La pietà

Runtime: 80'

Expected release: November 2025

Production stage: Editing

Budget: €392,890 (90 % in place)

1st feature: No

Looking for: Festivals, sales agents, buyers, gap financing

Synopsis:

Seven siblings isolated themselves at the beginning of the past Century at the foot of Europe’s largest glacier. They explored and worshipped it before anyone talked about the melt. Their farm is now an empty skeleton. But their voice will echo again like a litany, like a warning. On the wall, the image of a ‘pietà’, with the great white shroud twisted over the corpse of the dying son.

Director’s Profile:

Rafa Molés is a director, scriptwriter and producer. Graduate in Information Sciences. Journalist of the year’ award in the III Edition of the Journalism Awards of the Valencian Community. Lecturer in the Department of Communication Sciences at the Jaume I University of Castellón until 2017. His films include “Lobster soup” (2020), selected in San Sebastian, Thessaloniki, Visions du Réel, ZagrebDox, Calgary, Taipei, Tehran, Dok.fest Munich, Transylvania, RIFF Reykjavik, among others; “Picotazos contra el cristal” (2019), premiered at the Madrid International Film Festival; “Experiment Stuka” (2018), selected at DocsValencia and DocsBarcelona; among others.

Co-director’s Profile:

Pepe Andreu is a film director, scriptwriter and filmmaker from Elche. Graduate in Information Sciences (Image and Sound). He has more than 25 years of professional experience as a television director as well as directing documentaries for film and television. Since 2013 he has also been a producer at SUICAfilms. His films include “Lobster soup” (2020), selected in San Sebastian, Thessaloniki, Visions du Réel, ZagrebDox, Calgary, Taipei, Tehran, Dok.fest Munich, Transylvania, RIFF Reykjavik, among others; “Picotazos contra el cristal” (2019), premiered at the Madrid International Film Festival; “Experiment Stuka” (2018), selected at DocsValencia and DocsBarcelona; among others.

Producer’s Profile:

Pepe Andreu and Rafa Molés started to produce together in 2013 in SUICAfilms. They have worked in documentary as well as fiction. Their films include “El Agua” (2022) by Elena López Riera, “Lobster Soup” (2020) by Pepe Andreu and Rafa Molés, or “La Mort de Guillem” (2018) by Carlos Marques-Marcet, among many others.

The award-winning director Arūnas Matelis (Directors Guild of America, IDFA, etc.) has produced more than 50 documentaries, including “Before Flying Back to Earth” (2006), IDFA (winner), Dok Leipzig (winner); or “Wonderful Losers: A Different World” (2017), Warsaw (winner), Minsk (winner), Trieste (winner).

The producer, director, and cinematographer Ólafur Rögnvaldsson founded, with the screenwriter Anna Th. Rögnvaldsdóttir, in Reykjavík in 1991, AXfilms. He has been involved in some of the country’s most important fiction feature films, fiction series, and documentaries.