Bowfinger Int’l Pictures, run by Spanish actor-director Santiago Segura and producing partner María Luisa Gutiérrez, and Beta Fiction Spain (Bfs), the Spanish affiliate of Germany’s Beta Film, have teamed up to produce “Infiltrada” (“Infiltrated”) the true story of a young Spanish policewoman who infiltrated the Basque separatist group, Eta.
To be directed by Bilbao-based helmer Arantxa Echevarría, the feature film based on true events follows the 20-year old policewoman, known only by her alias Aranzazu Berradre Marín, who managed to embed herself with members of the terrorist group, even sharing living quarters with them.
Eventually, she helped lead to the dismantling of the infamous organization that used terrorist tactics in its campaign for an independent Basque state.
Based on extensive research that included the collaboration of journalists and interviews with people who were directly involved in the operation, “Infiltrada” will depict not only the events but will also...
To be directed by Bilbao-based helmer Arantxa Echevarría, the feature film based on true events follows the 20-year old policewoman, known only by her alias Aranzazu Berradre Marín, who managed to embed herself with members of the terrorist group, even sharing living quarters with them.
Eventually, she helped lead to the dismantling of the infamous organization that used terrorist tactics in its campaign for an independent Basque state.
Based on extensive research that included the collaboration of journalists and interviews with people who were directly involved in the operation, “Infiltrada” will depict not only the events but will also...
- 1/27/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
“Rebellion,” from José Luis Rugeles whose “Alias María” competed at Cannes Un Certain Regard and was Colombia’s Oscar entry, has been acquired for international sales by Latido Films.
Latido will be bringing the title onto the market at Toronto.
In the film, Rugeles takes a non-linear approach to the narrative drifting through moments in Arroyo’s life and psyche from childhood through to the end of his life. “Rebellion” explores memory, addiction and Arroyo’s deep connection to the composition of song.
It shows the birth of legendary melodies being recorded obsessively by Arroyo into multiple tape recorders as he layers ideas upon each other. These fragments infiltrate the soundtrack throughout, at times bursting into full band performances of Arroyo’s famous songs. The authenticity of the music is aided by some of the musicians involved having played with Arroyo.
Lead producer Federico Durán of Rhayuela said: “When we...
Latido will be bringing the title onto the market at Toronto.
In the film, Rugeles takes a non-linear approach to the narrative drifting through moments in Arroyo’s life and psyche from childhood through to the end of his life. “Rebellion” explores memory, addiction and Arroyo’s deep connection to the composition of song.
It shows the birth of legendary melodies being recorded obsessively by Arroyo into multiple tape recorders as he layers ideas upon each other. These fragments infiltrate the soundtrack throughout, at times bursting into full band performances of Arroyo’s famous songs. The authenticity of the music is aided by some of the musicians involved having played with Arroyo.
Lead producer Federico Durán of Rhayuela said: “When we...
- 9/9/2022
- by Callum McLennan
- Variety Film + TV
With a delicately morose charm, Spanish actress-turned-director Liz Lobato is presenting her debut feature project, “Tierra de Nuestras Madres” as part of the 11th Fanfic Industria’s Ibero-American Work In Progress strand.
The farcical fable scrutinizing globalization takes place in the village of La Mancha, where residents know each other thoroughly and tend to their routines like clockwork. There, beloved curmudgeon and central protagonist Rosario makes the rounds selling drug-laced fig salt to her neighbors as the town’s unknowingly sold out from under them by a bankrupt mayor.
Shot in black and white, the film gives far more than it takes and absurdly relays the somber tale of corruption and a community bound to its roots so tightly its willing to sacrifice a soul or two to stay put, as futile an endeavor as that may be.
The project is a co-production between Nieves Moroto of Spain’s Me...
The farcical fable scrutinizing globalization takes place in the village of La Mancha, where residents know each other thoroughly and tend to their routines like clockwork. There, beloved curmudgeon and central protagonist Rosario makes the rounds selling drug-laced fig salt to her neighbors as the town’s unknowingly sold out from under them by a bankrupt mayor.
Shot in black and white, the film gives far more than it takes and absurdly relays the somber tale of corruption and a community bound to its roots so tightly its willing to sacrifice a soul or two to stay put, as futile an endeavor as that may be.
The project is a co-production between Nieves Moroto of Spain’s Me...
- 8/18/2022
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Wrapping March 26, the 25th Malaga Festival and its Spanish Screenings delivered another confirmation of Spain’s build as a fiction force in a new platform era.
Following, nine final takes on what may prove a historic edition.
A Vibrant Spanish Screenings
Málaga’s plus-size 2022 Spanish Screenings fairly rocked. Extra funding from Spain’s Avs Hub Plan, covering far more buyers’ flights, meant attendance skyrocketed. Screenings delegate numbers shot up to 609 by early week, overall industry attendees to over 1,100 . It showed. “They were highly successful,” said Latido Films’ head Antonio Saura said of the event. “Buyers were able to see movies which at other festivals they often just can’t catch,” he added. “There was a lot more dynamism to trading, taking the Screenings to a new level,” agreed Ivan Díaz, Filmax head of international.
