La concha

Leire Apellaniz

Un impulso colectivo - Curts Spain 22 min Catalan premiere Fiction

Synopsis

Eli, a cheeky woman with a lot of doubts, spends the afternoon at the beach with her baby daughter June and friends. She broke up with her daughter’s father and had to leave their home. But the sea and a shell in the hands of a magician child will give her a break today.

Opts to

Premi del públic curt Premi Un Impulso Colectivo Curt

Themes

Spanish CinemaComedyShort FilmFemale DirectorFeminism

Filmmaker

Leire Apellaniz

She is a director, screenwriter and producer, co-founder of the companies Sr. & Sra. and Apellaniz & de Sosa, with which she has produced projects such as Las letras de Jordi, by Maider Fernández,Advantages of Travelling by Train, by Aritz Moreno, or Espíritu sagrado, by Chema García Ibarra, all of them premiered at international festivals. Her first feature film as director, El último verano, premiered at Karlovy Vary, and she is currently developing her fictional debut.

Filmography: La concha (short film, 2022, D'A 2023), El último verano (2016, D'A 2017)

Leire Apellaniz

Film information

Director: Leire Apellaniz
Script: Marta Bassols, Marta Loza
Contact: Marvin & Wayne
With: Rocío León, Lidia Zoilo, Nikola Zoilo, Ariadna Aleona Toldea, Hodei Lavega
Country: Spain
Year: 2022
Format: Digital
Length: 22 min
Language: Spanish

Awards

AGUILAR DE CAMPOO FILM FESTIVAL
Best Actress