After passing through the Locarno Festival – where it obtained the Special Jury Mention – and Seminci, it arrives in cinemas Hail Marythe new movie Mar Collstarring Laura Weissmahr –winner of the Espiga de la Plata for Best Actress in Valladolid–, along Oriol Pla. They complete the cast Giannina Fruttero, Magali Heu, Sam Avtaev, Julie Maes y Belen Cruz.
The Catalan filmmaker is inspired by the novel Mothers don’t of Katixa Aguirre to narrate a drama with overtones of thriller psychological. Co-written with Valentina Visothe film addresses the tension and complexity of fragile motherhood.
In the director’s words: “Motherhood has been so underrepresented and so partial in an often syrupy light, that any dissonant experience has been buried by taboo. Mary, then, who takes the name of the mother of God, the most iconic and selfless of all mothers, recognizes her repentance after four months immersed in an intolerable depressive drift, in a gesture as desperate as it is brave, while asking herself ” “Am I a monster?” burying his head between his own mother’s knees. Obviously she is not a monster, she is not represented as such: we know her circumstances, hesitations, fragilities, and the fact is that they seem familiar to us.”
Synopsis
Maria, a young writer who has just become a mother, comes across the news of a shocking event: a French woman has drowned her 10-month-old twins in the bathtub. Maria becomes obsessed with the infanticide, why did she kill them? From that moment on, the shadow of infanticide will stalk her as a dizzying possibility.
Escape, the new movie Rodrigo Cortesstarring Mario Casas and with executive production by Martin Scorsesehits movie theaters. Together with Casas, they complete the cast with actors and actresses such as Anna Castillo, José Sacristán, Josep María Pou, Blanca Portillo, Guillermo Toledo, Juanjo Puigcorbé, David Lorente, José García and the singer-songwriter Albert Pla.
In the words of Rodrigo Cortés, “working with the crew of Escape It has been a gift: no matter how uncertain the waters are, it is difficult to shipwreck like this. Doing it in the company of someone who is directly the reason why I dedicate myself to this is a privilege that we now have to honor. Due to effort and joy it will not be left.”
This audiovisual project is the filmmaker’s first film in Spanish since his feature debut with the black comedy Contestantwhich was followed by Buriedstarring Ryan Reynolds.
Rodrigo Cortés, also responsible for the script, has made a free adaptation of the novel of the same name by the Spanish writer Enrique Rubio.
Synopsis
N. is broken, something is wrong inside. He doesn’t want to make decisions, just get out of the world. N. wants to live in prison, that’s all. And he will do whatever it takes to achieve it.
Presented in the Official Out of Competition Section of the last Malaga Festival, it arrives in cinemas I’m not thatthe new movie Maria Ripollstarring Veronica Echegui, Silma LopezAAunt Molina, Daniel degree y Adam Jezierski.
The script is co-written by Olga Iglesias y Maria Ripoll. “It was a story that the screenwriter had been working on for a long time. We all feel, sometimes, a little bad about new technologies and I believed it was necessary to tell this story. I have relied a lot on the text and the actors, always talking about real people, and not thinking about the character or the cliché,” commented the director during the presentation press conference in Malaga.
For Ripoll, the cast of the film is important because, “I had already worked with Verónica Echegui, but when Silma López appeared at the casting we had it clear, because they are the film.”
Synopsis
Susana (Echegui) wakes up after 20 years in a coma. Now she is a teenager in a lady’s body in the 21st century. Susana will have to navigate a world in which nothing is familiar to her and she will have to learn to live in it.
The Williams is the filmmaker’s new documentary Raul de la Fuentestarring Iñaki y Nico Williams. The feature film made its world premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, inaugurating the Zinemira section. The Williams, A production by Kanaki Films and En Cero Coma, a Fremantle label, which has the support of the Basque Government, the Government of Navarra, the ICAA and the participation of ETB, it is an exciting sports and personal story in which the protagonists, Iñaki and Nico, face the conflicts that have marked their lives: racism, identity, ambition, frustration and rootlessness, while they reunite with their past and project their future.
In the director’s words, “The Williams It deals with a universal topic that has interested me for a long time: relationships between siblings. And it motivates me personally because in these cynical times overflowing with materialism the protagonists, two young black soccer players from the Athletic Club of Bilbao, lead us to look at ourselves in our personal relationship with the different. To want to mark distance… or not.
Synopsis
Two brothers, footballers, Basques and ‘beltzas’ from Athletic Club de Bilbao, separate their paths when they decide to play the World Cup in two different teams, Ghana and Spain. Thus begins a first-person portrait of Iñaki and Nico Williams across three continents, during the two most crucial years of their lives, with unique and exclusive access to them and their entire environment. It is the incredible story of two international stars. Two brothers, references for many migrants, who live in search of a mirror in which to recognize themselves. They’re not from here, but they’re not from there either…