’Lullaby,’ ‘Utama’ Sweep Awards
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s finely observed mother-daughter relationship drama “Lullaby” and Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s “Utama,...
Following, nine final takes on what may prove a historic edition.
A Vibrant Spanish Screenings
Málaga’s plus-size 2022 Spanish Screenings fairly rocked. Extra funding from Spain’s Avs Hub Plan, covering far more buyers’ flights, meant attendance skyrocketed. Screenings delegate numbers shot up to 609 by early week, overall industry attendees to over 1,100 . It showed. “They were highly successful,” said Latido Films’ head Antonio Saura said of the event. “Buyers were able to see movies which at other festivals they often just can’t catch,” he added. “There was a lot more dynamism to trading, taking the Screenings to a new level,” agreed Ivan Díaz, Filmax head of international.
’Lullaby,’ ‘Utama’ Sweep Awards
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s finely observed mother-daughter relationship drama “Lullaby” and Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s “Utama,...
- 3/27/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
In his latest work, which was being singled out for praise on the first day of Malaga’s Spanish Screenings, Imanol Uribe recounts the fateful story of Lucia Cerna, the only witness to the 1989 massacre in El Salvador of six Jesuit priests and two other people by a U.S.-trained death squad at a university residence in San Salvador.
“What Lucia Saw” (“Llegaron de Noche”) focuses on the story of Lucia and her husband Jorge, who, with the help of church officials and Spanish and French diplomats, are spirited out of the country to Miami, where they hope to find safe haven. Once in the U.S., however, they fall into the clutches of the FBI and a Salvadoran colonel, who interrogate the couple in an effort to discredit Lucia’s testimony.
Uribe, a leading light of the early ’80s Basque cinema whose works also include the acclaimed 1994 terrorist drama “Numbered Days,...
“What Lucia Saw” (“Llegaron de Noche”) focuses on the story of Lucia and her husband Jorge, who, with the help of church officials and Spanish and French diplomats, are spirited out of the country to Miami, where they hope to find safe haven. Once in the U.S., however, they fall into the clutches of the FBI and a Salvadoran colonel, who interrogate the couple in an effort to discredit Lucia’s testimony.
Uribe, a leading light of the early ’80s Basque cinema whose works also include the acclaimed 1994 terrorist drama “Numbered Days,...
- 3/21/2022
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The event is a major showcase of Spanish and Latin American content to the international market.
The world premiere of Jorge Coira’s Codigo Emperador, starring Luis Tosar, opens the 25th edition of the Málaga Film Festival (Mff) today (March 18), marking the first time the Spanish and Latin American-focused event has run in-person for two years. The spy thriiller also opens in Spain today.
Roberto Bueso’s Full Of Grace is the closing night film, screening out of competition.
Codigo Emperador is playing in competition along with Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s directorial debut Lullaby, starring Laia Costa and Susi Sánchez,...
The world premiere of Jorge Coira’s Codigo Emperador, starring Luis Tosar, opens the 25th edition of the Málaga Film Festival (Mff) today (March 18), marking the first time the Spanish and Latin American-focused event has run in-person for two years. The spy thriiller also opens in Spain today.
Roberto Bueso’s Full Of Grace is the closing night film, screening out of competition.
Codigo Emperador is playing in competition along with Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s directorial debut Lullaby, starring Laia Costa and Susi Sánchez,...
- 3/18/2022
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
Clare Weiskopf, Nicolás Van Hemelryck co-directed Colombia-set documentary.
Madrid’s Latido Films has come on board to represent international sales on Berlin Generation 14plus selection Alis and has released a first-look trailer.
Clare Weiskopf and Nicolás Van Hemelryck co-directed the Colombia-set documentary that takes place at a public boarding school in Bogota where 10 teenagers from the street take part in an exercise to invent a narrative around an imaginary classmate called Alis.
The children’s initial forays into their imaginations allow them to express their dreams and give way to something darker as Alis becomes a vessel for reflecting on hardship and trauma.
Madrid’s Latido Films has come on board to represent international sales on Berlin Generation 14plus selection Alis and has released a first-look trailer.
Clare Weiskopf and Nicolás Van Hemelryck co-directed the Colombia-set documentary that takes place at a public boarding school in Bogota where 10 teenagers from the street take part in an exercise to invent a narrative around an imaginary classmate called Alis.
The children’s initial forays into their imaginations allow them to express their dreams and give way to something darker as Alis becomes a vessel for reflecting on hardship and trauma.
- 2/2/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Clare Weiskopf, Nicolás Van Hemelryck co-directed Colombia-set documentary.
Madrid’s Latido Films has come on board to represent international sales on Berlin Generation 14plus selection Alis and has released a first-look trailer.
