REMAINDERS

by Raúl Capdevila

REMAINDERS

synopsis

synopsis

José Ramón Capdevila, the last farmer of three generations, receives the news that his son Raúl is returning home after failing to find a job in the city, hoping to find something better. Both start working together again in the farm while the arrival of a large meat company (“Pini Group”), which want to build a mega-slaughterhouse is announced in the town.

technical information

technical information

Title: Los saldos
Internacional title: Remainders
Genre: Western / Creative documentary
Duration: 76 min.
Color: Color
Shooting format: 2k
Exhibition format: DCP 2k
Aspect ratio:2:35:1
Sound: Dolby 5.1
Country of production: Spain
Original languaje: Spanish
Production: Acariño films
Year of production: 2022

crew and cast

crew and cast

Direction, script and editing: Raúl Capdevila
Director of photography: Gerard Aparicio
Sound: Javier Serrat, Guillermo Rojo, Gonzalo Sanz
Graphic design: Raúl Andreu
Sound post-production: Guillermo Rojo, Pablo Rivas
Original music: Guillermo Rojo, Gonzalo Sanz, Irene Ivankòva
VFX: Pablo Lamosa – Cormorán VFX
Executive producers: Andrés Sanjurjo, Raúl Capdevila
Cast: José Ramón Capdevila, María Rosa “Rosita” Alzuria, Raúl Capdevila, Javier Murillo, Iván Romero, Rosa Murillo e José María Duro
Support: Diputación General de Aragón · Asociación de Realizadores Oscenses · Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais (AGADIC) · Aragón televisión

festivals & labs

festivals & labs

Visions du Réel (Suiza) · 2022
Burning lights

FICG 37 (México) · 2022
Ibero-American feature documentary film

SEFF (España) · 2022
Nuevas Olas – No-Ficción

L’alternativa (España) · 2022
National section

Novos cinemas (España) · 2022
Opening film

Play-Doc (España) · 2023
Galician Section – Special mention by the jury

Documenta Madrid (España) · 2023
National section

Porto/Post/Doc (Portugal) · 2020
Arché – Best project price

L’alternativa (España) · 2020
Mentoring projects

 

trailer

trailer

director's notes

director's notes

The farm has always been part of my life. I remember playing with my sister while my father was working, making up fictional worlds: a neighbor’s farm could be an imposing commercial city, a small granary the place where a powerful wiseman lived and the old trailer, a fierce warship. I miss those moments and that feeling has been one of the main pushes so as to do this film, but now I am playing with the western genre in its twilight stage.*

This time, the farms and warehouses are old ranches ruled by weary cowboys, aware of the fact that their time is gone and they have been left behind, overwhelmed by progress and the new rising generation of the big farming industry. These little peasants, like a western hero, were the ones in charge of bringing the “idea of progress” to the area, but once it was done, they were left in the margins and doomed to disappear.

Nowadays in the farm my father is the only worker and, when he retires, no one will go on with it. It will be the end of three generations of farmers who inhabited that place. Remainders is an acid and cheerful goodbye letter to a time that, like many others, history will leave behind.