The Essay
2025, Spanish. Directed by Carmen Ayala Marín & Alberto Martín Menacho.
In Córdoba, Spain, budding filmmakers and actors from the Federico García Lorca primary school are working on a film project. An idea takes shape… to bring to the screen the story of the Roma people from the Punjab, who have lived in Spain for several centuries and yet are still perceived as foreigners by the local community.
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- Released
- 6 April 2025
- Original title
- El ensayo
- Country
- Switzerland, Spain
- Written by
- Carmen Ayala Marín, Alberto Martín Menacho
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