To Our Friends (film)
To Our Friends is a 2024 documentary film directed by Adrián Orr.
Subject
The documentary tracks four years of the life of Sara Toledo starting when she was 17, some days before taking her Selectividad tests.Release
For its world premiere, the film made it to the ̣ section of the 55th Visions du Réel. The film was also programmed in the section of the 69th [Valladolid International Film Festival] and the 2024 Cinespaña. It was released theatrically in Spain on 4 April 2025.Reception
of El Periódico [de Catalunya] rated the film 4 out of 5 stars, assessing that Orr finds an "extremely powerful" testimony about what it means to grow up in Sara's conversations.Rubén Romero Santos of Cinemanía rated the film 4 out of 5 stars, declaring it an "impeccable portrait of the current urban youth".
Manuel J. Lombardo of Diario de Sevilla gave the film a 4-star rating, writing that the depiction of Sara's growth is an "always" a "fluid process" thanks to an "extraordinary editing work" and the "precise" distance between Orr's camera and his characters.