‘While it’s you, the here and time of Carme Elías’, the documentary directed by Claudia Pinto regarding the veteran Catalan actress and the progression of her illness since she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2019, has won the Goya for best documentary.
The film, whose origin is Elías’s autobiographical book ‘When it is no longer me’, competed with ‘This excessive ambition’, regarding the ‘Sin canto ni afinar’ tour, by C.Tangana; ‘With you, with you and without me’, by Amaya Villar Navascués; ‘Iberia infinite’, by Arturo Menor, and ‘Caleta Palace’, by José Antonio Hergueta, who creates the libertarian Málaga of 1937.
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The Venezuelan director was very excited because today is her birthday and they sang her happy birthday on stage. The director, a friend of Elias, has claimed to feel happy and sad at the same time. The actress, winner of a Goya in 2009 for ‘Camino’, is the absolute protagonist of this intimate and calm documentary in which the interpreter reviews her life and confides in her friend, Claudia Pinto, with whom she was filming ‘The consequences’ when He began to notice the first symptoms of his illness.
In 2022, Elias made her diagnosis public and the two decided to shoot their third and last film together. What begins as a secret and unpretentious film ends up becoming a forceful invitation to live in the present, a pact of love and friendship.
