New films by Julio Medem, Alejandro Amenábar, Alberto Rodríguez, Isaki Lacuesta, Jonas Trueba and Oliver Laxe join a brace of smart thrillers in a rich Cannes lineup from Spain.
“8,” (Julio Medem)
Medem returns towhat he does best: a love story transcending time and space and a poetic critique of recent history, according to sales agent Latido Films. “Fariña’s” Javier Rey and “La Mesías” Ana Rujus star as the lovers. Morena Films produces.
Sales: Latido
“As Neves,” (Sonia Méndez)
After a magic mushroom-fueled party, teens in a snowbound Galician village discover one of them is missing. The film was well-received at the Malaga festival.
Sales: Begin Again Films
“Barren Land,” (Albert Pintó)
From a director on “Money Heist” and “Berlin,” this suspense thriller captures how the drug trade devastates friendships and lives in Andalusía’s Cádiz. Film sports a great cast: Luis Zahera (“The Beasts”), Karra Elejalde (“While at War...
“8,” (Julio Medem)
Medem returns towhat he does best: a love story transcending time and space and a poetic critique of recent history, according to sales agent Latido Films. “Fariña’s” Javier Rey and “La Mesías” Ana Rujus star as the lovers. Morena Films produces.
Sales: Latido
“As Neves,” (Sonia Méndez)
After a magic mushroom-fueled party, teens in a snowbound Galician village discover one of them is missing. The film was well-received at the Malaga festival.
Sales: Begin Again Films
“Barren Land,” (Albert Pintó)
From a director on “Money Heist” and “Berlin,” this suspense thriller captures how the drug trade devastates friendships and lives in Andalusía’s Cádiz. Film sports a great cast: Luis Zahera (“The Beasts”), Karra Elejalde (“While at War...
- 5/15/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
“Los caminantes de la calle,” directed by Argentina’s Juan Martín Hsu, Chilean Ignacio Pávez’s docu-fiction drama “An Amputee” and Uruguayan Lorenzo Tocco’s “For God’s Sake” proved the biggest winners at the Malaga Festival’s Mafiz industry area awards, announced at a ceremony on Friday night.
Covering Malaga’s Work in Progress showcase, its Málaga Festival Fund Co-Production forum (Maff) and the Spanish Screenings Content – Málaga Short Corner, prizes were divvied up among a slew of titles, with ‘Sometimes,’ by Sara Fantova and Enrique Buleo’s ‘Still Life With Ghosts,’ both scoring multiple awards.
From his first feature, 2015’s “La Salada,” a patchwork narrative tale of immigrants’ lives, dreams and suffering in Argentina, to 2021’s “La Luna Reprenta Mi Corazon,” a docu feature record of the rencounter with his mother in Taiwan, Hsu has carved out a niche depicting the immigrant experience in Argentina. In “Los caminantes de la calle,...
Covering Malaga’s Work in Progress showcase, its Málaga Festival Fund Co-Production forum (Maff) and the Spanish Screenings Content – Málaga Short Corner, prizes were divvied up among a slew of titles, with ‘Sometimes,’ by Sara Fantova and Enrique Buleo’s ‘Still Life With Ghosts,’ both scoring multiple awards.
From his first feature, 2015’s “La Salada,” a patchwork narrative tale of immigrants’ lives, dreams and suffering in Argentina, to 2021’s “La Luna Reprenta Mi Corazon,” a docu feature record of the rencounter with his mother in Taiwan, Hsu has carved out a niche depicting the immigrant experience in Argentina. In “Los caminantes de la calle,...
- 3/8/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid-based Begin Again Films has picked up Spanish distribution and international sales rights to Juan Gautier’s psychological thriller “El aspirante” (“The Aspirant”), about initiation into a masculine universe revolving around hazing of a university residence.
“El aspirante” plays at this year’s Málaga Work in Progress’ Wip España sidebar, an industry centerpiece at the Málaga Film Festival, now in its 27th edition.
The film toplines Jorge Motos, star of 2021’s “Lucas,” a film which earned him a Málaga Silver Biznaga for best actor and a Goya best new actor nomination; Lucas Nabor (“All the Names of God”), Eduardo Rosa (“La casa de las flores”) and Catalina Sopelana (“Sky Rojo”) complete the main cast.
“The Aspirant” is set on the Day Zero of hazing at the Tolentino university residence. Carlos and Dani accept the 24-hour challenge to fit in. But they will have to face the worst of themselves before everything turns into a tragedy.
“El aspirante” plays at this year’s Málaga Work in Progress’ Wip España sidebar, an industry centerpiece at the Málaga Film Festival, now in its 27th edition.
