Three retired women travel by bus on their way to discover Europe. They’ve recently lost their husbands and now it’s time to start living. They’ve heard people talk about the wonders of tourism all their lives and are dying to experience them firsthand.

Directed by: Enrique Buelo

Written by: Enrique Buelo

Produced by: María Alejandra Mora Pérez, Edwina Liard, Nidia Santiago

Cinematography: Alberto Gutiérrez

Editing: Enrique Buelo

Production Design: María Alejandra Mora Pérez

Costume Design: Lucía de Lope

Sound: Claudio Serra, David Doubtfire

Original Score: La Cris

Cast: Tere Alfaro, Ana María Sánchez, Pepa Cortijo, Alicia Flores

Original Title: LAS VISITANTES

Film Production Countries: Spain, France

Statement of the Director/s
My first trip as a tourist was to Italy, and it was an odyssey. I went on a 15-day bus tour around the country where I had time to toss a coin into the Trevi Fountain, hold up the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and faint in Florence. But I didn't pass out from taking in the city's beauty, like Stendhal did, but from getting sunstroke after all the long lines I had to wait in under the hot July sun.

Ever since tourism became democratised, more and more people have the opportunity to travel for pleasure. But the tourist boom has created a tourism model where the true experience of being in contact with other cultures and places or engaging in activities that are nothing like the ones that are part of our day-to-day lives no longer prevails.

Package tours turn the experience into something tedious, predictable, and shockingly uniform. Hordes of travelers waste their time in cities, standing in endless lines to see things that don't interest them in the least, buying useless souvenirs, visiting places that look like photocopies of so many others.

Biography of the Director/s
Enrique Buleo was born in a small village in La Mancha (Spain). He stu- died Fine Arts. He did several solo exhibitions until he finally left his plas- tic work to devote himself entirely to filmmaking.
In 2012 he made the short film "Sângerete" and in 2014 "In self-defense", where he began to take an interest in rural environments and tragicomic plots.
In 2016 he did "Decorosa", a short which got 60 selections and 8 awards in national andinternational festivals. In 2019 he directs "Hell and such" where he deals with his favourites to- pics: the hostil human face, the illusory hope or the involuntary comedy. The short, produced by Quatre Films, travelled around important inter- national film festivals. It won the Special Mention of Jury in Clermont Ferrand and the ARTE TV Award in Dresde Film Festival.

Filmography of the Director/s
2012 - Sângerete
2014 - In self-defense
2016 - Decorosa
2019 - Hell and such
2022 - Women visiting a city

Production Company:
QUATRE FILMS AUDIOVISUALES SL
MARÍA ALEJANDRA MORA PÉREZ
Website: www.quatrefilms.com