A Whale

Una Ballena

TIFF65: International Premiere
Ingrid is a hired killer with a special power: she can use the darkness to enter a parallel world and reappear somewhere else in the real world. This allows her to get into the homes of her victims and get out again without leaving any trace. However, using this power is turning her into something that isn’t human. Ingrid acquired this power when she was a child, when a monster touched her one night. Her eyes turned black and, since then, every time she returns from the darkness she expels through her head a strange white substance which she collects and keeps very carefully in a metal trunk. Hired by a local gangster called Abasolo, Ingrid kills a man who works in the city’s Port Authority. He was the last obstacle preventing Abasolo, who has just moved to the city, from taking control of the port. The next day, Abasolo gets a visit from Melville, a smuggler who traffics with mysterious creatures taken from the sea. Many years ago, Melville and Abasolo were lovers and when their relationship ended Abasolo left the country, filled with resentment. Melville gradually built up a little empire with the port as the neurological center of his business. Now that Abasolo has come back, Melville is about to lose what it has taken him a lifetime to build.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Available at the Agora Market TIFF65.
Direction: Pablo Hernando
Script: Pablo Hernando
Cinematography: Sara Gallego Grau
Editing: Pablo Hernando
Sound: Xanti Salvador
Music: Izaskun González
Actors: Ingrid García-Jonsson, Ramón Barea, Kepa Errasti, Óscar Pastor
Production: Señor y Señora, Orisa Produzioni
Producers: Leire Apellaniz
Co-producers: Cristiano Bortone, Nahikari Ipiña
Production Design: Jaime Anduiza
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Spain, Italy
Production Year: 2024
Duration: 108'
Contact: Latido Films

Pablo Hernando

Pablo Hernando has for many years been part of a generation of Spanish filmmakers who are renewing forms, subjects and genres, working prolifically in the short film world and making their films independently and in a creative community atmosphere. Along with Juan Cavestany, Ion de Sosa, Julián Génisson, Chema García Ibarra or Velasco Broca, Pablo is part of a group that began in the underground and moved on to larger sized and more complex projects after having built up a great deal of experience. Pablo’s shorts have had extensive distribution in the main festivals in Spain such as Sitges, Gijón or Malaga. His first feature film Berserker won the New Waves section at the Seville European Film Festival in 2015, and the feature Esa sensación, codirected in 2016 with Juan Cavestany and Julián Génisson, was premiered at the Rotterdam Festival and had an international career that continued in BAFICI.

Filmography

2008 Soy de trapo (short)
2011 Agustín del futuro (short)
2013 Magia (short)
2015 Berserker
2016 Esa sensación (co-direction)
2017 Salió con prisa hacia la montaña (short)
2020 Solar Noise (short)
2024 A Whale