Alberto Rodríguez : 2014
Marshland
The Spanish deep south, 1980. Two adolescent girls have disappeared during local festivities in a remote and forgotten town in the Guadalquivir wetlands. Two policemen from the homicide division in Madrid are destined to take on the case. One, the younger, is idealistic and progressive and is going to be a father soon. The other, an old school opportunist, is keeping secrets that he would do well not to reveal. Two complex men who would never be friends or colleagues unless they are forced to take on a mission and to obey their superiors. A strike threatens the local rice harvest which complicates their investigations and they are pressed to solve the case as quickly as possible. What they do discover, however, is evidence that many more youngsters have disappeared and that there is another source of wealth: drug trafficking. With deep divisions in their ideology, detectives Juan and Pedro must put aside their differences if they are to successfully hunt down a serial killer who for years has terrorised a community in the shadow of a general disregard for women, rooted in a misogynistic past. Alberto Rodríguez's feature received the Feroz Zinemaldia Award when it premiered in competition at San Sebastián International Film Festival 2014.
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