting married in archival photos. Sometimes hiding and other times revealing words and images, the director draws out candid stories that might emerge from very intimate and private relationships. While specifically focused on the experiences of women from southern Spain, this film captures stories and emotions that women around the world can relate to. (Sung MOON)

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Film Source

Marvin&Wayne | fest@marvinwayne.com

Director

Elena LÓPEZ RIERA

Elena López Riera, born in 1982 in Spain, is an award-winning filmmaker. Her film El Agua premiered at Cannes in 2022, and she has since garnered recognition at festivals such as Cannes and Locarno, where she received the Pardino d'Oro.

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