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15 Years and One Day

2013 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ14947286 ↗
Source-derived summary

15 Years and One Day (Spanish: 15 años y un día) is a 2013 Spanish drama film directed and co-written by Gracia Querejeta. The film was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The film is a Tornasol Films and Castafiore Films production, with the participation of TVE and Canal+ and the sponsor of Estudios Ciudad de la Luz.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “15 Years and One Day” as 2013 film. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—2013-06-07, 2013-04-25, 2013-09-21, 2013-09-28—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Years and film can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2013 film. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14947286. 1 of 8 selected statements include explicit references; 7 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “15 Years and One Day”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 15 Years and One Day primary sources, 15 Years and One Day archive and Years research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “15 Years and One Day”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “15 Years and One Day” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.