As part of the Spain-India Dual Year, CASA ASIA presents Mudras, Dancing Invisible Strings (2025), the debut feature film by director María Salgado and a film co-production between India and Spain that premiered at the Málaga Film Festival on March 8, in celebration of International Women’s Day. Following its premiere on February 18 in New Delhi, the film has begun its tour of Spain and has now arrived in Barcelona to continue a shared story between our country and India. Casa Asia is highlighting the collaboration between Casa de la India and the production company Atrece Creaciones as part of its annual film program at the Cinemes Girona venue in Barcelona. Special screening as part of “IndiaIndie: Indian Independent Film Festival,” produced and organized by Casa de la India with the support of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (Government of India), the Embassy of India, the Spain Film Commission, and Casa Asia, and the first Spain-India co-production with the Spanish production company Atrece Creaciones and the Indian production company Content Flow. 

Mudras: Dancing Invisible Strings 

India/Spain | Dir: Maria Salgado | 2025 | 78’ | VOSE | Documentary 

The film follows the parallel journeys of a mother and daughter, united by dance and separated by time. Thirty years after the mother traveled to India in search of her identity as a woman and an artist, it is now the daughter who sets out on that same path. She believes she is venturing into the unknown, without realizing she is entering her mother’s most intimate territory. Between Castile region and India, past and present intertwine in a story that explores the invisible threads that bind them and poses an essential question: to grow, is it necessary to let them go? 

María Salgado 

Director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. With a degree in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and training in Dramatic Arts at Juan Carlos Corazza’s school, she has built her career across television, documentary, and independent film. Her filmography includes Cuando llega el frío (2025),  Titán (2022), Loca (2020), Lo que se espera de mí (2019), Ixtab (2016), Mills Papier Maché (2013), and A Violeta (1999).