The bus

2022 I Documentary I Drama I 30 min I Colour

Synopsis

A bus picks up some passengers on Friday morning to travel the route that brings them closer to the weekend, with their plans, their reflections and their fears. The same bus will pick them up on Sunday afternoon to return them to where they came from.

DATA SHEET

Direction: Sandra Reina
Script: Sandra Reina y Francisco Menchón
Direction of Cinematography: Aïda Torrent
Art Direction: Laura Galofre
Sound Direction: Gianni Quarta
Editing: Elodie Leuthold
Executive Producer: Valérie Delpierre
Coproducer: Jaume Fargas Coll
Production: Inicia Films S.L. With the support of ICAA, ICEC. With the collaboration of Institut Ramon Llull

Casting

Yolanda Avilés, Ramoni Muñoz, Penélope Sánchez, Moisés Arias, Israel Fuentes, Jonathan Bagan, Mónica Gaetano, Maribel Morales, Yaros Yakovenko, Toni Pérez, Jesús Ruiz, Rafael Rodríguez

AWARDS AND FESTIVALS

Premios Goya 2024 (SPAIN)
Nomination for Best Short Documentary

Premios Gaudí 2024 (SPAIN)
Best Short Film

DOC NYC 2023 (UNITED STATES)

CLAM – Festival Internacional de Cine Social de Cataluña 2023 (SPAIN)

Premios Pávez – Festival Nacional de Cortometrajes de Talavera de la Reina 2023 (SPAIN)

Muestra Internacional de Films de Mujeres de Barcelona 2023 (SPAIN)

Krakow Film Festival (POLAND)

Ull Nu Festival de Cine Emergente de Andorra 2023 (ANDORRA)
Best Short Film

Festival de Málaga 2023 (SPAIN)

World Premiere South by Southwest – SXSW 2023 (UNITED STATES)

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.