To complement our screening of Os Fenómenos we are delighted to welcome Alfonso Zarauza to present his second feature film, winner of the Jury Award at Brussels Film Festival as well as Best Script, Best Cinematography and Best Music at Cine Ceará Festival in Brazil.
Born in Santiago de Compostela, Zarauza took his early love of literature, music and theatre into film-making, creating several shorts while completing his film studies in A Coruña. He makes his return to ¡Viva! after the 2009 success of his surreal, magical romance La Noche que dejó de llover, which also the featured well-known Spanish actor Luis Tosar.
Zarauza said of his latest film: “I wanted to make a film about the economic crisis far from the topics of good and bad, a view from inside the ‘Brick boom’. It is clear that in this crisis there have been winners and losers, and I was much more interested in talking about the latter, but in a self-critical way that avoids complacency. I found it interesting to do it from a female perspective, so I decided to put Lola Dueñas’ character in a man’s world and get a different type of insider’s view.”