SALIDAS
Departures
SALIDAS (span., DEPARTURES) is a fictional dance film which tells the story of Giralda, an undertaker who accompanies deceased human beings into their afterlife. Interpreted with the means of Spanish flamenco dance and music and set at an old East German ship canal lift, the film creates an associative fusion between Northern and Southern Europe, movement and silence, and farewells and eternity.
Trailer
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Genre
Drama, Dance -
CATEGORY
Short -
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2021 -
DIRECTOR
Michael Fetter Nathansky -
SCREENPLAY
Michael Fetter Nathansky -
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Valentin Selmke -
CAST
Anna Castillo, Christiane “La Mona“, Ñusta Kolter Irazoque, Ebla Sadek, Antonio Piñera Moreno “Pumuki”, Salvador Vega Carrasco “Rubin de la Ana” -
PRODUCER
Virginia Martin -
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Contando Films -
RUNTIME
10 min -
LANGUAGE
Spanish, Arabic, German, English -
FESTIVALS
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Palm Springs ShortFest USA, Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Filmfest Dresden, Bundesfestival junger Film, Sehsüchte, Unified Filmmakers Filmfestival, Cinedans Fest Amsterdam NL, San Francisco Dance Film Festival USA, Dance Film Festival Prague CZK, PlatArtístic Spring Dancefilm Fest ES, FuoriFormato Festival IT -
AWARDS
Best Short Dance Film at PlatArtístic Spring Dancefilm Fest ES, Best Director at FuoriFormato Festival IT, Honorable Mention at Cinedans Fest Amsterdam NL, Honorable Mention at Dance Film Festival Prague CZK -
SALES
Contando Films, Virginia Martin
virginia@contandofilms.com
www.contandofilms.com