El Agua (The Water)

In a village in south-east Spain, where the river is at a border, a threat and a myth, the water carries old tales that still shape the lives of those who live near it. Here, in this inhospitable and free place, a young woman senses how the capricious, violent and unpredictable current that flows each summer is mixed with the fears and desires of those around her. Amid celebrations, family silences and a storm that seems to herald an inevitable fate, the murmur of the river reminds us that some legends are not just old-wives’ tales: they are ways of explaining what cannot be spoken yet continues to flow through human life like a curse from which there is no escape.