Rita belongs to a women’s choir which is in danger of breaking up because they’ve lost the municipal subsidy that allowed them renting their rehearsal room. Now the group has to decide whether or not to accept sponsorship by one of the companies causing the most pollution in the valley.
CHORDS, a film about strength in times of adversity, was selected by the jury – Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Angelika Ramlov, Catarina de Sousa, Nienke Deutz and Yvonne Ashley – at Go Short – International Short Film Festival as candidate for the European Film Awards.
“The voices of women from a choir, surrounded by a monster, which grows more and more – the monster of extraction and accumulation. The voices, and the silence, because sometimes it’s too much, it’s too big, it’s impossible. But the silence of the old woman, the protagonist, who at some point will say “no,” will not give up, will not let go, but will sing, will laugh and live, despite the monster. For that, for her, for her face, her simple presence, at the end of the film, we remain full of bitterness, but full of life. And yes, the voices remain, we will not forget them, we cannot forget them.” This is why Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s Spanish Chords received this important candidacy.
