EL MAESTRO QUE PROMETIÓ EL MAR

Patricia Font

Spain

- 2023

Out of competition

World premiere

Ariadna discovers that, for a log time now, her grandfather has been searching for the remains of his father, who disappeared in the Spanish Civil War. Determined to help him, she travels to Burgos, where they are exhuming a mass grave in which he could be buried. During her stay there, she will learn the story of Antoni Benaiges, a young teacher from Tarragona who, before the war, was her grandfather’s schoolmaster. Using an innovative pedagogical method, Antoni inspired his students and made them a promise: he would take them to see the sea.

Patricia Font

She was born in Barcelona in 1978. In 2002 she graduated from the Film and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC) with a major in Film Directing, and later completed her studies at Cuba’s International Film and Television School. She worked in numerous film and television productions before the 2014 world premiere at Seminci’s sidebar ‘La Noche del Corto Español’ of her short film ‘Café para llevar’, which later won the Goya for best fiction short film. She has directed series such as ‘The Red Band Society’ (2013), ‘Cites’ (2015), ‘Les de l’hoquei’ (2019), ‘The Vineyard’ (2021) or ‘Moebius’ (2021), and in 2019 she made her feature debut with ‘In Family I Trust’. ‘The Teacher Who Promised The Sea’ (2023) is her second feature film as a director.