Title: COSTA DA MORTE
Running time: 81 min.
Colour: Colour
Recording format: Digital
Original language: Galician
Country of production: Spain
Production: Zeitun Films
Year of producion: 2013
We cross this land observing the people who inhabit it, fishermen, gatherers of shellfish, loggers... We witness traditional craftsmen who maintain both an intimate relationship and an antagonistic battle with the vastness of this territory. The wind, the stones, the sea, the fire, are characters in this film, and through them we approach the mystery of the landscape, understanding it as a unified ensemble with man, his history and legends.
Director: Lois Patiño
Cinematographer: Lois Patiño
Assistant director: Carla Andrade
Sound designers: Miguel Calvo “Maiki” and Erik T. Jensen
Music: Ann Deveria
Editors: Lois Patiño and Pablo Gil Rituerto
Producers: Felipe Lage Coro · Martin Pawley
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland). Best Emerging Director Award
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Nederlands)
FICUNAM Festival Internacional de Cine Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Best Movie Puma de Plata Award
Jeonju International Film Festival (South Korea). Best Movie Award
Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay. Best Movie International Jury and Best Movie FIPRESCI Jury
Hamburg Film Festival (Germany)
Vancouver Film Festival (Canada)
New York Film Festival (USA)
Festival dei Popoli (Italy). Audience Award and Special Mention
Nouveau Cinema Montreal (Canada)
Feroz Special Award (Spain)
Galician Critics Award (Spain)
Best Documentart Mestre Mateo Award
BAFICI Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (Argentina)
San Francisco Film Festival (USA)
Indielisboa Festival Internacional de Cinema (Portugal)
Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia (Chile). Special Jury Mention
Ann Arbour Film Festival (USA)
La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival (France)
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic)
Vienna International Film Festival – Viennale (Austria)
REC Tarragona (Spain). Young Jury Special Mention
Festival Internacional De Cine De Cali (Colombia)
Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla (Spain). Best Movie Non Fiction Award and “Nuevas Olas” Jury Special Mention
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
Isola Film Festival (Slovenia)
Cineuropa Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (India)
FIDOCS Festival Internacional de Documentales de Santiago (Chile)
Director's notes
The Coast of Death has always been to me a mythical place, it captivated me as such. It gradually started taking shape as a real space through the tales of the people. What attracted me most of this place is its relation with the idea of end and death. Its history of shipwrecks gives it a mysterious and dangerous aura.
Its inhabitants tell their stories and as a mythical echo reverberating in the air history and legend merge. Their voices breach through new strata of the landscape to shape the collective imaginary of that place and leave us in a timeless space.
I sought to relate the vastness of the natural space to the intimate experience of people through a double perceptual distance to the human figure (far in the image close in the sound). Eventually through the deep contemplation of the image we will dissolve in the whole and disappear into the landscape of Costa da Morte.
