The City Councillor for Promotion, Miguel Sainz, together with the Culture Councillor, Rosa Fernández, and the director of the short film, Diego Pérez González, have presented this morning the premiere of the short film ‘Carillón’, whose screening will take place on 12 September at the Bretón Theatre.

This is a production by La Cuadrilla Films directed by Diego Pérez González and with a script adapted by Bernardo Sánchez, based on the play ‘Cuando suena el carillón’, by Martín Nalda. The councillor has indicated that “we are going to enjoy a very Logroño premiere, very much ours. A short film that takes place in the clock tower of the Espolón and with a melody that is part of the imagination and the cultural and sentimental heritage of the people of Logroño.”

Fernández stressed that this work shows that “Logroño can become a magnificent film setting.”

The film has a luxury cast with actors of the stature of Ramón Barea, María Martínez Losa, Josué Lapeña, Inma Ochoa and Ricardo Romanos, many of them from our land.

Regarding the synopsis of the short, which lasts 30 minutes, the film takes us to Logroño in 1948, where Andrés, badly wounded, hides in the clock tower of the Espolón and lives there. María, the maid from the floor below, discovers him. Stealth and danger will give way to the passion between the two protagonists. 75 years later, Andrés Jr., the clockmaker of the clock, will discover the whole truth about what happened in that tower.

Finally, Diego Pérez González thanked the City Council for “its support from the beginning, because it is a very Riojan story”. “80% of the team is also from La Rioja, not because they are from La Rioja but because we have people who are too good not to hire them”, he added.

The director stressed that “the most important character in the film is the clock and stressed that the most complex aspect of the shoot “was working with this space.” “I played a lot with very tight framing and camera angles to reinforce that feeling of confinement and also of intimacy,” he said.

Following the premiere on September 12 at the Bretón Theatre, Pérez explained that “the idea is to begin the festival circuit, with a strong national premiere.” He explained that he is considering options such as the Malaga Festival or the Seminci in Valladolid.

Ticket sales

The price of admission to the premiere of the short film ‘Carillón’ at the Bretón Theatre is 6 euros.

Ticket sales begin on August 19 at 11:00 a.m., during the usual box office hours of 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Monday to Saturday. On Sundays and holidays, if there is a performance, the box office hours will be from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., and also two hours before the start of the performance.

Telephone sales will take place at the same times as the box office, through the telephone number 941 20 72 31. Online sales will be available from today without interruption through the website teatrobreton.org