Elisa Cepedal

El cine, 5 (2023)

After the recent closure of the Carrio well, a symbol of the end of an industry that has marked the character of a town, Barredos faces depopulation and oblivion. However, the testimonies of those who are still alive and the photographic material from the ...

Iceland is Best (2020)

The story of Sigga, a 17 year-old girl trying to leave home in Iceland, and make her way to California. ...

Work (or To Whom Does the World Belong) (2019)

Children at recess are witnesses to the conflict between riot police and strikers. The neighborhood of a mining town is transformed into a battlefield for the last time. After the failure of the strike, calm returns to the streets and workers to work, with ...

Jennifer (2015)

The film unfolds the life of an enclosed monastery over the course of one day. It invites the audience into a world of enclosure which is rarely seen from the inside. It is a portrait of both the interior of the building and of Jennifer, a Carmelite nun. ...

Llar (2014)

Ay pena (2011)

La playa (2010)

Ana lives in a remote village on the Spanish plateau, and spends her summers selling underwear in her uncle's shop. An unexpected encounter with two youths from a neighbouring village awakens in Ana hope of an escape from this monotony. ...

El pasado presente (2019)

After more than a decade working in England, the filmmaker Elisa Cepedal returns to Cuencas to shoot a film about the end of the two centuries of history of coal mining: around her other remains of her land's past are dying. ...