Feature Film
Comedy | Drama | Romance

Shot on Alexa 35 & ARRI Signature Primes and Mamiya Sekor-C prime lenses.

Director: Javier Veiga

Production:
Medio Limón
Onírica Films
Undodez

Galicia puts you in your place. You arrive with ideas, references, plans, and then that Atlantic light of O Grove appears and you realise the best thing you can do is be quiet and listen to what the landscape is telling you.

To tell the film’s two narrative timelines, we looked for two different visions. For the present we used the ARRI Signature Primes: clean, precise glass, with that wonderfully honest way of rendering skin and light. For the flashbacks we went with the Mamiya lenses, still-photography optics adapted for cinema, with that particular optical breathing, that subtle glow at the edges that makes a memory actually feel like a memory. It wasn’t an aesthetic whim… It was a narrative decision.

The streets of Ourense taught us that warmth isn’t exclusive to the south. People walked past, sunlight bounced off the stone, and we followed behind trying not to spoil what was already there.

The Italian restaurant deserves its own chapter. We shot it in the present and in the past. The filtered light, the warm colours, the texture of the walls. Through the Signature Primes it held an elegant, everyday warmth. Through the Mamiyas it became almost a dream, a place suspended in time. The same location, two completely different souls.

The beaches at sunset, the natural interiors, the bar, Suso’s house, the hospital with its cold fluorescent chill… And of course, that Plaza del Obradoiro in Santiago de Compostela, with the magnificent Cathedral crowning the city.

Everything had a life of its own. We added almost nothing. Mostly, we took things away.

And Galicia did the rest.