Remainders

7 10
2021
76min

In a small family farm in Binéfar, José Ramón struggles to keep balance between work, tradition, and a rural life slowly disappearing under the shadow of industrial progress. When his son returns home after failing to find work in the city, father and son must reconnect while facing the remainders, the leftovers, of a way of life that is fading away.

AWARDS

Play-Doc Festival – Special Mention from the Jury (Galicia section)

Porto/Post/Doc – Arché Award for Best Project

Companhia das Culturas / Fundação Pereira Monteiro Award – granted during the project development phase

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

Visions du Réel (Switzerland) – Burning Lights section

FICG 37 (Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexico)

SEFF – Sevilla European Film Festival (Spain) – Las Nuevas Olas / Non-Fiction section

L’Alternativa – Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Spain) – National Competition

Novos Cinemas (Spain) – Opening Film

Play-Doc (Spain) – Galicia section, Special Mention from the Jury

DocumentaMadrid (Spain) – National Competition

Porto/Post/Doc (Portugal) – Arché program, Best Project Award

A family, a farm, and the remains of a changing world.

In the Aragonese town of Binéfar, a place transformed by the arrival of one of the largest slaughterhouses in Europe, José Ramón Capdevila tries to keep his family’s old farm alive. Between irrigation problems, community disputes, and his mother’s insistence to take better care of their deteriorating home, José Ramón can barely find a moment to rest.

The unexpected return of his son Raúl, after several failed attempts to find a job in the city, brings both relief and tension. Together they work the land and care for the animals while facing new conflicts over the construction of a shared water reservoir that threatens to divide the neighbors.

With an intimate and observational tone, Remainders (Los Saldos) captures the quiet rhythm of a rural family living between the past and an uncertain future, where every breeding cycle ends the same way: with the unprofitable pigs, the remainders, sent to the waste container. A moving and human portrait of labor, inheritance, and the transformation of rural Spain in the face of industrial change.