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Trinta lumes (Thirty Lights)

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Original title: Trinta lumes
Year: 2017
Running time: 80 min.
Country: Spain
Director: Diana Toucedo
Cast: Documentary
Music: Sergio Moure De Oteyza
Cinematography: Lara Vilanova
Producer: Lasoga Films, Dianatoucedo Films
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: In O Courel in Galicia, Spain, the dead dwell amongst the living. The film opens with images of a deserted mountainous region and picturesque villages over which a female voice begins her narration. But from the outset, her documentary commentary should not be trusted. Suddenly, images of people’s faces loom into extreme close-up as the inquisitive camera begins to observe their everyday rituals. This is a community for whom tradition is shrouded in myths and legends about wolves, the undead and missing women – and All Saints’ Day is by no means the only time that these phenomena put in an appearance. But the film also shows us a more down-to-earth side of life in O Courel, as we learn the proper way to pluck a chicken, work with slate slabs, collect chestnuts to sell, or how to hunt and skin a wild boar. In her composed and beautifully observed film, director Diana Toucedo deliberately sets up red herrings in order to blur the border between real village life and invented stories, religion and superstition, true histories and dramatised ones. The dead are amongst the living, and some of the living have suddenly disappeared.

Awards: 2018: Fenix Awards: Nominated for Best Documentary Cinematography

2018: Gaudí Awards: Nominated for Best Documentary

2018: Feroz Awards (Spain Critics): nominated to Best Documentary.

2018: Fénix Film Awards - Latin-America, Spain & Portugal Cinema: nominated to Best Documentary Photography.

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Trinta lumes (Thirty Lights)

2017

Diana Toucedo

6.1

(546)