When Brooklyn Met Seville

Sevillanas De Brooklyn

Produced by Madrid’s Capitán Araña (“El Plan”) and José Alba’s Malaga-based Pecado Films (“Journey to a Mother’s Room”), “When Brooklyn Met Seville” is directed by Vicente Villanueva who scored at the Spanish box office with comedy “Toc Toc,” about a group of OCD patients of the same psychologist, an adaptation of Laurent Baffie’s stage play. It stars “Élite’s” Sergio Momo and Carolina Yuste, a Goya supporting actress winner for “Carmen & Lola.”

Ana is a young girl from Seville, who’s sick of her family and the problematic neighborhood they live in. But things are about to get even worse when her mother, in a desperate attempt not to get evicted, comes up with a cunning plan… To fool an agency that specializes in finding accommodation for foreign exchange students into letting her be a host mom to Ariel Brooklyn, an Afro-American student from a wealthy family. The problem is that, instead of the luxury accommodation he was promised, Ariel finds himself in a tiny, working-class apartment. Despite their obvious differences and the absurd situations they find themselves in as a result of the scam, Ana and Ariel are forced to live under the same roof, and when at such close quarters, who knows what might happen!
GenresDrama, Romance
DirectorVicente Villanueva
CastCarolina Yuste, Sergio Momo, Manolo Solo, Estefania de los Santos, Canco Rodriguez, Adelfa Calvo
LanguageSpanish (Castilian)
SubtitlesEnglish
Runtime98 mins
Theatrical Release17 Sep 2021
Available1 Jan 2022
Festivals & AwardsMálaga FF
TerritoriesWorldwide ex Spain, Andorra

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