This year the program Poland Toni Soler celebrates its twentieth anniversary on TV3, boasting enviable ratings and a proven formula that has stood the test of time. We spoke with Toni Soler about his perspective on the show's evolution and the role it has played in his life.

The last film that Manuel Huerga directed with a script by Toni Soler was April 14. Macià v Companys (2014), a fake television report about true events: the fleeting proclamation of the Catalan Republic and the political rivalry between Francesc Macià and Lluís Companys. Our Father, the new collaboration between Huerga and Soler, symbolically picks up that thread with an aerial tracking shot that covers half of Barcelona: from Montjuïc Castle, where Companys was executed in 1940, to the official car in which Jordi Pujol traveled in 2014, days before confessing to the hidden fortune in Andorra; that is, from the physical death of the 123rd president of the Generalitat to the political and reputational death of the 126th.

The film about Jordi Pujol written by Toni Soler and directed by Manuel Huerga, responds to the desire to make your own political cinema before others do it for you. Our Father focuses on how the publication in 2014 in The World The news about the Pujol family's accounts in Andorra altered the public image of the former president of the Generalitat (Catalan government). The film aims to give an overview of the case, without forgetting the role of the Spanish state's sewers in the matter, but from the perspective of the protagonist and his entourage. Closer to a family chamber drama than a historical fresco, one of the film's great successes Our Father lies in the choice of Josep Maria Pou as the protagonist. The actor does not resemble Pujol, and his characterization is not forced. This way, thePoland effect –that is, falling into the caricature of the character– to approach the tragic meditation on how a leader can end up dynamiting his own legacy.

The first thing to celebrate Our Father It's the normality of being able to go to the cinema to see a historical episode whose protagonist is someone who was president of a country for 23 years. In any democracy in the world, a drama like the death of Jordi Pujol, the most important Catalan politician of the last quarter of the 20th century, would have interested the film industry, and this is a credit to Toni Soler, who has long since normalized political satire on television.

Toni Soler i Guasch (Figueres, 1965) began writing the script for Parenostre, the film about the Pujol case, in the spring of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic. Five years later, he eagerly awaits its premiere, April 16. Directed by Manuel Huerga and starring Josep Maria Pou (Jordi Pujol), Carme Sansa (Marta Ferrusola), and Pere Arquillué (Jordi Pujol Ferrusola), Parenostre It's a fiction based on real, recent, and sensitive events: how the Pujol family copes with their descent into hell when it's revealed they have money in Andorra. A brave exercise that will dominate Catalan political conversation in the coming weeks.

The Catalan Institute of Statistics and Census (IDESCAT) has published a study projecting a growth of half a million inhabitants in the Catalan population over the next nine years (8.5 million in 2034). Of course, this entire increase would be attributable to immigration, since according to the same study, the number of deaths will exceed births during this period. Except for those who view economics as a sport, in which the important thing is to increase GDP to the limit without considering the consequences, this prediction is disturbing. Immigration is not an evil. per seBut it can be a problem if it's the consequence of an economic model based on tourism and its low wages. We must be able to talk about it without falling into the Manichaeanism or clichés so beloved by the far right.