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Forastera


Lucía Aleñar Iglesias | Spain, Italy, Sweden | 2025 | 97 Mins | Catalan, English, Spanish | Asia Premiere

Fri, Oct 31 | 3:30 PM | PICTURETIME 1 (BASKETBALL COURT)

Poster - Forastera

On a summer vacation at her grandparents’ Mallorca house, teenage Cata spends days playing tricks on her sister Eva, annoying her grandmother, conspiring with her grandfather, and flirting with boys. This lazy routine halts when she discovers her Grandma’s dead body. Time stops in this house already stuck in time. Unable to process grief, Cata turns to her grandmother’s belongings – objects and clothes suddenly meaningful and giving her purpose. She begins playing dress-up with her grandfather, who’s unable and unwilling to move on from this shocking loss. Cata takes on a new role at home, or rather, this new role takes over Cata.

Lucía Aleñar Iglesias

Lucía Aleñar Iglesias

Born and raised in Madrid, Spain, Lucía Aleñar Iglesias is a writer/director based in Los Angeles. She holds a BFA in Film from NYU and an MFA in Screenwriting from Columbia University. Lucía‘s short film Forastera (19 mins., 2020) screened at numerous major international festivals, including Cannes Critics’ Week, Curtas Vila do Conde, Les Arcs, Oberhausen, and was nominated for a Gaudí Award. Lucía developed her feature debut, Forastera (2025), with the Critics’ Week Next Step programme. Lucía has worked in the casting department for the Safdie Brothers’ Good Time and line-produced for Academy Award-winning director Peggy Stern.

Producer: Ariadna Dot, Tono Folguera, Cesc Mulet, Bàrbara Ferrer, Marta Cruañas Compés, Giovanni Pompili, Olivier Guerpillon, Marta Reguera
Writer: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias
Cinematographer: Agnès Piqué Corbera
Editor: Paola Freddi
Sound: Ulrika Akander, Therese Gylfe, Tove Lidman, Nora Haddad
Music: Anna von Hausswolff, Filip Leyman
Cast: Zoe Stein, Lluís Homar, Núria Prims, Nonni Ardal, Martina García

Toronto International Film Festival 2025 – FIPRESCI Prize

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