Institut Ramon LLull

SIFF - Seattle International Film Festival features four Catalan productions

Cinema.  Seattle, 08/06/2019

The Seattle International Film Festival (SIF)F will celebrate its 45th edition from May 16 to June 9. This year, four Catalan productions have been selected. Miriam Lies by Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada  (Mallerich Films Paco Poch, Faula Films, Latido Films), The Days to Come by Carlos Marqués-Marcet (Lastor Media, Avalon, Film Factory Entertainment) and Yuli by Icíar Bollaín  (Morena Films, The Match Factory, Galápagos Media, Potboiler Productions), have been included in the Contemporary World Cinema section. Finally, the short-film Coda Sacra by Pol Barrós (Alter Films) has been selected to compete in the Short Film Packages-Dark Delicacies section. Carlos Rodríguez Ríos, director of Barcelona’s D’A Festival, will be part of the official shorts selection jury. The Days to Come will be represented by director Carlos Marqués-Marcet in the official Ibero-American feature films selection jury.




In Miriam LiesMiriam happily awaits the day of her best friend’s fifteenth birthday party. Her family can’t wait to meet Jean-Louis, her Internet boyfriend, who will accompany her. But it all kicks off when Miriam sees Jean-Louis for the first time and realizes he is black. A quiet upper middle class world of good intentions will begin to crumble.

The Days to Come is the detailed account of a couple’s pregnancy. Over nine months they will have to learn what it will mean to be three, despite not having had the time to learn how to be two yet. Taking advantage of the actor’s true pregnancy, the film explores just how difficult it can be to share the process of this profoundly transformative experience with another.

Yuli tells the story of the Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta (who plays himself), from his beginnings in a poor neighbourhood of Havana until becoming the star of one of the biggest ballet companies in the world. Yuli (Carlos’s nickname) is a gifted boy who doesn’t want to be a dancer but who, forced by his father Pedro, and tutored by the professor and director of the Cuban National School of Ballet, Cherry, will become one of the best dancers of his generation, breaking taboos on becoming the first black dancer to play Romeo at the Royal Ballet in London, where he forged his stellar career and his legend for 17 years. Yuli is a film about roots, about the relationship between Carlos and his father, with his family, with Cuba. Yuli is about art, about the sacrifice of dedicating one’s life to that art and, above all, about what we are.

In Coda Sacra, a small group of people are determined to protect their way of life. They know they are exposed to the worst stalking, because their enemy is nature dressed in Satanism and witchcraft. They will have to face that darkness only with the help of their faith, and fight against the unknown until their last breath.

 

Seattle International Film Festival

May 16 - June 9, 2019

Miriam Lies, by Natalia Cabral

The Days to Come, by Carlos Marqués-Marcet

Yuli, by Icíar Bollaín

Coda Sacra, by Pol Barrós

 

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