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Tender Metalheads

Tender Metalheads

2023 · 81 min · Animation, Music

Juanjo is an asthmatic boy who has been protected by his family to the point where it is suffocating. Miquel is growing up in a family with an absent father, whose mother tries to get by, but does not always succeed. A tale about Juanjo and Miquel's relationship, two teenage boys from Barcelona in 1991 who take refuge in their friendship and music to escape from the grey world they live in.

Directed by Carlos Perez-Reche · Written by Iván Morales

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Juanjo and Miquel, two teenage boys from Barcelona in 1991 who will find in their friendship and heavy music a refuge from the gray world in which they live. Juanjo is an asthmatic boy who has lived protected by his family to the point of drowning him. Miquel belongs to a family with an absent father and his mother tries to get ahead on her own, but she doesn't always succeed.

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