When movie people label the settlement Canada Real, located on the outskirts of Madrid and populated mostly by Roma people, the largest slum in Europe, they tend to forget about Šutka in North Macedonia. Šutka has had its movie treatment as well, either in the shape of an exoticism-laden documentary The Šutka Book Of Records or in the form of the latest fiction film by Goran Stolevski, Housekeeping For Beginners (2023), while it also served as the shooting location for Emir Kusturica’s Time Of Gypsies (1989) and Stole Popov’s Gypsy Magic (1997). Now, Canada Real also gets its film representation via Guillermo Galoe’s debut feature Sleepless City, which premiered at Cannes’ Critics’ Week sidebar.
In this “slice-of-life”-type of a film, the bare-bones plot revolves around our teenage protagonist having to grow up quickly. Tonino (Antonio “Toni” Fernández Gabarre, playing a fictionalised version of himself, like the other...
In this “slice-of-life”-type of a film, the bare-bones plot revolves around our teenage protagonist having to grow up quickly. Tonino (Antonio “Toni” Fernández Gabarre, playing a fictionalised version of himself, like the other...
- 5/22/2025
- by Marko Stojiljkovic
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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