The Flight of the Stork
Soumaya Hidalgo Djahdou, Berta Vicente Salas
- Stage Production
- Launch date 2025
- Running time 52-72 min
- Language Catalan, Spanish, Arabic
Synopsis
Soumaya embarks on a journey to make a film and reconnect with her roots. Together with her friend Berta, they explore the challenges faced by the daughters of immigrant women in their search for identity and their relationship with their mothers.
Biography and Films
Berta Vicente has won awards from TEDxYouth Barcelona (2013), Flickr, and Fototalentos (2013) and Injuve and OSIC scholarships (2022). She did an MA in documentary cinema at EICTV, Cuba, and works with RUIDO Photo and Cinema en curs.
Soumaya Hidalgo specialised in literary and audiovisual translation at Pompeu Fabra University. She received a BCN Scholarship (2021) to document her grandmother's dialect, a project which then became El vol de la cigonya.
- Screenplay Soumaya Hidalgo Djahdou, Berta Vicente Salas
- Production Matheus Mello
- Production company Migranta Films SLU
- Shooting locations Barcelona, varios places in Algeria
- Contact matheus@migranta.film