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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Manuel Muñoz Rivas

Filmmaker, screenwriter and editor Manuel Muñoz RIVAS (1978, Spain) studied at the International School of Film and Television in San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba. He has lived in England, Chile and Portugal, but is now based in Spain. Rivas combines his own projects as a filmmaker with work as an editor and co-writer of films directed by colleagues, as well as teaching workshops in film schools. His latest short, Aqueronte, had its world premiere at IFFR 2023 as part of the Ammodo Tiger Short competition.

Filmography

Sendero (2008, short), Con el viento/With the Wind (2009, short), Pajaro (2014, short), El mar nos mira de lejos/The Sea Stares at Us from Afar (2017), Aqueronte (2023, short)

Manuel Muñoz Rivas at IFFR

  • Aqueronte

    Aqueronte summons the very essence of cinema to transport us to unreal spaces.

  • El árbol

    Sobering tale about the small-time loser Santiago, who roams the streets of a Spanish town after leaving his wife and children looking for ground unde

  • Blanco en blanco

    Around 1900, Pedro travels to southern Chile to photograph a wedding, but ends up capturing the genocide of the Selk’nam people.

  • Ocaso

    With the eye of a practised photographer, the debutant Court makes an atmospheric elegy for an unnecessary person. In a derelict mansion in the misty