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10´20"

Documentaries

Six young filmmakers set out on a journey to Uzbekistan with a simple mission: to retrace, camera in hand, the steps of Ruy González de Clavijo -the Castilian ambassador who, in the early 15th century, traveled halfway around the world to reach the court of Tamerlane.

As they travel through the same places that the former ambassador described in his historical novel Embajada a Tamerlan, the film also shows its own making: they become a small XXIst century embassy.

Almost without realizing it, they transform a medieval personal diary into a contemporary reflection, fostering the unexpected dialogue between Spain and Uzbekistan that Clavijo had begun but was unable to bring to fruition.

Direction/ Editing

Embassy to Tamerlane

Feature

Creation/Production

Azraq refugee camp, June of 2023: Manhal, Marwa, Hassan, Jameel, Mohammed and Bahaa´s voice, political debris of an imposed violence, project their dreams through speech and movement.

Around them, the childhood born from the hostile womb of the camp, injects a greater tension between what they say, what they do, and the spaces they occupy. Without ignoring the violence from which they have fled, the film looks elsewhere.

For a moment, they appear not as victims of a spectacle, but as people whose dreams, uncomfortably, transcend the conditions of their waiting.

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