21st Edition – Core Programme

DESMONTANDO UN ELEFANTE

Dismantling an Elephant
Riverside Studios

UK premiere

£13, conc. £11

dir. Aitor Echeverría
with Emma Suárez, Natalia de Molina, Sara Espígul, Darío Grandinetti

Spain/France | 2024 | 82 min
In Spanish with English subtitles

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Marga is a well-respected architect who, with years of alcohol addiction behind her, comes home after spending time in a detox centre following a domestic accident. This is now too big a deal to be kept hidden. The elephant in the room is there for everyone to see and, if it’s not dismantled, it will certainly cause greater damage.

Barcelona-born Echeverría tackles here, supported by the great performances of Suárez and de Molina, the problems originating from a lack of communication in families, when a problem that everybody knows about inexplicably turns into an unspeakable taboo.