Little World (2012)

Original title

Món petit

Directed by

Marcel Barrena

Genre

documentary film

Country

Spain

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man in a wheelchair travels around the world without money or luggage. The film follows his attempt to reach the opposite side of the planet with his girlfriend. It mixes home video and documentary styles to show his life and relationships.

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What happens

Little World (Catalan: Món petit) is a 2012 Catalan documentary film about Albert Casals, a young man who has been in a wheelchair since suffering leukemia at the age of five. But this has not stopped him from pursuing his dream: to travel around the world, and to do it his way: without money, without companions, without luggage. He sets off from home armed with nothing but his imagination and his courage. Little World takes us along on his greatest challenge yet: to reach the exact opposite side of the planet. Is it possible to cross the earth in these conditions? Mixing home video techniques and traditional documentary methods, we get to know this young man, his love story, his philosophy of life and his parents' approach to raising him. We will see how Albert and his girlfriend, Anna, go from Barcelona to a remote lighthouse in New Zealand, or how they fail in the attempt. The journey (and the film) can be considered sheer madness, an endearing romance or an epic adventure, or perhaps a little of everything. The director of the film is Marcel Barrena and is produced by Umbilical Produccions with TV3, TVE, ICAA, ICEC, and Corte y Confección de Películas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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