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EL SUEÑO DE LA SULTANA

Isabel Herguera
Spain, Germany
 - 2023

Inés a Spanish artist lives in India and stumbles upon Sultana’s Dream, a science fiction story written by Rokeya Hossain in 1905. It describes Ladyland, a utopia in which women rule the country while men live in seclusion and are responsible for household chores. Fascinated by the story Inés embarks on a journey across the country to search for the one place where women can live in peace.

Isabel Herguera

She was born in San Sebastian in 1961. She studied Fine Arts at the Universidad del País Vasco and continued her studies at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. She later earned a master’s degree from CalArts in Los Angeles, where she directed ‘Los muertitos’ (1993). In 1997 she founded her own studio Loko Pictures, and in 2003, she returned to Europe, where she became director of Animac, the Catalonia International Animated Film Festival (2003-12) and coordinator of the Laboratorio de imagen en movimiento at Arteleku in San Sebastian (2003-14). She directed animated short films like ‘La gallina ciega’ (2005), ‘Amar’ (2010), ‘Under the Pillow’ (2012), ‘Winter Love’ (2015) and ‘Kutxa Beltza’ (2017), that won awards and were nominated for the Goya Prize. ‘Sultana’s Dream’ (2023) is her first feature film, and was the first European animated film in the Official Selection of the San Sebastian Film Festival.

DIRECTOR
Isabel Herguera
SCREENPLAY
Isabel Herguera, Gianmarco Serra
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Eduardo Elosegi
ANIMACIÓN
Izibene Oñederra, Ana María Sabater, Paula Valiño, Sergio Pereira, María José Alfonso, Francisco Muñoz, María Manero, Troyvasanth Chandrakanth
EDITOR
Gianmarco Serra
SOUND
Gianmarco Serra, Simon Bastian
MUSIC
Gianmarco Serra
PRODUCTION
Isabel Herguera, Chelo Loureiro, Mariano Baratech, Fabian Driehorst, Iván Miñambres
PRODUCTION COMPANY
El Gatoverde Producciones, Sultana Films, Fabian & Fred, Abano Producións, UniKo
VOCES
Miren Arrieta, Dedjani Mukherjee, Miren Gabilondo, Nausheen Javeed, Ranjitha Rajeevan, Mary Beard, Paul B. Preciado, Roberto Bessi
RUNNING TIME
84 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2023
VERSION
O.V. Basque, Spanish, English, Hindi, Italian, Bengali with Spanish subtitles.
EDAD RECOMENDADA
A partir de 13 años
COUNTRY
Spain, Germany
CONTACT
IN SPAIN
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