SILVER

[SIS DIES CORRENTS]
After decades, Pep (Pep Sarrà) is looking to retire from his job as a handyman for a small electrical and plumbing repair company in Barcelona. Moha (Mohamed Mellali) is a recent Moroccan immigrant on a week-long job trial to see if he might make a good replacement. But to get the job he'll have to win over his potential future partner Valero (Valero Esoclar), who is not too keen on adding a foreigner to the team. Catalan filmmaker Neus Ballús (THE PLAGUE) worked with non-professional actors — who are plumbers by trade — to craft this gritty comedy, which candidly explores fragile masculinity and simmering racial tensions in contemporary Spanish society. Escolar and Mellali jointly won the Best Actor Award at the 2021 Locarno Film Festival for their big-hearted performances. Official Selection, 2021 Toronto, London and Chicago film festivals. DIR/SCR Neus Ballús; SCR Margarita Melgar; PROD Miriam Porté. Spain, 2021, color, 85 min. In Catalan, Spanish and Berber with English subtitles. NOT RATED

No AFI Silver Member passes accepted.