Crystal Globe Competition / Quan un riu esdevé el mar / Spain 2025
After a period of thirteen years Pere Vilà Barceló returns to the Crystal Globe Competition with an uncompromising, introspective probe into the soul of a girl who is sexually abused. The heroine of his sixth film is Gaia, a young archaeology student, whose relationship with herself, and with those around her, is forever marked by a traumatic event. Initially, Gaia cannot find the words to describe her situation, let alone the courage to speak about it. Eventually, however – like an archaeological excavation – she begins to uncover fragments of the past in order to piece her life together. The Catalan filmmaker was able to provide a realistic depiction of her situation by choosing to emphasise the actual process of coping with the trauma, a process which can't be rushed.
Sandra Hezinová
180 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Pere Vilà Barceló
/ Screenplay Laura Merino, Pere Vilà Barceló
/ Dir. of Photography Ciril Barba
/ Sound Jonathan Darch
/ Editor Xavier Pérez Díaz, Pere Vilà Barceló
/ Art Director Dàmaris Torres
/ Producer Xavier Pérez Díaz
/ Production fromzerocinema
/ Cast Claud Hernández, Àlex Brendemühl, Laia Marull, Bruna Cusí
/ Contact fromzerocinema
Pere Vilà Barceló (1975, Girona, Catalonia). Selected filmography: The Stoning of Saint Étienne (La lapidacion de Saint Étienne, 2012), The Grave (La fossa, 2014), The Invisible Artery (L'artèria invisible, 2015), When a River Becomes the Sea (Quan un riu esdevé el mar, 2025).
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