La calle del Agua / Water Street

In 2021, Celia Viada burst onto the Spanish film scene with a bang with her debut feature film, winning several awards that attested to her courage. La calle del Agua is a ghost film: a dialogue through the mists of time in which the Madrid-born director converses with Benjamina Miyar (1888–1961), a resident of the Asturian village of Corao, a watchmaker, pioneering photographer, and anti-Franco resistance fighter: a woman of enormous worth silenced and forgotten, like so many others.

Synopsis: Benjamina Miyar led an unusual life in her house on Calle del Agua, at the foot of the Picos de Europa mountains. A photographer and watchmaker for over 40 years, she was also part of the anti-Franco resistance. Her life and work disappeared after her death. Water Street is the encounter between two women who share a place in different times, the outline of a portrait that emerges from what is remembered and what is vanished. [Source: ICAA database].