2022 – 67th Edition
DOC Spain

Bailar la locura

Marta Espar, Maiol Virgili
Spain
 - 2022
Opta a: Premio FUNDOS

Three contemporary women dancers aim to create a choreography that explores the limits between normality and madness and invite three women diagnosed with mental disorders to share their creative process with them. They all stay in a house in the Basque Country to attend rehearsals together and discover what a psychiatric diagnosis implies. They talk about drugs side effects, delusions and suicide. But also about loneliness and friendship. Without prejudices. In a human journey that breaks taboos about madness.

Marta Espar, Maiol Virgili

Marta Espar has been a scriptwriter and health science journalist for 20 years. With a degree in Clinical Psychology and Journalism, between 2007 and 2011 she worked in the health section of national daily ‘El País’ and in the newspaper ‘ARA’. She is the author of several books of interviews and, together with Marc Parramon, she scripted and co-directed the documentary ‘Veus contra l’estigma’ (2017). Maiol Virgili is a documentary and series filmmaker with more than 20 years of experience in the sector. Trained as a camera operator and editor, in 2007 he began his path towards filmmaking with ‘A pagès’, ‘Séniors’ and ‘Rurals’. ‘Propietarios de sueños’ and ‘RAR, la força del torró solidari’ are the most recent ldocumentaries to engage his collaboration.

DIRECTOR
Marta Espar, Maiol Virgili
SCREENPLAY
Marta Espar
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Maiol Virgili
EDITOR
Maiol Virgili
SOUND
José Luis Cabello
MUSIC
Iñaki Plaza
PRODUCTION
Marta Espar
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Reporters
FEATURING
Amaiur Luluaga, Clàudia Gómez, Montse Álvarez, Maria Manonelles, Itziar Vaquero, Alba Coll
RUNNING TIME
75 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2022
COUNTRY
Spain
CONTACT
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