‘Sleepless City’: Madrid’s Cañada Real Shantytown Proudly Raises Its Voice at Cannes

‘Sleepless City’: Madrid’s Cañada Real shantytown proudly raises its voice at Cannes

The journey has come to a successful conclusion. A decade ago, Guillermo Galoe, 39, began visiting Cañada Real, the Madrid neighborhood considered the largest informal settlement in Europe: 8,000 people living on both sides of a 10-mile-long, old cattle track, just a few minutes’ drive from downtown Madrid. Specifically, he went to Sector 6, the southernmost sector, between the Valencia highway and the border with the suburb of Getafe. Seguir le…

The Roma community is the largest ethnic minority in Europe, but despite this, there are very few films that have portrayed it with the empathy and nuances that Guillermo Galoe dedicates to him in his first fictional feature film, 'City without Dream', presented today at the Cannes Festival.