Burkina Faso, Španělsko, 2014, 15 min
E. Molina
31.01.2015 21:25
After dedicating the whole of his life to puppets, Desirée has had to abandon them for a while.
However his friend Fabe, among her various jobs has decided to create her own puppet performance to teach children how important it is to attend school.
A cemetery of puppets in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, is the starting point of this story full of dreams and aims.
Director, camera, script, edit: Elena Molina
Production: Ariadna Dot
Language of subtitles: French
Language of dialogues: English, Czech
Elena Molina graduated in Audiovisual Communication at the “Universidad Complutense” in Madrid (Spain). Completed her studies at the “Università degli Studi di Perugia” (Italy) and “Universitat Pompeu Fabra” in Barcelona (Spain) in 2005.
She collaborated with several Spanish production companies as Playtime sl., Canónigo Films, Kilimanjaro Prod., BNC productions, etc. as assistant director, cinematographer and editor.
She loves documentary films, and she has two years’ experience as a director of short documentary pieces for Catalunya Television (Channel 33) and also she collaborated in the production and photography of the last four editions of the Creative Documentary Workshop of the Francesca Bonnemaison Women Cultural Centre in Barcelona.
Festivals (selection):
Film Festival for Women in Harare, Zimbabwe
Women and Films Festival - Best short Doc Award
Femcine, Santiago, Chile
Festival Int. Cine, Pamplona, Spain