Fiction

The Bathers

• Director: Rose Kowalski
• 2004 In distribution
• 5 min

A colourful group of women find their cultural prejudices broken during a language-class outing to the beach. Indian Shari seems the most introverted and out of place, but in the end proves to be the one most receptive to her surroundings and unites the group. Looks, glances, actions and reactions tell a story of group dynamics with barely four words of dialogue.

“The Bathers” was the first short film in Spain to be completed using a digital intermediate, a process where a high definition scan of the negative is worked on digitally and then used to produce the finished film in 35mm.

Key Crew

Director: Rose Kowalski
Script: Madeleine Sheahan
Director of photography: Sandra Ortíz
Producer: Carles Brugueras y Azucena Carrasco
Original music: S. Chandra Naraine, Shyam Sunder, Carlos Yélamos
Sound design: Nicolás Tabarez Videckis
Art director: Véronique Serfass

Cast

Balwinder Susen Ahluwalia
Minnie Marx
Montserrat Alcoverro
Mercedes Recacha
Mónica Recalde
Janzet Rodríguez Herrera
Katherina Gmeindl
Encarna Madrid

Festivals & Awards

FINALIST Festival de les Illes Balears de Cine en VO Català, Palma. 2005
12º Festival de Cine Español de Cáceres  “We’re Not That Short”, Caceres. 2005
3º Albacete Festival of Women’s Cinema, Albacete. 2005
9th Kino Film, Manchester International Short Film Festival. 2005
Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival, France. Selected Programme. 2005
FINALIST 16º Festival de Cinema de Girona. 2004
River to River, Florence Asian Film Festival, Italy, 2004
19th Brest European Short Film Festival, Brest, France. Open competition, 2004
Saint Petersburg Film Festival, Russia, 2004
12ª Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona. 2004
19º Festival Internacional de Cine Jove de Valencia, 2004
FORÙM Universal de les Culturas Barcelona, 2004
IMMIGR’ART – FASCURT, Barcelona, 2004
7º MECAL Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Barcelona, 2004
36ª ALCANCES Muestra Cinematográfica del Atlántico, Cadiz, 2004
5º ARTDAKÍ, street art festival, Cervera, Spain. 2004

Screenings

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