A Midsummer Night´s Tale

El cuento de una noche de verano
María Herrera
Spain
 - 2024
Estreno mundial
María Herrera's debut alongside Avalon. As producer, she already knows what it's like to win the Golden Spike with Arquitectura Emocional 1959, and later the Goya for Best Fiction Short Film. Although they barely know each other, Inés and Guille quickly connect, showing an unusual complicity for a first date. Inés wants them to watch the sunrise together before they go to sleep.
María Herrera
María Herrera is a young Spanish filmmaker and producer. Her work explores the feminine universe and has a strong focus on the relationship between the body, the camera and the female desire. She’s interested in questioning narrative paradigms and cinematic language in search of a feminist cinema and TV. María is a Goya Spanish Academy Award winner and a BAFTA Connect member. She holds an MFA in Screenwriting at CUNY-Brooklyn College. She was ranked most outstanding student of her film school in The Hollywood Reporter.

Screenings

O.V. in Spanish with English subtitles
Sat. 19, 16:00
Presentation
Q&A
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS OFFICIAL SECTION 1
86 min.
Mon. 21, 12:00
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS OFFICIAL SECTION 1
86 min.
Wed. 23, 21:30
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS OFFICIAL SECTION 1
88 min.
DIRECTOR
María Herrera
SCREENPLAY
María Herrera
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ion de Sosa
EDITOR
Estel Román, Miguel A. Trudu
SOUND
Pablo Rivas Leyva
PRODUCTION
Stefan Schmitz, Emilia Fort
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Avalon
CAST
Olivia Delcán, Nacho Sánchez
RUNNING TIME
21 min.
TYPE
Cortometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2024
COUNTRY
Spain
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