The Garcias (Proyecto)
Paco Nicolás
Finita (84 years old) talks every night to her German boyfriend, Manfred. She lives in Torrevieja, and he lives in Eppenheim. One night, Finita tells Manfred that she has discovered some old super 8 tapes in her house. That's how she decides it's time to go back to the past. She will challenge her grandson, and director´s film, to reincarnate the past.
His first short movie, Ojo Salvaje (The Rate´s Cut) (2015), has been presented in more than thirty international film festivals with great reputation such as IDFA and FIDOCS, where he won the Grand Jury Award, and national festivals like DocumentaMadrid and Zinebi, being awarded with ten prizes among which are included the Renard de Or in the Paris Film Week and the Second Prize City of Alcalá in the ALCINE Festival. It was selected by the Caimán Cuadernos de Cine magazine as one of the best short movies of the year 2016, and has been analysed in means of communication such as Cinemanía, Cortosfera and Filmin. In 2016 he co-directs, as part of his final assignment in the ECAM, the documentary film Yu Gang, filmed entirely in Mandarin Chinese and premiering in the past Málaga Film Festival. It was selected as one of the 7 finalists of the Rizoma Festival and it is still in its distribution phase.
- Original title Los García
- Director Paco Nicolás
- Duration 90
- Production year 2020
- Category Project
- Subcategory Documentary
- Nationality Spain
- Producer Mammut
- Dialogue language Spanish
- Subtitle language English