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
Catalan titles will be in no short supply at this year’s Cannes Festival and Marché du Film. Below, a near dozen titles that hope to impress at this year’s event.
“Blue Sun Palace,” (Constance Tsang)
Tsang’s debut feature, shot in New York, world premieres at this year’s Critics’ Week. Field Trip Media and Big Buddha Prods. produce this film about two migrants who work at a massage parlor in Queens. Co- produced by Catalonia’s Marta Cruañas (“Creature”).
Sales: Charades
“Daniela Forever,” (Nacho Vigalondo)
Vigalondo helms this English language romantic drama about loss and memory, reminiscent of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” Producers include Mediacrest, Sayaka, XYZ Films, Wrong Men and Señor & Señora.
Sales: XYZ Films
“Misericordia,” (Alain Guiraudie)
French director Guiraudie, behind 2013 Queer Palm winner “Stranger by the Lake,” will bow his latest film in the Cannes Premiere section. This French-Catalan co-production received...
“Blue Sun Palace,” (Constance Tsang)
Tsang’s debut feature, shot in New York, world premieres at this year’s Critics’ Week. Field Trip Media and Big Buddha Prods. produce this film about two migrants who work at a massage parlor in Queens. Co- produced by Catalonia’s Marta Cruañas (“Creature”).
Sales: Charades
“Daniela Forever,” (Nacho Vigalondo)
Vigalondo helms this English language romantic drama about loss and memory, reminiscent of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” Producers include Mediacrest, Sayaka, XYZ Films, Wrong Men and Señor & Señora.
Sales: XYZ Films
“Misericordia,” (Alain Guiraudie)
French director Guiraudie, behind 2013 Queer Palm winner “Stranger by the Lake,” will bow his latest film in the Cannes Premiere section. This French-Catalan co-production received...
- 5/14/2024
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Catalan films routinely punch above their weight at high-profile international festivals: Think 2022 Berlin Golden Bear winner “Alcarràs.” That trend looks primed to continue in 2024.
Catalan auteur Albert Serra will debut “Afternoons of Solitude,” co-produced by Catalan companies Andergraun Films and Lacima, with Ideale Audience and Tardes de Soledad.
A fall fest bet, “They Will Be Dust,” from Carlos Marqués- Marcet, is produced by Catalonia’s Lastor Media alongside Chile’s Alina Film and Kino Produzioni in Italy.
Few regions boast a lineup of female filmmakers as impressive as Catalonia. This year, new films from Goya Award winners Pilar Palomero (“Glimmers”) and Belén Funes (“The Turtles”) are strong contenders for festival recognition.
With the backing of Catalonia’s Minority Co-Production Fund, four international co-prods are poised to make a significant impact on this year’s festival circuit. Keep an eye out for Javier Rebollo’s “Close to the Sultan”, Calia Atan...
Catalan auteur Albert Serra will debut “Afternoons of Solitude,” co-produced by Catalan companies Andergraun Films and Lacima, with Ideale Audience and Tardes de Soledad.
A fall fest bet, “They Will Be Dust,” from Carlos Marqués- Marcet, is produced by Catalonia’s Lastor Media alongside Chile’s Alina Film and Kino Produzioni in Italy.
Few regions boast a lineup of female filmmakers as impressive as Catalonia. This year, new films from Goya Award winners Pilar Palomero (“Glimmers”) and Belén Funes (“The Turtles”) are strong contenders for festival recognition.
With the backing of Catalonia’s Minority Co-Production Fund, four international co-prods are poised to make a significant impact on this year’s festival circuit. Keep an eye out for Javier Rebollo’s “Close to the Sultan”, Calia Atan...
- 5/14/2024
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Spain’s Latido Films has boarded international sales on Carlos Marques-Marcet’s drama They Will Be Dust (Polvo serán). Elástica Films will handle distribution in Spain.
It tells the story of a woman, Claudia (Angela Molina) diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour who takes a last trip to Switzerland to decide how and when to end her life with the help of an assisted dying association. Her partner (Alfredo Castro), and daughter (Mònica Almirall) must work out where they fit in.
The screenplay is by long-time co-writer Clara Roquet, director of 2021 Cannes Critics Week title Libertad, who wrote Marques-Marcet’s previous film Long Distance.
It tells the story of a woman, Claudia (Angela Molina) diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour who takes a last trip to Switzerland to decide how and when to end her life with the help of an assisted dying association. Her partner (Alfredo Castro), and daughter (Mònica Almirall) must work out where they fit in.
The screenplay is by long-time co-writer Clara Roquet, director of 2021 Cannes Critics Week title Libertad, who wrote Marques-Marcet’s previous film Long Distance.
- 5/3/2024
- ScreenDaily
Spain’s Latido Films has boarded international sales on Carlos Marques-Marcet’s musical They Will Be Dust (Polvo serán). Elástica Films will handle distribution in Spain.
It tells the story of a woman, Claudia (Angela Molina) diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour who takes a last trip to Switzerland to decide how and when to end her life with the help of an assisted dying association. Her partner (Alfredo Castro), and daughter (Mònica Almirall) must work out where they fit in.
The screenplay is by long-time co-writer Clara Roquet, director of 2021 Cannes Critics Week title Libertad, who wrote Marques-Marcet’s previous film Long Distance.
It tells the story of a woman, Claudia (Angela Molina) diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour who takes a last trip to Switzerland to decide how and when to end her life with the help of an assisted dying association. Her partner (Alfredo Castro), and daughter (Mònica Almirall) must work out where they fit in.
The screenplay is by long-time co-writer Clara Roquet, director of 2021 Cannes Critics Week title Libertad, who wrote Marques-Marcet’s previous film Long Distance.
- 5/3/2024
- ScreenDaily
Over the last seven years or so, the ever more capitalized Catalan industry, much based in capital Barcelona, has driven into domestic co-production with other parts of Spain. One result: an exciting new generation of young directors and producers, often women, which have scored a Berlin Golden Bear (Carla Simon’s “Alcarràs”) and best lead performance.
The Catalan film-tv industry is now, however, in the throes of a gathering industry makeover which is showing its first fruits. One driver, as so often in Europe, is public sector funding.
In 2019, total allocated Catalan government audiovisual funding stood at €12.6 million ($13.7 million). It rose to €40.8 million ($44.5 million) in 2022 and will rise again to an estimated €50 million ($54.5 million) in 2024, if the Catalan Parliament approves the budget, says Edgar Garcia, director of the governmental culture industry unit Icec.
In response to ramped-up funding, Catalonia industry has grown vibrantly. 130 execs and talent, representing 80 companies, attend 2024’s Berlin Film Market.
The Catalan film-tv industry is now, however, in the throes of a gathering industry makeover which is showing its first fruits. One driver, as so often in Europe, is public sector funding.
In 2019, total allocated Catalan government audiovisual funding stood at €12.6 million ($13.7 million). It rose to €40.8 million ($44.5 million) in 2022 and will rise again to an estimated €50 million ($54.5 million) in 2024, if the Catalan Parliament approves the budget, says Edgar Garcia, director of the governmental culture industry unit Icec.
In response to ramped-up funding, Catalonia industry has grown vibrantly. 130 execs and talent, representing 80 companies, attend 2024’s Berlin Film Market.
- 2/15/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes Docs highlights Spain as part of its Docs in Progress program, featuring four documentaries that range from the avant-garde to the introspective.
Spain’s doc filmmakers have labored to establish international footing — battling the stigma that the category is made up of dry narratives, productions strive for the robust funding granted to fiction. “There’s still a negative connotation that the documentary’s something purely informative, expository or boring. It’s a state of mind that affects the public, but more importantly the distribution and exhibition. We’ve the great challenge of explaining that yes, the documentary has a cinematographic, narrative and emotional treatment comparable to ‘real cinema,’” says Rafa Molés of Suica Films.
Increasingly, docs have blurred borders, to positive effect.
“Since the democratization of digital devices at the beginning of this century and creation of the first specialized documentary studios in our country from the 2000s to present,...
