Something To Remember Me By

Colour, 35 mm
Spain, 2004, 106 min
Section: Horizons

Synopsis

Irene lives with her son David, a student of architecture, and with her father Mateo, a lively old man despite a tragic past: he was still a child when, during the Spanish Civil War and postwar retaliation, he lost his home and his entire family. It is Mateo who holds his current family together, perhaps due to his age, his experiences and his kind nature. Irene is completely devoted to her work: she directs a theatre company of blind actors. At home, however, a divide is growing that she cannot bridge. As the only child of divorced parents, David doesn’t know how to handle his mother’s resistance towards his love, a sales girl in a hypermarket whom Irene believes directly threatens his personal and professional future. Then one day an unexpected event forces them all to undergo a test, to find out something about themselves they never knew before.

About the director

Patricia Ferreira (Madrid) graduated in audiovisual media and journalism in Madrid. She first worked as a reporter and film critic, then in television as a producer, director and writer for a wide variety of shows, mainly documentaries. Her filmmaking activities have taken her all over Spain, Europe, and Latin America. After the made-for-TV movie El paraíso (1997), she shot her feature debut I Know Who You Are (Sé quién eres, 1999), which screened at the 2000 Berlinale. Her next film, The Impatient Alchemist (El alquimista
impaciente, 2001), based on the book by Nadal Prizewinner Lorenzo Silva, gained the Cinema Writers Circle Award (Spain) for Best Adaptation. In 2003 she shot the segment “El secreto mejor guardado” for the film En el mundo a cada rato. Something to Remember Me By (Para que no me olvides, 2004) is her third feature film.