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Arde Lucus
Directed byBrais Revalderia
Produced byEvernia Media
CinematographyBrais Revalderia
Ota Hsieh
Production
company
Evernia Media
Distributed byJóvenes Realizadores
Release dates
  • June 13, 2013 (2013-06-13) (Lugo, Spain)
Running time
60 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

Arde Lucus is a 2013 Spanish documentary film directed by Brais Revalderia about the Arde Lucus festival, an annual historical reenactment of Roman and Castro life in Lugo, Galicia. Originally conceived as a student project at the New York Film Academy, the film went on to pick up more than thirty international awards and screen at over ninety festivals across five continents.[1][2]

Production

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In June 2012, Revalderia returned to Lugo from New York with two classmates — Taiwanese filmmaker Ota Hsieh and Colombian filmmaker Andrés Lemonk — to film the Arde Lucus festival as an end-of-semester project.[3] With a crew of fifteen and a limited budget, they shot the four-day festival, capturing street performances, parades, and the preparations by residents who reenact the coexistence of Roman and Castro cultures each June.[4] What was planned as a short film expanded into a 60-minute feature during post-production.[5]

Release

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The documentary premiered on 13 June 2013 at the Praza de Santa María in Lugo, at a public screening organized with the city's Department of Culture.[6] The premiere was covered by Televisión de Galicia and several Galician newspapers.[7][8] Jóvenes Realizadores, a Spanish audiovisual distributor, handled the film's international distribution.[9] In 2018, Revalderia made the documentary freely available online.[10]

Festival run

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The film's international festival run began in October 2013, when it was selected to open the Festival Internacional Cinematográfico de Toluca in Mexico.[11] Over the following two years it screened across five continents, with selections at the George Lindsey UNA Film Festival in the United States, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, the Art&Tur International Tourism Film Festival in Porto, the Noida International Film Festival in India, the Pasto International Film Festival in Colombia, and the Cannes Underground Film Festival in France, among others.[2][12][13]

It was also selected for the 8th Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces, a Hispanic-American documentary symposium in Mexico, and for the 24th DOCANT, organized by Mexico's National Anthropology Institute.[14] At the time of its release, the film was the most awarded production from the New York Film Academy's first-year student cohort.[1]

Awards

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YearAwardCategoryResult
2014Noida International Film Festival (India)Best Documentary (Jury Award)Won
2014Saint Tropez International Film Festival (France)Best Director, Foreign Language FilmWon
2014Madrid International Film FestivalBest Movie Honouring Spanish LanguageWon
2014Art&Tur International Tourism Film Festival (Porto)Best DocumentaryWon
2014International Film Festival for Peace, Inspiration and Equality (India)Award of Excellence; Award of MeritWon
2014Various Indonesian festivalsNine awards across five festivalsWon
2013–2015Various international festivalsBest Director, Best Documentary, Best Concept (among others)Won (30+ total)

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Reception

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La Voz de Galicia described the documentary as one of the most significant international promotional efforts for the Arde Lucus festival.[21] The city of Lugo publicly endorsed the film's international tour, with the Department of Culture expressing its support for the documentary's role in promoting the festival abroad.[22]

In a 2014 interview with El Progreso, Revalderia noted that international audiences at festival screenings were struck by the scale of the event, with some assuming it was a large-budget production due to the number of participants on screen.[4] The documentary was screened as part of the 36th Semana Internacional de Cine de Arte in Lugo in September 2014, where it was projected onto the city's Roman walls.[23][24]

The film's festival success was also reported by national media including ABC and Diario de Pontevedra.[25][26]

See also

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References

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  1. 1 2 "NYFA Grad Earns 17 Awards for Arde Lucus". New York Film Academy. Retrieved 2026-05-10.
  2. 1 2 "Un documental lleva el Arde Lucus a 15 festivales internacionales". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 2014-05-28.
  3. ↑ "La industria del cine de Nueva York se fija en Lugo". El Progreso (in Spanish). 2012-06-22.
  4. 1 2 "Brais Revaldería, cineasta: «Pensaron que era una producción de gran presupuesto por la cantidad de extras»". El Progreso (in Spanish). 2014-08-20.
  5. ↑ "Mañana en la Plaza de Santa María se proyectará el documental Arde Lucus". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 2013-06-12.
  6. ↑ "Brais Revaldería: «Descubrí el Arde Lucus hace 4 años y decidí mostrarlo al mundo»". El Progreso (in Spanish). 2013-06-13.
  7. ↑ "Proxección esta noite dun documental sobre o Arde Lucus" (in Galician). TVG. 2013-06-13.
  8. ↑ "Jueves 13: proyección del primer documental sobre Arde Lucus dirigido por Brais Revalderia" (in Spanish). Concello de Lugo. 2013-06-12. Retrieved 2026-05-10.
  9. ↑ "Arde Lucus — Catálogo". Jóvenes Realizadores. Retrieved 2026-05-10.
  10. ↑ "El galardonado documental de Brais Revaldería sobre el Arde Lucus, disponible ya en internet". El Progreso (in Spanish). 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2026-05-10.
  11. ↑ "El Arde Lucus va a México". El Progreso (in Spanish). 2013-10-13.
  12. ↑ "Brais Revaldería's Arde Lucus visits Prague — official selection at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival". Jóvenes Realizadores. October 2014. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  13. ↑ "El documental Arde Lucus participará en cinco festivales de cine". El Progreso (in Spanish). 2014-02-05.
  14. ↑ "Reconocimiento a Brais Revaldería por participación en Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces". Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces. 2014. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  15. ↑ "Un documental sobre el Arde Lucus ha conseguido ya tres premios internacionales". La Región (in Spanish). 2014-07-22. Retrieved 2026-05-10.
  16. ↑ "Arde Lucus, premiado en Saint Tropez". Jóvenes Realizadores. 2014-05-20. Retrieved 2026-05-10.
  17. ↑ "El documental «Arde Lucus» sigue cosechando éxitos". Noticieiro Galego (in Spanish). 2014-08-23.
  18. ↑ "El Arde Lucus se proyecta en el festival de cine de Oporto". El Progreso (in Spanish). 2014-10-27.
  19. ↑ "Arde Lucus, premiada en Indonesia — nueve premios en el país asiático". Jóvenes Realizadores. 2014-12-01. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  20. ↑ "Brais Revalderia sigue triunfando con el documental Arde Lucus". El Progreso (in Spanish). 2014-09-25.
  21. ↑ "El Arde Lucus cruza el Atlántico y reclama reconocimiento en Nueva York". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 2013-08-16.
  22. ↑ "Un documental difunde el Arde Lucus por EEUU e India". NoticiasGalicia.com (in Spanish). 2014-03-16.
  23. ↑ "Hoxe a cidade de Lugo saca a alfombra vermella coa Semana Internacional de Cine de Arte" (in Galician). TVG. 2014-09-15.
  24. ↑ "Arranca la semana del cine en Lugo — Arde Lucus de Brais Revalderia fue la primera proyección". El Progreso (in Spanish). 2014-09-16.
  25. ↑ "Un documental sobre la fiesta se presentará en el Festival de San Sebastián". ABC (in Spanish). 2013-06-14.
  26. ↑ "«Arde Lucus» recorre el mundo". Diario de Pontevedra (in Spanish). 2013-04-28.
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