After winning The New Wages in the Seville Festival in 2013 with Arraianos, one of the most emblematic titles of the Novo Cinema Galego (Galician New Cinema), Eloy Enciso considers in Longa Noite a dark and sensorial film which narrates memories from the Francoist repression.
Eloy Enciso (Meira, Lugo, 1975) has presented in the Seville Festival the film Longa Noite, that tells the return to Anxo’s hometown, a character who runs into the resentment of winners and defeated in the rural Galicia. After winning The New Wages in the Seville Festival in 2013 with Arraianos, one of the emblematic titles of the Novo Cinema Galego, Eloy Enciso considers in Longa Noite a dark and sensorial, non-historicist film and based on Mauro Herce’s photography, director of Dead Slow Ahead. Provided by scripts by diverse authors as Max Aub, Alfonso Sastre, Luís Seoane o Marinhas del Valle, the film, which competed in Locarno, tells memories from the Francoist repression since Anxo’s return to his hometown in Galicia, after the Spanish Civil War.
According to Enciso, this project gets started with the core idea that “if we understand our past, we may be able to understand better our present”. For Enciso, the historical context can explain “how a system works, where, from the side of the circle of power, the ideology leaks to all social backgrounds”, where all characters end up without realising it, being “carriers of virus and vices of a society”. Something that did not only occur in the past, but “while I was making the film, I also saw it in friends and acquaintances”.
Eloy Enciso studied Environmental Sciences and, afterwards, Documentary Direction in the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba. After his first short films, he completes his first documentary feature film in 2007, Pic-nic, which participated in international festivals and obtained awards in Spain and abroad. Arraianos (2012), his first fiction feature film, had a large tour around festivals such as Locarno, Viennale, Doclisboa, Montreal, BAFICI o Sevilla, obtaining in this last two the award for Best Film. Longa Noite, on its part, obtained the Boccalino D'Oro for Best Director in Locarno, where it was released. Enciso also works as a film programmer and teacher training courses and workshops.
