COLD LANDS

LURRALDE HOTZAK

By Iratxe FRESNEDA

PIMPI & NELLA FILMS - as PROD

Art - Culture - Completed 2018

Cold Lands is a meditative and poetic journey across Europe of a woman alone, with the only company of her camera and the ghosts of the cinema that accompany her.

Festivals
& Awards

Gijon Int'l Film Fest. 2018
Llendes International Competition
San Sebastian FF 2019
Film Library (not in selection)
Porto Femme International Film Festival 2019
BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY
19th Seoul International NewMedia Festival (NeMaf) 2019
Official Selection
25 Festival Internacional de Cinema Ambiental da Serra da Estrela Seia 2019
Official Selection
50 Alexandre Trauner ART/Film Festival 2019
Official Selection
37 Bellaria Film Festival 2019
Official Selection
27Festival De Cine De Madrid-pnr 2019
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Art - Culture, Road movie, Documentary
    • Countries
    • SPAIN
    • Languages
    • BASQUE, FRENCH, DANISH, SWEDISH, GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 65 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Iratxe FRESNEDA
    • Writer(s)
    • Iratxe FRESNEDA
    • Producer(s)
    • Txelu MEDINA (Pimpi & Nella Films), Iratxe FRESNEDA (Pimpi & Nella Films)
    • Synopsis
    • Cold Lands makes a personal journey through the images and cinema, guided by filmmakers and artist like, Theo Angelopoulos, Bego Vicario, Wim Wenders or Rut Hillarp among others.

      In this non-fictional road-movie their vision of what cinema is, of what is hidden behind the images, intersects with the world of beekeeping, architecture and the human landscape.

      Cinema within cinema and film locations that acquire new meanings when revisited by the contemporary gaze. From the landscapes of the interior, burnt by the sun, passing through the blue light of the northern lands, the film reflects on cinematographic archives, their validity and their importance as a cultural treasure. At the same time, it gives filmic archaeology a new meaning by making it interact with images of the present.

      “Cold Lands” is a journey through the meanings acquired by what is offstage in the landscapes appropriated by cinema, through the questioning of nature by the filmmaker’s romantic gaze. Cinema and real life are confused with each other, in the knowledge that living is in itself a work of art.