Original title: La imatge permanent
Director: Laura Ferrés
Cast: María Luengo · Rosario Ortega · Saraida Llamas
Producers: Adrià Monés, Gabrielle Dumon & Ariadna Rodríguez, Nadine Rothschild
Running time: 94 minutes
Language: Catalan, Spanish
Year: 2023
Country: Spain, France
Themes: Class struggle, migration, family memories, female friendship
Age: +16
Tag line: Who said time heals all wounds? Passing of time. How can time give new meanings to an image, does time change anything?
Synopsis: In a town in rural Southern Spain, Antonia, a teenage mother, disappears in the middle of the night, leaving her baby behind. Fifty years later and many kilometers up North, Carmen, an introverted casting director, looks for people to share their experiences when arriving in a new city. In her search, Carmen will meet Antonia, an impulsive woman who will intrude into her loneliness. Who says that time heals all wounds? Who hasn't felt strange when arriving in a new city?
Ferres pays homage to the common people of Barcelona’s suburbia neighborhoods without judging or fetishising their lives, much like Kaurismaki brings dignity with his films to the life of working class people in Finland, Ferres delivers a portrait full of humanity of the life of everyday migrants settled in Catalonia.
