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La idea de una isla

Carmen Pedrero

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COUNTRY Spain

PRODUCTION Entre las piedras, Belino Production

YEAR2024

DURATION19 min

WRITING Carmen Pedrero

CINEMATOGRAPHY Sergio Garot

MUSIC Miguel Ariza

CAST

Raquel Barrero Muñoz, Candela Martín Fernández, Lara Peloche Rodríguez, Leire Gómez Muñoz, Cristina Basallote, Agustín Mateo

INTERNATIONAL SALES Lights On

CONTACT lightson@lightsonfilm.org

SYNOPSIS Bombs fall down while a mother sings to her daughters. Nature shivers. Houses become empty. 9-year-old Emilia is about to learn that the war around her is not a game anymore.

Carmen Pedrero Film director, screenwriter, and poet. After graduating from ECAM, her thesis short film Winds of Springtime premiered in the Future Frames program at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and won the Danzante Award for Best Opera Prima at the Huesca International Film Festival. Over the past two years, she has participated in multiple artistic labs, including Novos Cinemas, INPUT (S8), Málaga Talent, or Cannes’ Focus Script, where she continued developing her projects. Alongside her film career, she began exploring poetry, winning the 2022 Biennial Young Poetry Award of La Laguna’s Ateneo with her book No One Knows How a Cat Feels When It Licks Its Paws. Her latest short film is The Idea of an Island. FILMOGRAPHY The Idea of an Island (short film, 2024), Winds of Springtime (short film, 2021)

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