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Madrid’s Margins Take Center Stage in Trailer for Cannes-Bound ‘Sleepless City’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Guillermo Galoe’s fiction feature debut 'Sleepless City' premieres at this year's Cannes Critics’ Week.
The first trailer has dropped for “ Sleepless City ” (“Ciudad Sin Sueño”), the hauntingly lyrical debut feature from Spanish director Guillermo Galoe, which will have its world premiere on May 19 in the Critics’ Week section of the Cannes Film Festival. Set in the crumbling edges of Madrid’s La Cañada Real, the largest informal settlement in Europe, “Sleepless City” follows 15-year-old Toni, a Roma boy grappling with the loss of childhood and community as bulldozers close in on his home. Galoe’s film is a poignant and visually arresting portrait of adolescence on the margins, rooted in six years of deep collaboration with the real-life inhabitants of La Cañada.
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