Jordi Boquet Claramunt (Spain)

Jordi Boquet Claramunt is a director and screenwriter from Cervera, Lleida. He began his studies at the Barcelona School of Audiovisual Media (EMAV) and later attended the Film and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC), where he graduated with a degree in directing. His first short film, Ni oblit, ni perdó (2019), won the Gaudí Award from the Catalan Film Academy, the first prize at the Huesca Film Festival and the Audience Award at the D’A Film Festival in Barcelona, ​​among others. His second short film, El tren de l’alegria (2023), produced by Pausa Dramàtica Films, also had a long festival run. He recently directed the second unit of Delta, a television series for the Catalan channel TV3 produced by Veranda TV and Suica Films and set to be released in 2025. In parallel to his work as a director, Jordi also works as a script supervisor, collaborating with directors such as Mikel Guerrea, Dani de la Orden and Carlos Marques Marcet. He is currently developing Riure, his first feature film as a director and screenwriter, with the production companies Fractal and Pausa Dramàtica Films.

Riure [co-written with Tomàs Bayo Encuentra] Lola is a young clown who grew up in her family’s small traveling circus, but the business is not at its best due to the loss of audiences and she begins to feel that she no longer belongs in this peculiar world. When her trained horse accidentally injures a child during a show, the family’s future is endangered and Lola confronts Jesús, the circus manager and her strict father. Both will have to face their differences and ask themselves if the time has come to hang up their red noses.