Generación de cambio
2023 · 12m · España
Directed by Adrián Vereda
Genres: coming-of-age, documentary
Tones: contemplative, tender
In the Málaga village of Villanueva de Algaidas, a group of young people returns to their old school to remember different episodes from their childhood in which they witnessed or were victims of inequality, gender violence or macho attitudes.
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It's a straightforward testimony doc about trauma and machismo—exactly the kind of well-meaning social-issue film that gets made *because* it's important, not because it has to exist this way; I respect the subjects but the form feels obligatory.
Vereda situates this squarely in the lineage of participatory documentary cinema and memory work, with a restraint in editing that trusts silence and space to carry the weight—formally astute, if somewhat familiar in its approach to collective witness.
The decision to film these young people *returning* to the physical space of injury—not just narrating it, but standing in the actual rooms where it happened—transforms what could've been talking-heads testimony into something spatially and emotionally precise; that spatial specificity is everything.