Elegy

Elegy

Alba Tejero
After the death of two of her classmates, Julia is incapable of feeling any sort of sadness. Chocked by the suffocating mourning, and by a deep resentment, she will write something that will have dire consequences.
Director Born in Barcelona, 1993, Alba Tejero studied at School of Cinema and Visual Communication of Catalonia (ESCAC) in 2011 and graduated in 2016. The short film Elegy (2016) is her final degree project.

Preseleccionado Premios Goya 2018 (Spain)

Jury Award Best Cinematogrhapy – Colchester Film Festival 2017 (United Kingdom)

Third Prize Jury Award – Psicurt, Festival de Cortometrajes sobre Salus Mental (Spain)

Jury Award Best Actress (Mireia Vilapuig) – I Concurso de Cortometraje Plot Point (Spain)

Award Runner Up Finalist, Jury Award Best Young Filmmaker – 8 Festival INternacional de Cinema de Cerdanya(Spain)

Jury Award Best Short Film – NAU Festival de Cinema e Artes de Expressao Ibérica (Portugal)

Jury Award Best Actress (Mireia Vilapuig) – Donosskino Festival de Cortometrajes de Donostia (Spain)

Jury Award Best Direction (Alba Tejero) – 26 Muestra de Cine Internacional de Palencia (Spain)

  • Original title Elegía
  • Director Alba Tejero
  • Duration 15
  • Production year 2016
  • Theme Human Rights, Women
  • Category Short Film
  • Subcategory Fiction
  • Gender Drama
  • Nationality Spain
  • Dialogue language Spanish
  • Subtitle language English
  • Intérpretes Mireia Vilapuig, Ferran Rull, Sara Diego, Irina Bravo, Andrea Melendo, David Font