
Ventura Durall
Directing
Biography
Ventura Durall is a screenwriter, director and producer of fiction and documentary films. In 2001 he established the production company Nanouk Films with the intention to create an artistic platform of reference in the Catalan and European audiovisual scene and to create new communication channels between the documentary arena and fiction films.
Known For

Jan, a mysterious character haunted by a deep feeling of guilt, tries to get Violeta back, a youth love he lost 20 years ago, with a sickening plan.
The Offering

Andrés Rabadán was headline news after killing his father with a crossbow. But beyond the chatter of the media, what is the true story of the young man who became known as the “maniac with the crossbow”?
The Forgiveness

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The Two Lives of Andrés Rabadán

In a forest on the outskirts of Barcelona (Spain), a sick old shepherd and his flock of sheep live near a high-tech laboratory dedicated to health research and animal experimentation.
Fauna

A freighter crosses the ocean. The hypnotic rhythm of its gears reveals the continuous movement of machinery devouring its workers: the last gestures of the old sailors’ trade disappearing under the mechanic and impersonal pace of 21st century neo-capitalism. Perhaps it is a boat adrift, or maybe just the last example of an endangered species. Although we don’t know it, the engines are still running, unstoppable.
Dead Slow Ahead

Marked by a tragedy, Lluc, a biologist, travels to Quest, a mysterious and uninhabited island, to carry out scientific research.
Quest

The film is based on Francesc de Castellví's pharaonic work "Narraciones históricas", about the War of Succession, and features journalist Mònica Terribas as narrator.
The case of the Catalans

A first-person chronicle of the journey of Barcelona activist mayor Ada Colau in the form of a personal diary.
Ada for Mayor

Max is around thirty and lives with Emma, his intimate friend. Unexpected news create a gap between them causing doubts and concerns to grow inside Max, pushing him to go out at night. Walking aimlessly, Max spends the night alone and accompanied by picturesque characters in remote places of Barcelona. A night of absurd and fantastic drunkenness that is at the same time an inner journey for Max. Yo la busco is a portrait of two friends, their breakup and the strange transforming walk through the nightlife of Barcelona.
The Night She Moves

Centers on André Malby, a well-respected shaman believed to have healed many people. He is revisited by a devoted believer convinced that he saved her life, and his estranged son, Mathu, an orthodox doctor who turned away from his father’s path.
Supernatural

Bugarach. Nothing ever really happens in this bucolic village in Southern France at the base of the mountain that gives it its name. But the villagers' peace and quiet vanishes when the news story circulates around the globe like a viral video that this close-knit community of 194 inhabitants will be the only place on the planet to survive the December 21st apocalypse foretold by the Mayans. 'Bugarach' dives deep into the subject of the apocalypse to reflect on the fears and coping strategies of humankind in times of deep material and spiritual crisis in the Western world.
Bugarach

Lluís Maria Xirinacs, a religious man, philosopher and political activist, leaves Barcelona on a Monday in August 2007 for the mountains. It was the day he turned seventy-five. Six days later, a mushroom picker finds him lying in a meadow, dead. Ten years later, Duna, a writer in a creative and personal crisis, searches for the ultimate meaning of this death.
Six nights in August

A filmmaker revisits home videos of her 13-year-old self, reflecting on the loss of innocence, self-awareness, and memory, creating a dialogue between past and present.
Skin Despair

The artist Mateo Vilagrasa from Castelló, one of the greatests creators of the end of the twentieth century, who was quadriplegic for 15 years fter an accident, prepares the trip to his departure. This is his last chance to make a difference about the direction of his work and his life. A thinker that paints about the “self” and about the sense of existence.
A Winter Trip

The three protagonists play, eat and argue together. In this, at least, they are no different from other boys their age. But they are different in one crucial way, because nine-year-old Daniel and Habtom and Yohannes, both aged 12, live on the street, sleeping in an abandoned car on the side of the road. Without money or any form of adult support, they struggle to survive in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. And there are around 270,000 other street kids like them. The film records the three boys’ daily lives without being overly sentimental.
The Wild Years

A film piece on the human family and its coexistence with animals. First work of 'The one project', where a scenic artist is invited to create his first film summarizing his art. For this first year the circus company Baró d'Evel, that is Blaï Mateu and Camille Decourtye.
The Missing Part

What should school be used for today? This question led to an educational revolution through the Escola Nova 21 program.
The New School

Milos is about to enter kindergarten, where he will spend the next two years. His father, the director Ventura Durall, wonders how his personality will express itself, to what extent what he experiences at this school will determine it. To try to find answers, he decides to film the last two days in the kindergarten of his eldest daughter's class.
First Stratum

Following a 10-year-old boy who arrives in the Ethiopian capital after running away from home and his misadventures trying to integrate into a group of street children, 'The Hidden Smile' constructs a realistic fable about the values that emerge in a society made up of children.