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Ana Cristina Barragán | Ecuador, Mexico, Greece | 2016 | 98 min | Spanish | e.s.
Alba is eleven years old and terribly shy. She has great difficulty standing up for herself among the precocious girls in her class, who talk like little adults about relationships but keep making fun of Alba with the cruelty of children. The fact that she gets nosebleeds at inconvenient moments doesn’t help. To make matters worse, when her ailing mother is hospitalised she is dumped with her eccentric father Igor, who she never knew and of whom she is very ashamed. Very slowly and cautiously, the father and daughter get to know each other. Alba is a coming-of-age film that is both heart-rending and unsentimental. It’s striking that such a mature and powerful debut comes from Ecuador, the country that until the beginning of this century had only made one film a year. Young leading actress Macarena Arias is one to keep an eye on. She manages to use a minimum of dialogue to devastating effect.
Place: CINEMA 6
Date: 7 April 2016
Time: 16:15
Duration: 1:45
Place: CINEMA 6
Date: 8 April 2016
Time: 22:00
Duration: 1:45
Place: CINEMA 6
Date: 9 April 2016
Time: 13:30
Duration: 1:45
Year in
Festival
2016
Director
Camera
Simón Brauer
Cast
Macarena Arias
Pablo Aguirre
Amaia Merino
Isabel Borje
María Pareja
Mara Appel
Maisa Herrera
Country
Ecuador
Mexico
Greece
Editor
Yibran Asuad
Juan Daniel Molero
Ana Cristina Barragán
José María Avilés
Language
Spanish
Length
Producer
Isabella Parra
Ramiro Ruiz
Konstantina Stavrianou
Production Company
Caleidoscopio Cine
Leyenda TV
Graal Post Production House
Production Design
Oscar Tello
Sales
Scenario
Sound Design
Alex Icaza
Year of Production
2016
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