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Mario Iglesias

Pontevedra, Spain

Iglesias (born in 1962) is a Spanish director, screenwriter and editor. He studied art at the Vigo University, and began working as an audio-visual artist in early 1990s. He has made the short films Corten (2002), Intensidad (2003), El abismo (2003) and Madres (2006). In 2006, he made his first feature film, De bares (Drink Up). He is currently working on his new film Catalina.

Filmography

Films by this director

Drink Up

(2006)

Directed by: Mario Iglesias

PHOTOGRAPHY: Mario Iglesias

Synopsis:

Óscar, while waiting for his girlfriend, enters a bar whose walls are covered in photographs. Barman Jotó explains to him that these are the pictures of all the bar’s clients and their friends that have been collected over the years in order to decorate the bar. Óscar is curious and asks Jotó questions about many photographs and so learns about different people’s stories from the past.

color, 91 min

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