EMERGENCY EXIT

EMERGENCY EXIT

Directed by

Lluís Miñarro

Spain 2026 96 MIN

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Synopsis

An actress reflecting on her career, a disoriented anthropologist, two legendary divas, and a group of strangers travel through surreal landscapes aboard a mysterious vehicle from which escape seems almost impossible. As the journey continues, the passengers invent and reinvent their identities while Desire, embodied by Eros, moves among them and seduces them. Time, memory, dream, and reality gradually lose their familiar boundaries, transforming the road into an uncertain passage between existence and disappearance. Inspired by the spirit of Cortázar and the Tibetan Bardo, the film is an eccentric and dreamlike road movie about identity, mortality, desire, and the mysterious territories separating life from death.

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Lluís Miñarro

Lluís Miñarro is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, and producer, born in Barcelona in 1949. He founded the production company Eddie Saeta in 1995 and became an important figure in European auteur cinema, producing films by filmmakers including Albert Serra, José Luis Guerín, Lisandro Alonso, Manoel de Oliveira, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. As a director, his films include Familystrip (2009), Falling Star (2014), and Love Me Not (2019). Miñarro’s cinema is characterised by an experimental approach to narrative, combining surrealism, symbolism, visual art, literature, and an enduring fascination with the boundaries between reality and imagination.

Credits

Director
Lluís Miñarro
Screenplay
Lluís Miñarro, Àngels Oliva
Cinematography
Jimmy Gimferrer
Editing
Diana Toucedo
Music
Anahit Simonian
Sound Design
Verònica Font, Daniela Fung, Fernando Novillo
Cast
Arielle Dombasle, Aida Folch, Emma Suárez, Marisa Paredes, Naomi Kawase, Myriam Mézières, Jhonattan Burjack, Francesc Orella, Albert Pla, Oriol Pla, Gonzalo Cunill
Producers
Lluís Miñarro, José Ángel Alayón (Lluís Miñarro Producciones, El Viaje Films)

Screenings

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