Los saldos

The transfer of knowledge between parents and their descendants was the only means by which rural families maintained their traditions, until the arrival of new technologies gradually transformed their habits. The migrations also broke with that logic, although they never dispossessed the inhabitants of that ancestral knowledge. In Los saldos, a father and a son will have to face the evidence that work and living together are bringing to light: their lives are very different. Director Raúl Capdevila uses his training as a filmmaker to tell us about his family history and works the magic of turning his way of life into an artistic reference that reveals how cinema allows us to observe the world with different eyes.

Synopsis: Raúl Capdevila narrates his return home to a town in Huesca as a western. His father, José Ramón, is the last of three generations of farmers and ranchers. The film director and his father will have to understand working together on the farm, but, in addition to their differences, they will have to face the implications of the construction of a large slaughterhouse by a large meat company.