‘Cerrar los Ojos - Victor Erice’

A famous Spanish actor, Julio Arenas, disappears while filming a movie. Although his body is never found, the police concludes that he has suffered an accident at a cliff by the sea. Many years later, the mystery is brought up once more by a TV programme that tries to evoke the actor, offering as a scoop images of the last scenes in which he participated, shot by his close friend, director Miguel Garay. 

Victor Erice returns to cinema three decades after his last film Dream of Light (El Sol del Membrillo), which won the Jury Award at Cannes in 1992. The Spanish director is known for The Spirit of the Beehive (El Espiritu de la Colmena) (1973) and The South (El Sur) (1983). His cinema revolves around recurrent themes of memory and absence; cinema as a mirror of time passing; and the deep, emotional resonance of music and human gestures.