The bonds that hold us together – family, friends, partners – can be a source of joy and happiness, but they can also be spaces of conflict, pain, and even ferocity. Writing about these bonds involves delving into the complexity of emotions and recreating the ways that intimacy – what we do and don’t do, what we say and don’t say – shapes our lives. Literature and cinema, each with its own languages, tackle the representation of these emotions and tensions using different strategies. In this hybrid conversation between audiovisual creators and novelists, we will discover the different ways of turning the fragility of bonds into creative fodder.

A unique session that brings together the novelist and editor Berta Dávila, one of the most well-known voices in contemporary Galician literature and author of books such as The Dear Ones, Galician Critics’ Prize, with the screenwriter Eduard Sola, responsible, among other films, for La casa en flames [A House on Fire], one of the most watched Catalan films in history. Journalist David Guzmán moderates this exploration of fierce attachments and how writing and audiovisual creation can narrate, question, and transform them.