Laundry day

Zigguart Filmfest 2025 lineup, Available to Watch, Drama, Short Films
2024

Running Time
13 minutes 25 seconds
Genre
Short - Drama
Language
Spanish
Completed
March 4, 2024, Spain

Belén hangs up her clothes to dry at the community rooftop. Carmela, an octogenarian widow, is right there with her. The rooftop isn't just a simple place to let garments dry. It's also a chatting haven... and a spot where a curious rebellion takes place.

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Awards

Best Short film – Festival de cortometrajes Cadiarfilm (2024)

Jury Award – Bergen unstable film festival – Noruega (2024)

Special Mention – 4º Festival Rellisquín (2024)

Official selecctions

Ull Nu, Festival Audiovisual d’Andorra (2024)

6º Festival de la gent gran de Barcelona. La gran Pantalla (2024)

26ª Mostra de cinema Jove d’Elx (2024)

Puebla Film Festival (2024)

4º Festival Rellisquín (2024)

Festival de cortometrajes Cadiarfilm (2024)

Festival de cinema de la Terra Alta – (IN-FCTA) (2024)

Bergen unstable film festival – Noruega (2024)

Chennai world film festival – India (2024)

Navarra international film festival (NIFF) (2024)

Festival de Microcine de Montilla (2024)

Festival de El Ojo Cojo (2024)

Festival de Cine Aranjuez (2024)

Capri Film Festival Internazionale Arte Cinema Tv (2024)

Festival de Cine Social ManzanaREC (2025)

Festival Les Regards de l’ICART (París) (2025)

Festival de cine bajo la luna – Islantilla (2025)

Bucharest Feminist Film Festival (2025)

About the director:

Pamplona, 1996. SHe studied Journalism with a specialization in Performing Arts Production at the University of Navarra. His first feature film was the documentary “Con los ojos abiertas”, made as a final project and premiered at the Navarra International Film Festival, where it received the Golden Melitón for best film (currently available on the Filmin platform).

In 2019 she created Cambur Producciones, an independent production company focused on social cinema. That same year she made the leap to fiction with the short film “Cuesta”, which was selected more than 100 times at festivals. Maria later directed “Gaueko”, selected at festivals such as Abycine or Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur.

Among her latest works in distribution is the fiction short film “O”, premiered at the MAFIZ of the Malaga Festival, winner of the Best Screenplay award at the Cartagena International Film Festival and recently selected at the New Spanish Shorts Market Screening 2024 in Clermont Ferrand and in the official section of Ibizacinefest. Also the short film “Cuando crece la hierba“, winner of the Best Film, Best Screenplay and Distribution Award at the Notodofilmfest 2022, which has already

accumulated more than 80 selections at festivals and awards such as the EITB-Euskal Pantailak in Santurzine or best fiction short film at the Oldenburg Festival. In the documentary field, she has directed a second piece, the medium-length film “Toda la vida”, awaiting release. Finally, in 2024 she will release the fiction short film “La Colada“, which has just begun its distribution.

Cast
Rocío Molina
Berta Jiménez
Teresa Pérez
Esmeralda Casado
Veronika Maliti

Crew
Direction – María Monreal
Screenplay – María Gómez-Juárez
Director of Photography – Mario Pinedo
Sound and Sound Design – Javier Asin
Art Direction – Beatriz Otano
Costume Management – Jaime Remírez de Ganuza
Production Management – Beatriz Otano & María Gómez-Juárez
Production Manager – Elsa Albertini
Production Assistant – Alex Morán
Executive Producers – María Gómez-Juárez & María Monreal
Assistant Director – Nuria Arias
Script – Alberto Baldini
1st Camera Assistants – Lucía Santolaya & Marifa G. Pérez
2nd Camera Assistants – Andrea Venegas & Laura Yáñez
Gaffer – Pablo Martínez
Makeup and Hairdressing – Marta G. Coloma
Editing – María Monreal
Editing Consultants – Alberto Baldini & Adrián Viador
Color – Laura Imery
Still Photography – Jaime Remírez de Ganuza
Making Of – Maite Vaquero
Subtitles – Marta G. Coloma & Jeanne de Petriconi