The One-Handed Trick

The plot follows the attempts of two friends, Adolfo (hooked on heroin) and El Cuajo (a disabled man), of setting up a hip hop recording studio.^[1][2]

The One-Handed Trick was produced by Media Films, and it had the participation of TVE.^[6] Filming took place in locations belonging to the outskirts of Barcelona, including La Mina [es].^[8]

The film screened at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in September 2008.^[9] It was theatrically released in Spain on 16 January 2009.

Mirito Torreiro of Fotogramas rated the film 4 out of 5 stars, highlighting "Zannou's rigor in building the story" as the best thing about the film, while citing a degree of "obviousness in the drawing of some characters" as a negative point.^[4]

Jonathan Holland of Variety considered that the film——"a too-rare incursion by Spanish film into the coarse realities of multiculturalism on its cities' outskirts"—features "a crudely makeshift feel that suits its subject".^[6]

Irene Crespo of Cinemanía rated it 3 out of 5 stars, considering that Zannou, "with few resources, without professional actors, but with a lot of enthusiasm, and at a rap rhythm", managed to craft "an undeceptive portrait of the reality of any city's slums"^[3]

• List of Spanish films of 2009