Sorogoyen, working with longtime co-writer , uses the film to explore deep-seated social and environmental tensions:
Months later, the wind consortium returned. With Antoine dead, his land fell into a legal labyrinth. The remaining heirs—a distant nephew in Lyon—signed the option papers. The turbines went up. They turn now, white and serene, on the hill called A Besta . as bestas rodrigo sorogoyen
The film charts the escalating conflict from passive-aggressive glances at the local bar to vandalism, intimidation, and finally, an act of horrific, irreversible violence. Sorogoyen does not offer catharsis. He offers a tragedy. Sorogoyen, working with longtime co-writer , uses the
Through "As Bestas," Sorogoyen poses fundamental questions about the human condition, encouraging viewers to confront the duality of their own nature. The film's title, which translates to "The Beasts," is a deliberate reference to the idea that, beneath the veneer of civility, lies a primal, bestial essence waiting to be unleashed. The turbines went up
While the setting is specifically Galician, the conflict is universal. From the Yellow Vests in France to the coal miners in Appalachia, the world is witnessing a violent clash between post-industrial localism and globalized, post-materialist values.