COUNTRY
Spain
PRODUCTION
Sultana Films
YEAR2023
DURATION8 min
WRITING Isabel Herguera
MUSIC
Gianmarco Serra, Diego Herguera
EDITION Gianmarco Serra, Candela Carroceda García-Bobadilla
CAST Isabel Herguera, Sudhanya Dasgupta, Priyanka Shaw, Shashi Shaw
DISTRIBUTION Kimuak
INTERNATIONAL SALES Kimuak
CONTACT kimuakfestivals@basqueaudiovisual.eus
SYNOPSIS In Ahmedabad, Isabel runs an animation workshop for a group of henna tattoo artists called Mehndi. She interviews them about their dreams: Ramia wishes to fly, Saadiya dreams of a women’s parliament, Shubhashree longs to travel to Switzerland, and Samira claims her independence through rap.
Isabel Herguera
San Sebastian, 1961. She graduated from the UPV/EHU in Bilbao, then continued her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and obtained a master’s from CalArts LA. She directed the Animac festival in Lleida from 2003 to 2013, and was responsible for co-ordinating the Arteleku Laboratorio de Imagen en Movimiento in San Sebastian from 2005 to 2014. She is regarded as one of the pioneering women of independent animation in Spain. She is also a senior lecturer at the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, and a visiting professor at both NID-Vijayawada and CAFA-Beijing. In 2023, she premieres her first animated feature film
Sultana’s Dream.
FILMOGRAPHY
Sultana’s Dream (feature film, 2023)
