The board of an elitist private school is struggling to part ways with the traditional values that made it an institution. The teenage students with their hormone spikes and their disregard for the less fortunate wont make it an easy task. Nor the reactionary parents, the economic interests of an audacious investor and the ambitions of a young psychiatrist.
The janitor, an outcast trapped in the past, will end up being the scapegoat in an incident that will expose a crisis in the education system, as in our society itself.
Ana Díez is a film director and screenwriter. She has a degree in Medicine and in Film Direction from the Center for Film Training (CCC) in Mexico. She is currently a professor of Screenwriting and Staging at the Carlos III University and of Film Direction at the ECAM, both in Madrid. On television, she has been a scriptwriter and director of several documentary medium-length films for CANAL PLUS. In cinema, she has written and directed fiction feature films: ANDER ETA YUL (1989), Goya for best new direction. EVERYTHING IS DARK, (1996). SOME GIRLS BEND THEIR LEGS WHEN THEY TALK (2001). COUNTRY (2008).
Script and direction of the documentary films ELVIRA LUZ CRUZ: PENA MÁXIMA (1986) co-directed with Dana Rotberg, Ariel Award from the Mexican Film Academy. THE MAFIA IN HAVANA (2000), GALÍNDEZ (2002) Award for best documentary at the New York Festival. The short MADRID, MON AMOUR (2004), included in the feature film HAY MOTIVO, finalist for the Goya Awards.
She participates in the Women Filmmakers Collective in the documentary: I DECIDE, THE FREEDOM TRAIN, (2014). Short film VOCES BLANCAS (2017), within the feature film LA DANZA DE LAS FIERAS, festival of Morelia and Guadalajara, Mexico. Winner, together with Manuel Hidalgo, of the Julio Alejandro award (2012), from the SGAE with the feature film script La puerta del amor.
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