Hidden Away (2014) on Netflix
In Bilbao, fourteen-year-old Rafa is uneasy when his friends talk about girls and push him toward Marta. At water polo practice he follows Ibra, a Moroccan migrant his own age.
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Plot summary
Rafa, fourteen, is a student in Bilbao. He feels out of place when his friends talk about girls, since he keeps a lack of interest to himself, and the group, Guille above all, insists on pairing him with a schoolmate, Marta. Javi, who leads the group, gives Marta Rafa's phone number without asking, and she starts messaging him. At water polo training Rafa notices a boy his own age and follows him to a rooftop. The boy is Ibra, a Moroccan migrant who has left his family behind and now lives in a juvenile reception center. He is wary of Rafa at first, and the two slowly build trust while sharing a cigarette and throwing stones at a target. Both go to the same club with their friends, where pressure from the group drives Rafa to kiss Marta.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hidden Away (2014)
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- Writer-director Mikel Rueda deliberately did not restrict casting to actors who identified as gay, reasoning that limiting who could audition would lower the turnout and he might not find the actors he wanted.
- The film's director, Mikel Rueda, dedicated Hidden Away to Álex Angulo, a Basque actor who died in a car crash in July 2014.
