Made of Sugar De sucre
Synopsis
Maria, a neurodivergent woman, decides to claim autonomy over her own body, refusing the societal norms and structural barriers telling her she can’t. Quietly revolutionary, this film depicts Maria’s journey to self-determination in all its raw, awkward, and empowering beauty.
This film screens as part of Shorts Program 8: Drama.
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Film Credits
- Ariadna Dot, Tono Folguera, Rafa Molés, Pepe Andreu
- Clàudia Cedó
- Nila Núñez
- Julián Elizalde
- Andrea Álvarez, Glòria March, Mercè Méndez, Judit Pardàs, Marc Buxaderas, Genís Casals, Joan Manuel Gurillo
- Lluís Robirola , Alberto Lucendo
- Ariadna Dot, Natalia Maestro
- Lastor Media, Suica Productions
- https://catalanfilms.cat/ca/produccions/de-sucre
Shorts 8: Drama
Synopsis
In these five shorts, exceptional international filmmakers explore subjects ranging from sex and war to grief and hippos. Whether employing dark humor or grounded realism, these stories speak to the complexities of the human experience.
In a building housing an old cinema on its last legs, a child discovers their true identity through the magic of the movies and the quiet curiosities of everyday life in Honey, My Love, So Sweet. In Hippopotami, a young girl sets out on a highly anticipated trip to the zoo when she comes to understand a new side of her parents’ inner lives. When their father dies, two brothers must return home to face their complicated past and find a way to move beyond their history in I’m Glad You’re Dead Now. The Cow takes place in occupied Croatia in 1991, where an army major reluctantly cares for a left-behind bovine in a hastily abandoned home, forcing him to face his repressed guilt. In Made of Sugar, Maria, a neurodivergent woman, decides to claim autonomy over her own body, refusing the societal norms and structural barriers telling her she can’t.
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Three Goodbyes Tre Ciotole
Synopsis
After what seemed like a trivial argument, Marta (Alba Rohrwacher) and Antonio (Elio Germano) break up. Reeling from heartache, gym teacher Marta withdraws into herself, completely losing her appetite and enthusiasm for life and finding solace in a lifesize K-pop idol cardboard standee. Antonio, a chef, throws himself into his skyrocketing career. Even though he was the one who ended things, he can’t seem to get her off his mind. When Marta discovers that her loss of appetite has more to do with her health than her grief, everything changes: the taste of food, the feel of music, romantic desires, and the certainty of choices made.
At once disarming and devastating, Three Goodbyes is a bittersweet tale of love lost and found—for oneself, for others, and for the joys in life. With gentleness and a touch of humor, celebrated Catalan auteur Isabel Coixet eloquently adapts Michela Murgia’s autobiographical best-seller, crafting a guide for how to navigate life circumstances that create a clear delineation between a before and an after with grit and grace.
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Film Credits
- Massimo Di Rocco, Luigi Napoleone, Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini, Francesca Longardi, Marisa Fernández Armenteros, Sandra Hermida, Carlo Gavaudan, Marco Miana
- Enrico Audenino, Isabel Coixet, from the romance of Michela Murgia
- Jordi Azategui
- Guido Michelotti
- Alba Rohrwacher, Elio Germano, Silvia D'Amico, Galatea Bellugi
- Alfonso Viallonga
- Cattleya, Ruvido Produzioni, Bartlebyfilm, Buenapinta Media, Bteam Prods, Colosé Producciones, Perdición Films, Apaches Entertainment, Tres Cuencos, Vision Distribution, RTVE, with the support of INCAA
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Strange River Estrany Riu
Synopsis
It’s summertime on the Danube River, and teenager Dídac and his tight-knit family are enjoying the pastoral beauty on a bicycle trip together. Memories swirl in the river’s waters, as Dídac’s parents reminisce over their first trials with love in their youth. Dídac’s own curiosity around romance and desire begins to stir when he encounters a mysterious boy who seems to appear and disappear from the river’s waters. As the two boys circle into closer and closer orbit, the growing pains of young love begin to widen the emerging cracks between Dídac and his family.
The boundaries between the waking world and dreaming flow freely like the river itself in Jaume Claret Muxart’s sensuous and ethereal feature debut, where longing conjures the ghosts of past and future. Set against a sunny, verdant landscape shot on 16mm, Strange River explores the freedom of blossoming youth with remarkable tenderness.
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Film Credits
- Xavi Font, Andrea Vázquez
- Jaume Claret Muxart, Meritxell Colell
- Maria Castan de Manuel, Meritxell Colell
- Pablo Paloma
- Jan Monter, Nausicaa Bonnín, Francesco Wenz, Jordi Oriol, Bernat Solé, Roc Colell
- Nika Son
- ZuZú Cinema, Miramemira
- https://filmsboutique.com/film/strange-river/
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Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation
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Synopsis
After a young woman goes missing at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco, her father and brother traverse the forbidden desert landscape searching for her. Their journey takes them from one dance party to another, but none of the itinerant revelers can point to her whereabouts. Hearing rumors of an event near the border of Mauritania, the pair take up with a band of outsiders, together embarking on one last dangerous journey beneath the scorching sun.
The pounding pulse of electronica provides the soundtrack to a gripping existential journey to ends of the earth—the film’s title refers to the bridge separating Heaven and Hell in Islamic tradition. Unfolding amid an apocalyptic landscape in which reports of conflict and other crises issue from the radio, director Oliver Laxe’s metaphysical road movie, produced by Spanish cinema icon Pedro Almodóvar, is simultaneously meditative and harrowing in its potent exploration of loss, grief, and violence.
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Film Credits
- Domingo Corral, Oliver Laxe, Xavi Font, Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García, Oriol Maymó Ferrer, Mani Mortazavi, Andrea Queralt
- Santiago Fillol, Oliver Laxe
- Cristóbal Fernández
- Mauro Herce
- Sergi López, Brúno Nuñez, Stefania Gadda, Joshua Liam Henderson, Tonin Janvier, Jade Oukid, Richard Bellamy
- Esther García
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John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation
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