My Mexican Bretzel

Núria Giménez

Spain 74 min Catalan premiere Fiction

Synopsis

“Lies are just another way of telling the truth. The desire to believe is the hand of the man hanging from a cliff and clinging to the only stone that would seem to save him. But he always ends up falling because the stone is a mirage, just as the cliff is. Death is awakening from this dream in which the essential can be said and in which the continuous and infinite has a beginning, an end and a meaning”. Paravadin Kanvar Kharjappali

Themes

LoveCatalan CinemaFemale DirectorFeminismLiteratureFirst Feature

Filmmaker

Núria Giménez

(Barcelona, 1976) She studied Journalism and Documentary Filmmaking. In the last decade, she has extended her knowledge thanks to seminars and master classes of several filmmakers she admires, like Isaki Lacuesta, Andrés Duque, Virginia García del Pino, Sergei Dvortsevoy, Patricio Guzmán, Wang Bing or Frederick Wiseman. Her first short film, Kafeneio, was presented at DocumentaMadrid 2017 and MIDBO 2017. My Mexican Bretzel is her first feature film.

Filmography: My Mexican Bretzel (2019), Kafeneio (curt, 2016)

Núria Giménez

Film information

Director: Núria Giménez
Script: Núria Giménez
Contact: Núria Giménez
With: Ilse G. Ringier, Frank A. Lorang
Country: Spain
Year: 2019
Format: Digital
Length: 74 min
Language: Spanish
Edition: 2020

Awards

Best Film, Best Direction and Best Script in the Spanish Cinema section of Gijón, and Found Footage Award in Rotterdam.

Poster

My Mexican Bretzel