Sergio Caballero’s Rotterdam Winner: Finisterrae

“Finisterrae” the film debut of the director of the electronic music festival “Sónar”, Sergio Caballero, was awarded with the top prize at the International Rotterdam Film Festival. The film, produced by the prolific and off-beat Luis Miñarro whose name is attached to award-winning films such as “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” and “La Mosquitera”. Interpreted by the unknown actors Pau Nubiola, Pavel Lukiyanoy, Santi Serra and Yuri Mykhaylychenko, this tells the story of two ghosts that fed up with travelling througt the shadowlands decide to make the “way of Santiago” till the end of the world called “Finisterrae” to once there begin a short life of earthly existence between the living.

The experimental film was approached by filming and obtaining images first, and then creating the script afterwards, before finally adding the dialogues which remind us to another Spanish produced film by Luis Miñarro, “Aita” by José Maria de Orbe, presented at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival and which followed the same structure when it came to filming.