THE WATER

EL AGUA

By Elena LÓPEZ RIERA

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Drama - Completed 2022

Summer in a Spanish village. A storm threatens to overflow the river. An old popular belief ensures the Water will claim another woman. Is Anna predestined to disappear?

Festivals
& Awards

Directors' Fortnight 2022
Toronto - TIFF 2022
Contemporary World Cinema
San Sebastian FF 2022
Zabaltegi - Tabakalera
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • SPAIN
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 105 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Elena LÓPEZ RIERA
    • Writer(s)
    • Elena LÓPEZ RIERA, Philippe AZOURY
    • Producer(s)
    • Eugenia MUMENTHALER (ALINA FILM), David EPINEY (ALINA FILM), Sylvie PIALAT (LES FILMS DU WORSO), Rafa MOLÉS (SUICAFILMS (SUICA PRODUCTIONS, S.L.))
    • Synopsis
    • Summertime in a small village in southeastern Spain. A storm threatens to cause the river crossing it to overflow again. Throughout the village, an old popular belief is repeated like a litany, claiming that some women are predestined to disappear with each new flood, because they were born with «the water inside».

      Local teenagers try to survive the weariness of a summer in the village, smoking cigarettes, dancing and drinking. In this electric atmosphere that precedes the storm, Ana, who dreams of fleeing this village that stinks of death, and José will live a story of summer love.