Spain’s doc filmmakers have labored to establish international footing — battling the stigma that the category is made up of dry narratives, productions strive for the robust funding granted to fiction. “There’s still a negative connotation that the documentary’s something purely informative, expository or boring. It’s a state of mind that affects the public, but more importantly the distribution and exhibition. We’ve the great challenge of explaining that yes, the documentary has a cinematographic, narrative and emotional treatment comparable to ‘real cinema,’” says Rafa Molés of Suica Films.
Increasingly, docs have blurred borders, to positive effect.
“Since the democratization of digital devices at the beginning of this century and creation of the first specialized documentary studios in our country from the 2000s to present,...
- 5/19/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Bolstered by robust public-sector funds, a savvy new generation of filmmakers — many of them women — and world-class film schools, Catalonia has become one of Europe’s most vibrant regional audiovisual forces.
The proof can be found at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. More than 50 Catalan companies — some 100 executives and creatives — are expected to attend. Five films, four by new directors, have made the official cut at Cannes; six projects play in Marché du Film showcases.
The three biggest Catalan movies at the festival, Elena Martin’s “Creature,” Pham Thiên An’s “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell,” both in Directors’ Fortnight, and Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams,” playing out of competition, also underscore strong trends coursing through current Catalan cinema, including international co-production and an exploding animation scene.
“Co-producing is at the core of the European cinema industry and has always had more pros than cons,” says Vilaüt Films’ Ariadna Dot,...
The proof can be found at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. More than 50 Catalan companies — some 100 executives and creatives — are expected to attend. Five films, four by new directors, have made the official cut at Cannes; six projects play in Marché du Film showcases.
The three biggest Catalan movies at the festival, Elena Martin’s “Creature,” Pham Thiên An’s “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell,” both in Directors’ Fortnight, and Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams,” playing out of competition, also underscore strong trends coursing through current Catalan cinema, including international co-production and an exploding animation scene.
“Co-producing is at the core of the European cinema industry and has always had more pros than cons,” says Vilaüt Films’ Ariadna Dot,...
- 5/17/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Buzz titles include animation ’Dragonkeeper’ and ‘Co-Husbands’.
Mafiz, the industry sector of the Málaga Film Festival, which closed on Sunday March 19, attracted its highest numbers of attendees to date, up 54% on last year.
In total. 1,897 industry players came from 64 countries, with a gender parity of 963 men and 934 women.
International promotion platform Spanish Screenings registered the highest number of participants at 206 buyers and producers. Overall by sector Mafiz attracted 1,095 producers, 206 buyers, 70 festivals delegates, 26 sales agents and 36 exhibitors and local distributors.
The Málaga Festival Fund & Co-Production Event project (Maff) scored 152 attendants and 568 one-to-one meetings around 39 Ibero-American projects.
The response from buyers has...
Mafiz, the industry sector of the Málaga Film Festival, which closed on Sunday March 19, attracted its highest numbers of attendees to date, up 54% on last year.
In total. 1,897 industry players came from 64 countries, with a gender parity of 963 men and 934 women.
International promotion platform Spanish Screenings registered the highest number of participants at 206 buyers and producers. Overall by sector Mafiz attracted 1,095 producers, 206 buyers, 70 festivals delegates, 26 sales agents and 36 exhibitors and local distributors.
The Málaga Festival Fund & Co-Production Event project (Maff) scored 152 attendants and 568 one-to-one meetings around 39 Ibero-American projects.
The response from buyers has...
- 3/20/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Madrid, Spain — Industry prizes will be announced on Friday, Festival awards one day later. Yet even by Thursday evening, as this year’s Malaga Festival’s Mafiz-Spanish Screenings headed into its home straits, Spain film and TV industry was sending strong signs of their consolidation as an international market power.
That cut multiple ways. Following, 10 provisional takes on this year’s event:
The Biggest Malaga Ever, By a Head
Final attendance has blasted past last year’s 1,600, in itself a massive hike on years prior, tracking by Thursday at 1,700 attendees from 61 countries at Mafiz, Malaga’s industry arm. The Spanish Screenings alone account for getting on half of those accreditations. “The market’s been very good,” said Vicente Canales at Film Factory. “There’s been enough buyers, spending more time watching Spanish films. At Berlin and Cannes, they just don’t have the time. And Screenings attendance has been high.
That cut multiple ways. Following, 10 provisional takes on this year’s event:
The Biggest Malaga Ever, By a Head
Final attendance has blasted past last year’s 1,600, in itself a massive hike on years prior, tracking by Thursday at 1,700 attendees from 61 countries at Mafiz, Malaga’s industry arm. The Spanish Screenings alone account for getting on half of those accreditations. “The market’s been very good,” said Vicente Canales at Film Factory. “There’s been enough buyers, spending more time watching Spanish films. At Berlin and Cannes, they just don’t have the time. And Screenings attendance has been high.
- 3/16/2023
- by John Hopewell, Emiliano De Pablos and Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Filmmaker Clara Roquet is a lucky star for several of her Spain filmmaker contemporaries as we just learned that she has contributed to one more project currently in prep mode. Carlos Marques-Marcet reteams with his 10,000Km co-screenwriter for a project that puts a twist to the typical euthanasia end-of-life in Switzerland film treatments. Screen Daily reports that They Will Be Dust will go into production this year with Lastor Media’s Tono Folguera producing. The interesting move her is that the film will fall under the musical drama sub-genre. Folguera is quoted as saying this is, “a reflection on the right to a dignified death, with a musical part.…...
- 3/15/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
International co-production is led by Tono Folguera at Spain’s Lastor Media.
Carlos Marques-Marcet, who took the top prize at the Málaga Film Festival in 2014 with 10,000Km, is readying his new project, the musical drama They Will Be Dust.
The film will be a co-production beteen Spain’s Lastor Media, Switzerland’s Alina Film and Italy’s Kino Produzioni. Backing is in place from Eurimages, Icaa and the Catalonia film institute Icec.
They Will Be Dust is about a woman diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor who decides to undertake a last trip to Switzerland to decide how and when...
Carlos Marques-Marcet, who took the top prize at the Málaga Film Festival in 2014 with 10,000Km, is readying his new project, the musical drama They Will Be Dust.
The film will be a co-production beteen Spain’s Lastor Media, Switzerland’s Alina Film and Italy’s Kino Produzioni. Backing is in place from Eurimages, Icaa and the Catalonia film institute Icec.
They Will Be Dust is about a woman diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor who decides to undertake a last trip to Switzerland to decide how and when...
- 3/15/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
The festival is an important stopping point for directors including Carla Simon and Alauda Ruiz de Azúa.
Malaga film festival director Juan Antonio Vigar is ready for the curtain to rise on his 10th edition in charge of the Andalucian event.
The world premiere of Someone To Look After Me (Alguien Que Cuide De Mí ), novelist Elvira Lindo’s debut as a film director, will open the festival tonight, screening out of competition. It will close on March 19 with the world premiere of Paz Jiménez’s Como Dios Manda, also playing out of competition.
Vigar has programmed a competition line-up...
Malaga film festival director Juan Antonio Vigar is ready for the curtain to rise on his 10th edition in charge of the Andalucian event.
The world premiere of Someone To Look After Me (Alguien Que Cuide De Mí ), novelist Elvira Lindo’s debut as a film director, will open the festival tonight, screening out of competition. It will close on March 19 with the world premiere of Paz Jiménez’s Como Dios Manda, also playing out of competition.
Vigar has programmed a competition line-up...
- 3/10/2023
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
24 feature projects, including four documentary and three animation films, received funding
Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes and Danish director Charlotte Sieling have both received co-production support for projects from Eurimages’ third round of funding for 2022.
Some €6.7m sum has been awarded to 24 feature projects including four documentary and three animation films.
Gomes has received €500,000 for Grand Tour, about an engaged couple travelling from Burma to China in 1918. The film is a co-production between Portugal’s Uma Pedra No Sapato, Italy’s Vivo Film, France and Germany.
Also receiving €500,000 is Titanic Ocean, the feature debut from Greek director Konstantina Kotzamani whose shorts have been screened at Cannes,...
Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes and Danish director Charlotte Sieling have both received co-production support for projects from Eurimages’ third round of funding for 2022.
Some €6.7m sum has been awarded to 24 feature projects including four documentary and three animation films.
Gomes has received €500,000 for Grand Tour, about an engaged couple travelling from Burma to China in 1918. The film is a co-production between Portugal’s Uma Pedra No Sapato, Italy’s Vivo Film, France and Germany.
Also receiving €500,000 is Titanic Ocean, the feature debut from Greek director Konstantina Kotzamani whose shorts have been screened at Cannes,...
- 12/5/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Tenerife-based Bendita Film Sales, headed by Luis Renart, has acquired Matías Bize’s “The Punishment,”, ahead of its international premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival this Saturday.
Produced by Ceneca Producciones and Leyenda Films, it is the second film to see the light in 2022 for the multi-prized director of “In the Bed,” “The Life of Fish,” and “The Memory of Water,” having won at Malaga with lockdown inspired “Private Messages.” Bendita’s buy signifies confidence in this latest title, which heads to Ventana Sur for its market premiere on Dec 1.
In the film, a couple’s seven year old son is missing, having been left momentarily by the side of the road as punishment. Set in a forest and played out in real time, the boy’s parents search for him. Helmer Matias Bize dissects the subtle shifts in the couple’s reactions to this crisis as questions...
Produced by Ceneca Producciones and Leyenda Films, it is the second film to see the light in 2022 for the multi-prized director of “In the Bed,” “The Life of Fish,” and “The Memory of Water,” having won at Malaga with lockdown inspired “Private Messages.” Bendita’s buy signifies confidence in this latest title, which heads to Ventana Sur for its market premiere on Dec 1.
In the film, a couple’s seven year old son is missing, having been left momentarily by the side of the road as punishment. Set in a forest and played out in real time, the boy’s parents search for him. Helmer Matias Bize dissects the subtle shifts in the couple’s reactions to this crisis as questions...
- 11/17/2022
- by Callum McLennan
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes — An Atresplayer Premium Original, “The Route,” begins as the lead characters’ time together ends, in 1993.
A star DJ on Valencia’s Ruta de Bakalao, Marc’s heart isn’t in it anymore. He visits his family home and sits in his bedroom, still plastered with teenage memorabilia, trying to connect with a younger self who felt music with passion. For Sento, clubbing is now a business. Toni wonders if it’s time to go home.
“The Route” (“La Ruta”) then goes back in time, one episode at a time to end to when the friends first met, in 1981, and enjoyed some kind of innocence. Even a flashback to 1981 in the first episode feature a sequence which is narrated backwards, though many viewers may not cotton on.
As around all the world, global streamers demand for original series from Spain may in many cases now be slowing down. The creativity...
A star DJ on Valencia’s Ruta de Bakalao, Marc’s heart isn’t in it anymore. He visits his family home and sits in his bedroom, still plastered with teenage memorabilia, trying to connect with a younger self who felt music with passion. For Sento, clubbing is now a business. Toni wonders if it’s time to go home.
“The Route” (“La Ruta”) then goes back in time, one episode at a time to end to when the friends first met, in 1981, and enjoyed some kind of innocence. Even a flashback to 1981 in the first episode feature a sequence which is narrated backwards, though many viewers may not cotton on.
As around all the world, global streamers demand for original series from Spain may in many cases now be slowing down. The creativity...
- 10/18/2022
- by John Hopewell and Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Following the announcement of their new curated theatrical venture Mubi Go, next month’s U.S. streaming lineup at Mubi has now been unveiled. Highlights include Terrence Malick’s heartbreakingly raw romantic drama To the Wonder and its Javier Bardem-focused counterpart, Eugene Richards’ Thy Kingdom Come.
Also in the lineup is Julian Faraut’s terrifically entertaining documentary Witches of the Orient, the Werner Herzog double bill of Grizzly Man and Lo and Behold, John Carpenter’s Escape From New York, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Blue, Sandra Wollner’s controversial feature The Trouble With Being Born, Alexandre Rockwell’s latest film Sweet Thing, and much more.
See the full lineup below and get 30 days of Mubi free here.
November 1 | The First Lap New | Kim Dae-hwan | South Korean Cinema
November 2 | L’innocente | Luchino Visconti
November 3 | 80,000 Years Old | Christelle Lheureux
November 4 | Liebelei | Max Ophüls
November 5 | Maelström | Denis Villeneuve | A Cosmic Trajectory: Early Films by...
Also in the lineup is Julian Faraut’s terrifically entertaining documentary Witches of the Orient, the Werner Herzog double bill of Grizzly Man and Lo and Behold, John Carpenter’s Escape From New York, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Blue, Sandra Wollner’s controversial feature The Trouble With Being Born, Alexandre Rockwell’s latest film Sweet Thing, and much more.
See the full lineup below and get 30 days of Mubi free here.
November 1 | The First Lap New | Kim Dae-hwan | South Korean Cinema
November 2 | L’innocente | Luchino Visconti
November 3 | 80,000 Years Old | Christelle Lheureux
November 4 | Liebelei | Max Ophüls
November 5 | Maelström | Denis Villeneuve | A Cosmic Trajectory: Early Films by...
- 10/20/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Libertad
Another title we thought would appear in 2020 was the debut of screenwriter Clara Roquet, who co-wrote Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000km (2014), Jaime Rosales’ Petra (a Cannes 2018 in Directors’ Fortnight selection) and upcoming films such as Antonio Méndez Esparza’s horror flick Que nadie duerma and Mounia Akl’s debut Costa Brava Lebanon. The highest ranked directorial debut on our list, Roquet’s film stars Nora Navas, Vicky Pena, Nicolle Garcia, Maria Rodriguez Soto and David Selvas. Libertad, was produced by Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno, Stefan Schmitz and Maria Zamora through Barcelona’s Lastor Media, Madrid’s Avalon and Snowglobe. The film (which landed a prize at the San Sebastian’s 7th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum) is lensed by Gris Jordana.…...
Another title we thought would appear in 2020 was the debut of screenwriter Clara Roquet, who co-wrote Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000km (2014), Jaime Rosales’ Petra (a Cannes 2018 in Directors’ Fortnight selection) and upcoming films such as Antonio Méndez Esparza’s horror flick Que nadie duerma and Mounia Akl’s debut Costa Brava Lebanon. The highest ranked directorial debut on our list, Roquet’s film stars Nora Navas, Vicky Pena, Nicolle Garcia, Maria Rodriguez Soto and David Selvas. Libertad, was produced by Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno, Stefan Schmitz and Maria Zamora through Barcelona’s Lastor Media, Madrid’s Avalon and Snowglobe. The film (which landed a prize at the San Sebastian’s 7th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum) is lensed by Gris Jordana.…...
- 1/3/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Libertad
Screenwriter Clara Roquet, who co-wrote Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000km (2014) and Jaime Rosales’ Petra (notably premiered in Cannes 2018 in Directors’ Fortnight) makes her directorial debut with Libertad, produced by Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno, Stefan Schmitz and Maria Zamora through Barcelona’s Lastor Media, Madrid’s Avalon and Snowglobe. Roquet’s title stars Nora Navas, Vicky Pena, Nicolle Garcia, Maria Rodriguez Soto and David Selvas. The film (which landed a prize at the San Sebastian’s 7th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum) is lensed by Gris Jordana. Roquet’s Libertad is the highest-ranking directorial debut on our list.
Gist: Roquet’s debut is described as “a story of feminine friendship and loss of innocence” when a young girl is forced to come of age thanks to her relationship with the family maid’s wild teen daughter.…...
Screenwriter Clara Roquet, who co-wrote Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000km (2014) and Jaime Rosales’ Petra (notably premiered in Cannes 2018 in Directors’ Fortnight) makes her directorial debut with Libertad, produced by Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno, Stefan Schmitz and Maria Zamora through Barcelona’s Lastor Media, Madrid’s Avalon and Snowglobe. Roquet’s title stars Nora Navas, Vicky Pena, Nicolle Garcia, Maria Rodriguez Soto and David Selvas. The film (which landed a prize at the San Sebastian’s 7th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum) is lensed by Gris Jordana. Roquet’s Libertad is the highest-ranking directorial debut on our list.
