Title / Título (Original)
Alba
Director
Release Date / Fecha de estreno
2016
Language / Idioma
Spanish / español
Country / País
Production Company / Compañía de Producción
Caleidoscopio Cine (Ecuador)
Leyenda Films (Argentina)
Leyenda Films (Argentina)
Description / Descripción
Alba, una niña de 11 años, debe ir a vivir con su padre, Igor, debido a la enfermedad de su madre. Igor es un hombre obsesivo y solitario, a quien ella apenas conoce, que después de separarse de la familia se encerró en una casa pequeña. La convivencia para Alba es casi insoportable; su padre le recuerda todo aquello que la acompleja de sí misma. (Cinemateca Nacional Ecuador)
Alba is eleven years old. One afternoon, her mother is admitted in the hospital and she has to move to live with Igor, a father she barely knows. Igor’s attempts to get closer to Alba, school girls, her first kiss…all are stimulus that pave her way into adolescence and to accept her family. Alba is a coming-of-age film that is both heart-rending and unsentimental. It’s striking that such a mature and powerful debut comes from Ecuador, the country that until the beginning of this century had only made one film a year. Young leading actress Macarena Arias is one to keep an eye on. She manages to use a minimum of dialogue to devastating effect. (Pragda)
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Available at
Pragda: https://pragda.com/film/alba/