Activity for school groups. Free access for all
Coral Piñeiro is a new Galician filmmaker. She directed the short films Dores and Na pel da memoria (the latter, together with Laura Piñeiro) and is currently working on her first feature film, Da túa man para a miña, in collaboration with Fran Rodríguez Casal. She is co-founder of Memoria e Cinema, a collective of new filmmakers who explore memory, from the personal to the historical side. She also collaborates with various Galician festivals in the areas of programming and communication, and is a teacher in film education projects, such as the MICEscola at the Mostra Internacional de Cinema Etnográfico do Museo do Pobo Galego.
Vilagarcía-born filmmaker Coral Piñeiro (member of the Ceres Section jury) will share her conception of cinema with students and present two short films that demonstrate the medium’s ability to reveal that, behind the historical events silenced by the communities that experience and suffer them, there are only human beings: bodies and minds that inhabit the border between oblivion and perennial memory.
España | 2025 | 14´ | Colour
A letter to Mariví Villaverde, daughter of the Republican mayor of the town where our sender was born. Mariví, at 14 years old, is forced into exile because of the coup d’état. Do their lives have anything to do with each other? Are the traces of the people and stories that preceded us visible in the places where we grew up?
This story reflects on the importance of historical memory through the experiences of its protagonist.
Direction / Coral Piñeiro, Laura Piñeiro
Script / Coral Piñeiro, Laura Piñeiro, Bruno Arias
Voice / Mariví Villaverde, Lidia Veiga
Edition / Laura Piñeiro, Bruno Arias
Sound / Juan Garrido
Music / Artúr Silveiro
Cast / Laura Piñeiro
Producers / Coral Piñeiro
Company / Cinema e Memoria, Deputación de Pontevedra, O Pasado Por Vir
España | 2025 | 14´ | Colour
Dores responds to a very clear need: fighting against oblivion. This documentary collects the stories of four people who, in one way or another, were witnesses or collect testimonies of the consequences of Franco’s repression in Galicia. They all share a common goal: although the scars of the civil war are still open and the consequences of Franco’s dictatorship are still latent today, they fight to preserve historical memory and win the game of forgetting.
Direction / Coral Piñeiro, Laura Piñeiro
Script / Maite Martínez, Clara Millán, Coral Piñeiro, Laura Piñeiro
Voice / Marcos Montiel
Photography / Coral Piñeiro, Clara Millán
Edition / Laura Piñeiro
Sound / Maite Martínez, Bea Fernández, Ezra Vázquez
Music / Artúr Silveiro
Cast / Enma Chapela, Mariano Jabonero, Susana Sánchez, Tino Cordal
Producers / Maite Martínez
Company / USC Facultade de Ciencias da Comunicación