La Isla

LA ISLA

La Isla

Directed by Dominga Sotomayor & Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
Chile, Poland, Denmark | 30 minutes | 2013 | Spanish

A family gathers for a reunion in a house on an isolated island. They are waiting for the last person to join them, but as the evening arrives and he doesn’t arrive, a strange anxiety overwhelms them.

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Director: Dominga Sotomayor, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
Screenwriter: Dominga Sotomayor, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
Cinematography: Inti Briones
Editing: Catalina Marín
Producer: Rebeca Gutiérrez, Jan Naszewski; Maciej Kubicki, Anna Kępinska

Dominga Sotomayor
Chile

Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
Poland

Festivals & Awards
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Valdivia Film Festival

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Dominga Sotomayor

Chile

Dominga is one of the leading young directors from Chile. Her first feature film, DE JUEVES A DOMINGO (Thursday till Sunday), was developed at the Cannes’ Cinéfondation Résidence and won the Tiger Award for best feature at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2012 as well as best film awards at the IndieLisboa, T-Mobile New Horizons IFF and Valdivia FF, among others. The film was released theatrically in the US, UK, Portugal, Poland, Chile, Argentina and Mexico.

Her second feature film MAR had worldwide premiere during Berlinale 2015 in Forum Section. Dominga also had her video pieces and installations shown in Tate Modern and at exhibitions in Santiago de Chile. She directed several short films, including LA ISLA (2014), which won the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2014 and Best Short Film at Huesca Film Festival 2014. Her next feature film, TARDE PARA MORIR JOVEN (Late to die young), took part in the Binger Filmlab program and received the support from the Sundance Institute (Global Film Maker Award) and Hubert Bals Fund.

FILMOGRAPHY
2014 Mar, feature
2013 La Isla, short
2012 Thursday till Sunday, feature
2009 Videogame, short
2008 The Mountain, short
2007 Below, short

Katarzyna Klimkiewicz

Poland

Katarzyna is a graduate from the Polish Film School in Lodz and alumni of the Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam.

Her documentary WASSERSCHLACHT – THE GREAT BORDER BATTLE co-directed with Andrew Friedman was awarded Berlin Today Award during Berlinale 2007. Her short film HANOI-WARSZAWA won many Polish and International awards and was voted the Best Short of 2010 by the European Film Academy. Her debut feature film FLYING BLIND premiered in Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2012 where it was nominated for the prestigious Michael Powell Award. The film received three Awards (Grand Prix, Best Director, Critics Award) at the Polish Festival of First Films in Koszalin and was released cinematically in the UK and in Poland in 2013.

Katarzyna is a member of the European Film Academy, for many years she was also a president of Film 1,2 Association, which supports young filmmakers in Poland.

FILMOGRAPHY
2013 La Isla, short
2012 Flying Blind, short
2009 Hanoi-Warszawa, short
2009 Nic do stracenia, documentary short
2007 Wasserschlacht: The Great Border Battle, documentary short
1999 Treading Water, short