2023-09-27 09:35:23
The short film ‘If only I could hold myself like trees do‘, born from a subject of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and directed by students Laura Valenzuela and Ainhoa Díaz, is presented this Wednesday at the San Sebastià Film Festival. It is registered in the Nest section, which seeks to support and promote the careers of young talents in international cinema. The tape has a duration of 7 minutes and is recorded in analogue. It was filmed in the Estunes forest, in Porqueres, which offered the students the “atmosphere” required by the story, which tells how a mother abandons her two children and goes to the forest, where she will pass by a personal mourning process that will transform her.
The project team is made up of about twenty people, most of whom are women. This prints in the short film the female gaze to the narration, which is interested in everything to put the images at the service of a story that addresses motherhood. “We wanted to discover the space little by little, to make it accompany the protagonist in a non-violent way, without aggressive terror”, the directors explained in an interview with ACN.
As Valenzuela and Díaz have explained, the idea starts more “from the limitations than from the creation itself”, since they only had 10 minutes of analog footage. They were also very aware that it had to be a collaborative work, trying to break with the “usual hierarchies of the sector” and making an exercise that stands “on its own”.
They star in the short film Lina Gorbaneva and the brothers Valeria i Ivan Garcia.
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