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Press
- “Filmer le moment présent tout en racontant le temps qui passe.”
- “Portrait d’un monde brut, fascinant et profondément humain.”
- Suivant cette oscillation, il vient de signer son plus beau reflet avec Entre dos aguas (Entre deux eaux, grand prix du dernier festival de San Sebastián), où il retrouve ses héros fétiches, Isra et Cheito, deux frères gitans qu'il avait déjà filmés en 2006 dans La Leyenda del tiempo.
- A follow-up to Lacuesta’s 2006 film The Legend of Time and a winner at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Between Two Waters follows the lives of two young gypsy brothers in the San Fernando Island in the form of a documentary-fiction hybrid.
Synopsis
Isra and Cheíto are two Roma brothers: Isra was sent to prison for drug dealing and Cheíto signed up for the Marines. When Isra is released from prison and Cheíto returns from a long mission, they return to San Fernando. The reunion between the siblings brings memories of their father’s violent death when they were only boys. Twelve years have passed since La Leyenda del tiempo (The Legend of Time), Lacuesta’s film when Isra and Cheíto were teenagers. Now Isra returns to San Fernando to recover his wife and kids. But will he manage to go straight in a place with the highest unemployment rate in Spain? Their search for redemption, their need to sort out their lives and to find reconciliation between them will bring them together again.
- Screenplay:
- Isaki Lacuesta, Isa Campo, Fran Araújo
- Cinematography:
- Diego Dussuel
- Sound:
- Alejandro Castillo, Amanda Villavieja
- Edit:
- Sergi Dies, Domi Parra
- Music:
- Raül Refree, Kiko Veneno
- Cast:
- Romero Israel Gómez, Romero Francisco José Gómez
- Production Company:
- La Termita Films, Bord Cadre films, All Go Movies, Studio Indie Productions
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Director's statement
When I returned to San Fernando to make _Between Two Waters_, I was revisiting characters I had filmed years earlier, allowing fiction and life to intertwine. I wanted to explore how time reshapes people, especially those living on society’s margins. By following Isra after prison, blending documentary presence with narrative structure, I sought to capture authenticity without imposing judgment. The sea, the navy base, and the gypsy community form a landscape of tension and belonging. **The film ultimately conveys** that identity is fluid, marked by absence, loyalty, and survival, and that cinema can become a space where real lives and storytelling meet again.