10.000 KM
Spain

One couple, one year apart and two distant cities: Los Angeles and Barcelona. Love is Alexandra and Sergio's only weapon and their computers their only tools to fight the 10,000 kilometres that stand in the way of their future together.

Direction: Carlos Marques-Marcet
Script: Carlos Marques-Marcet, Clara Roquet
Production: Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno, Jana Díaz Juhl, Danielle Shcleif, Pau Brunet, Sergi Moreno
Cinematography: Dagmar Weaver-Madsen
Editing: Juliana Montañés, Carlos Marques-Marcet
Production Design: Laia Ateca
Costume Design: Vinyet Escobar
Sound: Jonathan Darch
Cast: Natalia Tena, David Verdaguer

Statement of the Director:
This is not just a story of our times; it is a story about our times. Pieces of life portraying a story that many people of my generation are living out, have lived or will live: the drama of long-distance relationships. Fragments of a fragmented love.

The Origin
When I left Barcelona three years ago to continue my education in Los Angeles, I went through a painful long-distance relationship. Nonetheless, I was lucky enough to be able to share the process with friends that were going or had gone through the same experience.
Little by little, these stories started to take shape in my head and the characters of Alexandra and Sergi were born, embodying the uncertainties, the inability to sacrifice and the general confusion of a generation in crisis. For Sergi, Alex represents the end of a long road. Alex, on the contrary, needs the continuous excitement of the journey itself.
This doesn’t pretend to be a film about “good and bad”, but a small portrait of the difficulties of building a life together, of what to do with a love that is still alive in a relationship that is destined to fail. How do we come to accept that a relationship can’t sustain itself on love alone?

Technology. Time. Memory
This film also aims to be an exploration of how the technology that brings us instant communication with the other side of the world implies the birth of a new way of relating to one another. What happens off camera over an online conversation? How does that new filter affect our dialogue? Emails, chats, time difference. Screens inside screens and technologies that blur the border between the future and present.
The shooting style highlights the profound, yet sometimes subtle, difference of being across from someone as opposed to being across from their image. That which was introduced to us as the ultimate communication tool reveals its dark side. There is no substitute for love’s dearest senses: touch and smell.

Tone. References.
There are some masterful films about couples that we went over again and again: TWO ON THE ROAD by Stanley Donen, SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE by Ingmar Bergman or NOUS NE VIEILLIRONS PAS ENSEMBLE by Maurice Pialat. But above all, what may be the best film ever made about long distance relationships: IL FIDANZATI by Ermano Olmi.
Our intention was to bring together the reflectiveness of European tradition with the freshness of an American indie. From John Cassavetes to the most recent mumblecore movement; from the 90s indie boom.

World Sales:
Visit Films
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Press:
Lastor Media
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