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YO TENÍA UNA VIDA

I HAD A LIFE

By Octavio GUERRA

Documentary - Completed 2023

A man's struggle to never live on the streets again.

DOCSMX 2021

Impact Lab

Gijon Int'l Film Fest. 2022

Premio Semilleru Lab

Gijon Int'l Film Fest. 2022

Premio DCP Deluxe

Thessaloniki IFF 2022

Agora Docs in Progress

Festival Internacional de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2023

Mención Especial - Canarias Cinema

Festival de Málaga 2023

Sección Oficial Documentales Largometrajes

DocsValencia 2023

Sección Oficial Mirades - Espai de No Ficció

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- SPAIN
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Duration
- 71 mn
- Director(s)
- Octavio GUERRA
- Writer(s)
- Octavio GUERRA
- Cast
- Jesús MIRA, Elena MATAMALA
- Producer(s)
- Elisa TORRES (Calibrando)
- Synopsis
- Jesús arrives at a housing and employment reincorporation centre, after living on the streets for a decade. Now Jesús’ life is full of rules. His struggle doesn’t make sense if he is not free to make his own decisions. After years depending on social services he leaves the programme with all of the risks this decision entails. Elena, coordinator of the supervised accommodation, is writing her thesis on the reincorporation of homeless people. When Jesús leaves, her research takes a turn and she focuses her thesis on Jesús’ life story. Elena becomes his only emotional support.