El 47 [The 47]

Inspired by the true story of Manolo Vital, El 47 explores the less-discussed side of the ‘Spanish Miracle’, in which the country’s economic boom revitalised many of the nation’s cities, including the film’s setting, Barcelona. Manolo, a bus-driver disheartened by the marginalisation of impoverished Extremadura and Andalusian immigrant communities in the city’s outskirts, hijacks a vehicle on the 47 bus route. The route, according to the local government’s lies, could not reach the outer Torre Baró neighbourhood. Manolo, in an attempt to expose the systematic injustice towards these immigrant communities, sets out to prove the bus can indeed reach this final destination.