Sergi Sánchez Rodriguez

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Color Grading Reel by Sergi Sánchez

Check out my color grading work for motion pictures, advertisement and music video. I really enjoy working with cinematographers, and in this reel I show the best images that came out from the collaboration with talented DPs like Claire Mathon (AFC), Ahmed Tahoun, Karim Marold, Marco Frei, Atila Ulcay , Babor Massomi & Meidan Arama.

Films featured in this reel have been directed by Hanna Slak, Ali Kalthami, Chris Santiago, Carlos Pereira, Abdel & Saad Dnewar, Henrika Kul, Lucile Desamory, Selim El Sadek, Nina Lacin, Gregor Kasper, Musquiqui Chihying, Elom20ce, Gernot Wöltjen, Kevin Sepp.

Music (Out of flux / Daboomjiggle) licensed by Artlist.

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EXILE • FEATURE FILM

127 min. / TUNISIA - LUXEMBOURG - FRANCE • 2025 Drama / Social / Thriller / Fantasy

After a deadly factory explosion leaves him injured and his friend dead, a steel worker discovers dark secrets behind the incident and sets out on a dangerous path of vengeance.

World Premiere at Locarno Film Festival 2025

by Mehdi Hmili

Cinematography by Farouk Laâridh

Color Grading at VOLTE FILMS by Sergi Sánchez

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My Brother, My Brother SHORT FILM

15 min. / EGYPT / 2025 / Animation The complexities of a past shared by two identical twins: Omar and Wesam. A split narrative retells the two sides of their memories - from the instant they were fused together in their mother's womb to the moment they are parted by the tragic death of one of them.

World Premiere 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam

Jury Special Mention 47th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival International Competition Annecy International Animation Film Festival (Short Film Competition 2025)

Golden Gate Award for best animated short film 68th San Francisco International Film Festival

Cinit Award 34th FESCAAL Milan

Little Zebra Award 7th MIWorld Young Film Festival Milan

International Short Films Panorama 62nd Golden Harvest Awards & Short Film Festival TaipeiInternational Competition 17th Psarokokalo ISFF

Color Grading at VOLTE Studio by Sergi Sánchez

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Icebergs SHORT FILM

20 min. / GERMANY. 2023 One night, Theo is confronted with his own fragility. Longing for closeness, he travels to the countryside to visit his friend Ida.

Directed by Carlos Pereira

Shot on film (Super 16mm) by Karim Marold

World Premiere at Locarno 2024

Color Grading at DFFB Studio by Sergi Sánchez

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Direct Action FEATURE FILM, DOCUMENTARY 216min / GERMANY / FRANCE. 2024

Centers on the daily routines of activists, squatters, anarchists, farmers, and people the government deems "eco-terrorists." Directed by Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell

World Premiere at Berlinale 2024 Winner at Encounters Berlinale 2024 Special Mention at Documentary Award Berlinale 2024 Winner at Cinéma du Réel 2024

Shot on S16mm Color Grading at VOLTE Studios by Sergi Sánchez

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From Abdul To Leila FEATURE FILM, DOCUMENTARY

92min / GERMANY / BELGIUM. 2023 The odyssey of Leila, a French woman of Iraqi origin who, after an accident and years of exile, reconnects with her father, a dissident of Saddam Hussein, by learning Arabic and singing her story, driven by an irrepressible desire to live.

Directed by Leila Albayaty

World Premiere at El Gouna Film Festival 2023

Producer Michel Balagué, Julie Freres, Leila Albayaty

Production Company Volte Films, Dérives

Color Grading at VOLTE Studios by Sergi Sánchez

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Not A Word (Original Title: Kein Wort) FEATURE FILM

87min / GERMANY / SLOVENIA / FRANCE. 2023 A mother and son must deal with years of quiet and misunderstandings on a desolate island.

Directed by Hanna Slak

Shot on digital (Alexa Mini LF) by Claire Mathon

World Premiere at TIFF Toronto 2023

Color Grading at VOLTE Studios by Sergi Sánchez

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Night Courier (Original Title: Mandoob) FEATURE FILM

110 min. / SAUDI ARABIA. 2023 In the heart of Riyadh, where desperation and opportunity collide, MANDOOB brings forth the gripping tale of Fahad Algadaani, a mentally fragile man racing against time to save his ailing father.

