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Breaking Walls

2025 · 88 min

A warm, gently funny road trip where reluctant dads bumble toward connection, easy to watch and quietly affecting.

Directed by: Borja Cobeaga
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Quim Gutiérrez, Juan Diego Botto, Mikel Losada

Tagline: Fatherhood on the road
Overview: In the late 1980s, in a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. A girls' rhythmic gymnastics team has the opportunity to compete in a tournament in Berlin; but since the girls' mothers cannot take time off work, it is the fathers who must accompany them on the trip.

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Directed by: Borja Cobeaga
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Quim Gutiérrez, Juan Diego Botto, Mikel Losada

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: parenthood
family
coming-of-age
friendship
class
Places: road trip
big city
small town
Era: period
Audience: teen
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Humour	7
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Complexity	4
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Genres: comedy
Directed by: Borja Cobeaga
Written by: Borja Cobeaga, Valentina Viso
Starring: Quim Gutiérrez, Juan Diego Botto, Mikel Losada, Iñaki Ardanaz, Laura Weissmahr, Ramón Barea, Sofía Otero, Irati García Pérez
Music: Aránzazu Calleja
Cinematography: Bet Rourich
Runtime: 88 min
Country: Belgium, Spain
Languages: Spanish

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