ICEX AUDIOVISUAL
Next Generation EU
CHEAPER THAN STEALING

CHEAPER THAN STEALING

Javi, an Uber driver who dreams of becoming a writer, sees himself on a huge billboard. A picture that has been used without his permission to promote a dating app. He threatens to sue the agency behind it, but is offered a job instead to avoid a lawsuit. Javi will enter into a new wild and surreal environment, where he has to search for the balance between ambition, reality and desire.

  • Fiction
  • Production

Data sheet

  • Year

    2023

  • Typology

    Fiction

  • Genre

    ComedyDrama

  • Duration

    100'

  • Original Version Language

    French, Spanish, English

  • Format

    Fiction Feature Film

Technical and artistic team

  • Director

    Pedro Collantes

Status

  • Looking for

    • Sales Agent

Contact

  • Pedro Collantes

    Pedro Collantes

    • Director
    • Screenwriter

    Pedro Collantes is a film director and screenwriter.

    See more
  • Paola Botrán

    Paola Botrán

    • Producer

    Paola Botrán is a Spanish Executive Producer at Sideral.

    See more

Related

BETTER CLASS
Fiction
BETTER CLASS
A narco's murder witnessed by his son at the door of an international school in Madrid causes a crisis situation within school management and the parents' association. How can they guarantee security and avoid a stain on their reputation? The best solution is to remove the narco's kids, but nobody wants to appear racist. They'll need a strategy. Anything for the future of their heirs.
  • Marché du Film 2023 Producers Network
CARTA BLANCA
Fiction
CARTA BLANCA
Faura, a young man broken by heartbreak, enlists in the Legion to be sent to the War in Morocco: all he wants is to be killed. There, he becomes trapped in the personal revenge of the platoon leader, Sergeant Bermejo. Blind with rage, Bermejo drags his men on a suicidal mission behind enemy lines, a punitive raid against a Berber village that ends in unleashed violence, madness, and death.
  • Marché du Film 2023 Producers Network
FAMA Y GLORIA
Fiction
FAMA Y GLORIA
Ana, an unexceptional 13-year-old, auditions for the popular talent show "Fama y Gloria". Lacking talent and personality, Ana goes unnoticed during the casting until she fabricates her father's terminal illness. Her family discovers the lie, yet instead of discouraging her, they assist her as the deception becomes more complicated.
  • Marché du Film 2023 Producers Network
SAN SIMON
Fiction
SAN SIMON
After being one of the most important Lazarettos in Spain, the island of San Simon had remained deserted until Franco's dictatorship decided to make use of it. Turned into a deadly concentration camp, the prisoners were victims of brutal repression in the midst of overwhelming beauty.
  • Marché du Film 2023 Producers Network
STRANGE RIVER
Fiction
STRANGE RIVER
Two brothers, Dídac (15) and Biel (13) are travelling by bicycle along the Danube with their family. But everything changes when Dídac meets the mysterious Alexander (18), who appears among the waters as if he were a river ghost. What is not clear to Dídac is that his mother Monika harbours a secret related to the strange boy.
  • Marché du Film 2023 Producers Network
IVAN & HADOUM
Fiction
IVAN & HADOUM
Iván (33), a trans man, and Hadoum (30), a Spanish-Moroccan woman, fall in love at the industrial greenhouse they work in. While facing the opposition from their families and co-workers, Iván realizes he doesn’t need to be the man he is expected to be.
  • Marché du Film 2023 Producers Network
FED UP
Fiction
FED UP
Carmela is forced to see her father at a Family Meeting Point due to a sentence of gender-based violence against her mother. Being twelve years old, she will be dragged into a circle of violence from which she will try to escape.
  • Marché du Film 2023 Producers Network
BASARDA
Fiction
BASARDA
1955. Silvana (18) tries to save her father’s charcoal business by trafficking in black truffles along the border between Spain and France. Liuet (16), her neighbour, shows her how to find them with his boar Basarda, but soon buried family conflicts will come to the surface.
  • Marché du Film 2023 Producers Network