Downriver, a Tiger

Júlia arrived some time ago in Glasgow fleeing from Barcelona; she wanted to start from scratch. Years have passed and she seems stuck: in the mornings she tries to pursue her career as a photographer, at night she cleans dishes in a restaurant. One afternoon, while taking portraits of pedestrians crossing a bridge, one of her eyes begins to fail. As illness begins to spread Júlia will begin a search into the past to the depths of Glasgow and its history. The river will carry her towards a memory: the day she met a mysterious group of men who pulled objects from the depths of the water and among them a strange Indian boy, Shubham, who also came to the city from far away in search of a new life.

Bachelor’s degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Pompeu Fabra University and the University of California (Film and Media Studies), upon his return to Barcelona Victor Diago began his career as an editor and director. He has worked on several documentary and fiction productions. Some of them have been screened at festivals such as the Seville European Film Festival, Seriesmania, Málaga Film Fest or Alternativa Film Fest, obtaining multiple awards. He has worked as an editor on the recently released series Autodefensa (2022), which won the award for Best Short Series at the Seriesmanía festival (2023) or Terenci, la fabulació infinita (2023). In 2018 he directed is first medium-length film, Domingo, and was a producer, editor and director for Soy Cámara, the documentary program of the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB). His first feature film, Downriver, a Tiger, was selected for the First Look WIP section at the Locarno Film Festival. He is also developing his second feature film as a director, Las Manos Quietas, which has been selected at the Mallorca Talents Lab development section (Atlántida Film Festival).