Agony (Eulalia Ramón) Spain |

Agony
Eulalia Ramón
Spain. 2024. 22 min

Adela and Rosa were friends in college, but the world kept separating them. Rosa dedicated herself to teaching. Adela, on the other hand, dreamed of being a writer but ended up as a hitwoman for a third-rate drug lord. Shortly after turning sixty, both women are discarded, on the same day, for the lives they have chosen.

EULALIA RAMÓN

Eulàlia Ramón (Barcelona, Spain, 11/21/1959) is an actress, photographer and film director. As a photographer, she has collaborated with the artist Xavier Mascaró, with the painter Pepa Poch and in the selection of works for the “Fotosaurios” collection by Carlos Saura. Her work has been exhibited in various exhibition centres and galleries. Among her most notable works as an actress are the films “The Sea and Time” (Fernando Fernán Gómez, 1989), “Alou’s Letters” (Montxo Armendáriz, 1990), “The Stunned King” (Imanol Uribe, 1991) or “The Bird of Happiness” (Pilar Miró, 1993), among many others, as well as her collaborations with director Carlos Saura on films such as “¡Dispara!” (1993), “Pajarico” (1997),… In theater, she worked with the National Theatre Company in “The Suspicious Truth” by Juan Luis de Alarcón directed by Pilar Miró in 1992, in “After the Dream” by Mario Camus the same year and in “Three Defiant Acts” by Woody Allen, Elaine May and David Mamet with production by José Pascual in 1996. She has also participated in dramatized readings and radio theater and acted for TV shows as an actress and host. “Agony” is her second short film as a director, after “Divine Accounts” (2023), which was nominated for Best Fiction Short Film at the Goya Awards.

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Sitges – Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya (España / Spain) [2024]
Festival de Cine de Zaragoza (España / Spain) [2024]
CineHorizontes – Festival de cinéma espagnol de Marseille (Francia / France) [2024]
Semana del Cortometraje de la Comunidad de Madrid (España / Spain) [2024]
ImagineIndia International Film Festival (España / Spain) [2024]