Carla Subirana

My first contact with the world of cinema came through my grandmother Leonor, a cleaner at the Alexandra Cinema in Barcelona. In my childhood I spent many afternoons with her, doing somersaults in the cinema and sneaking into the stalls to watch the films. There, in the darkness of a cinema, I discovered a new world that offered me the chance to travel, to dream, to be someone else. My debut feature was SWIMMING (2008), a documentary film with which I undertook a journey towards family memory in search of a ghost in a family of women. My second feature film, FLYING (2012), made history by being the first documentary filmed inside a military academy, which allowed me to delve into a world completely unknown to the public. That is precisely what CINEMA is for me: a search and an exploration, and each film is a new experience full of treasures to discover. I have more than 10 years of academic experience as a teacher, which has led me to understand that the most important thing in a pro