The film portrays a fictional story of great social reality that plagues many young people: Bullying. Sara, the anti-heroine of the film, is a teenager whom everyone calls a pig because of her overweight and she suffers psychological harassment . The young woman lives in fear of the ridicule and bullying of her peers, to the point that they even almost drown her in the swimming pool. Not everyone loves summertime. For Sara, it just means dealing with a constant barrage of mockery, judgment, and abuse from the other girls in her village. But today is different. Overweight teen Sara lives in the shadow of a clique of cool girls holidaying in her village. Not even her childhood friend Claudia defends her when she's bullied at the local pool in front of an unknown man. Finally, her clothes are stolen and she must get home wearing only her bikini. A long walk home will change the rest of her life until the kidnapping of his stalkers begins. Along the way, a mysterious unknown man arrives in the village and kidnaps her tormentors. Someone has finally stood up for her. Sara sees it all: the blood, the mud, the knife, and the van in which he has taken them. And the unknown man has seen her. A wordless pact that neither will betray. She's an accomplice now. A series of crimes rock the village, and an investigation soon begins. The civil guard has endless questions, the villagers are suspicious and point fingers, the elderly neighbors' gossip. The heat is stifling, the pressure suffocating and her guilt torment her Sara knows more than she says. But is she: victim or executioner? Has the time come to join the carnage? . What if she is found out? What's happened to the girls? What if the unknown man returns?
¨Piggy¨or ¨Cerdita¨ delves into the terror that bullying represents for those who suffer it, a sensation that the filmmaker and screenwriter of the film achieves through suffocating frames that enhance the human suffering of the peculiar starring. Here stands out Laura Galán as an overweight teen is bullied by a clique of cool girls poolside while holidaying in her village , being winner of the Best New Actress award for its protagonist Laura Galan at the Goya 2023. Accompanied by the prolific and always present good actress Carmen Machi playing her demanding mother and Julián Valcárcel as her understanding father , adding other secondaries such as Pilar Castro ,Chema del Barco, Fred Tatien , Fernando Delgado and Malena Gutiérrez .
The motion picture was competently directed by Carlota Pereda who's clearly a talented writer and filmmaker . The film takes as its starting point the winner of the Goya for the best eponymous short film by Carlota Pereda herself, winner of the Goya for the best short film in 2018 and also starred by Laura Galán .
¨Piggy¨or ¨Cerdita¨ delves into the terror that bullying represents for those who suffer it, a sensation that the filmmaker and screenwriter of the film achieves through suffocating frames that enhance the human suffering of the peculiar starring. Here stands out Laura Galán as an overweight teen is bullied by a clique of cool girls poolside while holidaying in her village , being winner of the Best New Actress award for its protagonist Laura Galan at the Goya 2023. Accompanied by the prolific and always present good actress Carmen Machi playing her demanding mother and Julián Valcárcel as her understanding father , adding other secondaries such as Pilar Castro ,Chema del Barco, Fred Tatien , Fernando Delgado and Malena Gutiérrez .
The motion picture was competently directed by Carlota Pereda who's clearly a talented writer and filmmaker . The film takes as its starting point the winner of the Goya for the best eponymous short film by Carlota Pereda herself, winner of the Goya for the best short film in 2018 and also starred by Laura Galán .