Clare Weiskopf and Nicolás Van Hemelryck co-directed the Colombia-set documentary that takes place at a public boarding school in Bogota where 10 teenagers from the street take part in an exercise to invent a narrative around an imaginary classmate called Alis.
The children’s initial forays into their imaginations allow them to express their dreams and give way to something darker as Alis becomes a vessel for reflecting on hardship and trauma.
Madrid’s Latido Films has come on board to represent international sales on Berlin Generation 14plus selection Alis and has released a first-look trailer.
Clare Weiskopf and Nicolás Van Hemelryck co-directed the Colombia-set documentary that takes place at a public boarding school in Bogota where 10 teenagers from the street take part in an exercise to invent a narrative around an imaginary classmate called Alis.
The children’s initial forays into their imaginations allow them to express their dreams and give way to something darker as Alis becomes a vessel for reflecting on hardship and trauma.
- 2/2/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Already selected as this year’s Spanish Best International Feature Film submission for the Oscars, Fernando León de Aranoa’s dark workplace comedy “The Good Boss,” starring Javier Bardem, has set a new record for most Spanish Academy Goya Award nominations with 20, ahead of Icíar Bollaín’s standout Basque drama “Maixabel” with 14 and Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers,” which secured eight.
The 20 nominations include: Best picture, director, original screenplay, original music, lead actor, three nominations for supporting actor, supporting actress, two nominations for best new male actor and one for best new female actor, production design, cinematography, editing, art direction, costume design, makeup, sound design and special effects. It’s a total which breaks an almost 30-year-old record held by Imanol Uribe’s “Numbered Days,” which received 19 nominations in 1994.
León’s latest, produced by The Mediapro Studio and Reposado PC, is a return to a fruitful partnership between the director and his leading man.
The 20 nominations include: Best picture, director, original screenplay, original music, lead actor, three nominations for supporting actor, supporting actress, two nominations for best new male actor and one for best new female actor, production design, cinematography, editing, art direction, costume design, makeup, sound design and special effects. It’s a total which breaks an almost 30-year-old record held by Imanol Uribe’s “Numbered Days,” which received 19 nominations in 1994.
León’s latest, produced by The Mediapro Studio and Reposado PC, is a return to a fruitful partnership between the director and his leading man.
- 11/29/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Lending some bigger movie heft to the Malaga market, Latido Films is bringing onto the international sales scene two thrillers – though very different propositions – from Academy Award winning producer Tornasol Media (“The Secret in Their Eyes”).
“Thrillers have high export potential, but they’re a highly competitive market and since Spanish movies can’t compete with U.S. films’ star power, they have to offer something else,” said Latido Films head Antonio Saura.
Both in production, what Imanol Uribe’s “La Mirada de Lucía” and Oscar Aibar’s “El sustituto” offer is high quality entertainment grounded in different but powerful social realities.
The directors go about addressing that reality in highly different ways, however.
Winner of San Sebastian’s Golden Shell with “Running Out of Time” and “Bwana,” a feat only achieved by five other directors, the first Francis Ford Coppola, Imanol Uribe’s “La mirada de Lucía,” written by...
“Thrillers have high export potential, but they’re a highly competitive market and since Spanish movies can’t compete with U.S. films’ star power, they have to offer something else,” said Latido Films head Antonio Saura.
Both in production, what Imanol Uribe’s “La Mirada de Lucía” and Oscar Aibar’s “El sustituto” offer is high quality entertainment grounded in different but powerful social realities.
The directors go about addressing that reality in highly different ways, however.
Winner of San Sebastian’s Golden Shell with “Running Out of Time” and “Bwana,” a feat only achieved by five other directors, the first Francis Ford Coppola, Imanol Uribe’s “La mirada de Lucía,” written by...
- 11/19/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Basque filmmaker Ángel Amigo has drawn inspiration from courtroom sketch techniques for his documentary “Voces del pasado imperfecto” (Voices From the Imperfect Past), about the 1970 trial of Eta militants in Burgos, Spain under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
Making a virtue out of necessity, because of the lack of visual material, the documentary applies courtroom sketch techniques by graphic designer Unai Guerra, and adds trial session audio recordings made by defense lawyers.
The doc is contextualized with chronicles by international press correspondents covering the event alongside radio reports by Radio Paris and Radio España Independiente, broadcast from exile.
“The documentary will be a recognition of the work of the lawyers and the professionalism of the correspondents,” said Amigo, who doubles as “Voices” writer-director.
A standout producer of key titles from a brief but vibrant New Basque Cinema movement after Franco’s death, including Imanol Uribe’s “La fuga de Segovia,...
Making a virtue out of necessity, because of the lack of visual material, the documentary applies courtroom sketch techniques by graphic designer Unai Guerra, and adds trial session audio recordings made by defense lawyers.
