Ciudad sin sueño

Sleepless City

Narrative Feature Film

Buena Pinta Media, Encanta Films, BTeam Pictures, Sintagma

In post-production

2025

Ramón, a 13-year-old gypsy boy, lives in La Cañada, one of the largest illegal settlements in Europe, in Madrid. A universe that Ramón films with his cell phone as if it were an enigmatic science fiction scenario. This is the way he enjoys the place where he lives, and also the way to escape from the reality that surrounds him. One day, Ramón's family receives notice that their house is going to be demolished. This awakens in him a desire, hidden until now, to leave La Cañada and live a life different from that of his parents, who at all costs want to avoid eviction.

Ramón is growing up, and with him his images, which will go from being a futuristic fiction to an observation of his present, in which apparitions from the past appear. Shadows and ghosts begin to inhabit his life and his images, while Ramón is exhausting all the options he has to escape from his community.

Directed by Guillermo García López

Produced by Buena Pinta Media, Encanta Films, BTeam Pictures, Sintagma

Written by Guillermo García López & Victor Alonso-Berbel

Developed at Cinéfondation Residency - Festival de Cannes (Moulin d'Andé Award), 2020, the Spanish Film Academy’s Artistic Residency Program, and Berlinale Script Station.

Berlinale Talent Project Market - Selected for the European Co-Production Market, 2021

Torino Film Lab - Script Lab (CNC Jury Special Mention), 2020

Ventana CineMad (Best Fiction Project Award), 2020

CREA Conecta+ (Best Project Award), 2019

Selection 10 Promising Spanish Projects in Development of the ICAA for the Marché du Film, 2020

Community of Madrid's Grants for Feature Film Development, 2020