Violeta Barca-Fontana (Spain)

Violeta Barca-Fontana is a member of the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She studied film production, screenwriting and directing in Barcelona, Madrid and New York. She has worked in the film industry since 1997, collaborating with figures such as Carlos Saura and José Luis García Sánchez. In 2003 she produced the feature film La fiesta, distributed by Walt Disney Company (Spain). Violeta has directed documentaries and short films selected at national and international festivals. Her projects include her New York trilogy, which won awards at several film festivals — the feature film Pieces of New York and the short films Color Thief and Don Quixote in a Fragmented World, the latter a finalist at the Goya Awards in 2016. Violeta has been a jury member at festivals and competitions such as Márgenes, ABC-Guionistas and the International Short Film Competition of Soria and Medina del Campo. She is currently working on a feature documentary shot between Colombia and Malawi.

Entre raíles After restoring old films of her mother in her job at the Filmoteca Española film archive, Ana, the daughter of a former actress of the “destape” film movement in Spain and granddaughter of a Falangist, decides to take a trip by train to meet her mother again. They have not seen each other for twenty years.