Waiting for Barcelona
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JUSSI AWARD NOMINEE 2019 - Best Documentary Feature
CPH:DOX 2018 - Nominee: The Best Nordic Documentary Film
HS: ★★★★ - EPISODI: ★★★★ - IS: ★★★★ - APU: ★★★★ - JY: ★★★★
"Cinema at its best" (APU)
"Reminds us of The Clockwork Orange & One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest" (IS)
"A beautiful new generation's documentary film, which shows where Finnish film art is going to" (HS)
"Haunting experience..[..] Waiting for Barcelona is a mirror of our times" (Karjalainen)
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS:
CPH:DOX 2018 - nominee for the best nordic documentary of the year
MIASTOmovie 2018 - The Opening Film of the Festival
European Film Weeks 2019 - Finland's representative
BelDocs 2019
Crossing Europe - European Panorama,
Love & Anarchy - Helsinki International Film Festival
Also: Maine International Film Festival 2018, CEME DOC - official competition, The Cinematheque - The frames of mind, Diritti Umani Lugano Film Festival, Atlantidà Film Fest 2018 - Official Competition, IHRFFA - Human Rights Film Festial Albania, Rokumentti Film Festival, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 2019, Koulukino 2019, Lantaren Venster, Rotterdam 2019
SYNOPSIS
Love affairs, friendships and the police on his heels - one of Europe’s young homeless men lets us into his life on Barcelona’s streets
Barcelona’s labyrinthine streets are the epitome of romantic city life – as long as you don’t live on them. But 27-year-old Mou does – he left his homeland as a 13-year-old and has since lived a homeless life around Las Ramblas.
Along the life of Mou, the flm also centers around the idea how the dream of a city is very similar to everyone but in practice differs depending on your wealth and citizenship. While people with money use Barcelona as an amusement park, the poor have to try and survive on the crumbs of happiness the tourist masses leave behind. As the metal circulates and the tourist masses stroll the streets of Barcelona, the faiths of our protagonist are sealed in the shadows.
An upbeat flm about one of Europe’s invisible lives, flmed at street-level in graphic black and white, reminiscent of the social-realist and political tradition of street photography. Waiting for Barcelona shows us a world of suffering and dreams in the outskirts of a city that’s one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world.
2018, feature documentary film, 85 min.
In collaboration with: The Finnish Film Foundation, YLE, AVEK, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Directed & written by: Juho-Pekka Tanskanen
Produced by: Isabella Karhu
Cinematography by: Jeremias Nieminen
Edited by: Suvi Solja, Juho-Pekka Tanskanen
Sound design by: Toivo Kallio
Theatrical distribution in Finland: Pirkanmaan Elokuvakeskus
International sales: Syndicado Film Sales
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