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When a River Becomes the Sea

Crystal Globe Competition / Quan un riu esdevé el mar / Spain 2025

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Synopsis

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

About the film

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

About the director

Pere Vilà Barceló

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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Carrer de Mossèn Baldiri Reixach, 190, 17820, Banyoles
Spain
Phone: +34 699 249 139
E-mail: [email protected]

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