Sidewalls

Sidewalls

How do you find love when you don’t know where it is?

2011•1h 34m•7.5/10

DramaRomance

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.5/10(310)

Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?

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Production

Eddie Saeta, Rizoma Films, Zarlek Producciones, Pandora Film, INCAA, Programa Ibermedia, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, World Cinema Fund, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales, TV3

Language

ES

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Pilar López de Ayala

Pilar López de Ayala

Mariana

Javier Drolas

Javier Drolas

Martín

Inés Efrón

Inés Efrón

Ana

Rafael Ferro

Rafael Ferro

Rafa

Jorge Ernesto Lanata

Jorge Ernesto Lanata

Traumatólogo

Carla Peterson

Carla Peterson

Marcela

Adrián Navarro

Adrián Navarro

Lucas

Romina Paula

Romina Paula

Ex novia

Alan Pauls

Alan Pauls

Ex novio

Miguel Dedovich

Miguel Dedovich

Psiquiatra

Miguel Ángel Álvarez

Miguel Ángel Álvarez

Hombre atropellado

Martín Feldman

Peleador pileta

Lucas Issi

Taxista

Alicia Mezza

Mujer mayor

Octavio Musaluppi

Nene triciclo

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