La otra ciudad

Where was it filmed?

Shooting: 
2008
Release: 
2009
Type: 
TV Movie
Director: 
Silvia Quer
Production Co.: 
Factotum Barcelona
Country: 
Spain
Actors: 
Tristán Ulloa, Sergi Anguera, Juan Sanz, Aida Oset, Anna Alarcón, Paul Berrondo, Pep Torrents, Itziar Castro, Carmela Lloret
Synopsis: 

Paco, a boy of humble origins, is trying to go through life amidst a very unfavourable social and family environment. He lives in a run-down estate in the suburbs of a big city, where he shares a house with his father, a loser and an alcoholic, and Manolo, his elder brother, a violent thug and small-scale drug consumer and trafficker. Nadia is a teenage girl of Moroccan origin insistent on getting to university, but she clashes with her obtuse father and brother who want her to be just a wife and a mother. When Paco and Nadia meet each other they will feel a breath of new hope, but it will also unfold a series of threatening obstacles. In such a hostile world, the couple can only rely on the assistance of Rafa, a teacher so committed to his educational vocation that will even risk his personal stability.