CIRCE

Short film / 29min / Spain / 2022

CIRCE

A film by María Abenia

Circe’s days are spent quietly atop a cliff. With a cave carved out of the rock as her home and away from it all, she is known in the valley for her solitary life, her herding of pigs and her witchcraft skills.

The butcher of the nearest village, a young and uncommunicative man, visits her for the first time, as his ancestors did every three months, to obtain one of her prized pigs. In return, he is to bring her food and spend the night with her. One fine day the boy, tempted by the proposal of some foreigners who have recently arrived in the village, breaks the pact established with the woman and goes to the cave early.

Circe trailer from TINGLADO FILM on Youtube.

HD / 29 min /color

Photo MAURO HERCE

Editing MANUEL MUÑOZ

Art SILVIA NAVARRO

Production DAVID BAUTE /MARÍA ABENIA/ VERÓNICA FRANCO

Production Direction VERÓNICA FRANCO

Sound ROMAIN LE BRAS /MARCO TOLEDO

Costumes HÉCTOR LEÓN

Make-up INÉS SAIZ

Composer FABIOLA SOCAS

Cast

Circe PETRA MUNDY

Boy SAMUEL CRUZ

MARÍA ABENIA

(Zaragoza, 1985), filmmaker, educator, and programmer. She initially trained in Pedagogy and later studied Film Directing at ESCAC and Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Media Theory at UPF. She has written and directed two short films, CIRCE (2022), winner of the Richard Leacock Award for Best Short Film at LPA, and SÍSIFO (2023), both of which have been widely screened at national and international festivals. Currently, she is a programmer for the MiradasDoc International Festival and is in production on her debut feature film, FUTURA, LA NIEBLA. Additionally, she has contributed to the writing of four more feature films, including SUGAR ISLAND (J. Gómez) and LA CASA NATAL ES EL COLOR PRIMERO (D. Baute).

Richard Leacock Award for Best Short Film at the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival

Best Canarian Short Film at Tenerife Shorts

Official Selection at El Festivalito in La Palma