Sleepless City

*With the participation of the film crew

Arabic, Spanish; Turkish and English Subtitles

Director/Director

Guillermo Galoe

Screenplay/Screenplay

Guillermo Galoe, Victor Alonso-Berbel

Director of Photography/Cinematography

Rui Poças

Editing/Editing

Victoria Lammers

Cast/Cast

Antonio Fernández Gabarre, Bilal Sedraoui, Jesús Fernández Silva, Luis Bertolo

Producer/Producer

Marina García López, Marisa Fernández Armenteros, Manu Calvo, Alex Lafuente, Damien Megherbi, Justin Pechberty, Anne-Dominique Toussaint

Production/Production

BTEAM Prods

World Rights/World Sales

Best Friend Forever

Synopsis:

The City That Never Sleeps is an urban fable told in a New Realist style. In any country in the world, if there is a minority that is discriminated against and not treated equally and fairly, it is the Roma... Guillermo Galeo's debut film The City That Sleeps, winner of the SACD Best Screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival Critics' Week, depicts the devastating impact of marginalization on his community through the eyes of a 13-year-old Roma boy. Toni lives with his beloved greyhound Rayo / Lightning, his best friend Bilal of Moroccan origin, his father Chule, a scrap dealer, and his family in La Canada Real, Europe's largest slum just outside Madrid. Not all of the neighborhood lives legally, and the authorities prefer to control the community by dispersing it rather than providing hygienic conditions. Toni's life is turned upside down by an urban renewal similar to the one in Sulukule and her father's debt...

Sleepless City is an urban tale narrated with a Neo-Realist approach. Romani are discriminated, deprived of equal and fair treatment wherever they live in this world as a minority... Guillermo Galeo's debut feature Sleepless City, which won SACD Screenwriting Award at Cannes Film Festival Critic's Week, tells the devastating effect of marginalization of his community through the eyes of a 13 year old Romani boy. Toni lives in the company of his beloved greyhound Rayo / Thunder, his best friend Bilal from Morocco, his father Chule who collects scraps, and his family in the biggest shanty town of Europe, La Canada Real situated outside of Madrid. Not all the neighbourhood survives on legal activities and the authorities prefer to disperse and control this community through urban transformation rather than improving their unhygienic conditions. Toni's life is shattered because of urban transformation and his father's debt...

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