SYNOPSIS
Lis is a teenage girl whose dream is to become a circus artist and leave the small village she calls her hometown, although she knows that doing so will imply a bitter confrontation with her parents. It’s summertime and Lis spends her days hanging out on the village streets with her friends and flirting with her boyfriend, Nestor, who is a few years older than her. The lack of privacy and endless gossiping among the neighbors compel Lis to keep her relationship with Nestor a secret to ensure that her parents don’t find out. When the idyllic summer comes to an end, Lis will have to fight to secure her independence and overcome the challenges that adulthood brings.
Lucía Alemany
DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY
Lucía Alemany was born in 1985 in Traiguera, a small village in the autonomous region of Valencia, and lived there until she was 18-years-old. At that point, she moved to Vic to start a bachelor’s degree in Audiovisual Communication. In 2009 she began her studies at ESCAC (School of Cinema & Audiovisual Arts of Catalonia), specializing in Film Direction. Throughout those years of academic studies, Lucía focused her attention on how to direct actors in the most realistic way that is possible, resorting to improvisation as the main driving force in all her practical work. Lucía’s constant search for realism in the strictest sense of the word gave rise to the short film “14 anys i un dia” (14 years and 1 day), which premiered at Seminci in 2015. The following year, in 2016, Lucía started writing, along with Laia Soler Aragonés, the script for THE INNOCENCE, which she shot in 2018, in the village where she was born and raised.