As birds flutter in a large empty coliseum, time and death come together one night. The memory of a friend who is no more invades the mind of Boloy, main player of the Cuban volleyball team, who despite the pain tries to rejoin the morning training.
International Title A Bird Flew Year of production 2024 Length 20' CountryColombia/Cuba Shooting FormatDigital Aspect Ratio 4:3 Dialogue Spanish Director Leinad Pájaro De la Hoz Production Bølier Films Co-Production Sonoramio, Estuario Cine Producers Maria Alejandra Rodríguez, Dany Celeiro, Leinad Pájaro De la Hoz Writers Leinad Pájaro De la Hoz, Fabián Suárez Cinematographer Nicolás Ordóñez (AFG) (ADFC) Editor Liana Dominguez Sound Design Maria Garabito Sound Harry Suárez Production Design Alexis Álvarez Armas Art Director Alexis Alvarez Armas Make-UpYudit Dominguez CastingLeinad Pájaro De la Hoz Cast Yasser Ramírez Boloy, Alejandra de Jesús Garcell, Jesús Angel Cruz López, Jose Ramón Gómez Reyes, Jakdiel Contreras Acosta, Brian Camino Martínez, Yonny Iglesias, Viscaino Brayant
Festival selections Berlinale Generation 2024, Germany - World Premiere, Special Prize of the International Jury for the Best Short Film in Generation 14plus Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay 2024 FICCI - Festival Internacional De Cine De Cartagena De Indias 2024, Colombia Director’s Statement On December 7, 1993, UN PÁJARO VOLÓ (A BIRD FLIES) was the headline of the newspapers in Colombia. My father, Daniel Pájaro Sánchez, a volleyball player for the Colombian national team and the department of Atlántico, died of a brain aneurysm in his sleep. I was 5 years old and I grew up with an emptiness that has accompanied me most of my life. I have kept many memories of that little time we shared together, sounds and images that I cultivated with the stories told by my father's friends. Through this short film I was able to capture many of the sensations I had since my childhood, the balls that sounded in the great coliseum, the sound of the pigeons in the windows, the sounds of the tennis shoes while training, the strong bodies that jumped and competed with great euphoria, the smell of sweat, menthol and tapes on the fingers. This film, besides being a tribute, is the first approach I make about my father's absence. A creative process that has allowed me to be vulnerable and sincere with a feeling that I had in my chest. I started this short film as an undergraduate project at EICTV, but the pandemic did not allow it to be made. The desire to film it persisted in my mind and the support of my colleagues and especially my family allowed that a year after my graduation, I returned to Cuba to film it as the closing of an academic and personal cycle.