Canadian Premiere
Amidst the ruins of the Monastery of Santa Clara, workers clean, weed, and drill.
Nico Franco, Rita Franco
Spain
2024
No Dialogue
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Credits & Director
Producer
Ana Román
Screenwriter
Arturo Franco, Tono Mejuto
Cinematography
Tono Mejuto
Editor
Tono Mejuto, Arturo Franco
Original Music
Arturo Franco
Arturo Franco
Franco Arturo is an architect, curator, and filmmaker born in La Coruña and living in Madrid. His work focuses on the exploration of contemporary cities and the ways they are inhabited. As an architect, he has been recognized for revitalizing and recovering city spaces; as a sculptor and filmmaker, he participates in the same transversal view of what surrounds us, discovering and revealing what a city offers its citizens.
Tono Mejuto
Tono Mejuto is a photographer and filmmaker trained as an architect in La Coruña, Graz, and Santiago de Chile. He completed a master’s degree in documentary photography at Blank Paper (Madrid) and trained with filmmakers and photographers like Isaki Lacuesta or Xavier Ribas. His first photobook, Unidade Veciñal, was published by Fabulatorio in 2015, and he has been awarded grants and residencies internationally, including the BAICC residency in Toronto. His short films have screened at festivals in Spain, Chile, Brazil, the US, and Mexico, among others.
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