Noah's Ark The D'A Festival has gained a reputation for championing homegrown filmmakers and its fifth edition proved to be no exception. Although Spanish and Catalan films could be found throughout the programme, there was a particular concentration of local talent in the (Im)Possible Futures strand, an exploration of low voltage sci-fi being made in straightened times but with no shortage of imagination or humour.
Among those films was Noah's Ark, a sweet-natured comedy depicting Spain in the not-so-distant future. It's 2020, Mariano Rajoy is still prime minister and the economy is stuck in a near-apocalyptic downward spiral - the solution of two newly-redundant security guards (played by Fran Gomis and Miguel Chillón) is to build a machine for inter-dimensional travel to find an alternative reality. I asked the film's directors how they came to work together, on growing up in the same town, and about the improvisational...
Among those films was Noah's Ark, a sweet-natured comedy depicting Spain in the not-so-distant future. It's 2020, Mariano Rajoy is still prime minister and the economy is stuck in a near-apocalyptic downward spiral - the solution of two newly-redundant security guards (played by Fran Gomis and Miguel Chillón) is to build a machine for inter-dimensional travel to find an alternative reality. I asked the film's directors how they came to work together, on growing up in the same town, and about the improvisational...
- 5/12/2015
- by Rebecca Naughten
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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