En construcción
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An author spent a year and a half filming what happened as a new apartment building was built in the El Chino neighborhood of Barcelona. En Construccion focuses less on the practicalities of raising a building than the impact the project has on those who live in the neighborhood, including a teenage couple squatting in a nearby building, an illegal alien looking for work for himself and his son, and a neighborhood girl who becomes infatuated with one of the construction workers. The death of a stray cat and the discovery of a mass grave during construction also points to the tragic losses that are sometimes part and parcel of progress.
Credits
- Distributor : Imagina
- Photo Director : Alex Gaultier
- Editing : Mercedes Álvarez, Nuria Esquerra
- Sound Recorder : Amanda Villavieja
- Director : José Luis Guerín
- Scenario : José Luis Guerín
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Year of production : 2001
- French release date : 10 September 2008
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Colors
- Language : Spanish