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ELS ANYS SALVATGES (THE WILD YEARS)

Ventura Durall
73' / 2013 / Spain
Amharic, Catalan
Spanish subtitled

Three kids. In the streets of a city in Africa.
A mafia-like gang. Fights.
The smallest kid kills his stepmother.
The kids flee: the journey begins.
Maybe the wild years will not come back.

Main Festivals & Awards

Estreno mundial/World Premiere: 23 November 2013, IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

Director's Biography

An established director and producer, Durall’s latest short film, “The Hidden Smile”, was in Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival 2012 and has been awarded Best Short Film in more than 15 international film festivals. In 2009, his feature-length documentary “The Forgiveness” was selected in such festivals as IDFA, DOKLEIPZIG, THESSALONIKA or DOCSDF and awarded Best Documentary at the Belgrade International Documentary Festival, the Audience Award at the Mon-doc International Documentary Festival, and garnered recognition as the Silver Award Winner at World Media Festival. Fiction feature “The Two Lives of Andrés Rabadán” has won, among other laurels, the Best European Independent Film in 2009 at the ECU Festival in Paris, the Grand Jury Prize at theAnnecy Spanish Cinema Biennal in 2010, three Gaudí Awards from the Catalan Film Academy in 2010, and screened at the San Sebastian Film Festival. He has recently finalised a feature-lengthdocumentary on the alleged end of the world that was expected to happen in December 2012.

Durall produced the above and other projects under the banner NANOUK FILMS, the production company he founded in 2000 with the intention of creating a benchmark artistic platform in the Catalan and European audiovisual scene and of establishing new communication channels between thedocumentary arena and fiction films. Durall also teaches at the Barcelona film school ESCAC where he is Head of the Documentary Department.

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