It is summer in a small village in south-eastern Spain. A storm threatens to cause the river that runs through it to overflow again. A popular old belief claims that some women are predestined to disappear with each new flood, because they have the “water inside”. A band of young people is trying to overcome the weariness of a summer in the village that smells of death by smoking, dancing, and lusting after each other. In this electric atmosphere that precedes the storm, Ana and José live a love affair until the storm bursts.
Presented in the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, and at Toronto and San Sebastián film festivals.
El Agua
2022
14 years
105 min.
Fiction
Switzerland, Spain, France
Switzerland, Spain, France, international festivals, youth, female directors, nature, magic realism, love relationship
Colorido
Elena López Riera
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Giuseppe Truppi
Raphaël Lefevre
Luna Pamies, Bárbara Lennie, Nieve de Medina, Alberto Olmo, Irene Pellicer
Eugenia Mumenthaler, David Epiney
Alina Film, SUICAfilms, Les films du Worso
Mandine Knoepfel
Elle Driver
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