UNA VUELTA A MALLORCA EN CAMELLO + LA VIDA DOLÇA
The cycle "Feim Films" dedicated to balearic productions, opens the new section "Feim Videopics" with the documentary Una vuelta a Mallorca en camello (A camel ride around Mallorca) by Toni Bestard, the real story about the travel the journalist Miguel Vidal and painter Gustavo Peñalver made in 1964, and La vida dolça (the sweet life), focused on Miquel, a baker who after 49 years working and owner of one of the most popular bakeries in the Calatrava neighbourhood in Palma, retired in 2012.
After the screening, a panel discussion will be carried out with Toni Bestard and Rosa Campomar (La vida dolça), hosted by Nekane Aramburu, Es Baluard's director.
Una vuelta a Mallorca en camello
Directed by: Toni Bestard
Production: Toni Bestard
Year: 2013
Length: 27 min.
Synopsis: Toni Bestard (two times nominated to the Goya for the short films Equipajes and El anónimo Caronte and director of the film El perfecto desconocido) deepens in the trip carried out in 1964 by journalist Miguel Vidal and painter Gustavo Peñalver, on a camel along Mallorca. Two young promises of the journalism and art that wanted to catch the attention going over 400 kilometres from Plaza de Cort in Palma and in the height of winter, form this documentary that reflects the Mallorca of those years, the one of the massive tourism, also portrayed in El anónimo Caronte and Niño Vudú, directed also by Bestard.
La vida dolça
Directed by: Marta Alonso
Screenplay and editing: Marta Alonso & Jaume Carrió
Year: 2012
Length: 30 min.
Synopsis: Miquel is an artisan baker of neighborhood, of which they are few, that he has announced an end bitter: the closed of a centenary shop, a symbol for the neighborhood, for Palma and for all the island, Mallorca. The bakery is placed in the middle of the old town it is one of the last surviving traditional shops before in a neighborhood before alive with many shops. Over 49 years working, he has dedicated all his life, in body and and lifeblood, sharing joy and creating happiness' moments through his sweets. Hundred of tourists and neighbors have enjoyed his sweet creations and even famous customers as the artist Miquel Barceló and the singers Maria del Mar Bonet and Joan Manuel Serrat. Surely, the succes of the Can Miquel bakery is his owner, Miguel Pujol. He is a lovely, sensitive and nice person, but at the same time, cheeky and with a phylosophy of life, nowadays, endangered.
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