
18/07 – 21.30 h. Barcelona screen Summer: The teacher who promised the sea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lks_ug-6evy
Technical sheet:
Directed by: Patricia Font
Country: Spain
Year: 2023
Duration: 105 minutes
Language: Vo_Cast Catalan and Spanish
Subtitles: Spanish
Audmobile: Available
Qualification: More than 12 years
Genre: drama
Synopsis:
When Ariadna (Laia Costa) learns that her grandfather is looking for the body of the missing great -grandfather during the Civil War, he goes to Burgos to try to know if the remains
They can be in the common grave that they are exhumed. Once there, they tell the story of Antoni Benaiges (Enric Auquer), a Mont-roig teacher in the spreading field of the Modern Republican school for Bañuelos de Bureba, who was killed by a Falangist militia.
Patrícia Font (Barcelona, 1978) In intertwining and present in a single painful and necessary story about the importance of historical memory through the search for war retaliators and the vindication of the Republican teachers who brought education to another level. The film has won several awards, such as the special of the Gaudí 2024 audience.
Inspired by real events, the film is based on the book by Francesc Escribano, Francisco Ferrándiz and Queralt Soler (Editorial Blume, 2013), originated by the report of the photographer Sergi Bernal Unearthed the silence. The project, which dignifies the missing and killed people killed by fascism, won a scholarship to the eleventh Can Basté Photographic Forum (2010).