71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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El filandón

José María Martín Sarmiento
Spain
Synopsis

As if moved by the wind and chance, the bell of the hermitage of San Pelayo begins to ring insistently. This hermitage stands in the center of a wide valley. Attracted by the rhythmic and continuous ringing of the bell, the santero arrives and finds that it rings by itself. From the river that is born in that same place the water flows stained with blood.

According to an ancient tradition, these are signs through which the saint in whose evocation the hermitage is raised asks to come and tell stories, through them to ward off a danger that threatens the region.

The santero summons several local people, who, gathered for a whole night around the fire in the hermitage, tell stories about San Pelayo.

Director
José María Martín Sarmiento (Spain)
Screenplay
José María Martín Sarmiento, Luis Mateo Díez, Pedro Trapiello, Antonio Pereira, José María Merino, Julio Llamazares
Photography
Nurit Aviv
Edition
Gonzalo Fernández- Merayo
Music
Cristóbal Halffter, Amancio Prada
Cast
Magín Mayo, Julio Llamazares, José María Merino, Luis Mateo Díez, Pedro Trapiello, Antonio Pereira, Carolina Sarmiento
Sound
August Galli
Running Time
105 m.
Country
Spain
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