PIGGY - SPOILER-FREE Review | Sundance 2022
/Directed by: Carlota Pereda
Written by: Carlota Pereda
Starring: Laura Galán
Runtime: 90 min
Synopsis: With the summer sun beating down on her rural Spanish town, Sara (Laura Galán) hides away in her parent’s butcher shop. A teenager whose excess weight makes her the target of incessant bullying, she flees a clique of capricious girls who torment her at the town pool, only to stumble upon them being brutally kidnapped by a stranger, who drives off with them in his van. When the police begin asking questions, Sara keeps quiet. Intrigued by the stranger - an interest that’s mutual - she’s torn between revealing the truth and protecting the man who saved her.
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