ARAGONESE WINDOW
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ARAGONESE WINDOW
LOS ARMARIOS NO SE VACÍAN SOLOS + ULLATE, LA DANZA DE LA VIDA
MONDAY 10 JUNE · 10 PM · OLIMPIA THEATRE
Short film LOS ARMARIOS NO SE VACÍAN SOLOS, Paula Labordeta. Spain. 19´. VOE.
Documentary feature film ULLATE, LA DANZA DE LA VIDA, Elena Cid. Spain. 96’. VOE
Sponsored by Aragón TV.
LOS ARMARIOS NO SE VACÍAN SOLOS
LOS ARMARIOS NO SE VACÍAN SOLOS
CLOSETS DON’T EMPTY THEMSELVES
Spain. 2024. 19’. Fiction
Director: Paula Labordeta. Script: Ángela Labordeta. Producer: Apolonia Producciones SL. Executive producer: Ángela Labordeta. Edition: María Adán. Photo: José Carlos Ruiz Cantero. Original music: Santiago del Campo. Sound: Estudios Roma. Dress: Vanesa Izuel. Cast: Ana Labordeta, Malena Casado, María José Moreno.
Grief is the most profound state of heartbreak, because the loved one is no longer there. That’s why their clothes and shoes should stay untouched in the closet, just as they were before leaving. Closets don’t Empty Themselves speaks of loss, loneliness, fear, hope, and the way each human being faces that pivotal moment in life. Though capable, as we are, of burying or cremating a loved one, we nevertheless do not know how to begin emptying a closet.
PAULA LABORDETA
Zaragoza, 1971. Her 2022 documentary, Labordeta, un hombre sin más, co-directed with Gaizka Urresti, won both Goya and Forqué awards in 2023. She has directed documentaries about Conchita Martínez, Carlos López Otín, Víctor Ullate, Manuel Pizarro, and Manuel Teruel within Aragón TV’s Pura Vida series. She has also directed documentaries about Aragonese historical figures in the series XX del XX. Closets don’t Empty Themselves is her first fiction short film.
ULLATE, LA DANZA DE LA VIDA
ULLATE, LA DANZA DE LA VIDA
ULLATE, THE DANCE OF LIFE
Spain. 2024. 96’. Documentary
Director: Elena Cid. Script: Elena Cid. Producer: Sonia Martín, Elena Cid, Germán Bercovitz. Edition: Elena Cid. Photo: Beatriz Sánchez Pagés, Adrián Barcelona, Marcos de Luelmo. Original music: Raúl Quílez. Sound: Germán Alonso, Pablo Soriano. Cast: Víctor Ullate, Nacho Duato, Eduardo Lao, Mónica Cruz, Josué Ullate, Víctor Ullate Roche, Joaquín de Luz, Lucía Lacarra, Iana Salenko, Yolanda Correa.
The love for dance through a unique life, that of the famous dancer, teacher, and choreographer Víctor Ullate. In December 2019, the news broke: “The Víctor Ullate Ballet closes.” And in the blink of an eye, over forty years of dance history in Spain vanished. But who is Víctor Ullate? Ullate, always swimming against the current, sometimes controversial yet charming, a relentless fighter and unwavering worker, has lived a unique path guided by his great passion: dancing.
ELENA CID
Elena Cid is a director, screenwriter, and producer from Aragon. She graduated in Chemistry and Marketing and Advertising, but despite this, she soon began writing, producing, and directing short films of various genres, earning several awards and selections. In the television realm, she was part of the team that launched the mystery program Cuarto Milenio, led by Íker Jiménez for Cuatro, initially as an editor and later as a coordinator. Returning to directing and producing, she founded the production company Disentropic Films, through which she created the feature-length documentary Bécquer y las brujas, which, among other accolades, received four Simón Awards from the Aragonese Film Industry. Ullate, the Dance of Life is her second documentary feature, directed for Disentropic in co-production with RTVE.