After her parents' divorce, Berta (7) travels with her baby sister and mother to her grandmother's country house for the summer. After lunch, while the adults are napping, her cousin Jorge (15) offers to teach Berta how to ride a bike. Berta is very happy to spend time with him, but doesn't realize he has other intentions.
Direction
Jiménez weaponizes sunlight and silence like nobody's business.
Acting
Hidalgo's performance will break your heart in 18 minutes flat.
Director
Carmen Jiménez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Spanish short cinema tackling systemic abuse, often funded through regional cultural programs that paradoxically enable frank storytelling state systems suppress.
The title 'Lava' references the volcanic region where it's set, but also the slow, inevitable destruction beneath deceptively solid ground—like family structures themselves.
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