The film toplines Jorge Motos, star of 2021’s “Lucas,” a film which earned him a Málaga Silver Biznaga for best actor and a Goya best new actor nomination; Lucas Nabor (“All the Names of God”), Eduardo Rosa (“La casa de las flores”) and Catalina Sopelana (“Sky Rojo”) complete the main cast.
“The Aspirant” is set on the Day Zero of hazing at the Tolentino university residence. Carlos and Dani accept the 24-hour challenge to fit in. But they will have to face the worst of themselves before everything turns into a tragedy.
- 3/6/2024
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Qualifying projects needed to have 30% of financing in place.
Ten feature projects were pitched at Iberseries & Platino Industria’s first features co-production forum in Madrid supported by Secuoya Foundation, Spain’s producers’ rights collection society Egeda, Ibero American producers’ federation Fipca, and the city government.
The event wrapped on Friday (October 6) and the pitch selection comprised eight narrative features, a documentary, and an animated feature. Qualifying projects needed to have 30% of financing in place.
Save Me From Myself (Sálvame De Mí) is a dramedy directed by Uruguay-born Max Zunino, a best fiction winner at Guadalajara Film Festival with Open Cage,...
Ten feature projects were pitched at Iberseries & Platino Industria’s first features co-production forum in Madrid supported by Secuoya Foundation, Spain’s producers’ rights collection society Egeda, Ibero American producers’ federation Fipca, and the city government.
The event wrapped on Friday (October 6) and the pitch selection comprised eight narrative features, a documentary, and an animated feature. Qualifying projects needed to have 30% of financing in place.
Save Me From Myself (Sálvame De Mí) is a dramedy directed by Uruguay-born Max Zunino, a best fiction winner at Guadalajara Film Festival with Open Cage,...
- 10/7/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Qualifying projects needed to have 30% of financing in place.
Ten feature projects were pitched at Iberseries & Platino Industria’s first features co-production forum in Madrid supported by Secuoya Foundation, Spain’s producers’ rights collection society Egeda, Ibero American producers’ federation Fipca, and the city government.
The event wrapped on Friday (October 6) and the pitch selection comprised eight narrative features, a documentary, and an animated feature. Qualifying projects needed to have 30% of financing in place.
Save Me From Myself (Sálvame De Mí) is a dramedy directed by Uruguay-born Max Zunino, a best fiction winner at Guadalajara Film Festival with Open Cage,...
Ten feature projects were pitched at Iberseries & Platino Industria’s first features co-production forum in Madrid supported by Secuoya Foundation, Spain’s producers’ rights collection society Egeda, Ibero American producers’ federation Fipca, and the city government.
The event wrapped on Friday (October 6) and the pitch selection comprised eight narrative features, a documentary, and an animated feature. Qualifying projects needed to have 30% of financing in place.
Save Me From Myself (Sálvame De Mí) is a dramedy directed by Uruguay-born Max Zunino, a best fiction winner at Guadalajara Film Festival with Open Cage,...
- 10/7/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Circle Women Doc Accelerator, an exclusive training program for female-identifying documentary filmmakers, has selected the projects that will take part in its showcase as part of the Cannes Docs program of the Marché du Film 2023.
For the fourth consecutive year, four alumnae of the program have the opportunity to present their works-in-progress during the Cannes Film Market.
Previous winners include “Twice Colonized” by Lin Alluna, which won the Docs-In-Progress award in Cannes last year before premiering in Sundance and opening both Cph:dox and Hot Docs; Ágnes Horváth-Szabó and Anna Nemet’s “Beauty of the Beast” (Nordisk Panorama Award 2020); and “Cent’anni” by Maja Prelog (Iefta Docs-In-Progress Award 2021).
“Ever Since I Knew Myself” by Maka Gogaladze, developed through Circle 2020, follows Maka, the daughter of a strict maths teacher and high-maintenance mother, on her journey around post-Soviet Georgia to observe children in the process of education. This quest is accompanied by...
For the fourth consecutive year, four alumnae of the program have the opportunity to present their works-in-progress during the Cannes Film Market.
Previous winners include “Twice Colonized” by Lin Alluna, which won the Docs-In-Progress award in Cannes last year before premiering in Sundance and opening both Cph:dox and Hot Docs; Ágnes Horváth-Szabó and Anna Nemet’s “Beauty of the Beast” (Nordisk Panorama Award 2020); and “Cent’anni” by Maja Prelog (Iefta Docs-In-Progress Award 2021).
“Ever Since I Knew Myself” by Maka Gogaladze, developed through Circle 2020, follows Maka, the daughter of a strict maths teacher and high-maintenance mother, on her journey around post-Soviet Georgia to observe children in the process of education. This quest is accompanied by...
- 4/20/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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