STORIES FROM THE SEA

2022 | Austria | documentary | 3K | DCP

The Mediterranean has always played a central role in our world. It is crossed, made use of, enjoyed, feared and loved every day, every night. Stories from the Sea portrays women aboard three vessels who experience the Mediterranean Sea as a place of longing, a place of work, or a scene of human encounters. The all-encompassing blue waters, unceasing waves and distant horizons are elements that link the protagonists, regardless of their motivation to go out to sea.

SALES/DISTRIBUTION:
Distribution AT: Stadtkino Filmverleih
Festival Sales: Austrian Films

FESTIVALS:
Viennale International Film Festival 2021 - World Premiere
Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis - International Premiere• Award Best Music Score for Documentary Film
Diagonale Film Festival
Crossing Europe• Award Best Local Film

WITH THE SUPPORT OF
Bundeskanzleramt für Kunst und Kultur, Land Oberösterreich
THE FILM WAS DEVELOPED IN THE FRAMEWORK OF
Start-Stipendium des Bundeskanzleramtes für Filmkunst
East Doc Platform / Institute of Documentary Films
Rough Cut Service

DE ESO NO HABLÁBAMOS ( We did not talk about that)

16:9 / FULL HD / Color / 2019 / 70' / Spanish

Since 1999, Ángela silently holds one question: why did her mother not say goodbye to her? Nobody in her family talks about that.

Written and directed by: Angela Palacios
Editor: Rubén Rocha
Produced by: Los espejos son para mirarse & Noia films
Original music: Leo Aldrey
Sound design and mixing: Audiobend
Color: Alicia Pellegrin
Distribution: Freak Agency

PREMIERED in 2019

4K MANIAS

16:9 / FULL HD / Color / 2019 / 20' / Spanish

Produced by: Playground España
Directed by: Carla Tubau & Rubén Rocha
Written by: Fernanado Polanco, Edu Sola and Carla Tubau
DoP and camera: Rubén Rocha
Editor: Rubén Rocha and Ion de Sosa
Produced by: Carla Tubau
Executive production: Helena Matamala

Jaume (Mind Sylenth) is 24 years old and is reaching his life's dream: reaching the top of the charts with his music. Tours, trips, albums, fans, contacts, business ... the ascent is never easy, but even less if you have OCD. This is the story of a tireless fight against obsessions, repetitions, compulsions, beliefs ... Against thousands of shadows that accompany Jaume, one of the most promising DJs in Spain.

LINK DOC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMr5SMwB8VU

MÚSICA Y DEMENCIA
Music and dementia

16:9 / FULL HD / Color / 2017 / 6' / Spanish

Director of Photography: Rubén Rocha and Pol Aregall
Producced by: Playground Do
Editor: Clara Camprubí

Music as an engine of memories.
Short documentary about elderly people with dementia and the advantages of contact with music

THE BEAUTY OF HEARING

Personal Work
Camera and editing: Rubén Rocha
Voice: John Cage

VERMONT, MONTPELIER

16:9 / FULL HD / Color / 2013 / 20' / Spanish

Written and directed by: Carlos Martín
Producced by: Universidad de Cádiz, Fundación Grünenthal
Editors: Fabio Bobbio and Rubén Rocha
Executive producer: Juan Antonio Micó
Original music: Jaime Martín

Premiered at the London International Documentary Festival 2012

One Sunday morning, my father got up, went to the kitchen to have breakfast and put a spoon of jam into the coffee. That's how it all started. "Vermont, Montpelier" is a filmed diary, the portrait of a father, the story of a son and the story of a family told through illness, medicine and home videos.

VENTANAS (Windows)

16:9 / DVCAM / Color / 2008 /39' / Argentina-España

Directed by: Juan Mateo Piera, Fabio Bobbio and Rubén Rocha
Written by: Juan Mateo Piera, Fabio Bobbio
Editor: Fabio Bobbio
Post. Sonido: Philippe Faujas
Executive producer: Mario Durrieu
Line Producer: Walter Tiepelmann
Produced by: Observatorio de Cine
Sound: Ana Ugarte
With: Paula Rubinsztein, Marcelo Roldán, Daniel Salvatierra, Horacio Pizzulli

Documentary film shot in Buenos Aires and starring the members of the El Andador theater group, where actors with different disabilities meet, both physical and mental.

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