La luna de agosto
Spain / 90'
Plot
On an abandoned mining mountain (Sierra Minera de La Unión), a group of young people let themselves be carried away by the imagination of new universes. In the midst of a devastated landscape, they say goodbye to summer while trying to inhabit the spaces of a world that is changing. In a memory workshop, elderly people strive to delve into the depths of their dreams and memories. Among summer dances, haze, forgotten struggles, and utopian visions, a premonition of the future takes shape.
Full Cast and Crew
Director:
Paula Fuentes
Carlota González
Guion:
Paula Fuentes
Carlota González
Director
Paula Fuentes
(Courel, Galicia). She studied Filmmaking in Barcelona at ESCAC. She completed a master’s degree in Contemporary Film Studies at UPF and a postgraduate degree in Editing. Corre o Vento is her first short film, premiered at the Málaga Film Festival (2024). Her work focuses on the representation of spaces and identities on the verge of disappearance, and on the question of the resistance of memory. She was part of the Screenwriting Residency of the Catalan Film Academy with the project La luna de agosto.
Carlota González
(Tiñosa, Murcia) studied Cinematography in Barcelona at ESCAC and completed a master’s degree in Contemporary Film Studies at UPF. Her first documentary short film, El Mapa del Agua, premiered at ZINEBI (2024). Through non-fiction cinema, she seeks to explore representations of spaces in crisis and the coexistence between natural and human ecosystems. She was part of the Screenwriting Residency of the Catalan Film Academy with the project La luna de agosto.
