Film
Film
Ombligo
Taipei Adaptation
Barcelona Graffiti
Tofu Man
A Stone and an Otter
Esparteros
Celuloide
Bitcho
Bye Bye, Love
A Dog Barking at the Moon
Directed by Lisa Zi Xiang, this is my first feature film as a producer and as a director of photography.
Selected at the 69th edition of Berlinale for the Panorama section, it won the Teddy Award Special Jury Prize, as well as the Best Narrative Film in Toronto InsideOut Film Festival, Best Feature Film at Seoul Women Film Festival and around 30 selections worldwide.
Taipei Adaptation
In the bustle of Taipei, a young film director spends her anniversary with her husband and two daughters while facing a disturbing existential question: is her life the result of free choice, or a twisted game designed by invisible forces? Shot in just 12 days and inspired by the real-life experience of director Lisa Zi Xiang (winner of the Teddy Award at the 2019 Berlinale for A Dog Barking at the Moon), Taipei Adaptation transforms an apparently ordinary day into an intimate and unsettling journey to the limits of perception within the heart of an outwardly normal family.
Credits
Cast: Lisa Zi Xiang, Irene Val Xiang, Ainhoa Val Xiang, Zhi Yun Chang, Huang Lin-cheng, Chien Chi Sun, Ya Ju Hsiao
Directed by Lisa Zi Xiang
Director of Photography: José Val Bal
Produced by Lisa Zi Xiang, José Val Bal
Production company: The Film Office
Jacqueline. La liberté
Rosalía is an actress who, like 96% of her colleagues, cannot make a living from her craft. One day she meets Jacqueline, an 86-year-old woman with physical disabilities who wishes to exercise her right to euthanasia. From that moment, they develop a friendship that lasts until Jacqueline’s final flight—true to the spirit of the skilled acrobat she once was.
Credits
Cast: Jacqueline Cuendet, Rosalía Omil
Directed by Rosalía Omil
Edited by José Val Bal
Produced by Lisa Zi Xiang, José Val Bal
Production company: The Film Office
Ombligo
Rafa recalls his childhood, when at the age of ten he became the black sheep of his large ultra-Catholic family for refusing to accept the customs and hierarchy that had been imposed on him since early childhood. In the form of an absurd comedy, Ombligo scorns the classist impositions of religion and satirizes the concept of the “Spanish family” inherited from the dictatorship.
Credits
Cast: Antonio Zabálburu, Rosalía Omil, Sergio Reifs, Íñigo de la Serna, Juan Carlos Montilla, Rosalinda Galán, Paula Reyes, Eduardo Castresana, Millán de Benito
Directed and photographed by José Val Bal
Produced by Lisa Zi Xiang, José Val Bal
Music by Rosalina Galán
Production company: Acorn Studio
