THE DOUBLE STEPS

(Los Pasos Dobles)

by Isaki Lacuesta

Spain/Switzerland 2011, 87 min, HD

Production: Tusitala P. C.

in Coproduction with: Bord Cadre Films, Televisión Española

Cast: Bokar Dembele alias Bouba, Miquel Barceló, Alou Cissé alias Zol, Hamadoun Kassogue

What is the only thing that is destroyed when shared?

The best way to escape from your pursuers without leaving any trail is to walk backwards in your own footprints. That is what François Augiéras believed. He covered a bunker in the desert with paintings, and then let it sink into the sand so that no one would find it. But who is Augiéras? Legionnaire, painter, writer, gunman, saint, thief, devil or a mixture of all those?

World Premiere: San Sebastián IFF 2011

International Premiere: Busan IFF 2011

Awards:

Special Jury Award - Guadalajara IFF 2012,

Golden Shell (Best Film) - San Sebastián IFF 2011

„visually impressive“ - Variety

„Lacuesta and Barceló have a keen grasp of their moving image, reinforced by intense customing and rich colours.“ - ScreenDaily

„A cinematic Fata Morgana with great visual

and narrative power, that in its process of

time and light reminds of Pasolini.“ - Filmdienst

„undoubtedly poetic on both the visual and narrative level“ - Cineuropa

„A unique collaboration between two artists, cineaste and painter, united by the desire to dialogue with chance and play with the stories as if they were a ball that travels from one hand to another.“ - ARA

„A work of art that surprises through how it transcends Isaki Lacuesta‘s own creative capacities.“ - Cahiers du Cinéma España

„The Double Steps offers a slice of West African culture not commonly seen in cinema (...). Magnificently photographed, the film is certainly unconventional and lyrical; a poetic tale told through the grim realism of the ordinary lives of there villagers.“ - IndieWire