• TITLE CEDITAS
• LOGLINE Join Luis, 74, on an intimate journey through Barcelona as he relives the memory of his wife Mercedes through Polaroid photographs.
• FORMATO Short film
• GENRE Documentary
• SYNOPSIS Ceditas is a short documentary about loneliness in the elderly. Luis, 74 years old, returns to Barcelona 7 years after the death of his wife Mercedes. With a Polaroid camera he photographs the relationship he had with his wife and revisits the six most important places for him. Places I had never visited before. His son, filmmaker Ignacio Maquirriain, accompanies him on this intimate journey and films what happens.
• DIRECTED BY Ignacio Maquirriain
• PRODUCTION COMPANIES 601 Producciones Audiovisuales
• TRACK RECORD IN LABORATORIES OR MENTORING Founded in 2002, 601 is a well-established company with extensive experience in producing content and television programmes for RTVE, ETB, ESPN and HBO. In the field of documentaries, it has produced works on a wide range of topics, such as ‘Ainarak’, about the emigration of women from Navarre and Aragon to the Basque Country and France between 1880 and 1936, ‘Anwar’, which combines mountaineering, solidarity and renewable energy with mountaineer Alex Txikon, ‘Awards Beyond the Limits of Hairdressing’, about cutting-edge hairdressing around the world, ‘Sal&dean, tras los pasos de kerouac’ (Sal&dean, in the footsteps of Kerouac), a road documentary that is a portrait of American society, ‘Kantauri’, a feature-length documentary about life on the Cantabrian coast in a poetic tone, “Ceditas”, about loneliness in old age, and ‘El que no ve’ (He who cannot see), a short documentary about social exclusion told in the first person. Other projects are currently in production, such as Loraldia, a co-production with Álava about the music scene in Iruña; Lilit, el sexo bien entendido, about female education and sexuality; ‘Migrantes’, a documentary reflection on human and animal migration, and ‘Atlas oculto’, a co-production with France about the territories flooded by the construction of reservoirs. In development is ‘Tocaré hasta que mis dedos sangren’, a biography about the artist Aurora Beltrán, a pioneering frontwoman in Spanish rock.
• PUBLIC GRANTS OBTAINED Navarra Shortzinema 2024
• PRODUCTION PHASE Released
• CONTACT Rosa Garcia; rosa@601.es
• FECHA DE ESTRENO 2024