Forastera
Spain, 19m, Digital
Spending her summer in Mallorca, Antonia comes to recognize the latent similarities between her and her dead grandmother, and discovers a power over her mourning grandfather. She can’t resist playing dress-up, but it becomes unclear who is inhabiting who.
Writer/Director: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias
Producer: Marta Cruañas Compés
Co-Producers: Miriam Porté, Paco Mulet
Director of Photography: Alana Mejía González
Editor: Ana Pfaff
Production Designer: Laura Santos
Sound Designer: Nora Haddad
Cast: Zoe Stein, Miquel Gelabert, Carla Castañé
Contact: Marta Cruañas, mc4432@columbia.edu
2021 Program C
Screening May 8, 2022 at 7pm
About the Writer/Director
Born in Madrid, Lucía Aleñar Iglesias is a screenwriter and director currently completing her MFA in Screenwriting at Columbia University. She has a BFA in Film Production from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Lucia has been invited by La Semaine de la Critique’s Next Step Lab and Cannes Cinéfondation to develop her first feature.
About the Producer
Marta Cruañas Compés is a film producer from Barcelona that holds an MFA in Creative Producing at Columbia University. Her films have played in numerous film festivals such as Cannes, San Sebastian, Torino, Morelia, Warsaw, or Les Arcs. She is a Rotterdam Lab Alumni and was featured in Variety Magazine as an upcoming Catalan filmmaker to follow.
