AS DEFENSAS

Fiction feature film| Drama, dance, coming of age, LGTBIQ+

Pre-production

Vigo, 1980.

María is a teenager from Vigo who helps her father Emilio in a family-owned car repair shop while also engaging in student protests in the streets for the past few months. Her life routine is shaped by the reality her father experienced : working and protesting.

One afternoon in the repair shop, María discovers a small crack in on of the walls. She finds out that in the adjacent warehouse, there is a group of young people. She meets Cristina, a dance who rehearses using the sounds of the repair shop and the movement of the workers as inspiration.

Dance enters the film in the same way it enters María’s life. But the family-owned business is doing worse, and the street protests are becoming more and more violent, narrowing María’s horizon to the boundaries of a city she has never left. Cristina leaves, and María remains in Vigo with the experience of having both loved and danced.

Director and scriptwritter: Lucía Estévez

Executive producer: Nati Juncal Portas

Film production company Cósmica Producións, Capitán Araña

With the AGADIC (Galician Agency for Cultural Industries) funding for the development of audiovisual and audiovisual creation projects. With the AGADIC grant for feature film production projects. With the funding for feature film production of the ICAA (Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts)

Developed in 

• SemilleruLab – 61FICX. Award SEMILLERU Lab Asturias Paraíso Natural 
• Rueda Programme – Spanish Film Academy
• Summer Campus – Spanish Film Academy
• I+P INCUBA – Galician Audiovisual Cluster 
• Nouveau Marché – Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal 
• Torino Film Lab –  Next Future Film