Rendezvous with Cinema. "Mapa" (Map)
Begoña Arostegui
The virtual film club "Rendezvous with Cinema" starts with the screening of "Mapa", aa first-person film by Elías León Siminiani. It is his first creative documentary film reaching commercial theatres with resounding public success.
Synopsis: A young Spanish director is sacked from his job as television scriptwriter. In the pursuit of making his dream of becoming a film director come true, he travels to India with the intention of filming his first feature film. Soon he discovers that what he is really looking for is not in India, but in Madrid. "Mapa" is a "diary-film", halfway between fiction and documentary, shot over several years with a very limited budget. It narrates in the first person perspective situations of the director's daily life, whilst reflecting on the nature of cinema and its capacity to allow us to know ourselves.
