NOSOTROS

Filmmaker's note

Spain is undergoing one of its most complicated moments in recent history. The desire for independence in Catalonia is not the only challenge: since 2008, the country is trying to recover from a deep financial crisis that, amongst other tragedies, has consolidated an unemployment rate of 22% (50% for people under 35). But the political system is also under questioning by a large majority of citizens, those that, in May 2011, took the streets to reclaim a better democracy in what soon became the “indignados” movement. Storytelling is connected to the effort of trying to understand reality. David Simon once said that the driving force behind fiction is very similar to the one behind investigative journalism: trying to bring order into chaos. Shedding light on events happening around us, decoding social relations and power dynamics in an effort to understand the world we live in. This is the reason we made this film: understanding what was happening to us, both as individuals and as a community. Figuring out to what extent our lives (our dreams, our hopes, our achievements) were dependent on the political and financial structures that seemed so far from our reach. We felt 2015 was a year where things could have changed, and we set ourselves to document it using the tools of narrative storytelling.