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Septiembres

Every September, Soto del Real prison in Madrid holds its Song Festival. The contestants are inmates from different prisons, and they are the protagonists of this film. The festival is only the starting point; from there, four men and four women return to their prison routine and let us into their lives and the intimacy of their love relationships. Love, or its absence, serves as a common language through which the viewer can understand the world of prison from an angle familiar to us all. Over the course of a year, that is, from September to September and from one festival to the next, the film portrays their love stories, how they develop and how they fall apart.

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Carles Bosch

Carles Bosch, co-founder of the legendary Televisió de Catalunya programme ’30 minuts’ in 1984, has directed reports and documentaries on some of the most significant international events, such as the First Gulf War and those in Bosnia and Kosovo, as well as the Zapatista Revolution, and has covered stories for TV3’s Telenotícies in Afghanistan, Iran, Chad, the Philippines, Mozambique, Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay, the USA, Haiti, Nicaragua, Israel and several European countries. He also directed the five-episode documentary series Historias del Caribe, shot in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Dominica and Haiti, broadcast in 1992. In 2002 he directed his first documentary film, Balseros, which received some of the most important international awards (among them the Peabody Award in 2004), and was nominated for the OSCAR® for Best Documentary Feature of 2003. In 2006 he directed his second feature documentary, Septiembres, awarded at the Malaga, Miami and IDFA festivals. He is also the director and screenwriter of the documentary film Bicicleta, cullera, poma (2010), winner of the Goya award and the Gaudí award, co-produced by Televisió de Catalunya and Cromosoma S.A.

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2007

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Carles Bosch

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