«A visionary film that connects a thought-provoking search for the mysterious origins of life across time and space. Filmmaker Maria Molina Peiró’s impressive debut is a science fiction documentary and a monumental visual work that delves into the biggest questions with few words. A cinematic experience that delves into the boundaries between faith and progress, and between living and the non-living. In other words: this is a film that must be experienced in the cinema»

Source: CPH:DOX

«We would like to award a film that impressed us both visually and thematically. Its distinctive composition and complexity demonstrate an original cinematic vision, while its editing weaves an extensive web of questions into an extraordinary story»

Source: Jury Warsaw International Film Festival

On a distant planet, a robot explores the landscape in search of minerals and signs of life. Light-years away, in one of the oldest mines in the world, its inhabitants live surrounded by buried towns under mountains of mineral waste, while astrobiologists investigate a hidden biosphere that raises a disturbing evolutionary hypothesis. Weaving together documentary, flamenco and science fiction, Como Todo Mortal excavates the social, historical and speculative strata of a landscape between exploration and exploitation, between Andalusia and Mars.

Producction Company: Near/by Films and 15L Films

Distribution: Gargantuafilm

AWARDS

• Best Direction Award (Biznaga de Plata) Malaga Film Festival
• Best Film Award. New perspectives competition (Novos Olhares). Olhar Du Cinema International Film Festival (Brazil)
• Best International Documentary film. EKO Competition at DOKUBAKU International Film Festival (Azerbaijan)
• Best Documentary film at Nuevo Cine Andaluz Film Festival.
• Best Direction at Nuevo Cine Andaluz Film Festival.
• Special Jury Mention at Warsaw International Film Festival
• Special Jury Mention at LIMA Alterna International Film Festival

FESTIVAL SELECTION

• International Premier: CPH:DOX. Next Wave Award Competition
• Spanish Premier: Malaga International Film Festival. Best Direction Award Documentary (Biznaga de Plata)
• IDFA International Film Festival. Paradocs Section
• Olhar Du Cinema, New perspectives competition (Novos Olhares)
• Festival di Popoli (International Competition)
• Warsaw International Film Festival. Documentary Competition
• Sevilla European Film Festival
• International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa
• Hainan Island International Film Festival (HIIFF). Documentary International Competition, China
• MARGENES film festival. Scanner Competition
• DocsBarcelona. National Competition
• Festival MajorDocs International Competition
• DOKUBAKU International Documentary Film Festival. Dokueko Competition
• Bogota International Film Festival. International Competition
• LIMA Alterna International Film Festival. Iberoamerican Competition
• Trieste Science Fiction Film Festival
• Nuevo Cine Andaluz de Casares. Documentary Competition