Like them, this film uses humor to distance itself: the wittiest comments, comedy at its wildest and grittiest, at its most desperate, often happens in the very midst of tragedy. Against their immense desire to return home. And it portrays their daily attempts to wage a war within another war: against irrationality, against despondency. This film is about the people charged with the difficult task of bringing order to chaos. Fernando León De Aranoa’s director’s notes A Perfect Day (2015) is his sixth fictional film. In 2004 he founded his own production company, Reposado. As a teacher, he collaborates frequently with the Sundance Institute and with the San Antonio de los Baños International Film School in workshops for screenwriters and directors. He has published the books Contra La Hipermetropía (Debate, 2010) and Aquí Yacen Dragones (Seix Barral, 2013). He’s also an artist and illustrator, and has written short stories and brief narrations. As a documentary filmmaker, he has made Izbieglize (Refugiados, 1995), Caminantes (2001), Buenas Noches, Ouma (segment of the collection of short films Invisibles, Goya for Best Documentary, 2007) and he wrote the screenplay for La Espalda Del Mundo (1999). Festivals in Valladolid, Havana, Los Angeles, Valparaíso, Gramados, Guadalajara (Mexico), Houston, Miami and New York have awarded his works, which have premiered frequently in the Berlin Film Festival and at the Sundance Independent Film Festival. They have also won the Golden Shell for Best Film at the San Sebastian Film Festival and the Silver Shell for Best Director, as well as three Fipresci Critics’ Choice Awards, an Ariel from the Mexican Film Academy, and the Luis Buñuel Award for Best Iberoamerican Film. This group of films has won twelve Goya awards, five of them for Best Director and Screenwriter.
Later came Barrio (1998), Mondays In The Sun (2002), Princesas (2005) and Amador (2010). After a long career as a screenwriter, he directed his first feature film, FAMILIA (1996), which won the Spanish Film Academy Goya for Best New Director. Fernando León de Aranoa is a screenwriter and film director.
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