IUS of time

In an Asturian village, a stormy past and an uncertain future intertwine in an encounter between two lost and lonely souls.

Luca, a young photographer, arrives in the village in search of inspiration and his roots. He stays at the home of Xuan, a cheesemaker and former teacher, a reclusive man living in isolation and socially shunned under the shadow of old sexual rumors.

Despite the initial tension between them, distrust gives way to an unexpected connection: Luca’s camera focuses on Xuan's work, and Xuan begins to rekindle a lost enthusiasm for life.

The scars of Xuan's past and the wandering youth of Luca challenge the bond between two people from different worlds.

  • Roberto F. Canuto
    Director
  • Xiaoxi Xu
    Director
  • Roberto F. Canuto
    Writer
  • Xiaoxi Xu
    Writer
  • Enrique Pérez Romero
    Writer
  • Roberto F. Canuto
    Producer
  • Manuel Pizarro
    Key Cast
    "Xuan"
  • Pelayo Carrizo
    Key Cast
    "Luca"
  • Andy Almar
    Key Cast
    "Rodri"
  • Laura Ubach
    Key Cast
    "Cova"
  • Martina Bueno
    Key Cast
    "Tere"
  • Pablo Valdés
    Key Cast
    "Tenor"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    25 minutes 47 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Roberto F. Canuto, Xiaoxi Xu

Director Biography - Roberto F. Canuto, Xiaoxi Xu

BIOGRAPHY ROBERTO F. CANUTO & XU XIAOXI

Roberto F. Canuto
Film director and screenwriter from Asturias (Spain). He has worked in China for nearly a decade. He graduated in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, after obtaining a degree in the specialty of Audiovisual Communication.
He moved to London dedicating himself to professions far from the world of cinema until he resumed his passion in Los Angeles (USA) by studying a master's degree in film directing at the New York Film Academy, at Universal Studios (Hollywood). As of 2008 he directs several short films. Those years began his collaboration with Xu Xiaoxi. His two student and graduation projects premiered at festivals. After that, he directed various fiction films and commercials in China and Spain.
In 2019 he was the director of the 1st Spanish Film Festival of Chengdu, organized by the Embassy of Spain in China, Ermei Studio 1958 and his production company, Almost Red Prod.

Xiaoxi Xu
Film director and screenwriter from Chengdu, China. He graduated in Fine Arts from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth (South Africa) in 2006, specializing in Video-art, with his experimental short film The Fluxus of ID.
In 2009 he completed a Master of Film Directing (MFA) at the New York Film Academy, at its headquarters in Universal Studios (Hollywood). He directed several short films in celluloid and digital format and collaborates on many others as director of photography (most notably Toto Forever, being nominated by his academy for the Kodak Cinematography Scholarship Awards). He graduated with his work Desire Street, co-directed with Roberto F. Canuto, with whom he will collaborate ever since. All of his films are shown on the film festival circuit and he worked in various fiction films and commercials in China and Spain.
He currently resides in Spain, establishing there a subsidiary of his production company Almost Red Prod., founded in China almost a decade ago.

Directors Filmography

Authors with multiple awards at international festivals, especially with Sunken Plum (Chen Li, 2017). That film premiered in more than 50 countries and has official selections at prestigious festivals such as Raindance in London, Seminci in Valladolid, FICX, Malaga Film Festival or Outfest in Los Angeles. In addition, it won almost 30 awards and nominations such as the Silver Caravel at the Cartagena Film Festival, the three awards at the Punto di Vista Festival in Sardinia or the two obtained at the Cortada Festival in Vitoria, and with more than 200 international screenings.

Roberto F. Canuto & Xu Xiaoxi previously directed the other two parts of their Chengdu Invisible trilogy: Floating Melon (Fu Guo) and Ni Jing, Thou Shall Not Steal (Ni Jing), works that also received numerous awards. In their filmography we find a Spanish-Chinese short film titled Advent (Ad-vientu). Previously his works were filmed in Los Angeles, with titles like Toto Forever or Desire Street.

Recently, they are developing several fiction short film projects and a feature film, as well as a feature-length documentary project about non-binary individuals.

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2024 Blow Down (Blow Down:Colapso)
2022 Water Circles Under Cotton Clouds (Círculos sobre agua, bajo nubes de algodón)
2017 Sunken Plum (Chen Li)
2016 Advent (Ad-vientu)
2015 Floating Melon (Fu Guo)
2013 Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal (Ni Jing)
2011 Desire Street
2010 Toto Forever (dir. Roberto F. Canuto)
2010 Mei Mei (dir. Xu Xiaoxi)
2008 The Fluxus of ID (dir. Xu Xiaoxi)

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