The Echo of the Gaze, directed by the Majorcan Carles Bover, has been selected among the 15 pieces vying for the nomination for Best Documentary Short Film at the 41st edition of the Goya Awards, which will be presented on February 6th in Pamplona. It is a piece that returns to images recorded in Gaza and has reached this stage after having toured more than 60 festivals around the world, of which 16, festivals qualifying for the Goyas, have recognized the short film in the official selection and have contributed to placing it among the 15 documentaries vying for the nomination.

Those were hard times and one could jump from a ministry to prison. This is what happened to the Asturian Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1744-1811), a politician, scholar, writer, and one of the most prominent figures of the State between the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Now 225 years ago, on April 18, 1801, Jovellanos arrived in a Mallorca that was not then a tourist destination, but a peripheral territory where people who wanted to disappear were sent, and where he was confined for seven years.