Archive Cinema City 2011.

The Cortége

El Cortejo

Genre: Fiction
Country: Spain
Year: 2010
Duration: 14 min

Director: Marina Seresesky
Scenario: Marina Seresesky

Cast: Mariano Llorente, Elena Irureta

Programme selection: Up to 10.000 Bucks

Budget: 9.000

Synopsis:

Capi is the oldest gravedigger in the cemetery. Used to working amidst the suffering of others and the jokes of his colleagues, there is only one person capable of taking him out of his daily routine. Every month for the last couple of years he has waited for Marta to take flowers to the grave of her husband. She is his last hope.

Director: Marina Seresesky (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1969) has recently been awarded for her latest script "The cortége" with the prize of the second National Short Film Competition "Villa de Coslada". With her previous work, "L'Ultima opportunità" she was awarded the Special Prize Short Film Project Competition of the XXI edition of the Film´s Week at Medina del Campo. She has also received the Award for The Best short film shot in Castilla y León Astorga Festival, Best Screenplay and Short Film Festival of Ciudad Real. She currently combines interpretation at Teatro Meridional, with the preproduction of the documentary "MOTHERS, 0.15 A MINUTE" and preparing the script for her next feature film.