María Garcia Vera

Exercises to see God is a survival reality show. Accompanied by a television crew, three women with so-called visionary mystical gifts are sent to the mountains as contestants on a survival reality show. In the loneliness of abandoned landscapes, they will have to find a televised prophetic revelation with the goal of finding a new Spirit Age in primetime. The three women will be judged in a televised media trial, where the bishop will question the protagonists about their visions related to the desire, the truth and the price of eternal salvation.

Macià decides to visit Ireland following a route that his parents did 20 years ago. Bruna and María seek a place to escape and disconnect. Their trips intersect in Ardara, Donegal County, where they share the last summer days. A summer that ends abruptly where Europe ends. ARDARA reconstructs their journey through what the people who saw them tell us. The film is the portrait of all three and that of the people who knew them. A story that reflects on the very fact of telling stories.

It was 1994 and I was 13 years old. Her name was María and she was the clerk of my video store. One day I went to return some tapes I found her doing something strange and I got scared. I left the store. The next day I went back but she was gone. The video store had closed forever.