05/05. Friday

19:00 Trueba cinemas 1

Tener tiempo

Mario Alejandro Arias, Gabriela Alonso Martínez, Nicolás Martín Ruiz (Spain - 2021 - 77’ - VO - Opera prima - Basque Country Premiere)

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Madrid, spring 2021. The pandemic refuses to go away and the regional elections are approaching. A few young people rap and talk about the future, job insecurity, their friends, about their parents...we see them at home, in parks, in bars...while some of them decide to make a film. Between reality and fiction, between cinema and meta-cinema, this documentary that refuses to be a documentary, that films gestures and words to tell the stories of our times, is also the chronicle of a generation that does not have it easy, but that nevertheless fights and creates,constantly inventing new ways of living and living together in society. And the film, an overflowing collective work, looks at them without any condescension, with a brave and supportive gaze.

Data sheet

  • Director: Mario Alejandro Arias, Gabriela Alonso Martínez, Nicolás Martín Ruiz
  • Year: 2021
  • Country: Spain
  • Length: 77 min.
  • Original language: Spanish
  • Leadings: Kiko Nates, Pedro Novillo, Jesús Palacios
  • Producers: Mario Alejandro Arias
  • Film company: ECAM

Mario Alejandro Arias, Gabriela Alonso Martínez, Nicolás Martín Ruiz

Mario Alejandro Arias, Gabriela Alonso Martínez, Nicolás Martín Ruiz

Mario Alejandro Arias, Gabriela Alonso Martínez and Nicolás Martin Ruiz meet during their years in the ECAM film school while studying Documentary filmmaking. They develop a strong friendship in which they share interests regarding the current youth, the hybrid between fiction and reality, actor-less cinema... together they make “Tener Tiempo” / “To have Time” a film through which they seek to tell the story of Pedro, Kiko and Jesús, one that they see themselves reflected in. A generational portrait that showcases what they’ve felt and lived during their last years.