Pablo’s Winter

Synopsis

Pablo’s Winter is the story of a retired mercury miner trying to stop smoking, with the end of the mining culture as an important backdrop. These miners and their families have been widely underrepresented. Therefore, with this film we aim to make justice to the essential role that the mercury miners have had in the history of this town. Pablo, a chain smoker retired miner is always sitting down at his living room table. When Pablo visits the doctor, we find out that he has suffered five heart attacks. The doctor urges the miner to stop smoking. Pablo shrugs and buys 40 packets of fags in his way home…

Director Biography

After several awarded short fiction films, Chico Pereira (born 1979 in Almaden, Spain) moves towards documentary by devising minimalist narratives inspired by real-life characters and performed by them. Pablo’s Winter is his first feature length work and the application of his Masters research within the documentary genre.