10/10/2022 - The Lullaby actress is playing a woman who has just split up with her partner and who seeks refuge in a remote village in the Pyrenees

Director Elena Trapé (centre, wearing sunglasses) flanked by actress Laia Costa and actor Daniel Pérez-Prada during the shoot for Els Encantats

A few days ago, the shoot wrapped for Els Encantats [+see also:
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The screenplay – written by Trapé together with Miguel Ibáñez Monroy – tells the story of Irene, who, after her recent break-up, travels to Antist, a tiny village in Vall Fosca, where she has a house that she inherited from her parents. The journey is born of an impulse: she needed to escape the feeling of losing control over a new life that is starting to overwhelm her, as this is the first time she has distanced herself from her daughter. Once there, she tries to find the feeling of safety that she has been craving, and which she felt as a little girl, when she would spend entire summers in the village and nothing was as complicated as it is now. However, the solitude afforded by this place also brings another feeling to the surface: the sense of failure, which she has been dragging around with her ever since she broke up with her partner.

Elena Trapé, who graduated in Film Directing from the ESCAC (Film and Audiovisual Graduate School of Catalonia), began by directing the short films No quiero la noche and Pijamas, as well as various adverts. In 2008, she directed the TV movie La ruina, which was nominated for a Gaudí Award. In 2010, her feature debut, Blog, was premiered at the San Sebastián Film Festival (in the New Directors section), scooping the Otra Mirada Award from TVE.

In 2015, she directed the documentary Words, Maps, Secrets and Other Things, about Isabel Coixet, which was presented at the Málaga Film Festival. Her second feature, Distances, was premiered at that same gathering in 2018, where it was festooned with the Golden Biznaga for Best Film, and the Silver Biznagas for Best Director and Best Actress (for Alexandra Jiménez). She has also directed various episodes of the series HIT, Rapa [+see also:
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For his part, co-screenwriter Miguel Ibáñez Monroy, who also graduated from ESCAC, worked with the company Comediants on the co-writing of Skribo, una aventura caligráfica and Perséfone. In the field of television, he is most notable for his work on Boca Norte and Cites. In film, he has worked on the storylines for La mujer dormida by Laura Alvea, Distances by Elena Trapé and The Year of the Plague [+see also:
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Els Encantats is a production by Coming Soon Films, A Contracorriente Films and Encantats Films AIE. It boasts the involvement of RTVE and TVC, and has received backing from ICAA and ICEC. It will be distributed in Spanish theatres by A Contracorriente Films.

(Translated from Spanish)