Malaga Competition Contender ‘Jone, Batzuetan,’ Unpacked by Director Sara Fantova, a New Talent to Track
variety.comAnna Marie de la Fuente World premiering at the Malaga Film Festival on March 15, Sara Fantova’s feature debut “Jone, batzuetan” (“Jone, Sometimes”) vies for the top prize in official competition.
Penned by Fantova, Nuria Martín and Núria Dunjó, the coming-of-age story set in the Basque Country’s Bilbao draws from the lives of all three.
While Fantova notes that it is not based on real events or a specific episode from her own life, it was inspired by the diaries her father gave her of his own youth. “Reading those documents was what initially inspired the development of the film.
What has ultimately remained from that inspiration are the texts that accompany Jone, narrated in voice-over by her father,” Fantova told Variety. “Beyond that, and despite choosing to set the film in a real context—the celebrations of Bilbao’s Aste Nagusia—the story is entirely fictional,” she said adding: “The three of us wanted to explore something that we found meaningful: that pivotal moment when one begins to face adulthood and must learn to balance light and darkness.” The film portrays the coming-of-age journey of 20-year-old Jone who experiences her first love amid the unexpected acceleration of her father’s Parkinson’s disease.
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