Sinopsis
The film recounts the day-to-day life of Moha, Valero and Pep, workers in a small plumbing and electricity company in the outskirts of Barcelona. For a week, Moha, the youngest, will have to show that he is ready to replace Pep, who is retiring. But Valero considers that Moha "doesn’t fit the job", and doubts that clients will accept a Moroccan man working at their homes.
Spanish director and screenwriter born in Mollet del Vallés. She graduated in Audiovisual Communication and is an experienced documentary filmmaker and editor. Her debut feature, La Plaga (2013), received several nominations and 4 Gaudí Awards, and her feature film El viaje de Marta (2019) received 4 Gaudí Award nominations. In addition to feature films, she has also directed several short films, documentaries and audiovisual pieces for museums and exhibitions. She also teaches seminars at film schools around the world.
Sala Berlanga. Fundación SGAE
Spanish Authors Competition
Year of production: 2021
Duration: 1 h 25 minutes
Country: Spain
Languages: Spanish, Catalan and Arabic
Screening: subtitles in Spanish
Director: Neus Ballus
Cast: Mohamed Mellali, Valero Escolar, Pep Sarrà, Paqui Becerra, Pere Codorniu, Aina Rue Puiggoriol, Gemma Rue Puigoriol, Oriol Cervera, Judith Vizcarra Puig, Mauricio Barriga, Juan Ramón Sánchez, Christian Ramírez, Alfredo Aloisio, Youssef Ouhadi, Hamid Minoucha, Yuan Jing and Nuria Revuelta
Production: Miriam Porté, Marianne Slot
Cinematographer: Anna Molins
Production companies: Distinto Films and El Kinógraf
International Sales: Beta Cinema
Selected in Toronto, Busan, BFI London, Chicago, Cairo, L'Alternativa, REC-Tarragona. Best Direction at BAFICI; Silver Spike and Audience Award at Seminci; Europa Cinemas Label Award and Best Actor at the Locarno Festival 2021
