The Travel Agent

The Travel Agent

Niccolò Bruna
From her tiny office overlooking the US Interests Section, Lourdes counsels thousands seeking a travel visa for the US. She fine tunes her customers’ stories, so they have better chances to succeed. After a long wait, Lourdes time has finally come: her interview is set. Her dream to visit her dying mother was never so close.
Niccolò Bruna, was born in Turin, Italy, in 1974. He is an independent filmmaker and producer. He has been experimenting the expressive tools of documentary filmmaking since he attended in the EICTV school in Cuba in 1999. For the past 15 years he has striven to carry out quality film productions with human interest while offering a fresh glance on powerful social issues. He won several awards with Dust, the great asbestos trial (2011), co-directed with Andrea Prandstraller, among it the best film in Baghdad, Rio de Janeiro and the nomination for the David of Donatello Prize, the Italian Oscar. His Magicarena (2014) has been theatrical released in Taiwan and in China, first time for a foreign documentary. In 2015 he investigated about women condition in Ethiopia with A closed mouth catches no flies (Le ragazze di Wuchale). The travel agent is his 6 feature documentary.

UniCredit Pavilion Giovani Award – Festival internazionale del documentario di Milano (Italy)

  • Original title Pequeñas mentiras piadosas
  • Director Niccolò Bruna
  • Duration 88´ y 52´
  • Production year 2015
  • Theme Social Issues, Politics, Human Rights
  • Aspect 16:9
  • Format DCP
  • Category Feature Film
  • Subcategory Documentary
  • Nationality Italia, Spain
  • Producer Progetto Cataclisma, 15-L. Films
  • Dialogue language Spanish
  • Subtitle language English
  • Intérpretes Lourdes González Rosabal, Enit Abreu Gómez