The doc is contextualized with chronicles by international press correspondents covering the event alongside radio reports by Radio Paris and Radio España Independiente, broadcast from exile.
“The documentary will be a recognition of the work of the lawyers and the professionalism of the correspondents,” said Amigo, who doubles as “Voices” writer-director.
A standout producer of key titles from a brief but vibrant New Basque Cinema movement after Franco’s death, including Imanol Uribe’s “La fuga de Segovia,...
- 9/25/2020
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Three Spanish titles will compete for this year’s Golden Shell.Scroll down for full line-up
This 64th San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 16-24) has revealed the line-up of Spanish titles that will play across its sections.
There will be a total of 15 Spanish-produced films on show, including four shorts.
Competing for the Golden Shell – the festival’s top prize – will be Alberto Rodríguez’s El Hombre De Las Mil Caras (Smoke And Mirrors), Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Que Dios Nos Perdone (May God Save Us) and Jonás Trueba’s La Reconquista (The Reconquest), all of which are world premieres.
Goya Award-winning director Alberto Rodríguez is nominated for his third Golden Shell following 2014’s Marshland and 2005’s 7 Virgins. El Hombre De Las Mil Caras (Smoke And Mirrors) [pictured top] tells the story of spy Fransisco Paesa.
Rodrigo Sorogoyen presents his third feature Que Dios Nos Perdone (May God Save Us) – following 2013’s Goya-nominated Stockholm – which tells the story of a detective...
This 64th San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 16-24) has revealed the line-up of Spanish titles that will play across its sections.
There will be a total of 15 Spanish-produced films on show, including four shorts.
Competing for the Golden Shell – the festival’s top prize – will be Alberto Rodríguez’s El Hombre De Las Mil Caras (Smoke And Mirrors), Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Que Dios Nos Perdone (May God Save Us) and Jonás Trueba’s La Reconquista (The Reconquest), all of which are world premieres.
Goya Award-winning director Alberto Rodríguez is nominated for his third Golden Shell following 2014’s Marshland and 2005’s 7 Virgins. El Hombre De Las Mil Caras (Smoke And Mirrors) [pictured top] tells the story of spy Fransisco Paesa.
Rodrigo Sorogoyen presents his third feature Que Dios Nos Perdone (May God Save Us) – following 2013’s Goya-nominated Stockholm – which tells the story of a detective...
- 7/28/2016
- ScreenDaily
Three Spanish titles will compete for this year’s Golden Shell.Scroll down for full line-up
This 64th San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 16-24) has revealed the line-up of Spanish titles that will play across its sections.
There will be a total of 15 Spanish-produced films on show, including four shorts.
Competing for the Golden Shell – the festival’s top prize – will be Alberto Rodríguez’s El Hombre De Las Mil Caras (Smoke And Mirrors), Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Que Dios Nos Perdone (May God Save Us) and Jonás Trueba’s La Reconquista (The Reconquest), all of which are world premieres.
Goya Award-winning director Alberto Rodríguez is nominated for his third Golden Shell following 2014’s Marshland and 2005’s 7 Virgins. El Hombre De Las Mil Caras (Smoke And Mirrors) [pictured top] tells the story of spy Fransisco Paesa.
Rodrigo Sorogoyen presents his third feature Que Dios Nos Perdone (May God Save Us) – following 2013’s Goya-nominated Stockholm – which tells the story of a detective...
This 64th San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 16-24) has revealed the line-up of Spanish titles that will play across its sections.
There will be a total of 15 Spanish-produced films on show, including four shorts.
Competing for the Golden Shell – the festival’s top prize – will be Alberto Rodríguez’s El Hombre De Las Mil Caras (Smoke And Mirrors), Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Que Dios Nos Perdone (May God Save Us) and Jonás Trueba’s La Reconquista (The Reconquest), all of which are world premieres.
Goya Award-winning director Alberto Rodríguez is nominated for his third Golden Shell following 2014’s Marshland and 2005’s 7 Virgins. El Hombre De Las Mil Caras (Smoke And Mirrors) [pictured top] tells the story of spy Fransisco Paesa.
Rodrigo Sorogoyen presents his third feature Que Dios Nos Perdone (May God Save Us) – following 2013’s Goya-nominated Stockholm – which tells the story of a detective...
- 7/28/2016
- ScreenDaily
British actress to receive career award; festival guest list includes Tom Hiddleston, Ellen Page, Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro.
Emily Watson, star of Breaking The Waves, The Book Thief and Everest, is receive the Donostia Award at the 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26) in recognition of her 30 years in film.
The British actress will collect the award at a gala on Sept 25 in San Sebastian’s Kursaal Auditorium.
The festival also unveiled some high-profile names and juries for its upcoming edition.
Actors attending include stars of Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, Sienna Miller, Tom Hiddleston and Luke Evans; Freeheld actress Ellen Page; Sicario stars Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro; Tim Roth, at the festival with 600 Miles and Chronic; Louise Bourgoin, star of The White Knights; and Karin Viard and Isabelle Carré from 21 nuits avec Pattie.
