Honorable Mention, Best Director - National Competition, Indielisboa 2025 | Jury Prize, Best National Film, Documenta Madrid 2025
Ivan Castiñeiras returns to his childhood home to delve into the legends and stories of the surrounding area. Filmed over 15 years, Deuses de pedra draws careful lines between past and present, portraying a beautiful land and the beautiful souls of those who live there.
He graduated in Art History from the University of Santiago de Compostela and in Cinema from the National Film Conservatory of Lisbon (ESTC). He studied at the Louis Lumière School (Paris), and integrated a postgraduate degree in cinematography direction at ESCAC (Barcelona). In 2016 he graduated from Lee Fresnoy- Studio National des Arts Contemporains, and in 2017 he participated in the Frontières Residency, co-organized by the G.R.E.C. and the Musée National de lHistoire de limmigration. In 2020 he participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus program and was selected as an artist member of the French Academy Casa de Velázquez. He has worked in the cinematography of films by Diana Toucedo, Miguel Cabral, June Balthazard o Ángel Santos; as a filmmaker he is the director of the short films A raia (2012), Ou est la jungle? (2015), Chemins battus (2016) and Trajectory Drift (2018). Filmed over the course of fifteen years, Deuses de pedra (Gods of stone) is his first feature.
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