Synopsis
In 1989, José Luis and Luz María, a young couple living in Galicia who have just had a daughter, get divorced. José Luis films the entire separation process with his camera. In 2019, their daughter Paula, who has been living in France with her girlfriend Joy for ten years, separates. Paula, like her father, has been recording their love story and its end all this time. This documentary uses intimate archive footage to initiate a dialogue between two separations thirty years apart and attempts to answer the question: What remains when love ends?
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Filmmaker
Paula Veleiro
She studied Audiovisual Communication in Santiago de Compostela and specialized in Film Directing at the CECC (Barcelona). In 2012, she moved to France, where she directed music videos, short films, concerts or trailers. In 2019, she starts to make her first documentary feature film, The Distance You Left . In her eagerness to explore all kinds of languages, she begins a new phase as the singer of the band La rate timide and is also currently working on her first novel.
Filmography: The Distance You Left (2024, D'A 2025)
Awards and festivals
AMAE Award for Best Editing of a Spanish Film
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