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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Program Patron
Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation
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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.
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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.
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- Ariadna Dot, Tono Folguera, Rafa Molés, Pepe Andreu
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- Nila Núñez
- Julián Elizalde
- Andrea Álvarez, Glòria March, Mercè Méndez, Judit Pardàs, Marc Buxaderas, Genís Casals, Joan Manuel Gurillo
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- https://catalanfilms.cat/ca/produccions/de-sucre
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