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YOUR CART
AQUERONTE
by
Manuel Mu
ñ
oz Rivas
26min | Spain | 2023
On board a ferry, a series of passengers cross a river from one riverbank to the other.
Some of the travelers wrap themselves in silence and observe the unfamiliar fellow travelers or contemplate the scenery. Some others chat, perhaps to liven up the voyage and speed up time.
The journey on the waters seems to expand, the destination shore is postponed, the magnitude of space is blurred. Motion itself is perhaps the only certainty.
Year of production
2023
Length
26'
Country
Spain
Shooting Format
16mm
Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
Dialogue
Spanish
Director
Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Producer
Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Executive Producer
Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Production
Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Writer
Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Cinematographer
Mauro Herce, Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Editor
Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Sound Designer
José Homer Mora, Luiz Lepchak
Sound Recordist
Joaquín Pachón
Sound Mix
Alejandro Castillo
Production Manager
María Gisèle Royo
Website
Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Festival selections
IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam
2023, Netherlands -
World Premiere,
KNF Award
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
2023, UK
True/False Film Fest
2023, USA
New Directors/New Films
2023, USA
Festival de Málaga
2023, Spain -
Best Documentary Short Film Award
D'A - Festival de Cinema de Barcelona
2023, Spain
Hong Kong International Film Festival
2023
Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
2023, Netherlands
Andares Festival
2023, Peru -
Jury Special Mention
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival
2023, Spain
IndieLisboa International Film Festival
2023, Portugal
Documenta Madrid
2023, Spain -
Young Jury Award
Guadalajara Film Festival
2023, Mexico
DC DOX Festival
2023, USA
Mediterranean Film Festival Split
2023, Croatia
TIFF ODA - Tetova International Film Festival
2023, Republic of Macedonia
Manlleu Film Festival
2023, Spain
Marienbad Film Festival
2023, Czech Republic
Lago Film Fest
2023, Italy
Apricot
Tree International Film Festiva
l 2023,
Republic of Armenia -
Grand Prize
DokuFest - International Documentary and Short Film Festival
2023, Kosovo
Castrovillari Film Festival
2023, Italy -
Best Film Award, Best Director Award
Drama International Short Film Festival
2023, Greece -
Grand Prix Award, Human Values Award
FICBUEU - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Bueu
2023, Spain
Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarch
y 2023, Finland
Vilnius Documentary Film Festival
2023, Lithuania
Tirana International Film Festival
2023, Albania -
Best S
hort Documentary
Award
Nashville Film Festival
2023, USA
ARKIPEL International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival
2023, Indonesia
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival
2023, Romania
Vancouver International Film Festival
2023, Canada
Alcances Festival Cine Documental
2023, Spain -
Best Director Award
Curtocircuíto - Festival Internacional de Cinema
2023, Spain
Reykjavik International Film Festival
2023, Iceland
Alexandria Mediterranean Countries Film Festival
2023, Egypt
Plons! International Short Documentary Film Festival Leeuwarden
2023, Netherlands
Mediterranean Film Festival
2023, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Short Days
2023, Italy
Viennale
2023, Austria
Atlantidoc, International Documentary Film Festival of Uruguay
2023 -
Best Short Film Award
Festival Jóvenes Realizadores - Granada Film Fest
2023, Spain -
Best Film Award
Filmfest Eberswalde
2023, Germany
Raindance Film Festival
2023, UK
Cinemed - Festival Cinema Mediterranéen Montpellier
2023, France
Octubre Corto
2023, Spain -
Best Photography Award
ABYCINE - Festival de Cine de Albacete
2023, Spain
Message to Man International Documentary, Short and Animated Film Festival
2023, Russia
ALCINE Festival Internacional de Cine
2023, Spain -
Best National Short Film Award
Ningbo Short Film Festival
2023, China -
Special Jury Award
Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
