The filmmaker, who has also participated as a producer in other projects presented at the festival, has directed a generational love story leaded by the Sevillian actors Silvia Acosta and Jacinto Bobo.
Guillermo Rojas (Cordoba, 1981), author of Una Vez Más, has been seen very happy at the festival since “I started to work 14 years ago as a driver, so I got really excited when I heard that the film was realising here since the quality of programming is getting better and better every year”.
The story tells how Abril returns to Seville for her grandmother’s funeral after five years working in London, and without making any contact with Daniel since then, she ran into him. Together, they go all over the city again, remembering what they had, what they forgot and what they could have been. This costumbrist story with melancholic touches, goes across Sevillian streets to “traverse the usual sceneries of my life and, without pretension, tries to find daily poetry in the small imperfections of the city”, has declared the author, who has also confessed that the experiences occurring in the film are originated in personal experiences or in acquaintances experiences. “This argument is based on a very personal situation, that is why I felt part of the game. I will be really pleased to see over the years that in this project there are people who I know and admire”.
Rojas has recognised himself as “son of the American film of the 90’s. Beautiful Girls by Ted Demme has been a clear reference, but also Richard Linklater or Woody Allen. I am interested in those characters that seem nothing and everything happen to at the same time”.
According to Silvia Acosta and Jacinto Bobo, who have not met before, the chemistry between both is due to the “very calm way of working, giving importance to silences and looks in order to build complicity little by little”.
For his producers, José Carlos de la Isla and Laura Hojman, “it was the first time we faced a feature film and despite all difficulties we could did it thanks to the team”.
The Sevillian production has also relied on music bands such as The Milkyway Express, Dani Llamas, All La Glory or Maga.
