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PETRA

• Director: Jaime Rosales
• SPAIN, FRANCE, DENMARK / 2018 / DCP / Colour / 107’ / Spanish, Catalan; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Jaime Rosales, Michel Gaztambide, Clara Roquet
• Director of Photography: Hélène Louvart
• Editing: Lucía Casal
• Music: Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen
• Cast: Bárbara Lennie, Alex Brendemühl, Joan Botey, Marisa Paredes, Petra Martínez, Carme Pla, Oriol Pla
• Producer: Bárbara Díez, José María Morales, Antonio Chavarrías, Jérôme Dopffer, Katrin Pors, Mikkel Jersin, Eva Jakobsen
• Production Co.: Fresdeval Films, Wanda Vision, Oberon Cinematogràfica, Les Productions Balthazar, Snowglobe
• World Sales: Film Factory

- 2018 CINE CEARÁ -- Best Film, Best Director
- 2019 GAUDI AWARDS -- Best Supporting Actor (O. Pla)

“The Spanish Haneke” Jaime Rosales, returns four years after Beautiful Youth with a relentless, surprising, tough family tragedy. The eponymous Petra doesn’t know who her father is. After the death of her mother, she embarks on a search that leads her to Jaume, a famous artist who is a powerful, ruthless man, and his family. Then the story of these characters begins to intertwine in a spiral of malice, family secrets and violence, heading towards a Greek tragedy. Premiering at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight section, Petra follows a non-linear script that always keeps the viewer’s attention awake, oscillating between fate’s cruel logic and hope.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.