Filmmakers in attendance include Pablo Agüero (Eva Doesn’t Sleep), Laurie Anderson (Heart of a Dog), Scott Cooper ([link...
Emily Watson, star of Breaking The Waves, The Book Thief and Everest, is receive the Donostia Award at the 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26) in recognition of her 30 years in film.
The British actress will collect the award at a gala on Sept 25 in San Sebastian’s Kursaal Auditorium.
The festival also unveiled some high-profile names and juries for its upcoming edition.
Actors attending include stars of Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, Sienna Miller, Tom Hiddleston and Luke Evans; Freeheld actress Ellen Page; Sicario stars Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro; Tim Roth, at the festival with 600 Miles and Chronic; Louise Bourgoin, star of The White Knights; and Karin Viard and Isabelle Carré from 21 nuits avec Pattie.
Filmmakers in attendance include Pablo Agüero (Eva Doesn’t Sleep), Laurie Anderson (Heart of a Dog), Scott Cooper ([link...
- 9/4/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
New films by Liu Hao, Joachim Lafosse and Peter Sollett join line-up.
Peter Sollett’s Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page, is one of three new titles to join the Official Selection competition at the upcoming San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26).
Based on true events, the film centres on Us police lieutenant Laurel Hester (Moore) and her registered domestic partner Stacie Andree (Page) who battle to secure Hester’s pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
The film, set to world premiere at Toronto (Sept 10-20), is one of several features announced in Official Selection that will compete for San Sebastian’s Golden Shell.
Other new titles in competition include Back to the North (Xiang bei fang), which will see Chinese director Liu Hao return to Seb Sebastian five years after Addicted To Love played in Official Selection in 2010.
The film is about a woman diagnosed with a terminal illness who is concerned...
Peter Sollett’s Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page, is one of three new titles to join the Official Selection competition at the upcoming San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26).
Based on true events, the film centres on Us police lieutenant Laurel Hester (Moore) and her registered domestic partner Stacie Andree (Page) who battle to secure Hester’s pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
The film, set to world premiere at Toronto (Sept 10-20), is one of several features announced in Official Selection that will compete for San Sebastian’s Golden Shell.
Other new titles in competition include Back to the North (Xiang bei fang), which will see Chinese director Liu Hao return to Seb Sebastian five years after Addicted To Love played in Official Selection in 2010.
The film is about a woman diagnosed with a terminal illness who is concerned...
- 8/18/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Other new titles in competition include Rúnar Rúnarsson’s Sparrows and the first animated film to play in San Seb’s official selection.
Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise and Terence Davies’ Sunset Song are among the eight new titles to join the competition line-up at the upcoming San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26).
Wheatley’s adaptation of Jg Ballard’s 1975 novel stars Tom Hiddleston and is a dystopic depiction of a society that starts a class war in a high-rise apartment.
Davies’ Sunset Song, set to world premiere at Toronto, is a coming of age drama centred on the the daughter of a Scottish farmer in the early 1900s.
The new titles also include Mamoru Hosoda’s The Boy and the Beast. The Japanese anime is the first animated film to compete in official selection at San Sebastian and revolves around a boy who befriends a supernatural creature in an imaginary world.
Full list of...
Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise and Terence Davies’ Sunset Song are among the eight new titles to join the competition line-up at the upcoming San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26).
Wheatley’s adaptation of Jg Ballard’s 1975 novel stars Tom Hiddleston and is a dystopic depiction of a society that starts a class war in a high-rise apartment.
Davies’ Sunset Song, set to world premiere at Toronto, is a coming of age drama centred on the the daughter of a Scottish farmer in the early 1900s.
The new titles also include Mamoru Hosoda’s The Boy and the Beast. The Japanese anime is the first animated film to compete in official selection at San Sebastian and revolves around a boy who befriends a supernatural creature in an imaginary world.
Full list of...
- 8/7/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Spanish-language titles from Pablo Agüero, Asier Altuna, Cesc Gay among line-up.Scroll down for line-up
The San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18 – 26) this morning announced an array of Spanish-language titles set to compete at the festival, including new films from Pablo Agüero, Asier Altuna, Cesc Gay, Marc Recha, Federico Veiroj and Agustí Villaronga, all of which will play in Official Competition.
Gay’s Truman, starring Ricardo Darin and Javier Cámara, revolves around the relationship between two friends - accompanied by a faithful dog - who share an intense few days, while Marc Recha’s latest Un Dia Perfecte Per Volar, starring his son Roc and Sergi López, charts the story of a boy trying to fly a kite made by his father.
Aguero’s drama Eva No Duerme explores political turmoil in Argentina through the life of an expert in charge of embalming iconic politician Evita Peron.
As anonunced this morning in Madrid, Imanol Uribe’s [link...
