Gonzalo Martínez

"To Grow" Saber Crecer is a Paraguayan coming-of-age film, made entirely by young adults for young adults. It tells the tale of Danny, an 18 year old high school senior who has plans to study abroad upon graduation, and only has 5 days to tell the girl he loves how he feels before he departs. To accomplish this, his outgoing best friend, Cameron, presents him with a set of challenges in order to face his fears and tell this girl how he feels.

Marcos is an experienced nurse. He works in the night shift of a provincial private clinic. He is applied and professional but has a secret: in some extreme cases he applies euthanasia. He'll soon meet someone that knows what he's doing.

Eleven young film-makers got together to collaborate in this atypical project. Atypical not only because of its technical specs, but because of its narrative structure. There are several scenes with only the city in common, and more as a conceptual presence at that than as a precise geography. None of those scenes contains a single "story": Each one of them is part of a larger situation that we cannot see, as though the beginning and end of each "story" had to be filled in by the audience.