Can Tunis

Juan and his eight brothers and sisters and dozens of cousins live in Can Tunis. He fills his days with singing, dancing, mischief and worse. His mother is in jail and his father tries to take care of the family as well as he can. The school has already been demolished and the children do not play shopkeeper, they play rob-the-shopkeeper. Can Tunis is a seedy suburb of Barcelona. Since the 1980s, it's the place where drug addicts come to get their fix. The local authorities are determined to knock down the entire quarter, but the gypsies who live here will not budge that easily - they demand alternative housing they can afford. The city has already commenced demolition: half the neighbourhood is in ruins, and the occupants look on as more and more buildings are being taken down, uneasy about their homes as well as their future. Can Tunis is a sincere and poignant portrait of a neighbourhood in utter disorder. How will these people ever be able to hold out in a better area of Barcelona? (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)