As neves

The morning after carnival night in the Galician village of AS NEVES, local teenagers awake to discover that snowfall overnight has cut off their internet access and one of them never made it home from their magic mushroom-fueled party. On Carnival night in the remote mountain village of AS NEVES , local teenagers celebrate at a party where they try magic mushrooms for the first time. The revels are disrupted by a compromising video shared within the group.

The following day, heavy snowfall has left the village isolated and without internet access when it is discovered that Paula, one of the young partygoers, is missing. The investigation into her disappearance will provoke an avalanche of guilt and mistrust among adults and teenagers alike, forever altering relationships in the village.

"As Neves is a portrait of the most hyper-connected generation in history, yet they live in isolated rural environments. I wanted to explore that contrast of nature versus screens and how it is managed through adolescent agitation. What are these teenagers like? What are they worried about? How do they deal with their fears?

The youths in this film live in scattered villages and seize the abandoned spaces that surround them. Their struggles are like those of any other teenager, but their ways of escaping are very different and that sometimes means, oddly enough, the more open the natural space, the more trapped they feel. . It’s like sometimes... being in a small town can become a big hell.”

SONIA MÉNDEZ