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SPEAK SUNLIGHT

LA VOZ DE SOL

By Carol POLAKOFF

Drama - Completed 2022

Maruja returns to her hometown in Spain with her husband and surrogate son, Alanito, where she makes peace with her past.

Festival of Cinema NYC 2023

Feature Film

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Countries
- SPAIN
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 5 - 10 M$
- Duration
- 95 mn
- Director(s)
- Carol POLAKOFF
- Writer(s)
- Natxo LÓPEZ, Carol POLAKOFF
- Cast
- Karra ELEJALDE, Carmen MACHI
- Producer(s)
- Carol POLAKOFF (View Finder Pictures), Denise O´DELL (Babieka Films)
- Synopsis
- Paris, 1965: Maruja and Manolo work as cook and butler in a diplomat’s house on Avenue Foch. They are surrogate parents to young Alan/Alanito, (15) and have brought him up as their own as his older, uninterested parents wine, dine and travel the globe. In Maruja’s kitchen, he has unconditional love, puffs of the occasional Gauloise, nips of port, and no end of Basque and Galician humor.
  This fateful summer, Maruja gets a diagnosis that shakes her to the core, and keeping
  this devastating secret to herself decides to return home after 30 years in exile from Franco’s Spain to Pamplona with Alanito and Manolo. Here they must face their long-buried past as Maruja is determined to give Alanito life lessons that will make him a man
  and memories that will last a lifetime.
- Partners & financing
- ADSO FILMS - DISTRIBUTOR IN SPAIN
- Beginning of shooting
- May 09, 2022
- End of shooting
- Jun 28, 2022