Overview

• Historias del buen valle is competing for the Concha de Oro at San Sebastián, marking Guerín’s first return to the festival’s main competition in 24 years after En construcción.
• Festival critics have praised the film, and it is being discussed as a leading contender ahead of Saturday’s awards announcement.
• Structured as a mosaic that merges documentary and staged moments, the project foregrounds residents chosen through an open casting and includes exchanges in about a dozen languages.
• The portrait focuses on Vallbona’s geographic isolation and infrastructural neglect, with high‑speed rail works and urbanization described as threats to the neighborhood’s fragile equilibrium.
• Shot intermittently over roughly two years after an initial Super 8 piece for a MACBA exhibit, the film is slated for a theatrical release in February.