ON THE FRINGE

Official screening

  • tuesday, 6 september 2022
En Los Márgens
by Juan Diego Botto
with Penelope Cruz, Luis Tosar, Adelfa Calvo, Aixa Villagrán, Christian Checa, Nur Al Levi, Fabrice Boutique, Javier Perdiguero, Irene Bueno Royo, Luis Tosar

(2022, Spain, UK, 105')

A twenty-four-hour countdown for three characters that struggle to keep afloat. When time is out, their lives might be irreparably damaged. Azucena fights her family’s eviction notice. Theodora looks for her son for one last goodbye before her health fails. Rafael, a lawyer, must decide whether to track down the birth mother of a foster child or dedicate himself to his Ukrainian wife… Love and solidarity are the key to understand this social thriller.

Juan Diego Botto

Juan Diego Botto was born in Buenos Aires in 1975 and began his acting career at the age of seven. He worked in La Celestina (1996), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), The Suicide Squad (2021), and Dancer Upstairs by John Malkovich, which passed Out of Competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2002.

trailer

From mother/father to daughters/sons