To Our Friends

Sara, a young woman from a working-class suburb of Madrid, loves to raise hell with her best friend, Pedro, and their group. He works in the family watchmaking workshop, while she is sitting her university exams, but having reservations about her future. Over the course of a summer, she makes new acquaintances who introduce her to their world of theatre, where she falls in love with Paula. In this whirlwind of new possibilities, full of love, parties and encounters, Sara gradually drifts away from Pedro and finds herself caught between two worlds with completely conflicting social realities. Throughout this metamorphosis, Sara becomes a character in her own story, being written both on stage and in her life, in a hybridisation of reality and its expectations. By immersing us in this pivotal period of Sara's life, Adrian Orr (Niñato, Visions du Réel 2017) offers an insight into those friendships we thought would last forever, tested by the different paths we take, on the way to our own destinies. Integrating the theatrical project of the La Tristura collective, To Our Friends is a masterful and enlightening film, skilfully being written under our very eyes, deciding on its own ending, refuting destiny.

Aurélien Marsais

To Our Friends, 2024
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Buenos días resistencia, 2013
De caballeros, 2011