Pilar Palomero
1980 (44 года)After her debut as director in Sonrisas (2005, short film), she directed other short films such as Niño Balcón and Chan Chán.
Palomero's directorial debut in a feature film, the 2020 coming-of-age drama Schoolgirls, earned her two Feroz Awards (Best Direction & Best Screenplay) and two Goya Awards (Best New Director & Best Original Screenplay).
Las niñas
Pilar Palomero
Andrea Fandos, Natalia de Molina
Prodded by the rebellious Brisa, puberty is awakening in twelve-year-old Celia. Quickly, the two become allies against the rigid rules of authority in the Catholic girls’ school. However, questions about the right bra, cool bands and sexy clothing cannot hide the urgent search for their own identity.
Schoolgirls
Pisma sa krajeva svijeta
Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Emma Rozanski
A world in lock-down. As a global pandemic unfolds, 13 international filmmakers pen cinematic letters from their places of isolation, whether home or far from home. A work of accidental science-fiction from the Bistrik7 collective, graduates of Béla Tarr's Sarajevo film.factory.
Letters from the Ends of the World
La Maternal
Pilar Palomero
Carla Quílez, Ángela Cervantes
At the age of 14, Carla is a wild and rebellious teenager. Living in a modest restaurant on the outskirts of a town with her young single mother, she skips school and passes the time with her friend Efraín. When a social worker realizes that Carla is five months pregnant, she is taken to ‘La Maternal’, a center for teenage mothers, to live with other young women like herself. Together with their babies, they will learn to cope with this new adult life for which they had no time to prepare.
Motherhood
Agenda 1958 (con anotaciones de 1960 y 65)
Pilar Palomero
A woman and her mother spend the Summer in their family’s little village. The woman finds her grandmother’s 1958 agenda and discovers some of her deepest and secret feelings. Along with her mother she tries to understand what happened to her grandmother, and what she has in common with her. A film about joy and sadness, but moreover, a film about a mother’s love and devotion.
Agenda 1958 (With Notes From 1960 and 65)