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WOW! - The Cloud-Painting Machine

Patxo Telleria & Aitor Mazo, Spain 2009, 102 mins

Life is tough growing-up in the dockyard area of Bilbao during the fag end of Franco’s repressive regime when flying a Basque flag was banned. In a place where everyone works in the factory, it’s young Asier’s Dad and his Sunday painter friends who provide a bit of colour and joy. Despite having never held a brush before Asier’s crush on the local beauty leads him to promise to paint her picture. He enlists the help of his wild older brother, who prefers to paint doors as ‘at least you get paid’. With its great period feel, fine script and imaginative direction this is a sweet story about how Asier’s developing passion for painting teaches him about life, love, and learning to roll with the punches.

Basque with English subtitles