EL AGUA

THE WATER

Quinzaine 2022 | Feature film | 104 min

World premiere | Film in competition for the Caméra d'Or Award

It is summer in a small village in south-eastern Spain. A storm threatens to cause the river that runs through it to overflow again. A popular old belief claims that some women are predestined to disappear with each new flood, because they have the “water inside”. A band of young people is trying to overcome the weariness of a summer in the village that smells of death by smoking, dancing, and lusting after each other. In this electric atmosphere that precedes the storm, Ana and José live a love affair until the storm bursts.

Director

Elena López Riera

Born in Spain in 1982, she directed the short films Pueblo, presented at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2015, and The Entrails, presented at the Locarno Film Festival, in the international competition Pardi di domani. Her latest short film Those Who Desire was nominated for the European Film Awards and won the Pardino d'Oro at Locarno in 2018. The Water, selected in residence at the Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation, is her first feature film.

Artistic & technical sheet

With

Luna Pamies (Ana), Alberto Olmo (José), Nieve de Medina (Ángela), et Bárbara Lennie (Isabella)

Screenplay
Elena López Riera, Philippe Azoury

Photography
Giuseppe Truppi

Production design
Miguel Ángel Rebollo

Sound
Carlos Ibañez, Mathieu Farnarier, Denis Séchaud

Editing
Raphaël Lefèvre

Music
Mandine Knoepfel

Majority Production
Alina Film
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Coproduction
SUICAfilms (Espagne)
Les Films du Worso (France)

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Publicist (French press)
Rendez-Vous
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