Archive of films Camino / Camino

Spain
2008, 120 min

Section: Horizons
Year: 2009

This story, inspired by real events, is set in Madrid and Pamplona, as it once was twenty-five years ago. Love and death: two milestones that are often an inseparable duo on theatre stages and elsewhere... In this case it’s 11-year-old Camino whom they’ve chosen for their sport...

Synopsis

Pamplona, June 2001. Eleven-year-old Camino is living out the last moments of her short life in a hospital room. Surrounded by relatives, friends, priests and an uncommonly large number of medical personnel, she seems almost ethereal as she slips peacefully away. Yet, something extraordinary hangs in the air in this hallowed atmosphere... What came before this? Just a few months ago, Camino was an ordinary girl enjoying childish games and dreams with her friend Begoña in Madrid. That is, until she was first struck by love – a hitherto unknown feeling – at about the same time the first signs of her serious illness set in. While her father, José, takes the situation very badly, her mother, Gloria, a religious fanatic in the draw of Opus Dei, sees Camino’s pain and suffering as confirmation that her daughter has been "chosen”. Nuria, her older daughter, a member of Opus Dei, was cut off from her family for the "greater good” and embodies what her mother expects of Camino as well...

About the director

Javier Fesser (b. 1964, Madrid) founded the advertising agency LÍNEA FILMS in 1986 after graduating from the Complutense, and in 1992 started up Películas Pendelton which focuses on film projects. His first short films Aquel ritmillo (1995) and El secdleto de la tlompeta (1995) won everything there is to win in Spain, including the Goya Award. He received the same award in 1998 with his feature debut The Miracle of P. Tinto (1998) in the special effects category. His next film, Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure (2003), was awarded five Goyas. For the short film Binta and the Great Idea (2004), which he made in Senegal with the cooperation of UNICEF, he won 88 awards and was nominated for an Oscar in 2007. In 2006 he published the story Three Days in the Valley and produced the first film effort of his brother, Guillermo, a successful publisher, called Candida.

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About the film

Color, 35 mm

Section:	Horizons

Director:	Javier Fesser
Screenplay:	Javier Fesser
Dir. of Photography:	Alex Catalán
Music:	Rafa Arnau, Mario Gosálvez
Editor:	Javier Fesser
Producer:	Luís Manso, Jaume Roures
Production:	Películas Pendelton, Mediapro
Cast:	Nerea Camacho, Carme Elías, Mariano Venancio, Manuela Vellés, Ana Gracia, Lola Casamayor, Lucas Manzano, Pepe Ocio
Contact:	Wild Bunch

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