Film Programme
YELDA, THE LONGEST NIGHT
documentary , Tue, 10:30
Spain, 2009, 12'
Director: Roberto Lozano Bruna
Producer: Roberto Lozano Bruna
Director of photography: Roberto Fraile
Writer: Roberto Lozano Bruna
Composer: Eduardo Tarilonte
Editor: Andoni Jaen
Synopsis: “YELDA” (The Longest Night), is a creative documentary that tells the brief story of an Afghan boy whose family finds itself seeking sanctuary in Peshawar, Pakistan. Narrated in the first person, “YELDA” (The Longest Night), addresses the plight of the millions of Afghan refugees that fled towards Pakistan after the war.
Director: Roberto Lozano Bruna
Roberto Lozano is born in Valladolid in 1968. In 1990, he begins working as a writer in the newspaper “El Mundo de Valladolid”, at the same time working for “Onda cero radio” and other stations while also studying Philology at the University of Valladolid. In 1996, he made his first contact with film-making/tv when he joined Castilla Y León Television, as a journalist and presenter of news, programmes and as an executive producer. That same year, he founded CESNA PRODUCTIONS an independent production company which he still runs, producing TV programmes, publicity, fiction and documentaries.