Neus Ballús graduated in editing and film-making at Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra University in 1999. Her first short films, La Gabl (2004) and The Grandad With the Movie Camera (2005), were documentary portraits of two captivating characters: a transexual living in a traditional based community in Nicaragua; and an old man with a recently discovered passion for making films. Both works received wide acclaim in the international short film festival circuit. Then she moved on to a radically original way of filming with Immersion (2009), a documentary shot entirely underwater in a public swimming-pool. The film received the ALCINE’s Best Movie award (one of the most prestigious Spanish short film prizes, rarely awarded to documentaries). Ballus combines her job as director with editing for other filmmakers. The Plague, presented at Berlinale Forum 2013, is her first feature length film.