Camino (Way)

Spain Director: Javier Fesser 2008 / 143 min. / spanish version with czech subtitles cast: Nerea Camacho, Carme Elias, Mariano Venancio, Manuela Vellés, Lola Casamayor

Inspired by a real recent event, Camino is an emotional adventure about a brilliant eleven-year-old girl who must simultaneously face two completely new events in her life - falling in love and dying. We meet her in a hospital room. Surrounded by relatives, friends, priests and an uncommonly large number of medical personnel, she seems almost ethereal as she slips peacefully away. Yet, something extraordinary hangs in the air in this hallowed atmosphere. While her father, José, takes the situation very badly, her mother, Gloria, a religious fanatic influenced by Opus Dei, sees Camino’s pain and suffering as confirmation that her daughter has been “chosen”.