new delivery ofOur cinema, the programming line that, monthly, screens Valencian films that are part of La Filmoteca's film collections. In the nineties, Pedro Pérez Rosado developed a long career in the field of political and social documentaries, which led him to shoot ten years after the arrival of Sandinismo in Nicaragua, the Polisari Front in the Sahara or the Zapatista revolution in Mexico, among other issues. In 2005 premiered salt water, his second fiction feature after Cuentos de la guerra Saharaui, in which he maintained a look of solidarity with the victims of the system, now through the story of two marginalized women, one of them migrant sense papers, with a direct tone and a clear documentary imprint. The actress Yoima Valdés won the prize for the best female interpretation at the Huelva Latin American Film Festival and the film won the Palme d'Or at the Mostra de Valencia Cinema del Mediterrani. The session will include a presentation and discussion by the film's director and screenwriter.
11.06.26 THURSDAY / 18.00 h Presentation and discussion with Pedro Pérez-Rosado, director, i Lilian Rosado, screenwriter of the film.
salt water
PEDRO PEREZ ROSADO. Puerto Rico, Spain. 2005. Color. 94′. 35 mm.
Int. Yoima Valdes, Leyre Berrocal, Juan Carlos Morales, Candela Fernandez, Lola Moltó, Ofelia Medina.
A young Cuban, who arrives in Spain with a scholarship and plans to start a better life, he meets a girl from Valencia who occasionally prostitutes herself. The two work illegally in a furniture factory where they get two euros an hour.
