The Bar 2017
In downtown Madrid, a series of mysterious gunshots trap a motley assortment of people in a decrepit bar.
In downtown Madrid, a series of mysterious gunshots trap a motley assortment of people in a decrepit bar.
Miguel is a 14-year-old kid about to go back to a centre for minors. His mother, out of work and with an unstable personal life, is incapable of taking care of him. This is why Miguel lives in a state of constant urgency, doing the housework, selling Kleenex or stealing from supermarkets. All this ends when Social Services come for him again, and his mother makes him seek refuge in the house of Bogdan, a Rumanian ex-lover of hers who lives in a nearby town. At the same time, María, the owner of a bar, sympathizes with the boy and gives him the virtually maternal treatment that he does not get in his own home. However, everything is thrust forward when the mother suddenly disappears
Pedro, a gay man with an active social life and big circle of friends, takes in his nephew Bernardo for a couple weeks. When it appears as though it might become a permanent arrangement, however, Pedro turns to his friends for guidance as he and 9-year-old Bernardo begin to forge a household together.
This documentary is a vision of the Spanish civil war seen by the children of that time: sometimes as a game and other times as a dangerous adventure. A mixture of fascination and fear that was captured forever in the form of drawings.