The La Semaine des Cinémas Étrangers film season in Paris presents 22 films programmed by cultural centres and institutes from 21 countries around the world. La Plaga will be screened on 8th March at the Centre Vallonie-Bruxelles, along with the Polish film Journée de la femme.
La Plaga is a moving portrait of life on the edges of Barcelona that reveals the uncertainty and rebellious spirit underlying the contemporary Spanish crisis. The plot is the result of a detailed observation of the lives of the characters for a long period of time: a Moldovan wrestling champion, a farmer, a prostitute, an old woman who lives in a home for the elderly and the nurse who looks after her. The lives of all of them converge due to the effect of a pest that affects the farmer’s crops.
Neus Ballús (Mollet del Vallès, 1980) is a filmmaker and editor. She has directed the shorts Immersió/Immersion (Best Short at the Alcine Festival, 2010) and L’Avi de la Càmera/The Old Man with the Camera. La Plaga is her first feature-length film.