World Premiere at TIFF Toronto 2023

Directed by Ali Kalthami

Color Grading at BOXON Studios by Sergi Sánchez

Shot on digital (Alexa 35) by Ahmed Tahoun

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Slimane (Short 2023) | Short

19m

Slimane SHORT FILM

19 min. / GERMANY. 2023 In a Germany in the not too distant future, queer people have become even more marginalized and under threat. On the last day of winter, Omar is released from prison and, unannounced, visits Ava.

Directed by Carlos Pereira

Shot on film (Super 16mm) by Karim Marold

World Premiere at Locarno 2023

Winner Best German Shortfilm 2023 (Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis)

Color Grading at DFFB Studio by Sergi Sánchez

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The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie (Short 2023) | Short

17m

The Currency DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

17 min. / GERMANY / TAIWAN / TOGO . 2023 An experimental poetic investigation of one of the world's largest e-waste recycling sites, Agbogbloshie, as a contact zone of complex global economic, social, power-political and technological processes.

Directed by Elom 20ce, Gregor Kasper & Chihying Musquiqui

World Premiere at Locarno 2023

Color Grading at VOLTE FILMS by Sergi Sánchez

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Südsee (2023) | Drama

1h 32m

Südsee FEATURE FILM

92 min. / GERMANY. 2023 Anne und Nuri kennen sich nur über einen gemeinsamen Bekannten, als sie zusammen ins Haus von Nuris Eltern in die Berge zwischen Tel Aviv und Jerusalem fahren. Während der militärische Konflikt zwischen der israelischen Armee und der Hamas eskaliert, verbringen die beiden im Schutz des Raketenabwehrsystems Iron Dome zwei intime Tage am Pool, um den nächtlichen Bombenalarmen in der Stadt zu entkommen.

Directed by Henrika Kull

Produced by Schuldenbergfilms

World Premiere at FilmFest München 2023

Winner at FilmFest München 2023 (Best Actor, Dor Aloni)

Color Grading at VOLTE FILMS by Sergi Sánchez

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Notes on Displacement (2023)

Notes on Displacement (2023)

Notes on Displacement DOCUMENTARY FILM

80 min. / GERMANY / PALESTINE . 2023 By following a family across the Balkan route, a Palestinian director plunges into the horror of exile in a desperate need to recover his lost memories.

Directed by Khaled Jarrar

World Premiere at Amsterdam IDFA 2022

Winner at DOXA Feature Documentary Award 2023

Color Grading at VOLTE FILMS by Sergi Sánchez

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Sirens (2022)

Sirens (2022)

Sirens DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

13 min. / GERMANY. 2022 Sirens is an experimental short documentary that captures Germany's coal-fired power plants in their final years of generating energy. Shot entirely from helicopters, the film takes us on a journey through industrial wastelands, thus recalling the passage of Ulysses' boat through the Sirens' strait.

Directed by Ilaria Di Carlo

World Premiere at Dresden Fil Festival 2022

Awarded Best Short Film at Torino 2022

Awarded Best Short at Split International Festival 2022

Awarded Best Short at Frama Film Festival 2022

Awarded Best Short at Landshut Film Festival 2023

Color Grading at VOLTE FILMS by Sergi Sánchez

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L'accord (2022)

L'accord (2022)

L'Accord FEATURE FILM.

100 min. / CAMEROON, 2022

Directed by Frank Thierry Lea Malle

For Canal+ International

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Constant (2022)

Constant (2022)

Constant DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM.

360 / Digital / Animation / 40 min. / GERMANY "CONSTANT is a journey through the social and political histories of measurement. The film explores three shifts in the history of measurement standardization, from the land surveying that drove Early Modern European land privatization, to the French Revolution that drove the Metric Revolution, to the conceptual dematerialisation of measurement in the contemporary era of Big Science.

Directed by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner

World Premiere at Rotterdam IFFR 2022

Awarded Best Short Documentary at Guanajuato International

Awarded Best Short at IndieLisboa International Film Festival

Color Grading at VOLTE FILMS by Sergi Sánchez

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The Invisible Mountain (2021)

The Invisible Mountain DOCUMENTARY / EXPERIMENTAL FILM.

Super 16mm / 83 min. / USA

The Invisible Mountain follows a roadie for the band Olimpia Splendid on a quest to find the fictional mountain.

World Premiere at FID Marseille 2021

Directed by Ben Russell

Color Grading at VOLTE FILMS by Sergi Sánchez

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Hier DOCUMENTARY FILM. 27 min. Netherlands. 2021

Wendelien van Oldenborgh uses architecture both as a setting and as an investigative tool to question politics and its history.

World Premiere at FID Marseille 2021

Directed by Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Color Grading at VOLTE FILMS by Sergi Sánchez