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Sleepless City

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Toni, a 15-year-old Roma boy, lives in Europe's largest illegal settlement, on Madrid's outskirts. Proud to belong to his family of scrap dealers, he follows his grandfather everywhere. But demolitions edge closer to their plot, and his grandfather refuses to leave, no matter the sacrifice. On dark nights without electricity, as the legends of his childhood come alive, Toni must choose: face an uncertain future or hold on to a vanishing world.

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Adam Solomons IndieWire The bulldozers will continue to rid Europe’s great cities of the little-known Roma neighborhoods on their outskirts, but films like “Sleepless City” will help them be remembered for years to come. Rated: B+ May 20, 2025 Full Review Hector A. Gonzalez InSession Film Galoe treats this story with sheer authenticity and understanding... which lends Sleepless City the honesty and sincerity needed to move the viewer without the need for over-dramatization. Rated: B Jun 10, 2025 Full Review Ruben Peralta Rigaud Cocalecas One of the year's great surprises. Not only for its testimonial value and emotional impact, but because it represents a form of filmmaking that is on the verge of extinction: a film that observes, that questions, that listens. [Full review in Spanish] Jun 4, 2025 Full Review Àngel Quintana Caimán Cuadernos de Cine Attempts to understand what happens when the future is transformed, when in a world without dreams something is left behind and when human relationships can be modified. [Full review in Spanish] Jun 4, 2025 Full Review Jaime Pena Caimán Cuadernos de Cine Galoe makes no secret of the fact that this is a place where drug trafficking takes place, but his film constantly avoids the sordid, focusing as it does on its young protagonists, for whom he wants to imagine a future. [Full review in Spanish] Jun 4, 2025 Full Review Manu Yáñez Fotogramas Imbued with a strong social commitment, Galoe crafts a portrait charged with urgency, yet free from everything that is moralizing. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 4/5 May 23, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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Guillermo García López

Director

Antonio Fernández Gabarre

Actor

Bilal Sedraoui

Actor

Jesús Fernández Silva

Actor

Guillermo García López

Screenwriter

Víctor Alonso-Berbel

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Synopsis Toni, a 15-year-old Roma boy, lives in Europe's largest illegal settlement, on Madrid's outskirts. Proud to belong to his family of scrap dealers, he follows his grandfather everywhere. But demolitions edge closer to their plot, and his grandfather refuses to leave, no matter the sacrifice. On dark nights without electricity, as the legends of his childhood come alive, Toni must choose: face an uncertain future or hold on to a vanishing world.
Director
Guillermo García López
Producer
Marina García López, Marisa Fernández Armenteros, Manu Calvo, Alex Lafuente, Damien Megherbi, Justin Pechberty, Anne-Dominique Toussaint
Screenwriter
Guillermo García López, Víctor Alonso-Berbel
Production Co
Sintagma, Buena Pinta Media, Encanta Films, BTeam Prods, Tournellovision, Les Valseurs
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Spanish
Runtime
1h 37m