Living in a different time of the gypsies, two teenage girls learn and teach us how to smile: Carmen sells furniture in a flea market in Madrid and Lola is a teenage greengrocer. Despite their conservative environment of the Roma community where they grow up, they fall in love and thus start to plan their future together, counting οn affirmative action against the denial of a society that discards difference. A passionate film that toys with all audience’s (progressive or conservative) biases on gender and culture, rendering itself a necessary source of inspiration for all generations to come.
Carmen & Lola
Carmen y Lola
59th TIFF: Greek Premiere

Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Arantxa Echevarría
- Script: Arantxa Echevarría
- Cinematography: Pilar Sánchez Díaz
- Editing: Renato Sanjuán
- Sound: Fabio Huete, Dani Peña
- Music: Nina Aranda
- Actors: Rosy Rodriguez, Zaira Morales, Moreno Borja, Rafaela León, Carolina Yuste
- Production: Tvtec Servicios Audiovisuales
- Producers: Pilar Sánchez Díaz, Arantxa Echevarría
- Art Direction: Soledad Seseña
- Costumes: Teresa Mora
- Camera: Patricia Charlin
- Make Up: Gloria Pinar, Soledad Padilla
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Spain
- Production Year: 2018
- Duration: 105΄
- Contact: Látido Films, oalonso@latidofilms.com
Arantxa Echevarría
Arantxa Echevarría (Bilbao, 1968) is a Spanish director, scriptwriter, and producer, working for cinema and television. Her short film De noche y de pronto was nominated for Best Fiction Short at the 28th edition of the Goya Awards. She is the first Spanish female filmmaker with a feature film in competition at the “Directors’ Fortnight” in Cannes.
Filmography
2010 Panchito (short)
2010 Cuestión de pelotas (doc)
2012 De noche y de pronto (short)
2015 Yo, presidenta (short)
2016 El solista de la orquesta (short doc)
2017 El último bus | The Last Bus (short)
2018 Carmen Y Lola | Carmen & Lola
2010 Cuestión de pelotas (doc)
2012 De noche y de pronto (short)
2015 Yo, presidenta (short)
2016 El solista de la orquesta (short doc)
2017 El último bus | The Last Bus (short)
2018 Carmen Y Lola | Carmen & Lola