Los saldos (‘Remainders’)

The transfer of knowledge between progenitors and their descendants was the only mean that the rural families would keep their traditions, until the arrival of new technologies that completely changed their habits. The migrations also broke that logic but never dispossessed the people of that ancestral ability. In Remainders, a father and a son will have to face a piece of evidence that has been brought up by their cohabitation and work: their lives are very different. The director, Raul Capdevila, uses his training as a filmmaker to describe the history of his family and achieves to turn his life into an artistic referent that shows us how cinema allows us to see the world from a different perspective. 

Synopsis: Raul Capdevila narrates, in a Western tone, his return to his home, a village in Huesca. His father, Jose Ramon, is the last one of three generations of farmers and ranchers. The cinema director and his father will have to live together while working on the farm, but, aside from their differences, they will have to face the implications of the building of a macro slaughterhouse by a major meat company.