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FORT APACHE
FUERTE APACHE
Barcelona Awards - Best Novel Director.
Toulouse CineEspaña - Audience Award.
Jaume Mateu Adrover's feature directorial début, which won the Audience Award at Toulouse Cinespaña last year, is couched in the reality of disenfranchised youth.
Toni Darder (Juan Diego) has dedicated his working-life to a youth rehabilitation centre on the outskirts of Barcelona, but now on the brink of retirement he feels like a failure. But then the arrival of a Maghribian street-kid Tariq (El Hilali) seems to herald a change, and this time
for the better...
Dealing with the realities of drugs, domestic violence, social inequality and racial tensions, with added authenticity brought to the film by the many nonprofessional actors involved, Fort Apache is ultimately a song to optimism - a story of second chances and of keeping hope
alive when all seems lost.
Spain. Drama. 94 minutes. 2007. (18+)
Director: Jaume Mateu Adrover
With: Juan Diego, Lolita Flores, Pep Tosar,
Jordi Rico, Marta Marco, Hamza El Hilali
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