The San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18 – 26) this morning announced an array of Spanish-language titles set to compete at the festival, including new films from Pablo Agüero, Asier Altuna, Cesc Gay, Marc Recha, Federico Veiroj and Agustí Villaronga, all of which will play in Official Competition.
Gay’s Truman, starring Ricardo Darin and Javier Cámara, revolves around the relationship between two friends - accompanied by a faithful dog - who share an intense few days, while Marc Recha’s latest Un Dia Perfecte Per Volar, starring his son Roc and Sergi López, charts the story of a boy trying to fly a kite made by his father.
Aguero’s drama Eva No Duerme explores political turmoil in Argentina through the life of an expert in charge of embalming iconic politician Evita Peron.
As anonunced this morning in Madrid, Imanol Uribe’s [link...
- 7/23/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
They didn’t make our final Top 100 cut, but here is a list of foreign film titles that are on our radar for 2015. We being with…
200. Remember – Dir. Atom Egoyan
199. Suffragette – Dir. Sarah Gavron
198. Kills on Wheels – Dir. Attila Till
197. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend – Dir. Yuen Woo-ping
196. The Go-Between – Dir. Pete Travis
195. Peur de Rien Dir. Danielle Arbid
194. Regular Boy – Dir. Michele Civetta
193. Flaskepost – Dir. Nikolaj Arcel
192. The Lady in the Van – Dir. Nicolas Hytner
191. Zoom – Dir. Pedro Morelli
190. Away from the Sea – Dir. Imanol Uribe
189. Tulip Fever – Dir. Justin Chadwick
188. Ulrike’s Brain – Dir. Bruce La Bruce
187. Tsunami – Dir. Jacques Deschamps
186. And Your Sister? – Dir. Marion Vernoux
185. There Was Las Vegas – Dir. Alexandre Castas
184. Prejudice – Dir. Antoine Cuypers
183. Stepne – Dir. Maryna Vroda
182. Irreplaceable – Dir. Olivier Masset-Depasse
181. Histoire de Judas Iscariot – Dir. Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche
180. The First, the Last – Dir. Bouli Lanners
179. Selection Officielle – Dir. Jacques Richard
178. Desierto – Dir.
200. Remember – Dir. Atom Egoyan
199. Suffragette – Dir. Sarah Gavron
198. Kills on Wheels – Dir. Attila Till
197. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend – Dir. Yuen Woo-ping
196. The Go-Between – Dir. Pete Travis
195. Peur de Rien Dir. Danielle Arbid
194. Regular Boy – Dir. Michele Civetta
193. Flaskepost – Dir. Nikolaj Arcel
192. The Lady in the Van – Dir. Nicolas Hytner
191. Zoom – Dir. Pedro Morelli
190. Away from the Sea – Dir. Imanol Uribe
189. Tulip Fever – Dir. Justin Chadwick
188. Ulrike’s Brain – Dir. Bruce La Bruce
187. Tsunami – Dir. Jacques Deschamps
186. And Your Sister? – Dir. Marion Vernoux
185. There Was Las Vegas – Dir. Alexandre Castas
184. Prejudice – Dir. Antoine Cuypers
183. Stepne – Dir. Maryna Vroda
182. Irreplaceable – Dir. Olivier Masset-Depasse
181. Histoire de Judas Iscariot – Dir. Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche
180. The First, the Last – Dir. Bouli Lanners
179. Selection Officielle – Dir. Jacques Richard
178. Desierto – Dir.
- 1/5/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
I hope someone in Madrid is dimming the lights on the Schweppes sign; that would be a fitting tribute to one of its best actors. Álex Angulo, star of films such as The Day of the Beast, Live Flesh, and Pan's Labyrinth, has died in a traffic accident in his native Spain. Likely best known to film audiences through his work with Álex de la Iglesia, this is a tremendous loss for Spanish cinema.Born in the Basque country, Angulo got his start in local theatre before moving to film in 1981 with Escape to Segovia (directed by Imanol Uribe). But it was his film with de la Iglesia that brought him to greater prominence. First, as one half of conjoined twins in Mutant Action, who...
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- 7/20/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Madrid -- Spanish actress Angela Molina, former Spanish Film Institute chief Fernando Lara, directors Imanol Uribe and Maria Ripoll, writer Juan Bonilla, actress Lucia Jimenez and film historian Josean Fernandez will make up the jury for the official competition at the 13th Malaga Spanish Film Festival, which runs April 17-24, organizers announced Thursday.
- 3/18/2010
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
San Sebastian -- Sir Ian McKellen picked up the Donostia lifetime achievement award late Wednesday at the 57th San Sebastian International Film Festival, thanking the festival for recognizing his 50-year acting career, rather than just one performance.
"If I'm in competition, it's with myself alone," McKellen said, after receiving the statue from Spanish actor Josep Maria Pou.
Also Wednesday, Imanol Uribe received the first Zinemira award, newly created by the festival to reward a Basque filmmaker.
