Manuel and Elisa

Synopsis

After 53 years of marriage, Manuel Rodríguez and Elisa Flores are still living where they were born, in El Rosal, a tiny village in Galicia, on the northern border between Spain and Portugal. Their hands are worn by years of labour, yet their old age is not stopping them. Day after day, their calm and disciplined life together is limited to going about their many daily chores: making the beds, cutting firewood, burning the grass cuttings, going for a stroll after lunch, feeding their cats, shovelling spadesful of earth, mending the trailer of their tractor…

Director Biography

Born in Pontevedra – Spain, 1979 is a graduate in Audiovisual Communications. He begins to work as graphic editor granted for EFE News Agency and as press photographer in La Voz de Galicia and Diario de Pontevedra.