Gist: Roquet’s debut is described as “a story of feminine friendship and loss of innocence” when a young girl is forced to come of age thanks to her relationship with the family maid’s wild teen daughter.…...
- 1/1/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Pau Brunet and Jana Díaz Juhl at L.A.-based Amplitud have boarded Federico Cecchetti’s sophomore feature “Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara,” produced by Edher Campos at Mexico’s Machete Producciones in co-production with Yanick Letourneau’s Quebec-based Périphéria (Juan Andrés Arango García’s “V-500”) and Thierry Lenouvel’s Paris-based Cine-Sud (Rubén Mendoza’s “Wandering Girl”). Mexico’s Eficine production fund is also backing the project.
As producers, Brunet and Díaz have previously backed productions such as Mexico’s Oscar submission “The Chambermaid” (Lila Avilés), a large critical and commercial success, and SXSW Special Jury winner “10,000 Km” (Carlos Marques-Marcet). Their new company, Amplitud, primarily focuses on first or second works from promising Latin American directors.
Machete produced Carlos Carrera’s “Tales of Mexico” (‘La Habitación’), and Cannes’ Un Certain Regard winner “La Jaula de Oro” from Diego Quemada-Diaz.
According to Campos, the feature is a “tribute...
As producers, Brunet and Díaz have previously backed productions such as Mexico’s Oscar submission “The Chambermaid” (Lila Avilés), a large critical and commercial success, and SXSW Special Jury winner “10,000 Km” (Carlos Marques-Marcet). Their new company, Amplitud, primarily focuses on first or second works from promising Latin American directors.
Machete produced Carlos Carrera’s “Tales of Mexico” (‘La Habitación’), and Cannes’ Un Certain Regard winner “La Jaula de Oro” from Diego Quemada-Diaz.
According to Campos, the feature is a “tribute...
- 11/15/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
San Sebastian — Paris-based MK2 has boarded “Alcarràs,” the second feature film of Catalan auteur Carla Simón (“Summer 1993”), a leading member of a bright new generation of lauded and laurelled Catalan women directors including Neus Ballús, Belén Funes, Meritxell Colell, among others.
Currently in development, “Alcarràs” will be produced by Madrid-based production-distribution outfit Avalon– the Spanish distributors of Ruben Östlund’s “The Square,” Robin Campillo’s “120 Beats Per Minute,” and producers of “Summer 1993″ and Carlos Marques-Marcet’s “The Days to Come,” at this year’s San Sebastian Festival in its Made in Spain showcase.
Simón’s autobiographical debut “Summer 1993” snagged the Best First Film Award and the Generation Kplus Grand Prix at Berlin in 2017. The feature was Spain’s 2018 Oscars race entry, nominated for the Efa Discovery Award and won three Goyas including best new director. Carla Simón also received the Women in Motion Emerging Talent Award in Cannes in 2018.
Inspired by her own adoptive family,...
Currently in development, “Alcarràs” will be produced by Madrid-based production-distribution outfit Avalon– the Spanish distributors of Ruben Östlund’s “The Square,” Robin Campillo’s “120 Beats Per Minute,” and producers of “Summer 1993″ and Carlos Marques-Marcet’s “The Days to Come,” at this year’s San Sebastian Festival in its Made in Spain showcase.
Simón’s autobiographical debut “Summer 1993” snagged the Best First Film Award and the Generation Kplus Grand Prix at Berlin in 2017. The feature was Spain’s 2018 Oscars race entry, nominated for the Efa Discovery Award and won three Goyas including best new director. Carla Simón also received the Women in Motion Emerging Talent Award in Cannes in 2018.
Inspired by her own adoptive family,...
- 9/25/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
San Sebastian – Barcelona-based Lastor Media and Malmo Pictures have teamed with San Sebastian’s Irusoin to produce “Suro” (The Cork), the feature debut of Mikel Gurrea and a product of San Sebastian’s Ikusmira Berriak program.
The film stars Laia Costa, who broke through with Sebastian Schipper’s “Victoria” and also serves as executive producer, and Pol López (Josep M. Fontana’s “Boi”). “Suro” is scheduled to start shooting next year.
Set in the Empordà region of Catalonia, close to the French border, “Suro” is a Catalan-language dramatic thriller with an auteurist voice but aimed at wider audiences, according to its producers.
The news comes as Irusoin, producers of “Loreak,” Spain’s international Oscar entry in 2015, world premieres in main competition section “The Endless Trench,” directed by Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga. Another Irusoin production, Asier Altuna and Telmo Esnal’s “Agur Etxebeste,” a sequel of “Aupa Etxebeste!
The film stars Laia Costa, who broke through with Sebastian Schipper’s “Victoria” and also serves as executive producer, and Pol López (Josep M. Fontana’s “Boi”). “Suro” is scheduled to start shooting next year.
Set in the Empordà region of Catalonia, close to the French border, “Suro” is a Catalan-language dramatic thriller with an auteurist voice but aimed at wider audiences, according to its producers.
The news comes as Irusoin, producers of “Loreak,” Spain’s international Oscar entry in 2015, world premieres in main competition section “The Endless Trench,” directed by Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga. Another Irusoin production, Asier Altuna and Telmo Esnal’s “Agur Etxebeste,” a sequel of “Aupa Etxebeste!
- 9/22/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Becoming a We: Marques-Marcet Keeps it Real with a Micro-Drama of Love & Pregnancy
Completing a trilogy of sorts about life getting in the way of a relationship, Spanish helmer Carlos Marques-Marcet charts the progress of an unplanned pregnancy in a film literally born out of his previous feature, during which actors and real-life couple David Verdaguer and Maria Rodriguez Soto learned they were expecting a child. Without missing a beat, and going for the raw, unfiltered intimacy that you can’t falsify, the three of them commit the experience with The Days to Come — a linear but powerful journey from discovery to birth.…...
Completing a trilogy of sorts about life getting in the way of a relationship, Spanish helmer Carlos Marques-Marcet charts the progress of an unplanned pregnancy in a film literally born out of his previous feature, during which actors and real-life couple David Verdaguer and Maria Rodriguez Soto learned they were expecting a child. Without missing a beat, and going for the raw, unfiltered intimacy that you can’t falsify, the three of them commit the experience with The Days to Come — a linear but powerful journey from discovery to birth.…...
- 7/29/2019
- by Tommaso Tocci
- IONCINEMA.com
The Spanish film The Days to Come and two 1980s-set Mexican dramas, This Is Not Berlin and The Good Girls, shared the bulk of the top prizes at the 22nd annual Malaga Film Festival, which ran from March 15-24 in the Spanish city.
The festival’s two best film honors — known as the Golden Biznagas — go to one Spanish film and one Ibero-American film. Taking home this year's awards were the Catalan-language Days to Come by Carlos Marques-Marcet and Mexican director Alejandra Marquez Abella’s Good Girls.
Days to Come, a documentary-style drama about a young couple’s nine-month journey to parenthood, also ...
The festival’s two best film honors — known as the Golden Biznagas — go to one Spanish film and one Ibero-American film. Taking home this year's awards were the Catalan-language Days to Come by Carlos Marques-Marcet and Mexican director Alejandra Marquez Abella’s Good Girls.
Days to Come, a documentary-style drama about a young couple’s nine-month journey to parenthood, also ...
- 3/23/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Spanish film The Days to Come and two 1980s-set Mexican dramas, This Is Not Berlin and The Good Girls, shared the bulk of the top prizes at the 22nd annual Malaga Film Festival, which ran from March 15-24 in the Spanish city.
The festival’s two best film honors — known as the Golden Biznagas — go to one Spanish film and one Ibero-American film. Taking home this year's awards were the Catalan-language Days to Come by Carlos Marques-Marcet and Mexican director Alejandra Marquez Abella’s Good Girls.
Days to Come, a documentary-style drama about a young couple’s nine-month journey to parenthood, also ...
