Polvo Serán

In his latest feature, Carlos Marqués-Marcet, whose 2014 film 10.000 KM won the Goya for best new director, treats the audience to a unique, daring, and rewarding look at our unavoidable death. When Claudia (Ángela Molina) decides she doesn’t want to passively wait for her illness to take away all of her agency, her longtime partner Flavio (Alfredo Castro) sets in motion their plan to end their lives together in Switzerland. Unequal parts contemporary dance-musical and taut ensemble drama with a theatrical — at times almost comical — intensity, THEY WILL BE DUST reaches for the raw emotional core of humanity in all its inherent messiness. (Toronto International Film Festival)