Spanish Film Academy president Alex de la Iglesia -- a native of the Basque region, where the festival is held on Spain's northern coast -- gave Uribe the award.
Elsewhere, Federico Veiroj's Uruguayan "La Vida Util," won the grand prize at the Films in Progress sidebar, securing post-production financing to a finished 35 mm copy of the film. Actor Daniel Hendler's directorial debut "Norberto Apenas Tarde," from Uruguay, won the Tve Award --...
"If I'm in competition, it's with myself alone," McKellen said, after receiving the statue from Spanish actor Josep Maria Pou.
Also Wednesday, Imanol Uribe received the first Zinemira award, newly created by the festival to reward a Basque filmmaker.
Spanish Film Academy president Alex de la Iglesia -- a native of the Basque region, where the festival is held on Spain's northern coast -- gave Uribe the award.
Elsewhere, Federico Veiroj's Uruguayan "La Vida Util," won the grand prize at the Films in Progress sidebar, securing post-production financing to a finished 35 mm copy of the film. Actor Daniel Hendler's directorial debut "Norberto Apenas Tarde," from Uruguay, won the Tve Award --...
- 9/24/2009
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MADRID -- Thirty high-profile Spanish directors are teaming up to create a series of television shorts criticizing the government in the run-up to general elections scheduled for March 14, the newly created group called There's a Motive said Thursday. Recent Goya award winner Iciar Bollain, along with Fernando Colomo, David Trueba, Isabel Coixet, Vicente Aranda, Imanol Uribe and Montxo Armendariz are among the directors who will create three-minute segments. The move comes on the heels of the Jan. 31 Goya awards ceremony, at which the Spanish Film Academy turned the gala into a platform against government actions they oppose. The government's handling of an oil tanker disaster, the war in Iraq, the alleged manipulation of information on public television and the rise in domestic violence are a few of the subjects of the shorts that will be entirely funded by the director-producers, the group said.
A middle-class family encounters a beautiful stranger and the ugly realities of modern-day Europe when they visit the seashore in "Bwana", Spain's official submission for the Academy Awards that showed recently in the American Cinematheque's "Recent Spanish Cinema" series. The film shared the top prize at last year's San Sebastian Film Festival.
Not as intense but equally as nihilistic as director Imanol Uribe's award-winning "Dias Contados", "Bwana" plays like a commercial comedy for long stretches, with the squabbling family finding an illegal African refugee who knows only one Spanish phrase.
Andres Pajares plays the easily flustered taxi-driver father with an engaging mixture of macho bluster and passiveness typical of a scared city dweller. Maria Barranco as the mother, Dori, is a prejudiced European at first terrified by the appearance of Ombasi (Emilio Buale).
Seen burying and mourning a comrade who presumably died in transit from Africa, the young and healthy Ombasi is not half as threatening as other white characters encountered early on. But the family, including a young daughter and rebellious son, are both cruel and uncaring in their early encounters with the lost black man.
A spark plug left on the beach keeps the family overnight, and as darkness descends, they seek shelter by Ombasi's fire. Dori has a dream about Ombasi and is so sexually excited she makes love with her husband with wild abandon.
Ombasi comes to the father's rescue when he stumbles on smugglers, but the bonds forged are fragile. When a trio of merciless skinheads catches Ombasi and the mother bathing in the ocean, a final ugly confrontation underscores the family's (and mainstream Western Europe's) precarious position in a volatile world.
The film goes out of its way to canonize Ombasi and denigrate the xenophobic, cowardly leads, whose actions result in a disastrously unsatisfying climax. As in "Dias Contados", Uribe paints a bleak picture of modern Spain that in "Bwana" is awkwardly attached to a cross-cultural comedy concept that seems woefully dated.
Evocatively shot on location by Javier Aquirresarobe, the film's lighter middle section works best. Buale's character is by far the most interesting, and the film suffers much when the focus is on the stereotyped family members.
BWANA
Aurum/Cartel/Origen
Antena 3 Television, Canal Plus Espana
Director Imanol Uribe
Executive producer Antonio Cardenal
Writers Imanol Uribe, Juan Potali, Paco Pino
Production manager Antonio Guillen Rey
Director of photography Javier Aquirresarobe
Art director Felix Murcia
Editor Teresa Font
Color/stereo
Cast:
Antonio Andres Pajares
Dori Maria Barranco
Ombasi Emilio Buale
Running time -- 87 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Not as intense but equally as nihilistic as director Imanol Uribe's award-winning "Dias Contados", "Bwana" plays like a commercial comedy for long stretches, with the squabbling family finding an illegal African refugee who knows only one Spanish phrase.
Andres Pajares plays the easily flustered taxi-driver father with an engaging mixture of macho bluster and passiveness typical of a scared city dweller. Maria Barranco as the mother, Dori, is a prejudiced European at first terrified by the appearance of Ombasi (Emilio Buale).
