2013
A film by Marcelo Piñeyro
Ismael Tchou (8 years old, African mother) boards the AVE in Atocha, destination Barcelona. He ran away from home because he wants to find Félix Ambrós, his father, whom he has never met. His only clue is the address of an apartment in the County City, written on the return address of a letter sent to his mother. Once he arrives he manages to locate the building, but instead of finding his father in the apartment, he finds an elegant woman in her fifties, Nora, none other than Félix Ambrós’ mother, his unknown grandmother.
Félix never told Nora anything about that child’s existence. But as soon as she reaches him on the phone, he doesn’t deny his paternity. Nora, after warning Alika, the child’s mother, decides to take him to meet Félix. Grandmother and grandchild embark on a journey to a village in Costa Brava, where Félix has been living for a long time. Alika and Luis, her husband, travel to the coast in search for the boy.
The encounter Ismael triggers with the desire to meet his biological father will make all the characters try and settle their debts with the past.
Cast
Mario Casas, Larsson do Amaral, Belén Rueda, Ella Kweku, Sergi López and Juan Diego Botto
Director
Marcelo Piñeyro
Producers
Francisco Ramos and Antonio Asensio
Co-producers
Mercedes Gamero and Mikel Lejarza
Line producer
Josep Amorós
Delegate producers
Eneko Gutiérrez (Zeta Cinema), Rosa Pérez (Atresmedia Cine) and Creu Rodriguez (TV3)
Screenplay
Verónica Fernández, Marcelo Figueras y Marcelo Piñeyro
DoP
Xavi Giménez
Art director
Balter Gallar
Music
Javier Limón
Editing
Irene Blecua
Sound
Charly Schmuckler
Sound mixer
Alfonso Raposo
Costume designer
Loles García
Make up and hair
Eva R. Fontenla
Casting
Yolanda Serrano y Eva Leira
Assintant director
Javier Petit