Teresa

2022 I Fiction I Drama I 96 min I Color

Synopsis

Spain, the 16th century. Teresa waits patiently. She knows the time has come. Today, the Inquisitor will come. The fate of the San José monastery, which she worked so hard to found with her sisters, depends on his visit and his judgement. His questions and his conclusions will decide what happens to her sisters, and what happens to her. Freedom, imprisonment or burning at the stake. In a conversation taking place on a single night, Teresa will struggle through words, her past, fears, doubts and guilt, to try to find her freedom. “In contradiction is the gain”. Teresa is the film adaptation of Juan Mayorga’s The Tongue in Pieces about Saint Teresa of Ávila.

DATA SHEET

Direction: Paula Ortiz
Script: Paula Ortiz, Javier García Arredondo.
Original play: Juan Mayorga
Production companies: Bluebird Films and Inicia Films in coproduction with Nu Boyana. With the support of ICEC, ICAA, Institut Ramon Llull and Ayuntamiento de Madrid
Executive production: Valérie Delpierre and Paula Ortiz
Direction of cinematography: Rafa García
Art Direction: Marta Loza and José Tirado
Editing: Estel Roman and Pablo Gómez Pan
Distribution: Bteam Pictures
International Sales: Filmax

Casting

Blanca Portillo, Asier Etxeandia, Greta Fernández, Luis Bermejo, Consuelo Trujillo, Claudia Traisac

AWARDS AND FESTIVALS

Festival de Cine Español de Cáceres 2024 (SPAIN)
Best Actress Award (Blanca Portillo)
Best Actor Award (Asier Etxeandia)

Feroz Awards 2024 (SPAIN)
Nomination for a Arrebato de Ficción

Forqué Awards 2023 (SPAIN)
Nomination for Best Mejor Female Interpretation (Blanca Portillo)

REC-Festival Internacional de Cinema de Tarragona 2023 (SPAIN)

Tallin Black Nights Film Festival 2023 (ESTONIA)

SEMINCI – Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid 2023 (SPAIN)

In Inicia Films we understand that production is a way to influence society and connect emotionally with the audience. Since 2006 we have been working to promote new generations of filmmakers and give them a voice in today’s audiovisual world.

Through the eyes of our creators and the sensitivity of our authors, we accompany the development of international projects and multicultural talent, building bridges between their experiences abroad and their roots. We deal with themes that respond to current concerns and we believe that by connecting people and emotions we can help to draw new narrative and visual horizons.

Films produced by Inicia Films have been selected and awarded at numerous festivals including “Queens” by Klaudia Reynicke in co-production with Switzerland and Peru, which premiered at Sundance 2024 and won the Grand Prix at Berlin Generation; “20.000 species of bees” by Estibaliz Urresola winner of the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance, two Forque Awards including Best Film, two Feroz Awards including Best Dramatic Film and three Goya Awards 2024; “Foremost by night by Víctor Iriarte, premiered at Giornate degli autori in Venice and winner of the Feroz Arrebato Award for Fiction; “Schoolgirls by Pilar Palomero with four Goya Awards 2021, including Best Film; “Summer 1993” by Carla Simón, Best Opera Prima at the Berlinale 2017; “La Maternal” also by Pilar Palomero, winner of the Silver Shell for Best Acting in San Sebastian 2022, “Unicorns” by Àlex Lora, with Premiere in the Official Selection of the Malaga Festival and “Teresa” by Paula Ortiz, premiered in this edition of Tallinn.

For documentaries such as “The west Indies fleet“ by Antonio Pérez Molero produced in collaboration with RTVE, Canal Sur and Telemadrid or “Singing on the rooftops” by Enric Ribes, with Premiere at Sheffield DocFest.

Also, for short films such as “The disinherited” by Laura Ferrés, Best Short Film at the Semaine de la Critique de Cannes, “The bus” by Sandra Reina, premiered at SXSW, nominated for the Goya Awards and winner of the Gaudí Award.