The Railroad All-Stars
(Estrellas en la Línea)
Chema Rodríguez / Spain / 2006 / 90 min
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Spanish with English subtitles
“Women and mothers”, reads one of the banners cheering the players of the Stars of La Linea on the day of the decisive match. “We are women and mothers before prostitutes” is the first point of the decalogue they draw up in demand of their basic rights. Vilma, Marina, Mercy, Valeria are prostitutes working at La Linea and they are women living on the verge of misery, right on the border between morality and their own religious convictions, between emotional stability and social rejection. This is the story of a journey across this border.
About the Director
Chema Rodríguez is a Spanish filmmaker and writer. He has contributed multipart documentaries on Latin America and Africa to Spanish television broadcasted in diverse international channels. In 2006 he took part in the Panorama section of the Berlinale with his full-length documentary The Railroad All Stars. He repeated at the Panorama section of the Berlinale in 2009, with his full-length documentary Coyote and also awarded at the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival 2010. Director, screenplay writer and producer of the documentary short film Street Love and the documentary short film Sad Drunk; Jury First Prize.He also wrote the screenplay for the feature film The Great Match. Scriptwriter and director of the TV movie Maras (2010). Scriptwriter and director of the full-length documentary The Embrace of the Fishes (2011). Director, scriptwriter and producer of Nightfall in India (2014), a feature fiction film that is an international co-production. Nightfall in India has got the awards for Best Actor and Best Editing at Málaga Film Festival 2014. Also, it was nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Goya Awards 2015. Giants don’t Exist is his second feature.