World Premiere
A clinical gaze inspects a liminal place beyond space and time, where living and dead bodies coexist. As they resist collapse, the unidentified shapes remain suspended in darkness.
In This Is an Autopsy, Spanish director Lucia Selva glimpses into a metaphysical void, proclaiming if I close my eyes long enough, I am there.
Mar Vidal, Jaume Roma, Jordi Latorre
Spain
2026
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Rita Rodríguez
Producer
Lucia Selva
Screenwriter
Lucia Selva
Cinematography
Mateo Sanz
Editor
Lucia Selva
Lucia Selva
Lucia Selva, born in Granada, 1998, studied at ESCAC and Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola. Her interests focus on cinematographic craftsmanship and the creation of new languages and aesthetics through experimentation with different supports, digital languages, and light. Her video essay In Memoriam (2020) premiered at Filmadrid. Her works address the relationship between identity and space, as manifested in Who Witnessed the Temples Fall (2025), her first feature film, which held its world premiere at CPH:DOX and received a Jury Special Mention.
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