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Synopsis

17-year-old Carmen lives in a gypsy community in the suburbs of Madrid and works with her family in a street market. Like every other woman she has ever met, she is destined to live a life that is repeated generation after generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. She gets engaged to Rafa. But one day she meets 16-year-old Lola, an uncommon gypsy girl who dreams about going to university, draws bird graffiti and likes girls. She also helps her family in the street market. They quickly develop a complicity with each other and discover a world that, inevitably, leads them to be rejected by their families.

Director Biography

Arantxa Echevarría was born as Arantxa Echevarría Carcedo. She is a production manager and director, known for Carmen & Lola (2018), De noche y de pronto (2012) and 7 from Etheria (2017).


 

Arantxa Echevarría

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