Como Todo Mortal
Title: Como Todo Mortal
Director: Maria Molina Peiró
Year: 2026
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Running Time: 92 min
Status: Finished
In coproduction with: near/by film
With the associate production from: CaixaForum+
With the support of: Netherlands Film Fund, ICAA, Eurimages, Fonds 21, Amsterdam Fund for The Arts, Mondriaan Fund
National premiere: Festival de Málaga 2026
International premiere: CPH: DOX 2026 (Next: Wave)
On a planet of the Solar System, a remote robot explores the territory in search of minerals and signs of life. Light-years away, an old miner searches for traces of his childhood village beneath infinite tons of mineral waste. Artificial mountains that, blast after blast, have shaped a Martian landscape the local tourism campaigns proudly advertise as “Río Tinto, Mars on Earth.”
At the edge of the oldest active mine in the world, miners struggle with their daily lives while astrobiologists search for the deepest secret hidden beneath its mountains: the Dark Biosphere, an unknown form of life that raises a disturbing evolutionary hypothesis. Interweaving science fiction and folklore, Como Todo Mortal excavates the social, historical, biological, and speculative strata of a landscape between Andalusia and Mars. A complex ecosystem that questions the boundaries between exploration and exploitation, faith and progress, and the living and the non-living.
2026 Festival de Málaga
2026 CPH: DOX 2026 (Next: Wave)
