{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox film | image = Breaking Walls poster.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | native_name = {{Infobox name module|language=es|title=Los aitas|nolink=yes}} | director = Borja Cobeaga | screenplay = {{ubl|Borja Cobeaga|Valentina Viso}} | producer = {{ubl|Valérie Delpierre|Alex Lafuente|Nahikari Ipiña}} | starring = {{ubl|Quim Gutiérrez|Juan Diego Botto|Mikel Losada|Iñaki Ardanaz|Laura Weissmahr|Ramón Barea}} | country = {{ubl|Spain|Belgium}} | studio = {{ubl|Inicia Films|BTeam Prods|Sayaka Producciones|Despadres AIE|Umedia}} | released = {{Film date|2025|03|18|Málaga|2025|03|21|Spain|df=yes}} | distributor = BTeam Pictures | cinematography = Bet Rourich | editing = Sofi Escudé | music = Aránzazu Calleja | language = Spanish }} '''''Breaking Walls'''''<ref>{{Cite web|access-date=28 January 2025|url=https://www.filmfactoryentertainment.com/films/breaking-walls/|title=Breaking Walls|website=Film Factory}}</ref> ({{langx|es|'''Los aitas'''|translation=The dads|links=no}}) is a 2025 comedy road film directed by Borja Cobeaga and co-written by {{ill|Valentina Viso|fr}}. It stars Quim Gutiérrez, Juan Diego Botto, Iñaki Ardanaz, and Mikel Losada.
== Plot == Set in late 1980s, the plot follows a group of uninterested fathers from the working-class periphery of Bilbao begrudgingly charged with accompanying their daughters to a rhythmic gymnastics competition in Berlin as the mothers are unable to attend.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eitb.eus/es/cultura/cine/detalle/9520608/comienza-rodaje-de-los-aitas-dirigida-por-borja-cobeaga/|website=EiTB|date=18 June 2024|title=Comienza el rodaje de "Los aitas", dirigida por Borja Cobeaga}}</ref><ref name="cameraandlight" />
== Cast == {{Cast listing| * Quim Gutiérrez<ref name="aca">{{Cite web|website=Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España|url=https://www.academiadecine.com/2024/06/14/los-aitas/|title=Los aitas|date=14 June 2024}}</ref> * Juan Diego Botto<ref name="aca" /> * Ramón Barea<ref name="aca" /> * Sofía Otero<ref name="aca" /> * Irati Goitia<ref name="aca" /> * Mara Garcés Renedo<ref name="aca" /> * Vera López<ref name="aca" /> * Irati García<ref name="aca" /> * Aitor Sanz Álvarez<ref name="aca" /> * {{ill|Iñaki Ardanaz|es}}<ref name="aca" /> * Mikel Losada<ref name="aca" /> * Laura Weissmahr<ref name="aca" /> }}
== Production == Borja Cobeaga wrote the screenplay alongside Valentina Viso.<ref name="rosado" /> Cobeaga billed the film as a "road movie that seeks to move and make people laugh".<ref name="cameraandlight" /> The film was produced by Inicia Films, BTeam Prods, and Sayaka Producciones alongside Umedia and it had the backing from ICEC, Movistar Plus+, RTVE, EITB, TV3, ICAA, and the Basque Government.<ref name="deia" /> Shooting locations in Biscay included the Santa María Ikastetxea school in Portugalete.<ref name="deia">{{Cite web|title=Borja Cobeaga rueda su película 'Los aitas' en un colegio de Portugalete|website=Deia|date=25 June 2024|first=Andrea|last=Valle|url=https://www.deia.eus/bizkaia/2024/06/25/borja-cobeaga-rueda-pelicula-aitas-8401149.html}}</ref> Bet Rourich lensed the film.<ref name="cameraandlight">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cameraandlightmag.com/noticias/inicia-el-rodaje-de-los-aitas-una-obra-de-borja-cobeaga/|website=Camera and Light Mag|title=Inicia el rodaje de 'Los Aitas', una obra de Borja Cobeaga|date=14 June 2024}}</ref>
== Release == The film was presented at the 28th Málaga Film Festival on 18 March 2025.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.diariosur.es/festival-malaga/nostalgia-siempre-encierra-peligroso-idealizacion-pasado-20250318223156-nt.html|website=Diario Sur|publisher=Grupo Vocento|title="La nostalgia siempre encierra algo peligroso, una idealización del pasado"|date=19 March 2025|first=Alberto|last=Gómez}}</ref> Distributed by BTeam Pictures,<ref name="aca" /> it is scheduled to be released theatrically in Spain on 21 March 2025.<ref name="rosado">{{Cite web|url=https://www.fotogramas.es/noticias-cine/g62882656/mejores-peliculas-comedia-2025-estrenos/|website=Fotogramas|date=19 December 2024|first=Ricardo|last=Rosado|title=Las 10 películas de comedia más esperadas de 2025: de 'El diablo viste de Prada 2' a 'Bridget Jones: Loca por él'}}</ref>
== Accolades == {{Awards table|5}} |- | {{Center|2026}} | 9th ALMA Awards || Best Screenplay in a Comedy Film || Borja Cobeaga, Valentina Viso || {{nom}} || {{center|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kinotico.es/actualidad/2026-03-26/palmares-2026-guiones-domingos-cena-poquita-fe-y-anatomia-instante-se-coronan-ix-edicion-premios-alma|website=Kinótico|title=Los guiones de 'Los domingos', 'La cena', 'Poquita fe' y 'Anatomía de un instante' se coronan en la IX edición de los Premios ALMA|date=26 March 2026}}</ref>}} |- {{end}}
== See also == * List of Spanish films of 2025
== References == {{reflist}}
{{authority control}} Category:Films about father–daughter relationships Category:Spanish comedy road movies Category:2025 Spanish-language films Category:Films set in the Basque Country (autonomous community) Category:Films shot in the Basque Country (autonomous community) Category:2025 Spanish films Category:2025 Belgian films Category:Umedia films Category:Spanish-language comedy films Category:2025 comedy films Category:2025 films Category:2020s comedy road movies Category:Films about parenting