MAMÁ

Mummy

España. 1989. Color. 13 min. Ficción. .

Film Director: Pablo Berger.
Scriptwriter: Pablo Berger.
Art director: Alex de la Iglesia.

We are shut up in a basement because the Martians have destroyed the Erandio Nuclear Station. Grandmother is dead and begins to stink. Several days have passed. Mama is crying. Papa has made a decision.

Pablo Berger

Pablo is a director and a publicist born in Bilbao in 1963. In 1988, he directed his first short film, 'Mamá', with Álex de la Iglesia as art director and with the collaboration of Torrebruno and Ramón Barea. With his first won awards, he obtained a grant to study a Master in Film Directing in New York University. After the doctorate, he worked as Directing professor in the NYFA (New York Film Academy). From then, he started a career of publicist and videoclips director, culminating in 2003 with the shooting of 'Torremolinos 73', with Javier Cámara, Fernando Tejero and Candela Peña. In 2012 he opened his third film 'Blancanieves', that will be the Spanish representative in the Oscar in the Category Best non English Film.