The actor Richard Gere lends his image to make visible one of the silenced dramas: withouthogarism. Together with his wife Alejandra Gere and the Hogar Foundation yes – of which both are employers – both speak face to face with those who have survived this scourge in the short documentary What nobody wants to see. It is a production that collects the experience of four people who lived years in the street and who now begin to rebuild their life with a roof on their heads. Among their confessions to the couple, they reveal that “I’ve seen a boy on fire”that sometimes they have thought that “I am best dead” or that, “not speaking, your voice is turning off.”
«When you see these people, what do you think? What do you feel? In the background, it could happen to anyone, ”says the actor in the film’s promotional material. Recorded intimately and without artifice, the Hogar Foundation does ensure that it seeks to be a sensitization tool rather than polarization. «We know that it is an uncomfortable reality to see, but The answer is not to look the other way», Adds Alejandra Gere. In the actor’s wife, the “solution” goes through “knowing the reality of these people and acting closely.”
The campaign promoted by the Hogar Foundation does want to gather 37,117 signatures – one for each homeless person in Spain– For the documentary to have an impact premiere. The first phase is already underway with the launch of the trailer and a call to action so that society approaches, as the film’s title says, “what nobody wants to see.”
A chronificed crisis
Apart from the documentary, the Hogar Foundation does remember that The problem of housing in Spain continues to aggravate and the street situation has chronified for many. “Eradicating withouthogarism is not only possible, but urgent,” their technicians point out. Although they warn that “we will not get it without a firm commitment by public administrations.”
Sinhogarismo is also a European phenomenon. In 2023, more than 1.2 million people lived in the street, according to a report by the European Federation of National Organizations that work with homeless people. Even so, the data is still inaccurate. “Invisibility is part of the problem”Remember the Home Foundation yes.
