MUBOX PRODUCTION
The Trail Left by Time
Los restos del pasar
Feature film
Year: 2024
Estreno en cines 29 de noviembre
Genre: Documentary, Docu-fiction
Duration: 83 minutes
Directors: LUIS SOTO MUÑOZ Y ALFREDO PICAZO
A MUBOX STUDIO production
In coproduction with DU CARDELIN STUDIO
In collaboration with EXCMO. AYUNTAMIENTO DE BAENA
Producers: DANIEL PEÑA y J. ALBERTO ANDRÉS LACASTA
Executive Producer: ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ CLEMENTE
Production designer: ANDREA GARCÍA
Production manager: CLAUDIA MORÓN
Screenplay: LUIS (SOTO) MUÑOZ
First Assistant Director : ADRIÁN G. RÍOS
Director of photography: JOAQUÍN GARCÍA-RIESTRA GUHL
Gaffer: LUCAS VALLINA ABAD
Art director: PAULA SANZ JARA
Postproduction coordinator: RAFAEL CANO
Editor: RAFAEL CANO
Sound design: LAURA GANTES
CAST: RODRIGO RAMÍREZ, PACO ARIZA, RAFAEL RAMÍREZ,
PADRE JESÚS, ANTONIO REYES
SYNOPSIS
Antonio remembers his childhood. He lived in a remote town in Cordoba (Andalucia), during the celebration of catholic Holy Week. A lonely and curious child watched secretly Paco. He is an old painter. One day they met each other. Antonio is a doubting child, about religión and death. Paco taught Antonio not only painting but also to ask himself about everything, to observe and understand his life as a transient stay
AWARDS AND FESTIVALS
61 FICX Gijon International Film Festival 2023
-FIPRESCI Award. Best film. Official Selection: Tierres en Trance
-AMAE Award. Best Spanish Film editing for Rafael Cano.
-Special Mention for Best Spanish Film
22 LPA Film Festival - Internacional Cinema Festival of Las Palmas from Gran Canaria
Documenta Madrid -21 International Cinema Festival of Madrid
- Special Jury Mention
21 Sevilla European Film Festival
LABS
- CANNES DOC - Marché du Film - Cannes Film Festival 2023
- MECAS - Festival de Cine Casi Hecho de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2023
- SEMILLERU-LAB - Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón 2022
OPEN ECAM Award
Premio MECAS Award
DISTRIBUTION
Les films de la Résistance
PRESS
Agencia Suria
BIO-FILMOGRAPHY
ALFREDO PICAZO
Alfredo Picazo was born in 2000 in Baena (Córdoba).
He has a degree in Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts from TAI School, where he specialized in film directing. Additionally he is a certified colourist. He has also directed several music videos.
Together with Luis (Soto) Muñoz, he was in charge of the cinematography of "Tale of a Lemon Tree" (2021).
His first professional short film as director and scriptwriter was "When The Pure Forms Sank" (2021), a free adaptation of the story of the spanish writer Federico García Lorca during the Spanish Civil War. "The Trail Left By Time" (2023) is his debut as a film director.
BIOFILMOGRAFÍA
LUIS (SOTO) MUÑOZ
Luis Muñoz Cubillo, also known as Soto, was born in 2000 in Baena (Córdoba). He has a degree in Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts from TAI School, where he specialized in film directing. He currently resides in Madrid.
In 2021, he premiered his first audiovisual piece "Tale of a Lemon Tree" at the International Medium-Length Film Festival of Valencia, receiving mentions for best script and best medium-length film by the senior jury.
"Dreams and Crumbs" hist first feature film, was premiered at Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest (Mallorca, Spain) and won the Agustí Villaronga Award for Best National Film in Spain. It was also selected at Ibertigo, Ibero American Cinema Showcase of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, at the Rizoma Official Selection International Festival of Intertwined Culture (Madrid, Spain), at SEFF Seville European Film Festival (Seville, Spain), at Ibizacinefest (Ibiza, Spain) and at D´A Festival de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) where it won the Open Ecam Award.
In 2023 he made his second feature film "The Trail Left By Time" co-directed with Alfredo Picazo which was selected at the Marché du Film of Cannes Docs and was premiered at 61 FICX Gijon International Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Award for best film, the AMAE Award for best spanish film editing for Rafael Cano and the special mention for best spanish Film. Additionally, it participated in Documenta Madrid (2024) where it received a Special Mention from the jury.
Currently, he is developing his next feature film titled "Don Quixote according to Juan Trujillo” selected at Cinema Pendent, and Extremlab of L´Alternativa Film Festival. and Atlàntida Mallorca Talents Lab.
His works are characterized by the use of rural areas as a setting. Interested in decentralized production models, he shoots his films immersing them in an escapist aura in contrast to urban freneticism. His films deal with themes such as absence, memory, or adolescent drift, impregnated with traces of magical realism and phantasmagoria inherited from Ibero-American literature.
Photography by Sandra Barrillaro