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Nights Gone By

2023 · 106 min

A quiet, drifting documentary that lingers on rural rituals and youthful restlessness, asking for patience as it blurs the line between people and animals.

Directed by
Alberto Martín Menacho
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Juan Francisco Cambero Domínguez, Pepa Gracia, Antonio Acosta Narciso
Tagline
A portrait of four young people from a small village in southern Spain, where modernity coexists with traditions whose origins are lost in the mists of time. A research on the relationship between the animal and the human.
Overview
In this small village in Extremadura, population has been declining since the 1960s, driven away by unemployment. Alberto Martín Menacho returns to this region he knows intimately, and together with local youths, spins stories in a reality suspended between tradition and modernity, human and animal, between a thousand-year-old oak tree and Tinder. A strikingly graceful debut film.

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Directed by
Alberto Martín Menacho
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Juan Francisco Cambero Domínguez, Pepa Gracia, Antonio Acosta Narciso
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • isolation
    • coming-of-age
    • nature
    • trauma
    • memory
    Places
    • countryside
    • small town
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    Content intensity
    • Gore mild
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror3
    Humour2
    Realism9
    Romance2
    Tension3
    Darkness5
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight6

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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Alberto Martín Menacho
    Written by
    Alberto Martín Menacho
    Starring
    Juan Francisco Cambero Domínguez, Pepa Gracia, Antonio Acosta Narciso, Alba Domingo Martínez
    Cinematography
    Sergio Garot, Sara Gallego
    Runtime
    106 min
    Country
    Spain, Switzerland
    Languages
    Spanish

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