The festival’s two best film honors — known as the Golden Biznagas — go to one Spanish film and one Ibero-American film. Taking home this year's awards were the Catalan-language Days to Come by Carlos Marques-Marcet and Mexican director Alejandra Marquez Abella’s Good Girls.
Days to Come, a documentary-style drama about a young couple’s nine-month journey to parenthood, also ...
- 3/23/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
To hear Natalia Tena and Oona Chaplin tell it, it was love at first sight for the two British actors when they met on the set of HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” As the wildling protector of Bran Stark, Tena’s Osha has been a fan favorite since Season 1 of the hit series. Though Chaplin’s tenure on the show was tragically cut short after the Red Wedding, her character Talisa ensnared audiences and Rob Stark alike — but the true romance was between Tena and Chaplin.
“Oona’s my wife in real life,” Tena told IndieWire from a hotel room in Barcelona, where she was flanked by her dog, Mimosa. “We met on ‘Game of Thrones.’ She’s been one of my best friends since the moment I met her. I was like, ‘This woman is my team.'” Chaplin was equally as effusive about Tena, calling her: “one of my best,...
“Oona’s my wife in real life,” Tena told IndieWire from a hotel room in Barcelona, where she was flanked by her dog, Mimosa. “We met on ‘Game of Thrones.’ She’s been one of my best friends since the moment I met her. I was like, ‘This woman is my team.'” Chaplin was equally as effusive about Tena, calling her: “one of my best,...
- 12/8/2018
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
To mark the release of Anchor and Hope, out now, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD.
In their mid-30s, Eva and Kat’s humble, yet carefree, lifestyle in their London canal boat gets turned upside down when Eva presents Kat with an ultimatum: she wants a child. Kat resists, knowing that it will end the bohemian lifestyle she’s always envisaged with Eva. When Kat’s best friend, Roger, drops in from Barcelona to party with the ladies, however, the three of them toy around with the idea of creating a baby together. But as Eva enjoys her pregnancy and Roger fantasises about his role in this new family, Kat begins to distance herself. Can their heartfelt friendship survive what is to come?
Informed and influenced by the lives of multi-award-winning writer/director Carlos Marques-Marcet’s extended family of filmmakers, screenwriters and actors, this fusion...
In their mid-30s, Eva and Kat’s humble, yet carefree, lifestyle in their London canal boat gets turned upside down when Eva presents Kat with an ultimatum: she wants a child. Kat resists, knowing that it will end the bohemian lifestyle she’s always envisaged with Eva. When Kat’s best friend, Roger, drops in from Barcelona to party with the ladies, however, the three of them toy around with the idea of creating a baby together. But as Eva enjoys her pregnancy and Roger fantasises about his role in this new family, Kat begins to distance herself. Can their heartfelt friendship survive what is to come?
Informed and influenced by the lives of multi-award-winning writer/director Carlos Marques-Marcet’s extended family of filmmakers, screenwriters and actors, this fusion...
- 11/13/2018
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
As award season continues its furious pace where each week there looks to be another festival darling with major Oscar prospects, it’s good to remember the smaller more independently fronted films fight hard just to be seen by an audience. One of those worthwhile films, Carlos Marques-Marcet‘s”Anchor and Hope” will be released on November 16th. Marcet’s last film “10.000 Km” was a clever play on romance with a long distance relationship portrayed through the icy detachment of technology.
Continue reading ‘Anchor & Hope’ Trailer: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Actors Buoy A Lesbian Relationship Drama at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Anchor & Hope’ Trailer: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Actors Buoy A Lesbian Relationship Drama at The Playlist.
- 9/30/2018
- by Ally Johnson
- The Playlist
Two women want a child somewhat unequally in Carlos Marques-Marcet’s honest and compelling waterway film
Spanish-born Kat (Natalia Tena) and English Eva (Oona Chaplin) are a gleefully, almost nauseatingly happy couple who live on a funky reconditioned barge on which they chug along the canals of London. Neither has a particularly well-paying job – Kat wants to get deeper into boat-building but pulls pints at a pub, while Eva teaches salsa – but they get by on a steady diet of intense love, tequila and hot sex.
A few key events lead to a realignment of their priorities: their beloved cat Chorizo dies, leaving a big pet-sized hole; Kat’s best friend Roger (David Verdaguer) comes to visit from Barcelona, and Eva starts longing to have a child, particularly so someone else will remember her beloved, kooky hippy mother Germaine. Kat is less enthusiastic about the baby idea, but goes with...
Spanish-born Kat (Natalia Tena) and English Eva (Oona Chaplin) are a gleefully, almost nauseatingly happy couple who live on a funky reconditioned barge on which they chug along the canals of London. Neither has a particularly well-paying job – Kat wants to get deeper into boat-building but pulls pints at a pub, while Eva teaches salsa – but they get by on a steady diet of intense love, tequila and hot sex.
A few key events lead to a realignment of their priorities: their beloved cat Chorizo dies, leaving a big pet-sized hole; Kat’s best friend Roger (David Verdaguer) comes to visit from Barcelona, and Eva starts longing to have a child, particularly so someone else will remember her beloved, kooky hippy mother Germaine. Kat is less enthusiastic about the baby idea, but goes with...
- 9/28/2018
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Carlos Marques-Marcet’s BFI London Film Festival selected feature, Anchor and Hope, has seen the release of a Us trailer.
The film follows Eva and Kat, and their best friend, Roger. A boat in the canals of London and a question: Is it possible to live love, family, and life in such different ways and yet remain united?
Directed by Carlos Marques-Marcet, who also co-wrote the script with Jules Nurrish, the film stars Oona Chaplin, Natalia Tena, David Verdaguer and Geraldine Chaplin.
Also in trailers – Carey Mulligan turns in a powerful performance in trailer for Wildlife
The film has a release of November 16.
Anchor and Hope Official Synopsis
In their mid-30s, Eva (Oona Chaplin) and Kat (Natalia Tena) have a fun and carefree simple life in their London canal boat until Eva, inspired by her exceptional mother Germaine (played by her real mother Geraldine Chaplin), presents Kat with an ultimatum: she wants a child.
The film follows Eva and Kat, and their best friend, Roger. A boat in the canals of London and a question: Is it possible to live love, family, and life in such different ways and yet remain united?
Directed by Carlos Marques-Marcet, who also co-wrote the script with Jules Nurrish, the film stars Oona Chaplin, Natalia Tena, David Verdaguer and Geraldine Chaplin.
Also in trailers – Carey Mulligan turns in a powerful performance in trailer for Wildlife
The film has a release of November 16.
Anchor and Hope Official Synopsis
In their mid-30s, Eva (Oona Chaplin) and Kat (Natalia Tena) have a fun and carefree simple life in their London canal boat until Eva, inspired by her exceptional mother Germaine (played by her real mother Geraldine Chaplin), presents Kat with an ultimatum: she wants a child.
- 9/27/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Hlynur Pálmason wins best directing award for his debut Winter Brothers.
Marcelo Martinessi’s feature debut The Heiresses received the Transilvania Trophy at the closing ceremony of the 17th Transilvania International Film Festival in Romania’s Cluj-Napoca.
The main competition jury, which included filmmakers Ágnes Kocsis and Dagur Kari and actor Vlad Ivanov, praised Martinessi for his “sublime direction” and “the captivating rhythm of his narrative”.
Accepting the trophy and the €15,000 cash prize on stage of the National Theatre from international opera star Angela Gheorghiu, Martinessi said that this award would be further encouragement for Paraguayan filmmakers following the news...
Marcelo Martinessi’s feature debut The Heiresses received the Transilvania Trophy at the closing ceremony of the 17th Transilvania International Film Festival in Romania’s Cluj-Napoca.
The main competition jury, which included filmmakers Ágnes Kocsis and Dagur Kari and actor Vlad Ivanov, praised Martinessi for his “sublime direction” and “the captivating rhythm of his narrative”.
Accepting the trophy and the €15,000 cash prize on stage of the National Theatre from international opera star Angela Gheorghiu, Martinessi said that this award would be further encouragement for Paraguayan filmmakers following the news...
