PAINLESS
Directed by Juan Carlos MEDINA
SYNOPSIS
Spain, 1931. Somewhere in the Pyrénées near the French border, children were born with an unknown disease. They are insensitive to physical pain and grow up with a deranged perception of human values and the world around them. These children are aggressive and violent, going as far as to even hurt themselves. They are an uncontrollable danger, not only for themselves but for everybody around them as well.
Spain, 2000. David, a brilliant neurosurgeon, and his soon to be wife Anais have a terrible car accident. As sole survivor David doesn’t seem to be hurt, however, medical exams show the presence of an advanced lymphoma. His only chance of survival is a bone marrow transplantation.
Just before the civil war, hate and evil are spreading throughout the country. The children suffering from the mysterious syndrome are locked up in an isolated psychiatric asylum where a medical team tries to rehabilitate them. The horrors of the war added to a strange therapy of «learning pain» come to an end but one of the children does not respond to the treatment as expected and turns out to become a living nightmare: Berkano.
When David asks his parents for the bone marrow transplant, they have to confess the truth about him : he was adopted. All questions about his origins are blocked by a wall of silence and terror. On his search for his biological parents, David crosses Berkano’s path, the only survivor of the insensitive children. His life will change forever.
2011 /// FRANCE, SPAIN, PORTUGAL /// Catalan /// IN POST PRODUCTION
CAST Tomas LAMARQUIS, Alex BRENDEMÜHL, Derek DE LINT, Juan DIEGO, Silvia BEL /// PRODUCERS Antoine SIMKINE, François CONGNARD, Miguel Angel FAURA /// COPRODUCERS Adolfo BLANCO, Luis GALVAO TELES. /// PRODUCTION COMPANIES LES FILMS D’ANTOINE, TOBINA FILMS, ROXBURY PICTURES /// COPRODUCTION COMPANIES ACONTRACORRIENTE FILMS, FADO FILMES /// SCREENPLAY Juan Carlos MEDINA, Luiso BERDEJO