2023, Switzerland
Cork International Film Festival
2023, Ireland
MedFilm Festival
2023, Italy
L'Alternativa, Festival de Cine Independiente de Barcelona
2023, Spain -
Special Mention
Certamen de Cine de Viajes del Ocejón en el Montgó
2023, Spain
Linea d'Ombra Festival
2023, Italy
Baku International Short Film Festival
2023, Azerbaijan
Izmir International Short Film Festival
2023, Turkey
RIDM - Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal
2023, Canada -
Special Mention
Leuven International Short Film Festival
2023, Belgium
Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena
2023, Spain -
Best Short Movie Award, Best Photography Award
Festival Tous Courts
2023, France -
Special Mention
Laceno d'oro International Film Festival
2023, Italy -
Special Mention
Passaggi d’Autore: Intrecci Mediterranei
2023, Italy -
Best Short Film Award
BOGOSHORTS - Bogotá Short Film Festival
2023, Colombia
International Usak Short Film Festival
2023, Turkey
London Short Film Festival
2024, UK
Sanfici - Santander Festival Internacional De Cine Independiente
2024, Colombia -
Best International Short Film Award
Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema
2024, Brazil
Akbank International Short Film Festival
2024, Turkey
Chicago Latino Film Festival
2024, USA
Busan International Short Film Festival
2024, South Korea -
Excellence Award
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
2024, Canada
Cinema Talks
2024, Austria -
Best Film Award
Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
2024, Poland
Leiden Shorts
2024, Netherlands
Krakow Film Festival
2024, Poland (EFA Screening)
Mediterranean Film Festival Split
2023, Croatia (EFA Screening)
Shorts International Film Festival
2024, Italy (EFA Screening)
Santiago del Estero Film Festival
2024, Argentina
European Film Festival Palic
2024, Serbia (EFA Screening)
Aigio International Short Film Festival "Theodoros Angelopoulos"
2024, Greece -
Theo Angelopoulos Award, Best Cinematography Award
Ischia Film Festival
2024, Italy -
Best Short Film Award
FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival
2024, Slovenia (EFA Screening)
Interaction: Short Docs Festival
2024, Serbia -
Special Mention
Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt
2024, Germany
OKO - International Ethnographic Film Festival
2024, Ukraine -
Special Jury Prize for the Best Fiction Short Film
Tirana International Film Festival
2024, Albania (EFA Screening)
Tramway Film Festival
2024, Poland -
Best Film Award
Kutaisi International Short Film Festival
2024, Georgia -
Best Director Award
Thess International Short Film Festival
2024, Greece -
Cinematic Achievement Award
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
2024, Switzerland (EFA Screening)
ZINEBI - Festival Internacional de Cine Documental y Cortometraje de Bilbao
2024, Spain (EFA Screening)
Ha Noi International Film Festival
2024, Vietnam
Ostrava Kamera Oko
2024, Czech Republic
Ljubljana International Film Festival
2024, Slovenia
-
Special Mention
"Prvi kadar"
International Film Festival
2024, Bosnia and Herzegovina -
Jury
Special Mention
Smita Patil International Film Festival
2025, India
Director's Statement
With each new film project, it is natural for me to return to the foundational question of "what is cinema", and to engage with this inquiry through a wider formulation:
"what can cinema be?".
I feel that the commitment of every filmmaker is to carry
out a formal exploration through which, hopefully, to broaden the contours of what we expect from cinema as an art. Both as a filmmaker and as a film spectator, I
seek astonishment and wonder.
I would add that I also seek the revelation of something, a kind of truth, which might comfort me (and others) with a sense of belonging.
When I first approached the location where later I would shoot my film “Aqueronte”, the river Guadalquivir and more specifically the ferry boat that crosses it, I was
struck by the aesthetic characteristics of the scene. Everything that I identify as defining elements of cinema was there: movement, faces, bodies, landscape,
sound atmospheres, light and shadow, reverie, the visible and the latent force of the invisible... all present in the raw material with which to shape fragments of time and space.
Because ultimately that is what we filmmakers do: compose with fragments of time and fragments of space.