La casa y el ternero

Name: La casa y el ternero
Start: 2025-05-07UTC18:00
Location: CINETECA - Sala Azcona

The House and the Calf

Rocío Montaño Parreño

Spain

2024

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Synopsis

Cinema usually contents itself with portraying the city as an alienated entity, one populated by individuals who live isolated from one another and lack a popular spirit that undoubtedly exists. Fortunately, The house and the Calf offers just the opposite vision: genuine snippets of life, a collection of presences joined together and recorded with the pulse of the immediate, transcending the intimate to make up part of the collective character of a specific place and time. A bustling Madrid, one that rebels against the massacres in Gaza and real estate speculation, also has a rural and familiar face. Soon, when we finally want to understand what much of this city was feeling between 2023 and 2024, Rocío Montaño Parreño's film will serve as an honest and valuable guide. (JHE)

Festivals

2025 - Punto de Vista - Festival de Cine Documental de Navarra - LAN Termitas

Director biography

Rocío Montaño Parreño

Rocío Montaño (1994) is a Madrid-based filmmaker and elementary school teacher. After graduating in Audiovisual Communication in 2016, she presented her film No hablo rumano at Documenta Madrid, Cinespaña and LPA Film Fest. In 2017, she took part in the Master LAV audiovisual laboratory and in 2018 she presented her medium-length film Ansiedad y la cámara at Filmadrid, where it earned a mention from the ECAM Jury. Rocío has led film workshops at centers such as Escuela SUR and the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, the latter with the "Cine No Industrial" collective. Her focus in recent years has been to document her surroundings through a video diary that she shares openly. In 2023, the Íntima Fest festival dedicated a retrospective to her at La Casa Encendida, where some of her films were screened, such as her feature Melocotones tardíos / Late Peaches (2020) and La colección (2022).

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