Cantando en las azoteas

Enric Ribes

Un impulso colectivo Spain 78 min Worldwide premiere

Synopsis

Eduardo is Gilda Love, the last “transformist” from Barcelona’s Chinatown, who survives with a miserable pension while trying to continue acting on stage. Her priorities are turned upside down with the arrival in her life of Chloe (3) and her mother, Hanna (25), with whom she will have the chance to have the family she has never had.

Presented by the artistic team

Themes

BiographicCatalan CinemaLGTBIFirst FeatureSexSocial Issues

Filmmaker

Enric Ribes

He is a director and screenwriter of documentaries. He graduated in Audiovisual Communication at the Ramon Llull University of Barcelona. There he met Oriol Martínez, with whom he founded the production company Häns. His films, including Glance Up and The Peach Blossom Garden, have been awarded at festivals such as Alcine, Malaga, MiradasDoc, Moscow and DocsBarcelona.

Filmography: Cantando en las azoteas (2021, D'A 2022), Greykey (short, 2018), Xiong di (short, 2016), The Peach Blossom Flowers (codirected, 2016), Glance Up (codirected, 2014), Take Me to the Moon (short, codirected, 2014), La colla (short, 2013), Bespoke (short, 2012)

Enric Ribes

Film information

Original Title: Singing on the Rooftops
Director: Enric Ribes
Script: Xenia Puiggrós, Enric Ribes with the collaboration of Isa Campo and Marta Vivet
Contact: Inicia Films
With: Gilda Love, Chloe Romero
Country: Spain
Year: 2022
Format: DCP
Length: 78 min
Language: Spanish
Edition: 2022