FIN DE FIESTA
The film “Fin de fiesta”, directed by Elena Manrique, was nominated as one of the favorites at the 2025 Goya Awards of the Film Academy. After its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, the film has been a success in its national premiere at SEMINCI, where it received the Pilar Miró Award for Best Spanish Director, among other awards and nominations at numerous national festivals. Currently, “Fin de Fiesta” is traveling to the United States as part of a series of 25 European films selected by the American Film Institute.
“Fin de Fiesta” is a production of La Claqueta and Perdición Films, in co-production with La Cruda Realidad, Think Studio, Story Capital AIE, and Menuetto Films (Belgium). The film is produced by Belén Atienza and Sandra Hermida, known for their work on ‘The Snow Society’ and ‘A Monster Calls’, among other major productions. They have also worked alongside Olmo Figueredo from La Claqueta, who has produced ‘The Last Romantics’ and ‘The Endless Trench’, as well as series such as ‘NACHO’.
Elena Manrique, who has dedicated more than 20 years to film and television production, makes her debut as a director and screenwriter with ‘Fin de fiesta,’ a project that aims to experiment in the field of cinema from the creative perspective. This is achieved after having achieved countless successes since production, with films such as ‘KIKI’, ‘Cell 211’ or ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’, a film for which she won an Oscar as executive producer of Telecinco Cinema.
The challenge proposed by the director to Yembe! In this music supervision project, it was about making the music part of a realistic, almost “dogmatic” soundtrack, in which no music appears without being fully diegetically justified in each scene. With each of the songs being meticulously studied and synchronized by Omar Tenani and Elena Manrique, as a sound and narrative element that accompanies the story and the protagonists themselves throughout the film.
To achieve this, songs such as “Soy una Feria” by Gracia Montes, “Take On Me” by A-ha performed by the “Charanga del Arte”, as well as more contemporary or electronic works such as “Camaleón” by Pablo Fierro, “Birds Lament” by Moondog in the end credits, and other more independent ones such as “Soy Bomb” by Edu Requejo, “Don´t Cry For Me Manhattan” by Cintia Lunt, but without forgetting the two most important works of the feature film; the popular Andalusian song “Nana de Sevilla” performed by the Youtuber Paola Hermosín, and the techno sound of the Madrid DJ and producerARGIA, who He composed the original song for the film’s climax.
Finally, Omar Tenani, in addition to supervising the entire soundtrack, composed the original song for the trailer, remixing part of Paola Hermosin’s guitar as a sampler alongside much more electronic and cinematic layers.
