El Sur (The South)

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Shown: March 23, 2025 at 6pm

Director : Victor Erice

Country : Spain

Release Date : 1983

Duration : 94 mins

Language : Spanish

Subtitles : Yes

WINNER : GOLD MEDAL AT 1983 CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Estrella Arenas (Icíar Bollaín), a rural Spanish teenager with a rich imagination, dreams of her mysterious father Agustín (Omero Antonutti), a man who in recent years has drifted away from her and her mother. Estrella struggles to piece together Agustín’s secret history and recalls her family’s sudden unexplained move from Seville in Spain, to the northern countryside when she was young. Estrella decides to return alone to the South, a place warped by years of her father’s hazy and nostalgic recollections.

A haunting, delicate portrait of childhood, with a father who oozes mystery.” (Kate Muir – The Times)


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