- 6/4/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
New York-based Visit Films has sold U.S. rights for promising director Carlos Marques-Marcet’s Anchor and Hope to Wolfe Releasing and U.K. rights to Network Releasing.
Anchor stars Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter, Oona Chaplin, alongside her real-life mother, Geraldine Chaplin. Natalia Tena and David Verdaguer round out the cast in the Spanish-English co-production that premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and also played the Rotterdam Film Festival and SXSW.
Anchor follows Eva (Chaplin) and Kat (Tena), a couple in their mid-30s who live a humble yet carefree lifestyle on their canal boat in London. Their relationship is put to the test when...
Anchor stars Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter, Oona Chaplin, alongside her real-life mother, Geraldine Chaplin. Natalia Tena and David Verdaguer round out the cast in the Spanish-English co-production that premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and also played the Rotterdam Film Festival and SXSW.
Anchor follows Eva (Chaplin) and Kat (Tena), a couple in their mid-30s who live a humble yet carefree lifestyle on their canal boat in London. Their relationship is put to the test when...
- 5/9/2018
- by Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New York-based Visit Films has sold U.S. rights for promising director Carlos Marques-Marcet’s <em>Anchor and Hope</em> to Wolfe Releasing and U.K. rights to Network Releasing.
<em>Anchor </em>stars Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter, Oona Chaplin, alongside her real-life mother, Geraldine Chaplin. Natalia Tena and David Verdaguer round out the cast in the Spanish-English co-production that premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and also played the Rotterdam Film Festival and SXSW.
<em>Anchor </em>follows Eva (Chaplin) and Kat (Tena), a couple in their mid-30s who live a humble yet carefree lifestyle on their canal boat in London. Their relationship is put ...
<em>Anchor </em>stars Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter, Oona Chaplin, alongside her real-life mother, Geraldine Chaplin. Natalia Tena and David Verdaguer round out the cast in the Spanish-English co-production that premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and also played the Rotterdam Film Festival and SXSW.
<em>Anchor </em>follows Eva (Chaplin) and Kat (Tena), a couple in their mid-30s who live a humble yet carefree lifestyle on their canal boat in London. Their relationship is put ...
Drama stars Game Of Thrones Oona Chaplin and Natalia Tena.
Anchor And Hope, the surrogacy drama from director Carlos Marques-Marcet, will get a UK theatrical release in July 20 via Network Releasing.
The film, which stars Game Of Thrones alumni Oona Chaplin and Natalia Tena with Verdaguer and Geraldine Chaplin, premiered at London Film Festival in October 2017, and has since screened at festivals including SXSW and Rotterdam.
The story follows the mid-30s pair of Eva (Chaplin) and Kat (Tena), whose carefree London life on a canal boat is disturbed by both the arrival of Roger (Verdaguer) and Kat’s realisation that she wants a child.
Anchor And Hope, the surrogacy drama from director Carlos Marques-Marcet, will get a UK theatrical release in July 20 via Network Releasing.
The film, which stars Game Of Thrones alumni Oona Chaplin and Natalia Tena with Verdaguer and Geraldine Chaplin, premiered at London Film Festival in October 2017, and has since screened at festivals including SXSW and Rotterdam.
The story follows the mid-30s pair of Eva (Chaplin) and Kat (Tena), whose carefree London life on a canal boat is disturbed by both the arrival of Roger (Verdaguer) and Kat’s realisation that she wants a child.
- 4/27/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Panama is a tiny slip of land with a surprisingly giant place in the natural, commercial, and human history of the Western Hemisphere. Now, it hopes to enlarge its influence in film and TV, addressing its own complicated history with notable projects while spotlighting the best of a Spanish-language industry that reaches three continents.
I was in Panama City recently for the Panama International Film Festival, held a few miles from what for 85 years was fortified U.S. territory, the Canal Zone. The festival featured Oscar-winning Best Foreign-Language Film A Fantastic Woman and Abner Benaim’s loving documentary about Panamanian actor and musician Ruben Blades.
Other films – further displaying the diversity of projects – included Devil’s Freedom, Everardo Gonzalez’ bleak and chilling documentary about Mexico’s murderous kidnapping culture, and the sweet lesbian relationship comedy, Anchor and Hope, from Barcelona-based Carlos Marques-Marcet.
Perhaps most haunting was Diciembres, Enrique Castro Rios’ fictional take on the 1989 U.
I was in Panama City recently for the Panama International Film Festival, held a few miles from what for 85 years was fortified U.S. territory, the Canal Zone. The festival featured Oscar-winning Best Foreign-Language Film A Fantastic Woman and Abner Benaim’s loving documentary about Panamanian actor and musician Ruben Blades.
Other films – further displaying the diversity of projects – included Devil’s Freedom, Everardo Gonzalez’ bleak and chilling documentary about Mexico’s murderous kidnapping culture, and the sweet lesbian relationship comedy, Anchor and Hope, from Barcelona-based Carlos Marques-Marcet.
Perhaps most haunting was Diciembres, Enrique Castro Rios’ fictional take on the 1989 U.
- 4/23/2018
- by David Bloom
- Tubefilter.com
In his 2014 Goya-winning feature debut, “10,000 Km,” Spanish director Carlos Marques-Marcet compellingly explored the emotional and spiritual exhaustion of long distance relationships. In the filmmaker’s sophomore effort, “Anchor and Hope,” a bittersweet romcom about love, life and longing which reunites his “10,000 Km” leads, he charts the distance between two lovers living in incredibly close quarters — a houseboat that floats along the London Canal — where communication isn’t as pleasant as it seems on the tranquil surface.
- 3/18/2018
- by Ally Johnson
- The Playlist
A Good Wife won best film in the Balkan competition, while the best pitch prize went to The Witch Hunters, but the festival faces an uncertain future.
Kosovo’s Pristina Film Festival (April 22-29) has revealed the winners for its 8th edition, after bouncing back from last year’s government funding cuts, which saw the festival held in exile in Albania.
The jury overseeing the festival’s Balkan competition, dubbed the Honey & Blood program, awarded its best film prize to A Good Wife (Dobra Zena), which Serbian actress Mirjana Karanović wrote, directed and also starred in.
Snezana Penev [pictured right] produced the film, which was a Serbia-Bosnia-Croatia co-production and premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
The competition’s jury, comprised of Pluto Film’s Jana Wolff, Belgian actor Jehon Gorani and Swiss producer Dario Schoch, awarded best director to Turkish film-maker Kaan Müjdeci [pictured top] for his feature debut Sivas, while best actor went to Assen Blatechki for Bulgarian...
Kosovo’s Pristina Film Festival (April 22-29) has revealed the winners for its 8th edition, after bouncing back from last year’s government funding cuts, which saw the festival held in exile in Albania.
The jury overseeing the festival’s Balkan competition, dubbed the Honey & Blood program, awarded its best film prize to A Good Wife (Dobra Zena), which Serbian actress Mirjana Karanović wrote, directed and also starred in.
Snezana Penev [pictured right] produced the film, which was a Serbia-Bosnia-Croatia co-production and premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
The competition’s jury, comprised of Pluto Film’s Jana Wolff, Belgian actor Jehon Gorani and Swiss producer Dario Schoch, awarded best director to Turkish film-maker Kaan Müjdeci [pictured top] for his feature debut Sivas, while best actor went to Assen Blatechki for Bulgarian...
- 5/3/2016
- ScreenDaily
A Good Wife won best film in the Balkan competition, while the best pitch prize went to The Witch Hunters, but the festival faces an uncertain future.
Kosovo’s Pristina Film Festival (April 22-29) has revealed the winners for its 8th edition, after bouncing back from last year’s government funding cuts, which saw the festival held in exile in Albania.
The jury overseeing the festival’s Balkan competition, dubbed the Honey & Blood program, awarded its best film prize to A Good Wife (Dobra Zena), which Serbian actress Mirjana Karanović wrote, directed and also starred in.
