It is summertime in a blue-collar, marginal district of a city in the South of Spain. Tano, a teenager currently serving a sentence in a juvenile reform center, is given a 48-hour leave to attend his brother’s wedding.
Acting
Ballesta's restless physicality—every second feels borrowed.
Cinematography
Seville's concrete suburbs shot like a fever dream.
Score
Underground Spanish hip-hop becomes narrative heartbeat.
Director
Alberto Rodríguez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pioneered 'cine quinqui' revival—Spain's gritty take on disaffected youth cinema, directly inspired by Italian neorealism but with flamenco and trap beats.
Director Alberto Rodríguez and star Juan José Ballesta reunited for 'El Niño' (2014), essentially this film's older brother—same streets, same demons, ten years later.
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