THE BYSTANDERS

2022 · Gabriel Foster Prior · UK · 94 min

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9th May @ 19:45 Golem Alhóndiga (Sala 2)

Pete was a runner-up in the UK Under-15s Chess Championship – to date, his biggest accomplishment in life. He has no friends, no girlfriend, no family, no one who will miss him if he vanishes. The exact reason he is chosen to be recruited as a Bystander. Bystanders are like guardian angels: invisible immortals that have each been tasked with watching a human subject. But they don’t have wings or halos, and they aren’t very good at their jobs. Some use their powers to try to help their subjects, some to punish them, some just can’t be bothered.

Gabriel Foster Prior has built a career as an editor, including feature films Lucid (2018), premiering at Edinburgh Film Festival and The Wall of Mexico (2019) premiering at South By Southwest. He has directed short films including The Drunk (2016) described by BBC film critic James King as “Five minutes of funny”.