Snezana Penev [pictured right] produced the film, which was a Serbia-Bosnia-Croatia co-production and premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
The competition’s jury, comprised of Pluto Film’s Jana Wolff, Belgian actor Jehon Gorani and Swiss producer Dario Schoch, awarded best director to Turkish film-maker Kaan Müjdeci [pictured top] for his feature debut Sivas, while best actor went to Assen Blatechki for Bulgarian...
Kosovo’s Pristina Film Festival (April 22-29) has revealed the winners for its 8th edition, after bouncing back from last year’s government funding cuts, which saw the festival held in exile in Albania.
The jury overseeing the festival’s Balkan competition, dubbed the Honey & Blood program, awarded its best film prize to A Good Wife (Dobra Zena), which Serbian actress Mirjana Karanović wrote, directed and also starred in.
Snezana Penev [pictured right] produced the film, which was a Serbia-Bosnia-Croatia co-production and premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
The competition’s jury, comprised of Pluto Film’s Jana Wolff, Belgian actor Jehon Gorani and Swiss producer Dario Schoch, awarded best director to Turkish film-maker Kaan Müjdeci [pictured top] for his feature debut Sivas, while best actor went to Assen Blatechki for Bulgarian...
- 5/3/2016
- ScreenDaily
United States Of Love, Rams and Mustang will feature at the eighth edition of the festival; regional premiere of Mirjana Karanovic’s A Good Wife.Scroll down for full line-up
The eighth Prishtina International Film Festival (April 22-29) will open with a screening of Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea, which will compete as part of the event’s European Film Competition.
Tomasz Wasilewski’s Silver Berlin Bear-winning United States Of Love will also compete in the strand, as will Grímur Hákonarson’s Cannes Un Certain Regard-winning Rams and Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Oscar-nominated Mustang.
Completing the line-up is Juris Kursietis’ Modris, Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000 Km, and Swiss 10-part Sci-Fi anthology Heimtaland. The films will compete for the festival’s Golden Goddess prize for best European film.
The Honey and Blood competition, which showcases Balkan titles, will this year feature nine films including Danis Tanovic’s Silver Berlin Bear-winning Death In Sarajevo - which will close the festival with Tanovic...
The eighth Prishtina International Film Festival (April 22-29) will open with a screening of Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea, which will compete as part of the event’s European Film Competition.
Tomasz Wasilewski’s Silver Berlin Bear-winning United States Of Love will also compete in the strand, as will Grímur Hákonarson’s Cannes Un Certain Regard-winning Rams and Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Oscar-nominated Mustang.
Completing the line-up is Juris Kursietis’ Modris, Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000 Km, and Swiss 10-part Sci-Fi anthology Heimtaland. The films will compete for the festival’s Golden Goddess prize for best European film.
The Honey and Blood competition, which showcases Balkan titles, will this year feature nine films including Danis Tanovic’s Silver Berlin Bear-winning Death In Sarajevo - which will close the festival with Tanovic...
- 4/7/2016
- ScreenDaily
United States Of Love, Rams and Mustang will feature at the eighth edition of the festival; regional premiere of Mirjana Karanovic’s A Good Wife.Scroll down for full line-up
The eighth Prishtina International Film Festival (April 22-29) will open with a screening of Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea, which will compete as part of the event’s European Film Competition.
Tomasz Wasilewski’s Silver Berlin Bear-winning United States Of Love will also compete in the strand, as will Grímur Hákonarson’s Cannes Un Certain Regard-winning Rams and Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Oscar-nominated Mustang.
Completing the line-up is Juris Kursietis’ Modris, Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000 Km, and Swiss 10-part Sci-Fi anthology Heimtaland. The films will compete for the festival’s Golden Goddess prize for best European film.
The Honey and Blood competition, which showcases Balkan titles, will this year feature nine films including Danis Tanovic’s Silver Berlin Bear-winning Death In Sarajevo and the regional premiere of Mirjana Karanović...
The eighth Prishtina International Film Festival (April 22-29) will open with a screening of Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea, which will compete as part of the event’s European Film Competition.
Tomasz Wasilewski’s Silver Berlin Bear-winning United States Of Love will also compete in the strand, as will Grímur Hákonarson’s Cannes Un Certain Regard-winning Rams and Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Oscar-nominated Mustang.
Completing the line-up is Juris Kursietis’ Modris, Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000 Km, and Swiss 10-part Sci-Fi anthology Heimtaland. The films will compete for the festival’s Golden Goddess prize for best European film.
The Honey and Blood competition, which showcases Balkan titles, will this year feature nine films including Danis Tanovic’s Silver Berlin Bear-winning Death In Sarajevo and the regional premiere of Mirjana Karanović...
- 4/7/2016
- ScreenDaily
Who are the exciting new film-makers emerging from Spain? Elisabet Cabeza profiles seven to keep an eye on.Esteban Crespo
Experienced in TV documentaries, short films and commercials, this Madrid-born film-maker had a significant career breakthrough with his successful short That Wasn’t Me (Aquel No Era Yo), which won the Goya for best short film in 2013 and the Oscar for best live-action short film in 2014. Crespo is now working on his first feature, To Love (Amar), about an adolescent couple in love, based on his own script. Shooting starts in April in Valencia and Avalon is producing. Crespo is then set to direct another thriller, Black Beach, produced by Lazona. He is repped by CAA in the Us and by Anxo Talent in Spain.
Contact Agent: anxo@zigguratfilms.com
Leticia Dolera
Chainsaw in hand and wearing a blood-spattered bridal dress — this is how Leticia Dolera appeared in Rec 3, the third instalment in the successful zombie franchise...
Experienced in TV documentaries, short films and commercials, this Madrid-born film-maker had a significant career breakthrough with his successful short That Wasn’t Me (Aquel No Era Yo), which won the Goya for best short film in 2013 and the Oscar for best live-action short film in 2014. Crespo is now working on his first feature, To Love (Amar), about an adolescent couple in love, based on his own script. Shooting starts in April in Valencia and Avalon is producing. Crespo is then set to direct another thriller, Black Beach, produced by Lazona. He is repped by CAA in the Us and by Anxo Talent in Spain.
Contact Agent: anxo@zigguratfilms.com
Leticia Dolera
Chainsaw in hand and wearing a blood-spattered bridal dress — this is how Leticia Dolera appeared in Rec 3, the third instalment in the successful zombie franchise...
- 4/1/2016
- ScreenDaily
It’s that time of year. Sleigh bells have been rung, gifts have been given and we have officially closed the door on what was 2015. A year that saw us once again take a journey into a galaxy far, far away, revisit the post apocalyptic landscape of Mad Max and the ever expanding reach of world and documentary cinema, 2015 has been one of the greatest of film years, arguably the very best since 2007 (probably cinema’s greatest year?) and as one has likely already one hundred top [insert arbitrary number] films list, why not make it one hundred and one? Be it a group of young women attempting to break free of the backwards patriarchy that has them oppressed or a bravura, epic-length satire from one of world cinema’s foremost artists, these are the ten best films that 2015 had to offer.
Honorable mention: Have you heard about this new thing called television?...
Honorable mention: Have you heard about this new thing called television?...
- 1/4/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Starring Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley, Broad Green Pictures upcoming release “Learning to Drive” is a feel-good comedy about a mismatched pair who help each other overcome life's road blocks. The film is a coming-of-middle-age story that serves as a vehicle for two great performers in their prime to shine on screen.
Directed by Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet, “Learning to Drive” premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and recently won the Best Feature Audience Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival. The film opens in L.A. and NYC on August 21st.
Broad Green Pictures is an ambitious young distribution company whose slate includes Mia Hansen-løve’s "Eden," Ramin Bahrani's "99 Homes" starring Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon, Carlos Marques-Marcet's "10, 000 Km," Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano's "Samba," Ken Kwapis's "A Walk in the Woods" starring Robert Redford, and Terrence Malick’s "Knight of Cups."
