Toloriu

2019 | Documentary | Drama | 60 min | Colour

Synopsis

In Toloriu, a little village in the catalan Pyrenees, there is this legend about Xipahuatzin, the daughter of Montezuma, the aztec emperor, and how she was brought here by the baron Joan de Grau, Hernan Cortes’s comrade during Mexico’s conquest. It is said that some years after her arrival, the princess died of sadness, incapable of adapting herself to the cold winter of the mountains.

DATA SHEET

Direction: Patricia Ordaz
Script: Patricia Ordaz
Production companies: Inicia Films with the support of the ICAA, the ICEC and IMCINE
Executive production: Valérie Delpierre
Coproducers: Mireia Salgado, Eduard Fisa
Direction of photography: Mireia Salgado
Production management: Eduard Fisa

Casting

Agustí Porta, Francesc Buscallá, Josep Grau, Jordi Grau

AWARDS AND FESTIVALS

Festival de Málaga (SPAIN)

 

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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,Unicornsby 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.