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Completed - Drama - 89 minutes

Log Line

Miguel is a 14-year-old kid about to go back to a centre for minors. His mother, out of work and with an unstable personal life, is incapable of taking care of him. Everything is thrust forward when the mother suddenly disappears.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2014 (Debut)
  • Cannes 2015 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2016

Director(s) : Alberto MORAIS
Writer(s) : Alberto MORAIS, Ignacio GUTIÉRREZ-SOLANA, Verónica GARCÍA
Cast : Laia MARULL, Javier MENDO, Nieve DE MEDINA, Ovidiu CRISAN, Alexandru STANCIU

Producer(s) : Alberto MORAIS (OLIVO FILMS), Verónica GARCIA (OLIVO FILMS)

Synopsis

Miguel is a 14-year-old kid about to go back to a centre for minors. His mother, out of work and with an unstable personal life, is incapable of taking care of him. This is why Miguel lives in a state of constant urgency, doing the housework, selling Kleenex or stealing from supermarkets.

All this ends when Social Services come for him again, and his mother makes him seek refuge in the house of Bogdan, a Rumanian ex-lover of hers who lives in a nearby town.

Despite the opposition of Andrei, the son of the Rumanian, Miguel manages to stay in exchange for working clandestinely in the factory where they employed as labourers. Miguel has a single obsession, to get back to his mother, and everything he does is to this end.

At the same time, María, the owner of a bar, sympathizes with the boy and gives him the virtually maternal treatment that he does not get in his own home. However, everything is thrust forward when the mother suddenly disappears.

Production

Country(ies) : SPAIN, FRANCE, ROMANIA

Festivals and Awards

Smallisbiutiful 2014 Alberto Morais
L'Atelier Cannes 2015
Montréal World FF 2016 (World Competition)


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