A POETA ANALFABETA

2022 | Documentary feature film

This film portrays a fascinating woman: Luz Fandiño. Poet, activist, feminist, nationalist and revolutionary.

At 89 years old, she is one of the living voices of Galician emigration, from which she returned poor but with a deep awareness of her identity, her language and her gender. Luz is a witness of the hardest realities of the 20th century. For being a woman, for being an emigrant, for being poor, for being a leftist. The story of the documentary revolves around her portrait: her life story, her political fight and her poetic work, but also around what Luz generates around her and that shapes her legacy, because for many people Luz is a reference, almost an icon. Luz is a brave woman, a deeply political person and someone with an exceptional humanity.

How does this poet, who despite the trembling of her hands writes every day, understand the world? What moves her to such an effort?

Director and script: Sonia Méndez
Executive producer: Nati Juncal Portas
Photography: Lucía C. Pan
Editing: Víctor H. Seoane
Sound design: Javi Pato, David Machado
Film production company: Cósmica Producións

With funding from Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais (Xunta de Galicia),
Deputación da Coruña and Televisión de Galicia.

Awards and festivals: Cineuropa, Mostra de Cinema Etnográfico (award for best direction).

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