This November, four film festivals for CINCO, debuting Spanish filmmakers Diego Gardo and Víctor Candela:

• Big Apple Film Festival, New York
• Centre Film Festival, Pennsylvania
• Santa Clarita International Film Festival, California
• Weyauwega International Film Festival, Wisconsin

CINCO premiered this autumn at the Tirana International Film Festival in Albania, a qualifying event for the Hollywood Oscars and the European Film Awards, and at the Madrid Film Festival, a qualifying event for the Goya Awards.

CINCO is a Spanish-German co-production starring by Alex Mola, Junior Natera, Sharon Sánchez and Pablo Verdugo.

Synopsis:

Ruby is a young man from a working-class neighborhood in Madrid, tired of the violence and distrust that define his group of friends’ daily lives.
Together with Nélson, Daniela, and Alexis, he spends the eve of Saint John’s Night, where every plan and every action turn into a competition among the boys to validate their status within the group.

As night falls, Ruby finds himself at odds with his friends over an alleged theft, with the flames of the Saint John’s bonfires as silent witnesses.

Director’s Statement:

The realities of working-class neighborhoods are often simplified and distorted, portraying their people as a homogeneous mass with shared material conditions and attitudes, thus ignoring their diversity.

Because we experience this from within, like so many others, we know that this supposed mass is not real and that inequality—even within the same working-class neighborhoods—is a fact.
This inequality can go unnoticed in the eyes of an adolescent because it is elusive, hidden behind modesty and shame, as well as behind inherited codes and values—hierarchy, strength, respect, masculinity—that make understanding, empathy, and connection among peers more difficult.

Often, without knowing how, these dynamics seep into our actions and daily decisions, gradually imposing themselves and ultimately shaping our way of seeing life.

Our short film revolves around these ideas and memories, with no greater intention than to step outside the self-absorption of our own problems and circumstances and invite others to look around.

CINCO has been selected for almost 20 film festivals.
In a few days, we will share new successes for this extraordinary debut film.

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