2023 - 68th Edition
Official section - Feature films

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.

DIRECTOR
Patricia Font 
SCREENPLAY
Albert Val
CINEMATOGRAPHY
David Valldepérez
EDITOR
Dani Arregui
SOUND
Elena Coderch, Miguel Ángel Riaza
MUSIC
Natasha Arizu
PRODUCTION
Francesc Escribano, Tono Folguera, Carlos Fernández, Laura Fernández Brites, David Felani
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Minoria Absoluta, Lastor Media, Filmax, Mestres Films
CAST
Enric Auquer, Laia Costa, Luisa Gavasa, Ramón Agirre, Gael Aparicio, Alba Hermoso, Nicolás Calvo, Antonio Mora
RUNNING TIME
110 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2023
VERSION
O.V. in Spanish and Catalan, subtitled in Spanish and English
COUNTRY
Spain
CONTACT

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