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EL SEMBRADOR
DE ESTRELLAS
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by Lois Patiño

25min | Spain | 2022

Distant lights draw the city. Shining ships arrive with sleeping people and the night turns liquid. 
The stars’ sower wakes them up and they travel through the city, talking about this and that, while saying goodbye to everything.

English Title The Sower of Stars
Year of production 2022
Length 25min
Country Spain
Shooting Format HD
Aspect Ratio ​16:9
Dialogue Japanese
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Director Lois Patiño
Writer ​Lois Patiño
Cinematographer Lois Patiño
Editor Lois Patiño
Sound Designer Xabier Erkizia
Voices Yumiko Teramoto, Tetsuro Mareda
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Festival selections
Berlinale, Berlin International Film Festival 2022 Germany - World Premiere, Nomination For The European Film Academy Awards 2022
FICUNAM - Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM 2022, Mexico
​Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino Pavasaris" 2022, Lithuania
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FICCI: Festival Internacional De Cine De Cartagena De Indias 2022, Colombia
Festival de Málaga 2022, Spain
IndieLisboa - International Film Festival 2022, Portugal
Las Palmas International Film Festival 2022, Spain
Jeonju International Film Festival 2022, South Korea
D'A Film Festival 2022, Spain
Play-Doc - Festival Internacional de Documentales 2022, Spain
Documenta Madrid 2022, Spain
Mieres International Short Film Festival 2022, Spain - Best Director Award, Best Editing Award
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International Film Festival Kino Otok - Isola Cinema, Slovenia
Leiden Shorts 2022, Netherlands
Cinema Jove - International Film Festival Valencia 2022, Spain
Manlleu Film Festival 2022, Spain​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Director's Statement
Tokyo at night is dazzling, a fantasy of hypnotizing lights. Observed with distance and stillness, if you let yourself be carried away by them, you can find a meditative atmosphere there. The first thing I tried to capture was this peaceful feeling, hidden within the vertigo of a megalopolis like Tokyo.

I worked on the image with two plastic references that emerged very quickly: Zen landscape painting -from where I could underline the idea of emptiness and silence- and the cyberpunk aesthetics of films like Blade Runner -to build futuristic neon architectures by superimposing planes-.

From this atmosphere I began to think the story. I am always interested in the limbo space between life and death, imaginary and real, where the borders between both blur to make the spectral and dreamlike emerge. I wanted the story to pass through this ideas, giving shape to it from a dialogue of disembodied voices. Voices that cross the city-limbo while being both outside and inside the image, as a kind of depersonalization.

I constructed the dialogues from a certain poetic crypticism inspired by the koan -mystical teachings of Zen Buddhism-. And they gradually settled down, from readings, in a script more of an editor than a writer, like a book of aphorisms that keeps little jewels. Very condensed thoughts related mainly to contemplation, because this was the biggest challenge for me here: to find a balance between narration and contemplation, between text and image, ensuring that they enhance each other, despite each one demands a different attention from us: one more sensitive, the other more rational.
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