17’ | 2023 | Digital HD 1080p | Color | 16:9 | Spanish | English subtitles
A film about chance, grief and loneliness.
A meeting by chance. That was how I met Maria. Her closeness and her trust made her story and our story get stuck in my head. Now, I am embarking on a trip through memories, going back to what she told me. Her words make me return unexpectedly to a place, a space where nothing is the same anymore, a place completely invaded by memories. The reflection of his absence.
CREDITS
Direction, Writing: Lucía Silvestre Grau
Cinematography: Alejandra Maiel Martínez
Edit: María Moreno Novoa
Original Music: Elías Alegría
Production: Marina González Fortuño
Direct Sound: Estela Cousillas Morales
Sound Mix: Javier Asín
Graphic Design: María Moreno
Project Mentors: Efrén Cuevas, Oskar Alegría
AWARDS
Ópera Prima Best Short Film Award - Alcances Documentary Film Festival of Cádiz 2024.
first Prize Best Documentary - SOCINE. UEMC University Social Cinema Festival 2024
SCREENINGS
MAFIZ. Festival de Málaga - Málaga Short Corner (2cool4school Vol.3) 2023.
Marché du Film. Festival de Cannes - New Spanish Shorts (2cool4school Vol.3) Short Film Corner Video Library 2023
DocsValència, Secció Docs en Curt 2023
DocsBarcelona, Secció DOC-U 2023
Certamen Erronka Munduan, Reto por el mundo 2023
SOCIALMED Festival dels Drets Humans 2023
Festival FIAfest Comsabana 2023
mónFILMAT. Festival Internacional de Cinema i Paisatge, Secció Relaciones i Solituds 2023
“Cinema-haziak” en la Biblioteca Pública de Burlada, Biblioteca Pública de la Txantrea y la Biblioteca Castejón 2023
Alcances Festival de Cine Documental de Cádiz, Official Section, 2024
SOCINE. Festival UEMC Cine Social Universitario 2024, Official Section, 2024
Reapropiacions del cinema domèstic
As part of the “Reappropriations of Home Movies” programme, Vínculo was screened at La Filmoteca Valenciana, alongside La Casa Oberta (Julieta Lasarte) and The Maelstrom: A Family Chronicle (Péter Forgács).
The feeling of loss in the film makes me return to the family archive, revisit those images and search for the memories within. I keep returning to this archive because I find it fascinating. The material remains the same, but our perspective changes, and it is precisely this that lends value to creating cinema from the heart.