It has been difficult, but it seems that a certain consensus has been reached in considering that the so-called delinquency cinema It is one of the most reliable references for examining where Spain stood during the transition. That stark decline of the noir genre, narrated almost entirely in the first person by juvenile delinquents who blurred the lines between themselves and the alter ego that they embodied on screen, is the point of reference of Blows, the first feature film directed by Rafael Cobos, a regular screenwriter for Alberto Rodríguez.

In 2025, two films shot in urban peripheries, in communities existing on the economic, moral, and even aesthetic margins of modern society, coincided. On the one hand, there was José Luis Guerin's documentary—which won an award at the San Sebastián Film Festival— Stories from the Good Valley, set in the Vallbona neighborhood and, on the other hand, fiction City without sleep, which Guillermo Galoe from Madrid has filmed in Cañada Real, the largest informal settlement in Europewhere hundreds of families live just 15 kilometers from Madrid in shacks or houses without basic services – this has been going on for five years Some areas do not have electricity supply.