AFTERSUN

Summer. In a camping site, an old coroner tells a story about a missing kid some time ago. Three little girls are suspicious about the animation guy and the cleaning woman. They start to investigate. The day after, another kid disappears.

“About ten years ago, I read about a story concerning the disappearance of a Swiss child, René Henzig, on holiday with his parents in Sant Pere Pescador, on the Costa Brava, in 1980. I read it in a book published by the coroner Narcís Bardalet, a famous doctor in my hometown. He would later appear in Aftersun as the narrator of the story. Actually, the genesis of the film is in 2011 when I wrote a script with Clara Roquet. The film was called Holidaymakers. It was, more or less, a classic drama. We tried to get money from film institutions, go to co-production markets… But we only got the money to make a teaser with a big frog mascot walking in a camping site and old images of myself with my mom in the 80s. The project failed but those two elements were unconsciously important for Aftersun. […] Actually, Aftersun was not even a film back in 2017 when we started. I asked for a couple of visual arts grants to make an experimental video project. The missing kid was a starting point but our goal was to play with a tourist video camera and explore its possibilities by trying to shoot in a camp as if something very dark just happened several years ago.”

DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY, FILM EDITING: Lluís Galter. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Lluís Galter, Aarón Sánchez. SOUND: Raul Fernández, Sergi Custey. MUSIC: Claude Débussy. CAST: Alex Moreu, Carmela Poch, Àgueda Suros, Ainoa Suros, Lola Daniel, Narcís Bardalet, Marc Sánchez, David De Montserrat, Jaume De Montserrat, Guillem Galter, Míriam Sánchez. PRODUCERS: David De Montserrat, Sergi Custey. PRODUZIONE: Lluís Galter, Carmel. COPRODUZIONE: Osic, Kreas, Agita.