Martín Gutiérrez

A documentary about the passion that comes with starting to study film directing and its consequences.

A punk documentary which is, at the same time, a history of Catalonia, an analysis of its political situation in 2017, a comic lamentation on the milestones of the Procés —the broken, unsuccessful path started October 1st which eventually should've ended with a true declaration of independence from Spain—, and a chaotic festival of references to pop culture, from Dumbo to Salvador Dalí.

Amateur can be understood as a gesture of love and justice towards people and spaces that represent an idea of home for the author. From three stories, an old married couple, the memory of a suicide victim who spent his last days spending and giving away everything he had in the area and a huge shooting of Jacques Audiard’s last film, Amateur proposes an intimate portrait of a mountain village.