After the death of his father, Damián returns to his native Ferrol to stay at the guesthouse ‘La parra’, where he used to live. As soon as he sets foot in the city, he realises that people are confusing him with Cosme, the guide who disappeared, and about whom Damián knows nothing. The third feature film by Alberto Gracia, winner of the FIPRESCI award at the Rotterdam Festival in 2013 for O Quinto Evanxeo de Gaspar Hauser, delivering a game of mirrors, a story that fuses the social and the fantastic, situating Ferrol as a spectral place, a sort of ghostly island where nothing seems real, but everything is rooted in a common past. This enigmatic atmosphere is built by the photography of Ion de Sosa, a benchmark of the new Spanish cinema, and the music of Jonay Armas, reminiscent (in a distant way) of David Lynch's films.
Alberto Gracia
He is a director and writer born in Ferrol in 1978. His first short film, ‘Microfugas’, was shot in 2008 in 16mm. In 2013, his first feature film ‘The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser’, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and won the International Critics Award. In 2018, he returned to Rotterdam with his second feature film, ‘The Wandering Star’, which bagged the Deluxe New Waves award at the Seville European Film Festival and the Best Film award at the Dock of the Bay Festival in San Sebastian. Thanks to winning the X-Films award in 2020 at the Punto de Vista Festival, in 2021 he was able to make his second short film, ‘Let’s be Careful Out There’, which received the Special Jury mention at Filmadrid. ‘La Parra’, his third and long-awaited feature film, had its world premiere at the Rotterdam Festival.
Screenings
O.V. in Spanish, Galician subtitled in Spanish and English
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