1)End of Trip – Sahara

Spain

2hours 9 minutes

Director Antonio Rodríguez Cabal

2023: Producer, director and screenwriter of "Fin de Viaje Sahara", a new film based on discarded material from the 25,000 meters of film negative made in 1983. Unusual. The film that took 40 years to be released.

Training

Master in "Film Writing" from the Autonomous University of Madrid 1990.

Graduated in Geography from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1980.

He has studied Image and Sound at the Faculty of Information Sciences up to 4th year.

History of Art from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1982.

Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

SGA member.

Member of EGEDA. Audiovisual Producers Management Entity.

Member of the ALMA Writers Union.

Founding member of ACCIÓN, association of film directors.

Plot:

Recovering the original discarded negative not used in the 1985 film Sahara, and restoring both image and sound, has given rise to this new film. Step back in time to the vibrant 1970s, where two young Spanish adventurers, Javier and Rafa, venture into the Sahara Desert, driven by a hunger for thrilling escapades and the yearning for an unforgettable journey.

Amidst the vast expanse of sand, they discover the allure of friendship, the allure of risk... and the alluring Florence, a captivating French muse whose presence awakens a whirlwind of emotions. Together, they brave the perils of the notorious "Desert Pirates," immerse themselves in the ethereal wonders of the Tuareg culture, and endure the relentless grip of the shifting sands.

2) The alchemist's dance

Spain

01hour 24 minutes

Director Arantxa Vela

Arantxa Vela Buendía (Madrid, 1962) is a documentary filmmaker, and has been a full-time employee of RTVE (National Spanish Television Corporation) since 1984.

She has specialised in shows and series on the performing arts since 2000; first as a documentalist and then, from 2010 to 2013, as the producer and senior editor of “Mi reino por un caballo” (My Kingdom for a Horse) - RTVE‘s weekly magazine programme on events and headline news from the theatre world.

Plot:

How does María Pagés’ thinking work? Where do her movements come from? What inspires her dancing? Starting with the staging of one of her latest shows, ‘De Scheherezade’, at the Roman Theatre of Mérida, we delve into her creative process, a process that she has shared for more than ten years with the poet, writer and dramaturg El Arbi El Harti. Both helps us to deconstruct scenes and draw a line that links with their previous works. By means of a fine sense of humour, the couple reveals to us the happiness and difficulties of living and working together. María Pagés shows herself to us as a woman whose life has its center on stage, in her way of understanding flamenco. Her dance seems to be something close to meditation and her creative process, a kind of trance.