Film Lab Programme

Esquirlas,  Natalia Garayalde, 70’, 2020

On 3th November 1995, the Río Tercero Military Factory in Córdoba exploded. Thousands of projectiles were fired and scattered in the surrounding villages, causing a tragedy that killed seven people and left hundreds injured and affected. In those days, Natalia Garayalde was just 12 years old, living nearby and playing at filming with a video camera given to her by her father. Twenty-five years later, that record of the tragedy captured through the eyes of a little girl has become a powerful reflection on the mechanisms of power, family relationships and the open wounds that history refuses to close.

Natalia Garayalde was born in 1982 in Río Tercero, Córdoba. She has a degree in Social Communication. She directed the short film YuYos, winner of the FOMECA 2015. Esquirlas is her first feature film.