After his triumphant passage through the Berlinale, «Way of the Cross»By Dietrich Brüggemann will be in the official section of the Seminci of Valladolid.
The tape was in the last edition of the Berlin Festival, where he won the award for best screenplay and the Ecumenical Jury Prize.
El Norway Festival and Edinburgh festival They have also screened and subsequently awarded this film, which was one of Germany's options to present at the Hollywood Academy Awards.
The film is the second feature film by Dietrich Brueggemann, who debuted in 2010 with "Run, if you can" ("Renn, wenn Du kannst").
«Kreuzweg», «Way of the cross»As the film will be known in Spain, it tells the story of a 14-year-old girl named María. Her family is part of a fundamentalist Catholic community, and although the girl lives her daily existence in today's world, her heart belongs to Jesus. Her desire is to follow him, become a saint, and go to heaven: just like in the stories of holy children that she has been told so many times. That is why he travels 14 stations, like Jesus on the way to Golgotha, and finally achieves his goal. Not even Christian, her schoolmate, can stop her, although if she lived in another world, they could have been friends and even boyfriends. Gone are a broken family that finds comfort in its faith and a question: were all these events truly inevitable?
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