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GAME OVER

By Alba SOTORRA CLUA

Documentary - Completed 2014

A young man obsessed with wargames becomes a soldier following his fantasy. But real war bores him and returns home to confront a family war caused by the Spanish crisis. Only when he realizes that reality is not like in the movies, he will be able to grow up.

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- SPAIN
- Director(s)
- Alba SOTORRA CLUA
- Synopsis
- Djalal was obsessed with war games before he could walk. He was raised as an only child in a middle class Spanish family with his parents indulging his every whim. He got all sorts of toy guns with which to play the soldier and as he grew up, his games became more and more sophisticated. He started to film himself reenacting military operations, and to upload his videos in Youtube, creating a cyber identity, Lord_Sex, with thousands of followers. As he followed this dream to the extreme, he went to the Afghan front as sniper. But the war is not as exciting as in the movies.
  
  Djalal returned to his parents home disenchanted, to realize that nothing is the same. The economic crisis stroked his family and he is forced to take action. The game is over and he needs to find his own place in the real world.