Neus Ballús
Neus Ballús is a Catalan film director and scriptwriter.
She has a degree in Audiovisual Communication and a Master in Documentary Making from the Pompeu Fabra University. She released her first film La plaga in 2013, which was screened at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. It won 4 Gaudí Awards and was nominated for the LUX Prize, the European Film Awards and the Goya Awards. The film portrays everyday life in a rural zone of the periphery of Barcelona, named Gallecs. Before, she had done some shorts like La Gabi, L'avi de la càmera and the documentary Immersió, awarded with the Best Short Film Prize at the ALCINE Festival.
Her second film, El viatge de Marta , also premiered at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival and was screened in cinemas in France and Spain. It is about a 17-year-old girl who spends her Christmas holidays in Senegal with her brother and father. Tired of family planned trips, and of her father's behaviour, she opens the door to the staff area and discovers a world that allows her to develop close and complex relationships.
In August 2021, her film Sis dies corrents, premiered at the 74th Locarno Film Festival, telling the story of a young Moroccan plumber who has to deal with equally eccentric colleagues and customers in order to get through his one-week probationary contract.