Seen burying and mourning a comrade who presumably died in transit from Africa, the young and healthy Ombasi is not half as threatening as other white characters encountered early on. But the family, including a young daughter and rebellious son, are both cruel and uncaring in their early encounters with the lost black man.
A spark plug left on the beach keeps the family overnight, and as darkness descends, they seek shelter by Ombasi's fire. Dori has a dream about Ombasi and is so sexually excited she makes love with her husband with wild abandon.
Ombasi comes to the father's rescue when he stumbles on smugglers, but the bonds forged are fragile. When a trio of merciless skinheads catches Ombasi and the mother bathing in the ocean, a final ugly confrontation underscores the family's (and mainstream Western Europe's) precarious position in a volatile world.
The film goes out of its way to canonize Ombasi and denigrate the xenophobic, cowardly leads, whose actions result in a disastrously unsatisfying climax. As in "Dias Contados", Uribe paints a bleak picture of modern Spain that in "Bwana" is awkwardly attached to a cross-cultural comedy concept that seems woefully dated.
Evocatively shot on location by Javier Aquirresarobe, the film's lighter middle section works best. Buale's character is by far the most interesting, and the film suffers much when the focus is on the stereotyped family members.
BWANA
Aurum/Cartel/Origen
Antena 3 Television, Canal Plus Espana
Director Imanol Uribe
Executive producer Antonio Cardenal
Writers Imanol Uribe, Juan Potali, Paco Pino
Production manager Antonio Guillen Rey
Director of photography Javier Aquirresarobe
Art director Felix Murcia
Editor Teresa Font
Color/stereo
Cast:
Antonio Andres Pajares
Dori Maria Barranco
Ombasi Emilio Buale
Running time -- 87 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Though beautifully produced and directed, "Secretos del Corazon" (Secrets of the Heart) by writer-director Montxo Armendariz Barrios is unimaginative and uneventful and will have a hard time of it except for TV dates in Spanish-speaking territories.
"Secretos", which was awarded the Blue Angel -- the grand prize of the European Academy of Film and Television -- at this year's Berlin film festival, tells the tender story of a young boy growing up in a slightly corrupt small-town world. The secrets of the title are the ones 9-year-old Javi (Andoni Erburu) must learn on his gradual path to maturity: the truth about the death of his father, the truth about his mother's lover, the truth about his spinster aunts, and the truth about the all-influencing force called sex.
Young Javi is pushed around a little bit by the fates of his family, but he is never really involved, and life is always more or less kind to his family too. But this is not about drama, it's about perception.
The photography by Javier Aguirresarobe is beautiful, warm and welcoming, and the characters are all convincing.
The film seems to have been made on the misconception that seeing the world through the surprised eyes of a little boy is enough -- it would have been interesting if something in that world was worth looking at.
SECRETOS DEL CORAZON
Sogepaq International
An Aiete Films/Ariane Films production
of a Montxo Armendariz Barrios film
Director Montxo Armendariz Barrios
Producers Imanol Uribe, Andres Santana
Writer Montxo Armendariz Barrios
Director of photography Javier Aguirresarobe
Production designer Felix Murcia
Editor Rori Sainz de Rozas
Music Bingen Mendizabal
Color
Cast:
Javi Andoni Erburu
Juan Alvaro Nagore
Maria Charo Lopez
Mother Silvia Munt
Rosa Vicky Pena
Carlos Inigo Garces
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
"Secretos", which was awarded the Blue Angel -- the grand prize of the European Academy of Film and Television -- at this year's Berlin film festival, tells the tender story of a young boy growing up in a slightly corrupt small-town world. The secrets of the title are the ones 9-year-old Javi (Andoni Erburu) must learn on his gradual path to maturity: the truth about the death of his father, the truth about his mother's lover, the truth about his spinster aunts, and the truth about the all-influencing force called sex.
Young Javi is pushed around a little bit by the fates of his family, but he is never really involved, and life is always more or less kind to his family too. But this is not about drama, it's about perception.
The photography by Javier Aguirresarobe is beautiful, warm and welcoming, and the characters are all convincing.
The film seems to have been made on the misconception that seeing the world through the surprised eyes of a little boy is enough -- it would have been interesting if something in that world was worth looking at.
SECRETOS DEL CORAZON
Sogepaq International
An Aiete Films/Ariane Films production
of a Montxo Armendariz Barrios film
Director Montxo Armendariz Barrios
Producers Imanol Uribe, Andres Santana
Writer Montxo Armendariz Barrios
Director of photography Javier Aguirresarobe
Production designer Felix Murcia
Editor Rori Sainz de Rozas
Music Bingen Mendizabal
Color
Cast:
Javi Andoni Erburu
Juan Alvaro Nagore
Maria Charo Lopez
Mother Silvia Munt
Rosa Vicky Pena
Carlos Inigo Garces
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/26/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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