“Women Directors in Spain? Today we present to you Coraima Mengíbar and her latest project Bloom (flourish). We must not confuse accomplished women with women achievers. Today we are going to talk with Coraima Mengíbar about this professional category where there are not many female figures, women filmmakers. There are some, like the meigas, but they are not very visible (…)”

When a spring has been stolen from us, the need to bloom and to take our feet off the ground until we reach the sky, is already a trip with no return ticket. Bloom is the new audiovisual project created by director Coraima Mengíbar, and produced by índigo, in which the creative from Malaga delves for the first time into VFX effects and 3D Makeup accompanied by the artist, Aitana Basquiat.

“Every flower blooms but does not know when.” This is the leitmotiv of the fashion film ‘Bloom’, a creation that suggests a beam of hope in the face of turbulent times. Presented for the first time in Vanity Fair, we discover the creative director Coraima Mengibar” (…)

Coraima Mengíbar launches a ‘fashion film’ titled ‘Bloom’, in which she introduces 3D effects and the minimalist aesthetics of big fashion brands. The darkness between tears embraces a saddened girl, full of light and longing to get rid of it. She is appeased by the arrival of grief, she settles, but wants to escape (…)

In 2017, Meryl Streep went on stage to collect her Golden Globe for the film The Pentagon Files and uttered one of those phrases that stay stuck in your soul: “Take your broken heart and turn it into art.” And this is what Coraima Mengíbar did in an emotionally complicated period during the quarantine. She delved into all those feelings and thoughts and transformed them into what is now her latest audiovisual project, Bloom.

A short film shot in the old fortress sends a message of coexistence and vindication of women in the Arab world. Everything has its reason, its reason for being. Even the meaning of each character’s name. Nefissa is something of incalculable value; Abdul could be translated as merciful servant; Kamira is a guiding star and Amira, a pillar for the family. They are the main protagonists of Nefissa, the short film shot in the Alcazaba of Malaga that recreates the past of the ancient Muslim fortress through the story of Princess Nefissa.

The Malaga short film Nefissa has been awarded at the first edition of the National Festival of Short Films and Film Music, Cinema Blue, with the award for Best Cinematography, in the Young Andalusia category. The awards ceremony was held at the Nervión Plaza cinemas (Seville). Nefissa was up for three awards, including the RTVA award and the Public award. To collect the award, Coraima Mengíbar and Fran Romguer, director and composer of this short film, took the stage. Mengíbar wanted to thank her family and the Nefissa team of professionals for their support and hard work over two years.