Filming
This film, shot during the months of October and November, which is Estefanía Cortés’s debut feature, is in post-production.
Starring Charlotte Vega (‘The bookstore’), Marta Nieto (‘Mother’, ‘Three’), Israel Elejalde (‘Parallel mothers’) and Ramón Barea (‘Everyone knows it’), ‘Edén’ tells the story of Marina (Charlotte Vega), a young woman who has been trying to escape the ghosts that haunt her after a tragic event. Tormented and broken by guilt, she decides to go to Eden, a clandestine company, located in the middle of nature, which will help her end her suffering. The film is a psychological drama that addresses the emotional story of four very different characters, but with a common goal, to end their pain. A film that, according to those responsible “will shake consciences, dealing with the issue of individual freedom in the face of life and death from an innovative perspective.
Guilt, loneliness and freedom over oneself are some of the themes that this intimate and thoughtful author’s feature film analyzes. In it, the director works with a very luminous aesthetic in contrast to the dark themes that the story addresses.
“Marina is tormented and broken by guilt and she needs to find something to end that suffering,” explains Charlotte Vega. “Lidia is a very peculiar woman, so it is quite exciting to play her because she is unpredictable, she has a lot of internal intensity,” says Marta Nieto, who has gotten into the skin of this character. Nieto admits that he really wanted to work with Estefanía: “I think that supporting valuable women is one of the things I want to do in my career, I love the script and the character is very funny.”
Ramón Barea plays Félix, who “tries to flee from something, but thinking that his escape can favor the people he loves,” says the actor. “It is a film that hides more things than it tells, little by little they are revealed and asks the viewer for sure astonishment, because what is happening is astonishing.”
For his part, Israel Elejalde plays a tormented character, “which is difficult to define. He comes to Eden to try to solve something that has been haunting him for a long time. He is an introverted man, very inward who does not enjoy being with three strangers.
Estefanía Cortés has been behind the camera for more than a decade. He has worked in the direction and script departments of different production companies, in the realization of projects such as ‘The decisive moment’ (Atresmedia) and ‘Otros mundos’ and ‘Porvenir’ (Movistar +). The director, who also signed the script for ‘Edén’, has written and directed the short films ‘Moiré’ (2014), starring Inma Cuesta, ‘Yerbabuena’ (2016) with Ingrid Rubio, and ‘Miss Wamba’ (2017) with Ruth Diaz. His works have traveled the world, receiving awards at more than 300 festivals around the world, such as the Festival de Court Métrage Clermont-Ferrand (France), Nashville Film Festival (USA), Foyle Film Festival (Great Britain), Festival Internacional de Guadalajara Cinema (Mexico), Zaragoza Film Festival or Medina del Campo Film Week, among others, both for her work as a director and as a screenwriter.
Filmed entirely in locations in Aragón, with settings such as the Panticosa Spa and outside the Aragonese Pyrenees, the film is produced by Montreux Entertainment, La Caña Brothers, La Colmena and El Edén AIE, with the participation of TVE and Aragón TV. Its premiere is scheduled for fall 2022.
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