Las Buenas Compañías

In the Company of Women
Fiction | Spain, France | 2023 | 93 min | Spanish

Synopsis

Summer of 1976. Bea is 16 years old and joins the winds of change that are sweeping the country; collaborates with a group of women to make the feminist cause visible and achieve the approval of the right to abortion. The rebellion that she feels in her blood will be mixed with an unexpected feeling that will upset her inner world. Throughout these months, Bea will establish a very special friendship with Maider, a girl slightly older than her and from a good family. Her political commitment and her relationship with Maider will turn that summer into a stage that will mark a before and after in her life.

Director

Member of the European Film Academy and the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Sciences. She combined her career as an actress with her work as a director. Her first works were the short films Déjeme que le cuenta (1998) and Lalia (1999). In 2003 she directed her first feature documentary Elena Dimitrievna Diakonova. Gala and in 2007 her first fiction feature film Pretextos.

International Premiere

Director - Directors
Sílvia Munt
Guión - Screenplay
Silvia Munt, Jorge Gil Munarriz
Productor - Producer
Ander Sagardoy, Antonio Chavarrias, Xabier Berzosa, Fernando Larrondo, Mónica Lozano
Música - Music:
Paula Olaz
Sonido - Sound:
Andrea Sáenz Pereiro, Fabiola Ordoyo, Benjamin Lecuyer
Cinematografía - Cinematography:
Gorka Gómez
Edición - Editor:
Bernat Aragonés
Dirección de Arte - Production Design:
Carmen Sánchez de la Vega
Intérpretes - Cast
Alicia Falcó, Elena Tarrats, Itziar Ituño, Ainhoa Santamaría
Contacto - Contact
Filmax / Iván Diaz
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