
Circumstances have forced Tomas to return to the village he wanted to leave behind forever. Now he must struggle with a reality he refuses to live, where new difficulties join the ones he thought he had fled.
Directed by Alejandro Durán, Grávido leans on a strong ensemble — Aketza Fernandez, Álvaro Fontalba, May Melero — to carry a story that balances spectacle with character.
The film landed with audiences for its craft and performances, and remains one of the most talked-about screen titles of 2017.
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Santi, a young high-school student with a serious physical reaction to sunlight, is forced by his health to move with his single mother to a shadowy, isolated village in the mountains of Spain where the inhabitants begin to reveal themselves as strangely xenophobic. When terrible, violent events begin to occur, Santi becomes first a pariah at school and then strongly suspected by the police of hideous murders. Santi himself, however, wonders if he is not the next victim.
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