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Storyline

Iurie, a champion wrestler from Moldavia, has recently moved to a town on the outskirts of Barcelona. He gets up before dawn to go work in the fields for Raul, a 40-year-old farmer who owns a plot of land squeezed in between the industrial parks and the highway. They regularly run into Maribel, a prostitute in her fifties who has been working there for about twenty years. Maria lives near Raul’s fields, and she is already very old. She needed someone to help her with her housework, so that’s how she met Julieta, a 34 year-old Colombian girl. In midsummer the bean crops in the area are attacked by a whitefly plague. If hard rains don’t begin to fall, the whole crop could be lost. “The Plague” is a story of people living on the outskirts of the city, at the edges of the system, subject to forces beyond their control. Only by breaking through their isolation can they begin to view their lives in a different perspective.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Berlin International Film Festival 2013
Forum Selection - 2013
Doc Station in Berlinale Talent Campus - 2011
Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) 2013
Spanish Cinema
BFI London Film Festival 2013
Debate Section
Málaga Film Festival 2013
Documentaries
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2013
Made In Spain

Lux Film Prize of European Parliament 2013
Finalist
Sant Jordi Award 2014
Best Film Award
European Film Awards (EFA) 2013
Nomination for European Discovery - Prix Fipresci
Goyas Awards 2014
Nominated: Best New Director
Gaudí Awards 2014
Nominated: Best Cinematography
Winner: Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Editing

Releases

Spain (6 of September 2013)