A collage made of memories, family conversations, songs, found footage, and attempts at other films. While a film student shoots his first shorts on Super 8, he laments not having a single moving image of his parents. “Only the rich make films."
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13:OCT 18h00–18h55 55'
Batalha Centro de Cinema
Batalha Centro de Cinema
Part of the session: Memory and Archive #3
Juanjo Giménez
Juanjo Giménez was born and lives in Barcelona. He has directed a few shorts, including Timecode (2016) Palme d’Or in the Cannes Film Festival, nominated for an Oscar, Best European Short EFA, Goya and Gaudi prizes, and more than 100 international prizes. Other shorts include Rodilla (2010), Nitbus (2007), Maximum Penalty (2005), and Indirect Free Kick (1997), all of them awarded at national and international festivals. He’s the director of the feature films Tilt (2003), awarded in Rome, Las Palmas and Ourense, and the documentaries Dodge and Hit (2010), co-directed with Adan Aliaga, best documentary in Alcances Film Festival Cadiz and Courmayeur Noir, and Contact Proof (2014), also premiered in Alcances. He’s also the founder of the production companies Nadir Films SL. In 2021 he premiered his feature film Tres at the Giornate degli Autori in Venice and in competition at the Toronto Film Festival.
