Official Selection at the Locarno Film Festival and Best Male Interpretation Award
Silver Spike and Audience Award at SEMINCI
Winner of 5 Gaudí Awards, among them, best film and best direction
title. The Odd-Job Men
script. Neus Ballús and Margarita Melgar
directed by. Neus Ballús
length. 90'
year. 2021
genre. hybrid doc/fiction comedy
In order to get through his one-week probationary contract, a young Moroccan plumber has to deal with equally eccentric colleagues and customers.
A Distinto Films and El Kinògraf production, with the associated production of Slot Machine (France), with the participation of Radio Televisión Española, Televisió de Catalunya and Movistar +, and the support of the ICAA and the ICEC. Impulsed by UPF Master’s in Creative Documentary. Distributed by Filmax and international sales by Beta Cinema.
CAST
Moha I Mohamed MELLALI
Valero I Valero ESCOLAR
Pep I Pep SARRÀ
Head of plumbing company I Paqui BECERRA
Grandfather I PERE CODORNIU
Sisters I Aina RUE PUIGORIOL and Gemma RUE PUIGORIOL
Brother I Oriol CERVERA
Photographer I Judith VIZCARRA PUIG
Builders I Mauricio BARRIGA, Juan RAMÓN SÁNCHEZ and Christian RAMÍREZ
Psychoanalyst I Alfredo ALOISIO
Moha's cousins I Youssef OUHADI and Hamid MINOUCHA
Catalan classmate I Yuan JING
Waitress I Núria REVUELTA
CREW
Written by: Neus BALLÚS and Margarita MELGAR
Directed by: Neus BALLÚS
Producer: Miriam PORTÉ
Executive producer: Miriam PORTÉ
Associate producers: Carine LEBLANC and Marianne SLOT
Cinematographer: Anna MOLINS
Artistic director: Marta COLLELL
Editors: Neus BALLÚS and Ariadna RIBAS
Music by: René-Marc BINI
Sound: Amanda VILLAVIEJA and Elena CODERCH
Sound designer: Albert MANERA
Casting director: Mireia SALGADO
Coach: Gerard OMS
Costume designer: Alba COSTA
Make up: Mercè SÁNCHEZ
Assistant directors: Àlex VILÀ
Production management: Bernat RIFÉ and Goretti PAGÈS