A young boy confronts life and death on a mystical search for answers in Madrid’s rural outskirts

After seeing his grandfather on his deathbed, a young boy wanders alone through the decaying outskirts of Madrid in search of answers about life and death.

A quietly magical fable seeing death and nature through a child's eyes.

Following a search for meaning across the arid landscapes of outer Madrid, director Alberto Allica builds a modern-day fable on his childhood understanding of life and death for the short film Niño.

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