Zagreb Film Festival

The Idea of an Island

  • Carmen Pedrero
  • Spain
  • 2024
  • 18'
  • La idea de una isla

            Bombs drop while a mother sings to her daughters. Nature shivers. Houses become empty. Nine-year-old Emilia is about to learn that the war all around her is not a game anymore.

             

            Carmen Pedrero

            Carmen Pedrero (Madrid, 1996) is a film director, screenwriter and poet. She graduated from the ECAM film school with her thesis short film Winds of Springtime, which premiered at Karlovy Vary. In 2022, she won the Ateneo de La Laguna Biennial Award for Young Poets for her book No One Knows How a Cat Feels When It Licks Its Paws. She is currently living in Boston, where she is attending a Master’s program in film pedagogy.

            The Idea of an Island

            Director
            Carmen Pedrero
            Screenplay
            Carmen Pedrero
            Cast
            Raquel Barrero Muñoz, Candela Martín Fernández, Lara Peloche Rodríguez, Leire Gómez Muñoz, Cristina Basallote, Agustín Mateo
            DOP
            Sergio Garot
            Editing
            Miguel Ariza
            Producer
            Eva Bodas, Maribel Ruiz Pascual, Antonello Novellino
            Production
            Entre las piedras, Belino Production
            Festivals & Awards
            War on Screen Int'l Film Festival

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