A cemetery documentary so intimate you'll feel like you're haunting it yourself.
A documentary that invites the viewer to immerse themselves in a intimate and thoughtful walk through Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona, better know as "El Santet", to see what is happening at its surrounding areas and, especially, inside: work, buildings, people watching over those who are no longer here, cemetery workers... A trip through a space that is closer than we think.
Sound
Seagulls and silence do more storytelling than narration ever could.
Cinematography
Decaying marble has never looked this lovingly filmed.
Direction
Blanco turns a cemetery stroll into genuine architecture of feeling.
Director
Sergio Blanco
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
El Santet is Barcelona's most working-class cemetery, where mausoleums crumble beside active construction—Spain's housing crisis literally building over the dead.
Blanco shot this during pandemic-era restrictions, when cemeteries became one of the few public spaces still legally accessible for contemplative wandering.
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