El viatge de la Marta

After the success achieved with her first feature film, La plaga (2013), Neus Ballús embarked on a trip to Africa to bring us closer to the way in which Europeans live, as tourists or as businessmen, the confrontation with a different culture. The director succeeds, as it had happened in her previous works and will happen in her subsequent feature film, Sis dies corrents (2021), to delve into the complexity that exists on the surface of everyday life.

Synopsis: Marta, a 17-year-old girl, goes on vacation to a resort in Africa with her father and younger brother. Marta is bored and prefers to spend more time with the young people working at the hotel than with her own family. These new friendships will strain her relationship with her father and force the family to talk and try to understand each other. The trip will become for all of them a much richer experience than they could have imagined.