16 December
Saturday. Nightfall. The ball travels quickly across the court as the players try to find gaps in the defense. Lucía, twenty-five, leaves handball training and sets off to pick up her brother under the lights of a city she thinks she knows.
- Spain
- 2019, 14 min
- Director: Álvaro Gago
- Director of photography: Lucía C. Pan
- Editor: Ricardo Saraiva
- Screenplay: Alvaro Gago
- Music: Xavier Bértolo
- Cast: Cris Iglesias, Javier Valcarce, Fran Pérez, Diego Abad, Ruth Boente, Martín Duplá
- Art Director: Alba Aguiar
- Producer: Mireia Graell, Alvaro Gago
- Production: Ringo Media, Sombriza Films
Álvaro Gago
Spanish director and film editor Alvaro Gago studied audiovisual communications and music in Spain, theater studies in Chicago, and filmmaking in London. His first two short films, Curricán (2013) and Bomboles (2015), won awards at several film festivals. Matria (2017) earned him the Grand Jury Prize in Sundance and was also a 2019 Goya nominee. His most recent short film, 16 December (2019), had its international premiere at the Locarno Film Festival. He is currently developing his first feature film script, provisionally titled About Happiness.