Overview

• Press at San Sebastián greeted the competition screening with sustained applause, and the film is being cited as an early Concha de Oro favorite.
• The Spanish theatrical debut is set for Friday, Sept. 26, positioned one day before the festival’s awards announcement.
• José Ramón Soroiz leads as Vicente, whose carefree life in Gran Canaria is upended by a health crisis that brings him back to a care home in San Sebastián.
• The directors shot extensively on location in the dunes, bars and the Yumbo Centre during Winter Pride, described as drawing about 40,000 attendees.
• The film blends emotion with gentle humor to explore aging, stigma and ‘going back into the closet,’ while its explicit sexual depiction has prompted caution from some distributors about older audiences.