On board a ferry, a series of passengers cross a river from one riverbank to the other.
Some of the travelers wrap themselves in silence and observe the unfamiliar fellow travelers or contemplate the scenery. Some others chat, perhaps to liven up the voyage and speed up time.
The journey on the waters seems to expand, the destination shore is postponed, the magnitude of space is blurred. Motion itself is perhaps the only certainty.

Directed by: Manuel Muñoz Rivas

Written by: Manuel Muñoz Rivas

Produced by: Manuel Muñoz Rivas

Cinematography: Manuel Muñoz Rivas, Mauro Herce

Editing: Manuel Muñoz Rivas

Production Design: María Gisèle Royo

Sound: José Homer Mora, Luiz Lepchak, Joaquín Pachón, Alejandro Castillo

Original Title: AQUERONTE

Film Production Country: Spain

Website: https://www.lightsonfilm.com/aqueronte.html

Statement of the Director/s
With each new film project, it is natural for me to return to the foundational question of "what is cinema", and to engage with this inquiry through a wider formulation:
"What can cinema be?".
I feel that the commitment of every filmmaker is to carry out a formal exploration through which, hopefully, to broaden the contours of what we expect from cinema as an art. Both as a filmmaker and as a film spectator, I seek astonishment and wonder.
I would add that I also seek the revelation of something, a kind of truth, which might comfort me (and others) with a sense of belonging.
When I first approached the location where later I would shoot my film AQUERONTE, the river Guadalquivir and more specifically the ferry boat that crosses it, I was struck by the aesthetic characteristics of the scene. Everything that I identify as defining elements of cinema was there: movement, faces, bodies, landscape, sound atmospheres, light and shadow, reverie, the visible and the latent force of the invisible ... all present in the raw material with which to shape fragments of time and space.
Because ultimately that is what we filmmakers do: compose with fragments of time and fragments of space.

Biography of the Director/s
Manuel Muñoz Rivas is a filmmaker based in Spain.
He alternates his personal film projects with co-writing and editing films for colleagues.
His first feature film THE SEA STARES AT US FROM AFAR (EL MAR NOS MIRA DE LEJOS) was premiered in 2017 at Berlinale, in the Forum Section, and was shown at several international film festivals.
His short film WITH THE WIND (CON EL VIENTO) premiered at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival.
Manuel has worked as editor and/or co-writer in films like DEAD SLOW AHEAD, BLANCO EN BLANCO, ELES TRANSPORTAN, A MORTE, ARRAIANOS, OCASO.

Filmography of the Director/s
2023 - AQUERONTE
2017 - EL MAR NOS MIRA DE LEJOS
2014 - CON EL VIENTO
2009 - CON EL VIENTO
2008 - SENDERO

Production Company:
Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Phone: +393661812097
Website: https://vimeo.com/manuelmunoz99

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