''Breaking Walls'' () is a 2025 comedy road film directed by

Borja Cobeaga Borja Cobeaga Eguillor (born 1977) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is an award presented at the annual Academ ...

and co-written by Valentina Viso. It stars

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, Iñaki Ardanaz, and Mikel Losada.

Plot

Set in late 1980s, the plot follows a group of uninterested fathers from the working-class periphery of

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begrudgingly charged with accompanying their daughters to a

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competition in

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as the mothers are unable to attend.

Cast

Production

Borja Cobeaga wrote the screenplay alongside Valentina Viso. Cobeaga billed the film as a "road movie that seeks to move and make people laugh". The film was produced by Inicia Films, BTeam Prods, and Sayaka Producciones alongside Umedia and it had the backing from ICEC,

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, ICAA, and the

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. Shooting locations in

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included the Santa María Ikastetxea school in

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. Bet Rourich lensed the film.

Release

The film was presented at the 28th Málaga Film Festival on 18 March 2025. Distributed by

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, it is scheduled to be released theatrically in Spain on 21 March 2025.

References

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Plot

Cast

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References