Ser e Voltar

To Be and to Come Back


Direction: Xacio Baño
Screenplay: Xacio Baño
Production company: Rebordelos
Producer: Xacio Baño
Cinematography: Xacio Baño
Edition: Xacio Baño
Sound: Xoan Escudero


Runtime: 13:30
Format: Digital
Dialogues: Galician
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Country: Spain
Year: 2014


A young (?) filmmaker comes back to his grandparents' house to make them a video-portrait. That's what cinema is about, isn't it?


Festivals

Locarno Film Festival | Switzerland, Aug 2014
Clermont-Ferrand - International Short Film Festival | France, Jan 2015 Canal + Award, Special Jury Mention
Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata | Argentina, Nov 2014
L'Alternativa - Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona | Spain, Nov 2014 Audience Award, Jury special mention
ZINEBI - Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films | Spain, Nov 2014
CURTOCIRCUITO - Festival Internacional de Cine | Spain, Oct 2014 Best galician film, Best screenplay
Encounters Film Festival | United Kingdom, Sep 2015
Uppsala International Short Film Festival | Sweden, Oct 2015
Kortfilmfestivalen - Norwegian Short Film Festival | Norway, Jun 2014
Porto/Post/Doc | Portugal, Nov 2018
Festival de Cans | Spain, May 2014 Best short film
Lima Independiente - Festival Internacional de Cine | Peru, Jun 2015
ALCINE - Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares | Spain, Nov 2014
IBAFF - Festival Internacional de Cine | Spain, Mar 2015
FEC - Festival Europeo de Curtmetratges | Spain, Mar 2015
Festival REGARD sur le court métrage au Saguenay | Canada, Mar 2015
Play-Doc Festival | Spain, Apr 2015
EMAF European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck | Germany, Apr 2015
Lago Film Fest | Italy, Jul 2015
CINESPAÑA Festival du Film Espagnol de Toulouse | France, Oct 2015
Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media | Germany, Jan 2016
Concorto Film Festival | Italy, Aug 2015
Vilnius International Short Film Festival | Lithuania, Oct 2015
Braunschweig International Film Festival | Germany, Nov 2015
BIEFF - International Experimental Film Festival Bucharest | Romania, Dec 2015
Premios Mestre Mateo - Academia Galega do Audiovisual | Spain, Mar 2014 Nominee for Best Live Action Short
MiradasDoc - Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Guía de Isora | Spain, Nov 2014
Un festival c'est trop court | France, Oct 2014
FICBUEU - Festival Internacional Cortometrajes | Spain, Sep 2015
Minimalen Short Film Festival | Norway, Mar 2015
ALCANCES - Festival de Cine Documental | Spain, Sep 2015
Cine Ceará - Festival Ibero-americano de Cinema | Brazil, Jun 2015
ABYCINE - Festival de Cine de Albacete | Spain, Oct 2015
Festival de Cortometrajes "Cortada" de Vitoria-Gasteiz | Spain, Nov 2015
SKEPTO International Short Film Festival | Italy, Apr 2016
IberoDocs - Ibero-American Documentary Film Festival | United Kingdom, May 2016
The International Bosphorus Film Festival | Turkey, Nov 2014
Festival de Cortometrajes de Hayah | Panama, Aug 2015
Lviv International Short Film Festival - Wiz Art | Ukraine, Jul 2014
Most - Festival Internacional de Cinema del Vi | Spain, Nov 2015
Pluk de Nacht Open Air Film Festival | Netherlands, Aug 2015
Corto & Fieno - Rural Film Festival | Italy, Sep 2016
Certamen de Cortometrajes "Por caracoles" | Spain, Jun 2016