Sleepless City

Synopsis

_ Toni is 15 and lives in Cañada Real, Europe’s biggest irregular shanty town, on the outskirts of Madrid. Proud of belonging to his family of scrap dealers, he spends his days with his grandfather, whom he admires and follows wherever he goes. But the demolition machines are approaching their plot, threatening to destroy everything they know. The grandfather refuses to leave, no matter what the cost. In dark nights with no electricity, the legends of his childhood feel more real than ever before. While everything around him changes, Toni must make a choice: to face an uncertain future or to cling on to a disappearing world.

YEAR OF PRODUCTION

2025

COUNTRIES

España - Francia

GENRE

Drama

DURATION

97 minutos

CAST

Antonio "Toni" Fernández Gabarre, Bilal Sedraoui, Jesús "Chule" Fernández Silva, Manuela "Aneli" Fernández Fernández, Debora "Sulami" Vargas, Francisca "Paqui" Jiménez Fernández, Sana Aghmir

DIRECTOR

Guillermo Galoe

SCREENPLAY

Guillermo Galoe, Victor Alonso -Berbel

PRODUCED BY

Les Valseurs, Tournellovision, Ciudad sin sueño película AIE, Sintagma Films, Bunapinta Media, Encanta Films Bteam Prods.

AWARDS

Cannes Film Festival 2025
Winner of the SACD Award for Best Screenplay at the Cannes Critics’ Week 2025
Brussels International Film Festival 2025
Special Jury Mention
MedFilm Festival Rome 2025
WWF Prize Award and Special Mention from the University Jury
Cambridge Film Festival 2025
Golden Punt Award for Best Discovery Feature
Abycine Indie 2025
Young Jury Award and Albacete Journalists Award
Murcia International Film Festival 2025
Best Film Award
Almería International Film Festival 2025
Best First Feature
RIZOMA International Film & Interwoven Culture Festival 2025
Best Sound Design Award, Best Film Award, and Best Surrealist Cinematography (Contemporary Surrealism Section)
Doha International Film Festival 2025
Best Film in the International Competition
40th Goya Awards
Best New Actor Award

CRÍTICAS

"Galoe composes a realistic, vibrant, and fresh western that moves between fiction and fabulation, between what is told and what it tells us."

_ El Mundo

"It is destined to win awards far and wide by expanding the boundaries of social cinema."

_ Cine con Ñ

"Beautiful and powerful."

_ Le Monde

"A promising debut."

_ Variety

"PPolitics and poetry merge with a memorable effect. Vibrant, melancholic, and immersive."

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