The Rye Horn
Jaione Camborda
2023
About Film
1971, Francoist Spain. In the Galician countryside, María assists women in childbirth. After an attempt to help a young woman in trouble, she suddenly has to hide from the authorities, leave everything behind, and flee the country.
On her perilous journey to Portugal via an old smugglers’ route María encounters female solidarity and realizes that she is not alone and that, thanks to the help of others, she might finally find her freedom.
About Director
Graduated from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and the University of Television and Film Munich. Her first film Arima (2019) won the Best Director Award in the section New Waves of Seville European Film Festival and Best Film in the section Escáner of the festival Márgenes, and it was screened in the Made in Spain selection of San Sebastian Film Festival. She has also been selected to participate in Toronto International Film Festival’s Filmmaker Lab, ECAM’s development program La Incubadora - The Screen, SSIFF’s program Ikusmira Berriak, as well as being recently beneficiary of the TIFF Canada Goose Scholarship.