The red carpet / La alfombra roja

Running time: 12'

The Garib Nagar slums, Bandra district, Bombay, India. Adjoining houses, colourful garbage. Twelve years old Rubina likes this place: “Life here is nice, really. (…) There are eight-ten kids in every house in the neighbourhood.” For Rubina and her friends, the slums are one huge playground. They can bathe in the rain. Rubina knows, however, that each house can drift away, and each grownup or child can get very sick. She wants to be an actress but is unsure of the future. Rubina Ali is a genuine slum-dweller. She has played in two movies; her first one was “Slumdog millionaire.”

Authors:

  • Manuel Fernández

    Manuel Fernández was born in Madrid in 1978. He has a bachelor's degree in Communication Studies at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and studied filmmaking in University of Sydney (SCA). He is working for a famous Spanish television program called Cuarto Milenio as the author of short horror and science fiction films.

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  • Iosu López

    Iosu López was born in Pamplona, Spain. He worked with a range of media at some of the most important news sources of the country before abandoning everything to fulfill a childhood dream; to travel the length of America, North to South, by land. The result, is “The American Seam”, an autobiographical tale of a solitary journey from Alaska to Argentina.

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