Un hombre en un puente is the new film by David Martín de los Santos, who was nominated for the Goya Award for Best New Director in 2022 for That Was Life [+lire aussi :
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There, however, he come face to face with three key figures from his past: Lucía (played by Belén Cuesta, winner of the Goya award for The Endless Trench [+lire aussi :
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According to Martín de los Santos, “the protagonist of this film goes through a crisis of both spiritual and material belonging.” “I am interested in exploring ideas of loss of identity and forgetting, and what it means to disconnect from our umbilical cord. As a society, we live on the brink of dehumanisation and individualism, despite the fact that, by nature, we depend on others. Andrés is an erratic and contradictory human being who carries guilt and shame for his failures. In this story, in the midst of crisis, he searches for a home while trying to redeem himself for past mistakes. I am interested in exploring to what extent crisis and vulnerability make him more aware and empathetic, to what extent he is responsible for his mistakes, and to what extent he is a victim of his social context," concludes the filmmaker.

The film, with cinematography by Santiago Racaj (Goya Award nominee for Summer 1993 [+lire aussi :
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Un hombre en un puente is produced by Amaya Izquierdo for Vértigo Films and José Nolla for Icónica; together with the Spanish company LaNube and the Peruvian company Suena Perú. It is supported by the ICAA, Madrid City Council, the Community of Madrid and the Regional Government of Andalusia, with the participation of Canal Sur. It will be distributed in Spanish cinemas by Vértigo Films.