Waiting for Women
Palm Springs IFF 2008 - Winner Best Student Documentary
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BBC 2009 - Winner Documentary Development Award
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Exposures, Manchester 2008 - Winner Best Documentary
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Official Best of Fest 2008 - Winner Best Film about Real People
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East Sarajevo IFF 2009 - Winner Best Feature Documentary
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Palm Springs IFF 2008 - Winner Best Student Documentary + BBC 2009 - Winner Documentary Development Award + Exposures, Manchester 2008 - Winner Best Documentary + Official Best of Fest 2008 - Winner Best Film about Real People + East Sarajevo IFF 2009 - Winner Best Feature Documentary +
Synopsis
In the remote Spanish village of ‘Riofrio’ the women have left years ago. Only men are left without the slightest possibility to find a relationship.
Not bearing the disastrous situation any longer, they organize a busload of single women to come from Madrid into their loneliness. Their ideal aim is to fall in love! But having never learned how to deal with women, beside their mothers and some motorway prostitutes, the event goes terribly wrong.
Waiting for women is a heart-warming documentary about love and solitude, about gender, migration and hope.
Production Facts
Duration: 35 min
Country of Origin: UK
Language of dialogue: Spanish
Release: 2008 at IDFA
Crew
Production Company: NFTS
Directed by: Estephan Wagner
Cinematography: Estephan Wagner
Edited by: Lawrence Huck
Music: Roger Goula
Producer: Estephan Wagner
Awards
Palm Springs IFF 2008 - Winner Best Student Documentary
BBC 2009 - Winner Documentary Development Award
Exposures, Manchester 2008 - Winner Best Documentary
Official Best of Fest 2008 - Winner Best Film about Real People
East Sarajevo IFF 2009 - Winner Best Feature Documentary
St. Louis Int Doc FF 2008 - Special Jury Mention
Atlanta Int DocFF 2008 - Winner Best International Documentary
Yosemite FF 2008 - Winner John Muir Documentary Award in Gold
Uruguay Int Doc FF 2008 - Winner Special Jury Mention
DocsDF 2008 - Special Jury Mention
Festival La Fila 2008 - Winner Best Documentary
Costa Rica IFF 2009 - Winner Best Documentary Short
Telegraph 21 2009 - Winner Best Documentary Feature
Go Short - Winner 3rd Place Audience Award
Moctezuma IFF 2009 - Winner Best Short Documentary
Festival of Nations 2009 - Winner Bronze Award Best Documentary