Watch the trailer for “Learning to Drive” Here
Here is the official synopsis:
Wendy is a fiery Manhattan author whose husband has just left her for a younger woman; Darwan is a soft-spoken taxi driver from India on the verge of an arranged marriage. As Wendy sets out to reclaim her independence, she runs into a barrier common to many lifelong New Yorkers: she’s never learned to drive. When Wendy hires Darwan to teach her, her unraveling life and his calm restraint seem like an awkward fit. But as he shows her how to take control of the wheel, and she coaches him on how to impress a woman, their unlikely friendship awakens them to the joy, humor, and love in starting life anew.
We have new images from the film courtesy of Broad Green Pictures are below...
Directed by Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet, “Learning to Drive” premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and recently won the Best Feature Audience Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival. The film opens in L.A. and NYC on August 21st.
Broad Green Pictures is an ambitious young distribution company whose slate includes Mia Hansen-løve’s "Eden," Ramin Bahrani's "99 Homes" starring Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon, Carlos Marques-Marcet's "10, 000 Km," Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano's "Samba," Ken Kwapis's "A Walk in the Woods" starring Robert Redford, and Terrence Malick’s "Knight of Cups."
Watch the trailer for “Learning to Drive” Here
Here is the official synopsis:
Wendy is a fiery Manhattan author whose husband has just left her for a younger woman; Darwan is a soft-spoken taxi driver from India on the verge of an arranged marriage. As Wendy sets out to reclaim her independence, she runs into a barrier common to many lifelong New Yorkers: she’s never learned to drive. When Wendy hires Darwan to teach her, her unraveling life and his calm restraint seem like an awkward fit. But as he shows her how to take control of the wheel, and she coaches him on how to impress a woman, their unlikely friendship awakens them to the joy, humor, and love in starting life anew.
We have new images from the film courtesy of Broad Green Pictures are below...
- 8/3/2015
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
With the continual rise of social networking and apps like Skype, what has become of the “long distance relationship”? At the click of a mouse or the touch of anyone’s iPhone screen, you can be in touch with a loved one in mere seconds. Gone are the days of waiting anxiously to receive a letter or even the short amount of time one would take to get an e-mail. What is the nature of the modern long distance relationship?
That’s the question that director Carlos Marques-Marcet tries to dig deeply into in his newest film, entitled 10,000 km. The film introduces us to a loving young couple, Alexandra and Sergi, in the midst of making love. They’ve decided to try and have a child, only to, in the same roughly 20 minute long opening take, discover that Alexandra has been offered a gig 10,000 km away in La. Both have been moonlighting as teachers,...
That’s the question that director Carlos Marques-Marcet tries to dig deeply into in his newest film, entitled 10,000 km. The film introduces us to a loving young couple, Alexandra and Sergi, in the midst of making love. They’ve decided to try and have a child, only to, in the same roughly 20 minute long opening take, discover that Alexandra has been offered a gig 10,000 km away in La. Both have been moonlighting as teachers,...
- 7/17/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Remember the slightly awkward moments between Joaquin Phoenix and his operating system in the not-too-distant future of Spike Jonze's “Her,” where a relationship blossomed between a man and a machine? The lack of a physical element in that scenario starts to feel normal because one half of that equation never had a body. But in today's equivalent, when a man is dancing with a laptop in his hand, desperately trying to cling on to a loved one, the lack of physical presence isn't just awkward, it's heartbreaking. Carlos Marques-Marcet's stirring feature debut “10,000 Km,” about a relationship getting tested by long distance, takes a minimal approach in wrestling with the emotional demons borne when a long-term couple get separated for a year. Two actors. Two locations. Two laptops. One bittersweet movie. Alex (Natalia Tena) and Sergi (David Verdaguer) are a Spanish couple who share an apartment and a life in Barcelona.
- 7/9/2015
- by Nikola Grozdanovic
- The Playlist
Read More: SXSW Review: 'Long Distance' Is an Insightful, Moving Romance For the Technology Age Editor's Note: Indiewire's Springboard column profiles up-and-comers in film worthy of your attention. There are only two actors and two locations in "10,000 Km." The first scene, a long take, lasts 25 minutes. Yet, incredibly, the film never feels claustrophobic. In fact, Carlos Marqués-Marcet's feature-length directorial debut serves as a microcosm for the large implications of modern love. "10,000 Km" is an intimate portrait of the dissolution of a long-distance relationship. When Alex (Natalia Tena) accepts a fellowship in La, she leaves behind her boyfriend of seven years, Sergio (David Verdaguer), in Barcelona. Through the fragmented lens of technology — Skype, text messages, emails, and Facebook — we become privy to the couple's frustrations and conflicting needs and desires. Because we stand inside the very medium that divides...
- 7/9/2015
- by Emily Buder
- Indiewire
Read More: Watch: Natalia Tena and David Verdaguer Try Long Distance Love in '10,000 Km' Trailer Carlos Marques-Marcet's "10,000 Km" premiered at last year's SXSW, winning over plenty of audience members in the process, as the feature thoughtfully tracks the stressful long distance relationship between two intercontinental lovers. The film marks the director's feature-length directorial debut, and Marques-Marcet's understanding of the troubles that can befall love and the lengths people go through to maintain it seems profound. The film follows Alex (Natalia Tena) and Sergi (David Verdaguer) during a year-long separation, trying to make their romance work as Alex is in La pursuing her photography career and Sergi remains behind in Barcelona. In the clip, Alex needs to apologize, utilizing the wonderful video chat function that technology has granted us, which undoubtedly eases the burden of long distance. It's a fantastically compassionate moment, one that almost...
- 7/9/2015
- by Ethan Sapienza
- Indiewire
“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl,” Jean-Luc Godard once said during the French New Wave. It’s safe to say that 10,000 Km director Carlos Marques-Marcet understands that sentiment — only in this case he needed a laptop and a girl. (That girl’s ridiculously charming partner doesn’t hurt the equation either). 10,000 Km doesn’t waste […]...
- 7/8/2015
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
Going the Distance: Marques-Marcet Explores the Strain of Separation
An exploration of the effects an extended period of long distance has on the stability of a once functioning relationship the core of 10,000 Km. Its title suggests an arbitrary estimate of the distance between the two particular locales, but besides suggesting the rather unhelpful capabilities of staying connected via social media, Spanish director Carlos Marques-Marcet does little to enhance a basic scenario enlivened by vague characterizations of pretty young things unable to conquer the challenges posed by unavoidable time apart. What is of more interest is perhaps the particular effect the scenario seems to have on its audiences. Many of us can relate to similar relationship woes, where absence certainly makes the heart grow fonder, but absence without a concrete date of return can inspire the opposite effect. And thus, the general colorless palette of this heterosexual couple here allows...
An exploration of the effects an extended period of long distance has on the stability of a once functioning relationship the core of 10,000 Km. Its title suggests an arbitrary estimate of the distance between the two particular locales, but besides suggesting the rather unhelpful capabilities of staying connected via social media, Spanish director Carlos Marques-Marcet does little to enhance a basic scenario enlivened by vague characterizations of pretty young things unable to conquer the challenges posed by unavoidable time apart. What is of more interest is perhaps the particular effect the scenario seems to have on its audiences. Many of us can relate to similar relationship woes, where absence certainly makes the heart grow fonder, but absence without a concrete date of return can inspire the opposite effect. And thus, the general colorless palette of this heterosexual couple here allows...
- 7/8/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Carlos Marques-Marcet's lovely, lovely debut "10,000 Km" opens with an impressively staged single take that manages to convey the entire universe of a longterm relationship in just 23 minutes. We meet Alex (Natalia Tena) and Sergi (David Verdaguer), two Barcelonans of millennial age, in the middle of sex. It has the hot abandon of a new courtship, except they've been together for seven years. Later in the same take, delicately choreographed by the first-time director and his Dp Dagmar Weaver-Madsen, Alex opens her computer to an unexpected email announcing she has been offered a year-long residency in Los Angeles. She's a struggling photographer who, amid the tough economic realities for creative types in the post-Internet Age, can't afford to say no to the offer, and doesn't. Save that long take and a (devastating) closing scene, the rest of this subtly melancholic, modern romance spans a year of Alex and Sergi nobly...
- 7/6/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
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