Nights Gone By

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• 2023
• 1 hr 46 mins
• Documentary

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In Salvaléon, a small village in Extremadura, unemployment and a lack of professional opportunities have been driving people away since the 1960s. The region - which was the birthplace of the filmmaker's grandfather - provides Alberto Martín Menacho with both a fertile cinematographic ground and a cast of characters. 'Antier Noche', which means 'the night before last', is an old-fashioned expression that the filmmaker learned from his grandmother and which has now fallen out of usage. Like its title, the film is suspended in space and time, somewhere between tradition and modernity, between man and animal, between a thousand-year-old oak tree and Tinder. Filming a group of young people with whom he has worked previously, Alberto Martín Menacho weaves together reality and fiction, freely composing stories with them, and mapping a territory made up of hares, greyhounds, summer fires, love stories and parties, bolstered by still-solid bonds, even between generations. A stunningly graceful first film.