Two beggars, one cemetery, eleven minutes that'll haunt you.
Francisco is a beggar who lives in the Almudena cemetery. One afternoon, while walking among the graves, he meets Julio, another peculiar beggar who claims to be a poet.
Acting
Anido's wordless weight, Chávarri's fragile grandeur.
Cinematography
Gravestones as characters, Madrid's dead watching the living.
Direction
Fernández Otero trusts silence over exposition.
Director
Alejandro Fernández Otero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Almudena cemetery is Madrid's largest, where unclaimed bodies and aristocratic mausoleums share space—Spain's literal burial of class inequality.
Director Fernández Otero based the script on real encounters with Madrid's cemetery-dwelling homeless, blurring documentary and fiction until the distinction collapses.
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