Title: Arca
Duration: 20 min
Year: 2023
Genre: Short fiction film
VO: Catalan
Target: All audiences
Script and direction: Antonina Obrador
Performers: Valèria Sorolla, Bárbara Nicolau, Miquel Àngel Torrens
A production of La Perifèrica Produccions in co-production with IB3 Televisió. With funding from ICIB and the Consell de Mallorca
Synopsis
In a dystopian future where Earth is an uninhabitable place, young Valentina finds herself trapped on the spaceship Ark, part of a desperate mission to find a new home for humanity. Raised aboard the Ark since she was a baby, Valentina is destined to be impregnated when she turns twenty, as part of the efforts to keep the human species alive. Despite her parents sacrificing their lives to save her, Valentina cannot help but question her fate. She does not feel happy on the Ark and has doubts about whether she wants to become a mother under these conditions. Obsessed with an old video, the only memory she has of her mother, Valentina desperately seeks answers and a way to escape her destiny.