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Arantxa Echevarría

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Biography

Arantxa Echevarría Carcedo was born in 1968 in Bilbao. She studied a degree in Sciences of the Image and a specialization in audiovisual production at the Complutense University of Madrid, and pursued further studies at Sydney Community College. She has worked in cinema and television since 1991. Her short film De noche y de pronto earned a nomination to the Goya Award for Best Fictional Short Film. Her feature debut Carmen & Lola (2018) earned her the Goya Award for Best New Director, past her fifties. It was followed by her second feature The Perfect Family (2021). She also directed one episode of El Cid's first season. In 2022, she began shooting her third feature, Chinas.

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A Deep Breath, Women Filmmakers

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At last we are starting to hear the voice of women in the cinema. We celebrate it with this documentary on the Basque women moviemakers of yesterday and today, giving a global overview of the subject. Three female divers guide us through the topic of their films, their points of view, their dreams, their efforts to get somewhere, their contribution to the cinema and to society.

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A Deep Breath, Women Filmmakers

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The Perfect Family

5.5(0.1K)

Lucía is a woman for whom leading a model life and taking control of her life is the most important thing. Since she got married, she has focused all of her efforts on caring for her family, until achieving what for her is a perfect family. However, her entire world begins to collapse with the arrival of Sara, the girlfriend of her son; a young girl with great freedom and without mincing words who has a very different family from what Lucia always dreamed of as a political family. Now, Lucia must accept that the perfect family was not exactly what she thought.

Arctic

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Simon and Jota are two young scoundrels who hit the street every day to eke out a living. Each one wants what he lacks. Simon cannot stand being surrounded by his large family all the time. Jota wants to stop leading a lonely life and will do his best to have his own family.

De noche y de pronto

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Home alone in a deserted apartment building during the Christmas season, Maria is startled to receive a visit from a desperate man claiming to be her upstairs neighbor, whose apartment is being broken into by thieves.

Undercover

7.1(0.2K)

Basque Country, Spain, late nineties. A young policewoman manages to infiltrate the ruthless terrorist gang ETA.

Chinas

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In Madrid, Spain, Lucía and Xiang, two nine-year-old Chinese girls, meet at the beginning of the school year.

Me, the President

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Spain's recent election have alarmed europe. It's the second time blank votes win, plunging the country into chaos. The European Union decides to elect the new Spanish president using a rather unique method, Facebook.